Hacker News: beefman

New comment by beefman in "Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]"

beefman — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:06:46 +0000

Last archived working original: https://web.archive.org/web/20250808213459/https://spacecraf...

New comment by beefman in "Scala"

beefman — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:01:05 +0000

This predates that. It's written in Ada.

LANL and Valar Atomics Announce Project Nova Criticality Milestone

beefman — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:54:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.valaratomics.com/docs/Project-Nova

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45958796

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by beefman in "First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself"

beefman — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 16:36:44 +0000

Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261566

Paper was posted twice:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45075566

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45041978

New comment by beefman in "Terpstra Keyboard"

beefman — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:23:40 +0000

Now the Lumatone

https://www.lumatone.io/

Mike Battaglia plays Scarborough Fair in 31-tone equal temperament

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJKB1_gvhLE

New comment by beefman in "Solving the Maker-Taker Problem"

beefman — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 16:31:54 +0000

This problem has an established name and is widely studied in economics and mechanism design: the free-rider problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-rider_problem

New comment by beefman in "No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems"

beefman — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:48:45 +0000

Full title: There is no evidence that time spent on social media is correlated with adolescent mental health problems: Findings from a meta-analysis.

No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems

beefman — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:48:45 +0000

Article URL: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-31872-001

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743774

Points: 64

# Comments: 121

Visa Introduces the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform

beefman — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:06:29 +0000

Article URL: https://usa.visa.com/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases.releaseId.20881.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41736012

Points: 72

# Comments: 29

Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack

beefman — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:50:53 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-cloudflare-auto-mitigated-world-record-3-8-tbps-ddos-attack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41733031

Points: 49

# Comments: 19

Were RNNs all we needed?

beefman — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 17:31:59 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.01201

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732853

Points: 520

# Comments: 260

Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly's neurons in exquisite detail

beefman — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:39:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03190-y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41724773

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by beefman in "An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped"

beefman — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:38:50 +0000

Better source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03190-y

Brain Initiative Launches Major Data Release to Map Brain Cells

beefman — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 23:30:11 +0000

Article URL: https://neurosciencenews.com/brain-mapping-data-release-27743/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41715504

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

The total mass, number, and distribution of immune cells in the human body

beefman — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:30:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2308511120

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41711502

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by beefman in "The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group"

beefman — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:33:42 +0000

https://archive.is/0OtyS

Pen Comparison Using Industrial CT

beefman — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 22:39:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lumafield.com/article/pen-comparison-using-industrial-ct

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41652622

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Unraveling of Space-Time

beefman — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:59:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-unraveling-of-space-time-20240925/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650076

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Previously-Classified TikTok Briefing Shows Error of Ban

beefman — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 02:52:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/square-peg-meet-round-hole-previously-classified-tiktok-briefing-shows-error-ban

Hacker News: beefman

New comment by beefman in "Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design (2011) [pdf]"

New comment by beefman in "Scala"

LANL and Valar Atomics Announce Project Nova Criticality Milestone

New comment by beefman in "First convex polyhedron found that can't pass through itself"

New comment by beefman in "Terpstra Keyboard"

New comment by beefman in "Solving the Maker-Taker Problem"

New comment by beefman in "No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems"

No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems

Visa Introduces the Visa Tokenized Asset Platform

Cloudflare auto-mitigated world record 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack

Were RNNs all we needed?

Largest brain map ever reveals fruit fly's neurons in exquisite detail

New comment by beefman in "An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped"

Brain Initiative Launches Major Data Release to Map Brain Cells

The total mass, number, and distribution of immune cells in the human body

New comment by beefman in "The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group"

Pen Comparison Using Industrial CT

The Unraveling of Space-Time

Previously-Classified TikTok Briefing Shows Error of Ban

Mitosis in the Gray-Scott model: an intro to shader-based chemical simulations