Hacker News: c_o_n_v_e_x

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:21:54 +0000

>People who shoot someone or throw bombs at someone even though that someone never did something against them

I think the point is that there's going to be an increasingly large percentage of the populace who think that the AI bosses / billionaire class did indeed do something against them.

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:18:16 +0000

Having previously worked in a few DCs in SG, I was incredulous when I saw those sales figures.

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:52:42 +0000

I suppose the extreme take would be that it becomes a de facto bounty hunting platform

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Samsung releases new all-in-one heat pump for residential use"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:23:07 +0000

>Having everything in one unit is a recipe for a single point of failure disaster.

They're optimizing for something other than resilience.

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Dude, where's my supersonic jet?"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:19:39 +0000

I agree with your market analysis. Private jets are often referred to as "time machines" given how much time HNW / exec travelers can save. There's a market segment that's willing to pay a high premium for reduced travel time.

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Dan Brown: The human species has never created a technology it hasn't weaponized"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:52:39 +0000

Humans weaponizing water flow (or lack there of) has been routinely used through out history.

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:17:21 +0000

You're paying for:

- Trade licensing fees

- Liability insurance

- Medical insurance

- A vehicle to move equipment around

- Vehicle insurance

- Tools to complete the job

- The time taken to drive to your residence

- The time taken for the quote itself

- The expertise required to correctly spec/quote equipment

- The tradesperson driving to the city office

- The tradesperson applying AND paying for a city permit to do the work

- The tradesperson driving to a supply house

- Purchasing the equipment on credit

- Transporting the equipment back to your house

- Ripping out and disposing the old equipment (if applicable)

- The time and expertise to install the equipment correctly

- The time vacuum out the lineset

- The time charge the equipment properly with refrigerant

- The time commission the system and make sure it's running properly

- The tradesperson driving BACK to the customer house to be present for a city inspection

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:24:42 +0000

email sent!

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "A Quantum Gravimeter for GPS Backup"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:31:44 +0000

>Terrestial transmitters can be much closer.

Making them nice targets for the enemy

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 01:48:33 +0000

Living in Australia and interested in buying a business, I can attest to biz4sale-type sites being a real problem.

Q-CTRL publishes GPS-denied quantum magnetic navigation flight trial results

c_o_n_v_e_x — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 03:50:53 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08167

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43688822

Points: 3

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

c_o_n_v_e_x — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 01:55:40 +0000

There's a lot more to manufacturing than "just" being a line assembly worker.

The factories have to be designed and built. This includes all of the manufacturing processes, equipment, tooling, automation, etc. All of which are done by reasonably paid, middle class engineers and trades.

Then you have all the 2nd order businesses that get stimulated. Energy must be provided. Mines, mills, refineries, etc. to make the raw materials. The packaging for the end products. Logistics for supplies and end products.

All of the value above used to be in the US but has been captured overseas for decades now.

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "USAID funding freeze disrupts global tuberculosis control efforts"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 03:28:56 +0000

Labelling Singapore as a petro-state is a stretch. Collecting taxes from refining is a very different thing than reaping the benefits of royalties from oil production.

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Nvidia Stock May Fall as DeepSeek's 'Amazing' AI Model Disrupts OpenAI"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 01:24:55 +0000

This was also in the news last year: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Nvidia Stock May Fall as DeepSeek's 'Amazing' AI Model Disrupts OpenAI"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 06:34:16 +0000

SG is very small country and yet someone was buying 1/3 of the volume of the US market in Q3.

The DC market in SG has a very low vacancy rate meaning there's very little available space.... i.e. where are all those GPUs going if the market has very little space available?

To play's devils advocate, this could be an Nvidia reporting quirk with all of sales in SE Asia being reported as "Singapore" but even then, the numbers still piqued my interest.

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Nvidia Stock May Fall as DeepSeek's 'Amazing' AI Model Disrupts OpenAI"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:18:23 +0000

https://techwireasia.com/2023/12/what-did-singapore-do-to-nv...

Having previously worked in the DC space in Singapore, when I read the sales numbers, I was in disbelief. IMO, there was only a very low probability that all those GPUs remained in Singapore...

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Celestial Navigation for Drones"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 03:37:46 +0000

Not NSA - you'd have someone from US Bureau of Industry and Security tracking you down (no pun) for most likely violating export controls if you were to openly share information on building the technology.

Celestial tracking is a dual use technology (See 7A004 or 7A104) - https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/regulations-docs...

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "UK's hardware talent is being wasted"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:43:58 +0000

There's very good simulation tools available but scrappy startups can rarely afford them. You also need to people who know how to use the tools appropriately.

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Wends of Texas"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:01:12 +0000

6th gen Texan here with a very german sounding last name. My dad's side of family immigrated from Switzerland through Galveston. The original surname was sprinkled with umlauts. Someone tried Americanizing the name so people could pronounce but we still have pronunciation problems... and with the new spelling, French people think I'm one of their own.

New comment by c_o_n_v_e_x in "Study asks: Can cell phone signals help land a plane?"

c_o_n_v_e_x — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 23:35:37 +0000

There were far fewer planes in the air before GPS. In order to squeeze more planes into the same volume of air (aka "airspace density" or "airspace efficiency") you require high performance navigation systems. GPS isn't just used for navigation (getting from point A to point B), it's also for helping maintain separation between planes.

The US's navaid infrastructure is old. Not all airports have the "luxury" of ILS.