Hacker News: bsilvereagle

New comment by bsilvereagle in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

bsilvereagle — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:00:48 +0000

> “Our test facilities can’t reach the combination of heat flux, pressure, shear stresses, etc., that an actual reentering spacecraft does. We’re always having to wait for the flight test to get the final certification that our system is good to go.”—Jeremy VanderKam, deputy manager for Orion’s heat shield, speaking in 2022

This is a strange claim, considering NASA used to have 2 facilities that were capable of this - one at Johnson and one at Ames. They were consolidated (https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20160001258/downloads/20...) but it seems like the Arc Jet Complex at Ames is still operational https://www.nasa.gov/ames/arcjet-complex/

New comment by bsilvereagle in "Planning at Meta Is Waterfall"

bsilvereagle — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:48:30 +0000

OP you may enjoy Rabkin’s “alien chess” - https://www.markrabkin.com/the-resilience-of-alien-chess/

Writing a ledger-CLI Language Server Protocol with Claude

bsilvereagle — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:45:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.frdmtoplay.com/ledger-lsp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935286

Points: 1

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A P-O-X On Both Your Houses: Reverse Engineering a 20 year RF protocol

bsilvereagle — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:15:27 +0000

Article URL: https://zach-ennenga.medium.com/a-p-o-x-on-both-your-houses-reverse-engineering-a-20-year-rf-protocol-912da7755c0c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46754743

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bsilvereagle in "Seven diabetes patients die due to undisclosed bug in Abbott's glucose monitors"

bsilvereagle — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:07:25 +0000

Since you’re in security, you may enjoy this write up of decrypting the app database with glucose readings and third party API keys - https://www.frdmtoplay.com/freeing-glucose-data-from-the-fre...

New comment by bsilvereagle in "I made a quieter air purifier"

bsilvereagle — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 20:14:49 +0000

Check out the plot in the header, and find the particulate size you care the most about: https://www.frdmtoplay.com/nagivating-air-purification/

New comment by bsilvereagle in "HTTPS by default"

bsilvereagle — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:16:40 +0000

Yes, hotels were injecting ads on their free WiFi - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804608

New comment by bsilvereagle in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

bsilvereagle — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:07:21 +0000

I haven’t had any problems with OpenNIC: https://opennic.org/

> OpenNIC (also referred to as the OpenNIC Project) is a user owned and controlled top-level Network Information Center offering a non-national alternative to traditional Top-Level Domain (TLD) registries; such as ICANN.

New comment by bsilvereagle in "How to Network as an Introvert"

bsilvereagle — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 10:45:36 +0000

> "Which city are you from?"

Many big tech companies have inclusion training calling this question out as inappropriate on the grounds it provides an opportunity to introduce bias.

New comment by bsilvereagle in "Arkansas moves to ban candy, soda from SNAP eligibility"

bsilvereagle — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 05:22:31 +0000

> Pop tarts and soda provide zero nutritional value

But they have a very high calorie:dollar ratio.

GTFOBins

bsilvereagle — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:25:42 +0000

Article URL: https://gtfobins.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43586078

Points: 2

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Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs

bsilvereagle — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:48:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/meta-dei-memo-employees-programs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42657901

Points: 1189

# Comments: 1744

Donald Knuth's Annual Christmas Lecture 2024

bsilvereagle — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:43:31 +0000

Article URL: https://events.stanford.edu/event/donald-knuths-annual-christmas-lecture-2024

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42334686

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bsilvereagle in "Federal civil rights watchdog sounds alarm over Feds use of facial recognition"

bsilvereagle — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:36:23 +0000

The signage claims the _image_, i.e. the pixels, is deleted but makes no claims about embeddings, biometric measurements, etc that are generated from the image.

New comment by bsilvereagle in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

bsilvereagle — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:14:19 +0000

You may also be interested in the Work Number product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753

Google's 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body

bsilvereagle — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:13:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-mission-to-give-ai-robot-body/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41500993

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bsilvereagle in "Calif. tech companies see laid-off workers as 'table scraps,' recruiters say"

bsilvereagle — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:48:38 +0000

When whole orgs/product lines are cut, you’re laid off regardless of performance.

New comment by bsilvereagle in "Speedo-Shaped Skillset"

bsilvereagle — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 14:32:19 +0000

If you like this model you may also enjoy “paint drip people”

https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/paint-drip-people

New comment by bsilvereagle in "Making your own hot sauce"

bsilvereagle — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 05:40:42 +0000

> ziplock bag filled with water

You’ll often see this done with brine instead of water so if the bag develops a leak the salt concentration of the ferment stays the same.

New comment by bsilvereagle in "Google no longer developing Material Web Components"

bsilvereagle — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:39:31 +0000

> eventually people who have worked at google are going to have more trouble getting jobs elsewhere when all the tools they've worked with are things that nobody outside of google has heard of

This has already happened. Many companies offer dictionaries to translate the names of Google tools to their tools. Open source ones exist as well: https://github.com/jhuangtw/xg2xg

An issue I’ve ran into is startups being very hesitant of hiring Googlers because of a perception that they can’t engineer without other teams of developers supporting all of their tooling. One startup specifically asked how to create a dashboard without using Plx - a wild question given the vast OSS dashboarding ecosystem - but it was still a concern to them.