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New comment by bruckie in "Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)"

bruckie — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:05:32 +0000

Looks like this uses the Truck modeling kernel: https://github.com/ricosjp/truck

Interestingly, ttouch created browser-based CAD tool CADmium a few years ago based on Truck. Then, a few months ago, they created another one (CADara) based on OpenCASCADE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070083.

Truck seems cool, but creating a b-rep kernel is a phenomenal amount of work. Given that, I'm curious how quickly SolidCraft will mature.

New comment by bruckie in "Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing"

bruckie — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 05:53:39 +0000

It's pretty well established that building luxury condos freeze up lots of other housing at different price points. The person who moves into the luxury condo had to come from somewhere. This video is a pretty good overview of how this works: https://youtu.be/rQW4W1_SJmc

New comment by bruckie in "What Zig felt like, coming from Rust"

bruckie — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 15:20:26 +0000

I assumed that it meant that if you ran code at compile time or at runtime, the results should be exactly the same given the same inputs.

New comment by bruckie in "Fine, I'll build my own text editor"

bruckie — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:44:40 +0000

Here's Rob's editor (or at least one of them): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor)

New comment by bruckie in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

bruckie — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:25:47 +0000

I ctrl-Fed for "http" in this post and looked through the 61 links, following several of them that seemed like they may be relevant. I didn't find anything that appeared talked about what you've mentioned in your posts. Some talked about deaths, but I didn't find anything that even insinuated that they were carried about by or on behalf of the intelligence community.

I also did a web search for "intelligence community housecleaning" and looked through the top 60 results. I didn't find much. Several references talked about people being fired, but I didn't find any about them being killed.

I'd like to think I'm reasonably intelligent and web-literate, but after 15-20 minutes I didn't find what I was looking for. Maybe I'm just going about it the wrong way? Given how much you've posted on the topic, it seems like you want to convince people; if so, could you post some sources directly?

New comment by bruckie in "My server is a phone now"

bruckie — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:58:12 +0000

Where can you buy a workstation like that for so little?

New comment by bruckie in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

bruckie — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:49:10 +0000

Is there somewhere I can read more about what you are claiming in these comments? How did you learn about these housecleaning activities?

New comment by bruckie in "Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities"

bruckie — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:56:49 +0000

This 20-minute video argues that downtowns subsidize suburbs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1G3D55LD-E. I found the arguments pretty persuasive. I'd love to hear counterpoints to them, though.

New comment by bruckie in "Canceling "Hey""

bruckie — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:29:46 +0000

There's a coherent argument for doing so: if the law is enforced, and no one wants it to be enforced, it creates pressure to fix the law. Laws that are on the books but not enforced lead to laws meaning nothing in the extreme case.

I think there's merit to both sides and the sweet spot is somewhere in the middle.

New comment by bruckie in "REO Trucks I4 4WD Pickup Truck Starts at $21,500"

bruckie — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:48:41 +0000

Worse than vibe coding is vibe copywriting—and it appears to have that in spades. I have a really hard time taking something seriously that reads like it came straight out of Claude Code without even a minimal editing pass.

I hope it's legit, though, and that they succeed! I'd love to buy a product like they're planning to build.

New comment by bruckie in "CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years"

bruckie — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:13:22 +0000

The most practical way to do this is to ensure that your indoor air CO2 levels aren't significantly elevated over outdoor levels. One common way to do that (apart from opening windows) is to use a balanced ventilation system like an ERV or HRV. Those constantly exchange indoor air for outdoor air, and exchange a lot of the heat in the process to reduce energy losses.

Doesn't help if atmospheric CO2 levels increase to unsafe levels, though.

New comment by bruckie in "Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources"

bruckie — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:47:39 +0000

I suspect the intent is to minimize return on investment. The returns from climate data are returns that the current administration does not want.

New comment by bruckie in "GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup"

bruckie — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:30:18 +0000

That's about what I would expect from an organization named Government Accountability Office: hold the government accountable to its written guidelines (or at least report on how well it's doing at meeting them).

New comment by bruckie in "Google copybara: moving code between repositories"

bruckie — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:56:25 +0000

One reason there's no Perforce support for Gerrit/Rietveld is that Google doesn't use those tools for changes to code that's stored in Piper. Instead, they use Critique:

- https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book/html/ch19.html

- https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/how-google-takes-the-pain-...

I haven't found anything external that's as good, and am astounded that GitHub's incredibly lackluster PR review tooling is acceptable to most people. If anyone is aware of something in Critique's league, I'd love to hear about it!

Edit: I tried to do a reasonably thorough survey a couple of years ago when I left Google and https://codeapprove.com/ was the closest I found, but there were still many gaps.

New comment by bruckie in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

bruckie — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:21:33 +0000

A lot of academic reputation, as well as performance evaluation (for example toward tenure) is based on being published in "prestigious" journals. If you could fix that problem, I suspect the parasitic journals would evaporate overnight.

New comment by bruckie in "IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology"

bruckie — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:06:43 +0000

Don't forget copper interconnects for ICs. https://www.chiphistory.org/ibm-s-development-of-copper-inte...

New comment by bruckie in "How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science"

bruckie — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:51:31 +0000

The first line of the article starts out "Thirteen years ago last August, I was camped out in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory press room..."

New comment by bruckie in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

bruckie — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:26:33 +0000

I wonder what the energy/evolutionary cost of densely-connected brains is. If it's advantageous, why are crows exceptional?

New comment by bruckie in "Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud"

bruckie — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:17:52 +0000

What's the security story? I would love to adopt cloud dev environments that are constrained enough that I can safely run agents in YOLO mode, but not so constrained that they are useless. I would want it to be safe enough to run 80 to 90% of typical development work without supervision, and then have an escape hatch that allows doing other things with human supervision.

edit: and if anyone knows of an existing service that has these properties, I'd love to know about it.

New comment by bruckie in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

bruckie — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:17:41 +0000

It helps a bit more than you imply, though: if you can launch from a higher altitude, you have less atmosphere to plow through. That lets you use more of your propellant to speed up instead of to push air out of the way.