Hacker News: alas44

New comment by alas44 in "Fusion Power Plant Simulator"

alas44 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:39:48 +0000

Side note, all fusion start ups have built upon decades of science research funded in the ITER program, so opposing ITER to fusion start ups is misleading

New comment by alas44 in "Things I've Done with AI"

alas44 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:59:03 +0000

Not sure how hacker news can effectively protect against what looks like fake users posting LLM generated comments :(

New comment by alas44 in "Things I've Done with AI"

alas44 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:48:01 +0000

Looks like a LLM generated comment

New comment by alas44 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

alas44 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:04:57 +0000

There is this project "actually portable executable"/cosmopolitan libc https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan that allows a compile once execute anywhere style type of C++ binary

New comment by alas44 in "Is the Fate of the West Being Sealed for Good in Greenland?"

alas44 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:05:00 +0000

My brother (a history book worm) writes on geopolitics as a hobby.

He wrote a comprehensive analysis in French on how Greenland will be the tipping point for NATO, the European Union and even Democracy in the USA

I found it very well articulated on the stakes and chain of consequences, so I asked him to translate it in English so I could share it here, thinking it could interest many

Is the Fate of the West Being Sealed for Good in Greenland?

alas44 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:05:00 +0000

Article URL: https://colliert.substack.com/p/is-the-fate-of-the-west-being-sealed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46520109

Points: 9

# Comments: 6

New comment by alas44 in "Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica"

alas44 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:56:53 +0000

Echoes the beginning of this science fiction novel! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ice_People_(Barjavel_novel...

New comment by alas44 in "Google calls Gemma 3 the most powerful AI model you can run on one GPU"

alas44 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 21:28:20 +0000

Severance

China's Unitree Robotics demonstrating a slide flip with their humanoid robot

alas44 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:39:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29xLWhqME2Q

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410669

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by alas44 in "Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet"

alas44 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:29:06 +0000

Recent video on the topic by Real Engineering, interviewing a start-up in this domain that aims at creating new technology to dig 10km+ bore holes using plasma to vaporise rocks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_EoZzE7KJ0

New comment by alas44 in "The DevOps Engineer's Handbook"

alas44 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:03:26 +0000

I completely agree, not every task deserves to be automated

New comment by alas44 in "Unique killer whale pod may have acquired special skills to hunt whale sharks"

alas44 — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 12:13:46 +0000

Je me suis senti visé

New comment by alas44 in "The Wall: Geostationary satellites near-real-time animations"

alas44 — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 14:00:20 +0000

Hello!

I shared almost 3 years ago this website made by the father of a friend that uses free satellite data to showcase the earth near realtime, using algorithms he crafted to assemble and color correct everything together (see original post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29851399)

Since then he improved a lot his software, taking advantage of new satellites, new color wave length, and taking the challenge to map it all on a 3D earth globe (compared to flat earth surfaces previously), see https://earth2day.com/TheWall/Movies/The5/THELIVINGPLANET.ht...

Sometimes you can (unfortunately) see there the planet scale events that faces us, like huricanes that come onto the shore or wildfires so huge the smoke plumes goes over entire continents ... see the gallery of events here https://earth2day.com/TheWall/Gallery/gallery.html

So here I share it back, do not hesitate to provide him feedback here.

The Wall: Geostationary satellites near-real-time animations

alas44 — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 14:00:20 +0000

Article URL: https://earth2day.com/TheWall/TheWall36h.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42094462

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Google Axion ARM CPU (C4A) vs. AWS Graviton4, Performance benchmark

alas44 — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 12:57:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/review/google-axion-graviton4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42094177

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by alas44 in "The Wall: Geostationary satellites near-real-time animations"

alas44 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 12:19:21 +0000

Hello!

Since then he improved a lot his software, taking advantage of new satellites, new color wave length, and taking the challenge to map it all on a 3D earth globe (compared to flat earth surfaces previously). Or with a 4k colored flat view of our home planet https://earth2day.com/TheWall/Movies/THEWALL4K.html

So here I share it, do not hesitaite to provide him feedback here.

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