Hacker News: bfeist

New comment by bfeist in "GPT‑Live"

bfeist — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:27:45 +0000

There doesn’t seem to be any indication whether this is available in the chat-got app nor is there any indication in the app that anything has changed. Anyone know how to actually try this?

New comment by bfeist in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

bfeist — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:29:06 +0000

Heard of it?

New comment by bfeist in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"

bfeist — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:43:29 +0000

This is the laughing Ray Liotta meme equivalent of journalism. All too common right now.

New comment by bfeist in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

bfeist — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:18:17 +0000

Former Albertan here. Alberta even griped about unfair treatment when their conservative party had a majority in Ottawa for almost a decade. It’s just what people have learned to say.

New comment by bfeist in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

bfeist — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:11:39 +0000

It was put into place after Quebec held a referendum that was close in 1995. Canada remedied the situation by making clear what it would take to leave.

New comment by bfeist in "Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP"

bfeist — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:10:20 +0000

I agree with what you’re saying, but I think that email was one of the first parts the web to become terrible. This happened a long time ago, we’re just used to it.

New comment by bfeist in "Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP"

bfeist — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:07:14 +0000

They’re literally using an LLM to write the email.They could make the disclaimer text detailed and descriptive per email sent. So the use case they’re citing here that “well what if it’s just an email that was forwarded by the bot” doesn’t apply because you could add a different disclaimer message at the bottom of that email vs the spam example above.

New comment by bfeist in "Map of Metal"

bfeist — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:07:03 +0000

Thanks so much for this write up. It’s not often thought of that when you put something weird and experimental online just for fun that you’re signing up for years of careing and feeding. But that’s also kind of nice, it makes you go engage with your cool thing long after your impulse drove you to make it.

This is a cool thing. I hope you enjoyed remembering about it again today.

New comment by bfeist in "Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts"

bfeist — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:08:31 +0000

Unfortunately it’s almost a TB of video. The project is opensource so you could run the pipeline to grab all the videos yourself. https://github.com/bfeist/ask-an-astronaut

New comment by bfeist in "Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts"

bfeist — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:04:48 +0000

I would love to, but the video metadata is entirely lacking. All I have is a filename and an uploaded date—not even an accurate date of when it was recorded.

New comment by bfeist in "Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts"

bfeist — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:02:57 +0000

Possibly. The translation aspect makes the timing a bit more complex to work out. When I was building this out, I considered English only to be version one.

New comment by bfeist in "Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts"

bfeist — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:45:16 +0000

Nice to see this here. I’m the developer who made this. The idea for this started when I was chatting with co-creator, Dave Charney and we asked, “I wonder if all the questions kids could ask of astronauts have already been asked.”

If you select “About this project”, there are technical details on how we did it.

New comment by bfeist in "The Prompt API"

bfeist — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:14:08 +0000

I would love an app like this. I am a frequent user of https://www.boringreport.org/ for news, which does something like what you’re describing but for news articles.

New comment by bfeist in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

bfeist — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:32:13 +0000

100% agree that this is what it should be called. To argue that big websites being big makes them equivalent to the whole Internet is absurd. Besides, I love the idea of the only recourse to be to go back to independently run information websites.

New comment by bfeist in "Show HN: ISS in Real Time – 25 Years Aboard the International Space Station"

bfeist — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:11:57 +0000

Awesome. You don’t happen to have 25 years of recorded telemetry, do you?

New comment by bfeist in "Show HN: ISS in Real Time – 25 Years Aboard the International Space Station"

bfeist — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:16:55 +0000

Yes and no. I have 7+ years and counting of telemetry recordings but I don't know of a resource that would let me get all of it historically. If you know of one, please let me know. The recordings that I do have will be integrated into the website at some point. I was going to do it as part of the initial launch but I ran out of time.

New comment by bfeist in "Show HN: ISS in Real Time – 25 Years Aboard the International Space Station"

bfeist — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:15:35 +0000

Very cool! Your idea about auto-generating timelapse videos was taken up by NASA. https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/BeyondThePhotography/CrewEarthObser...

Show HN: ISS in Real Time – 25 Years Aboard the International Space Station

bfeist — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:25:00 +0000

Today my collaborator and I are releasing issinrealtime.org, a multimedia project that plays back every day onboard the ISS. Feedback welcomed.

Here's an article that was just released about it: https://www.collectspace.com/news/news-102725a-iss-in-real-t...

I also wrote a "making of" post about it here: https://benfeist.com/posts/iss-in-real-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45721352

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New comment by bfeist in "Apollo Lunar Surface Journal"

bfeist — Fri, 30 May 2025 02:41:23 +0000

Hello. NASA person and contributor to the ALSJ here. This is a volunteer effort that is one of the oldest websites on the internet (and most awesome). The original transcripts are public domain, but the commentary here is what’s under some copyright. That said, it’s online for the greater good. I hope you enjoy it.

New comment by bfeist in "FDA and RFK Jr. aim to remove fluoride products used to protect kids' teeth"

bfeist — Tue, 13 May 2025 23:00:05 +0000

I think you just perfectly described the Internet.