Hacker News: atomicbeanie

New comment by atomicbeanie in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

atomicbeanie — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:10:01 +0000

Comm signal in band with GPS? Control for a GPS software supply chain attack?

New comment by atomicbeanie in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

atomicbeanie — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:59:18 +0000

I used to joke that when SO goes under, I will move professions. The joke came from my experience of how many common issues in technology could not be solved with knowledge found via a search engine. I don’t see that niche as gone, so I wonder what is satisfying that requirement such that new questions do not show up at SO?

New comment by atomicbeanie in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

atomicbeanie — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 03:03:43 +0000

Has AI summarization led to people either getting their answer from a search engine directly, and failing that, just giving up?

Tesla Autopilot Flips Car over in Perfect Driving Conditions

atomicbeanie — Fri, 30 May 2025 17:20:18 +0000

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2025/05/23/tesla-full-self-driving-veers-off-road-flips-car-scary-crash-driver-couldnt-prevent/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44138241

Points: 29

# Comments: 9

New comment by atomicbeanie in "Image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo"

atomicbeanie — Fri, 23 May 2025 04:54:32 +0000

Must be the tremendous new leadership in the US Intelligence aparatus.

New comment by atomicbeanie in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract"

atomicbeanie — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 03:39:06 +0000

The white house prefers chaos. This will certainly be a step in that direction.

New comment by atomicbeanie in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

atomicbeanie — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 13:06:42 +0000

Time to just call these tariffs: sales tax. Extra money for the government on all goods imported are taxes. The rest of the complexity distracts from the basic cash flow and the inevitable results. More money spent and consumed by the government.

Average Tariff Rates Between US and Top Trade Partners

atomicbeanie — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:48:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-TRUMP/TARIFFS/jnpwjmqklvw/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616319

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Was the Signal Chat Illegal?

atomicbeanie — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:36:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.factcheck.org/2025/03/was-the-signal-chat-illegal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43616205

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Endless but Pointless Litigation Guaranteed

atomicbeanie — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 06:29:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/no-fakes-dream-lawyers-nightmare-everyone-else

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42828175

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by atomicbeanie in "You can't optimize your way to being a good person"

atomicbeanie — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 23:12:09 +0000

What? Deciding to stop writing a book because no one will read is the furthest one can get from a moral decision.

Tonsky: Don't go crazy with Clojure unless it makes you happy

atomicbeanie — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:54:10 +0000

Article URL: https://tonsky.me/blog/clojure-macros/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41013905

Points: 22

# Comments: 3

Choose your own adventure style Incident Response

atomicbeanie — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 18:26:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cmdzero.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40919273

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by atomicbeanie in "Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)"

atomicbeanie — Mon, 06 May 2024 19:37:06 +0000

Yes, I like to call the style Procedural Composition. The key characteristics are no logic with IO, and all system functions are assembled from higher-order middleware functions. This is the way ring, the web framework, and various client libraries like clj-http work. One of the best ways to get familiar with it is to look at the ring libraries.

What this allows one to do is assemble handlers from lots of small higher order functions. It has the downside of one needing to have initialization well organized and thought out. But the fractal-cul-sac as one co-worker has nicknamed it of ever dividing and increasingly specialized functions with IO and logic twisted together is effectively prevented. One can always modify one handler without affecting others or changing how existing functionality works. And it is always testable in small unit tests because the logic is pure.

Systems built in this style can radically reform themselves in a controllable, reliable and consistent way indefinitely. They are immune to the "apogee" phenomena whereby a system gets to the size and fragility where it can no longer be modified without causing unforeseen regressions, triggering the need to rewrite it to move it forward.

This style is for handler-oriented procedural software common in web services etc. It does not apply to embedded state-machine oriented software that operates real-time control etc. That is a different problem space.

New comment by atomicbeanie in "Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022)"

atomicbeanie — Mon, 06 May 2024 14:37:34 +0000

Complex solutions are easy. Simple is hard. Often simplicity takes time, iteration and understanding that comes from actually operating a system. I think the missing link here is the Kaizen-oriented refinement that turns complex into simple over time. I find that modern OO-languages frustrate this process by needing cross-cutting changes to refactor for incremental improvements. Expression-oriented languages (like Clojure) are much more fluid, enabling the incremental refactoring required to transform the initially complex and awkward system into the simple and refined scalable system. Unfortunately, just like other languages, it is possible to write difficult-to-change systems in Clojure. And that seems to be often the way it is done.

New comment by atomicbeanie in "Will any crap we put into graphene increase its electrocatalytic effect? (2020)"

atomicbeanie — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 23:29:14 +0000

With text that continues with serious consideration of guano-doped graphene... Graphine chemistry has a meme!

New comment by atomicbeanie in "The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)"

atomicbeanie — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 23:29:35 +0000

Yes, I agree, logging in is different than forcing people to use installed software.

New comment by atomicbeanie in "The 'fuck you' pattern (2021)"

atomicbeanie — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 21:13:45 +0000

I don’t wish to be too much of a fly in the ointment. I understand the darkness of dark patterns. But if we wish to not be secretly tracked (which is dark), then isn’t the alternative to openly ask if I want to exchange knowledge of my identity in exchange for the content I seek, so they can target the ads that pay for the content aggregation service I am using? The preceding question mark is not rhetorical. Maybe I am missing something? In the end though, Cat picture or not, the people that provide the service need to get paid.

New comment by atomicbeanie in "PDF Subpage Navigation"

atomicbeanie — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 03:58:57 +0000

epub?

New comment by atomicbeanie in "The coming war on end-to-end encryption"

atomicbeanie — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 18:03:51 +0000

Any dumbing down of end-to-end encryption will hand Russia and China nuclear powered hacking tools for our economy, infrastructure and digital integrity. With near peer wars ongoing, I would relegate this stuff to a noise filter. The US DoD cannot afford encryption to be dumbed down. And they seem to understand that.

These initiatives will always exist because there will always be people that do not understand what encryption is and what it provides. But lots of smart people understand the consequences would be catastrophic, and rapid. We cannot eliminate dumb politically-motivated ideas.