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New comment by cameron_b in "Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect"

cameron_b — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:49:36 +0000

One contributing factor I experience is that keeping competent, opinionated, leadership who are a good fit is an expensive proposition, and the "hold fast" position will always be challenged by whatever board is scrutinizing the budget/plan/forecast. The only play where no top brass has to catch a parachute is to bring in a consultant to scrutinize the business, read the crystal ball, and pitch a plan to weather the coming storm. Medicare funds are dust in the wind, Covid-era opportunities are dead and over, and the big axe has swung so much it needs sharpening. None of these are easy decisions to make and the result of "we're still doing what we're doing" is success.

New comment by cameron_b in "The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013)"

cameron_b — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:10:03 +0000

Most foods taken from nature will still rot in their naturally-sealed forms. Pressure canned foods last a long time but use far more robust and energy intensive processes than a thin layer of wax and "the way that it is" to seal and stabilize the contents.

Ferments could be an outlier but usually dance on the edge of rot by design and can last longer than the raw cabbage or milk or meat they start from, but like honeycomb, they must be carefully stored.

New comment by cameron_b in "Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids"

cameron_b — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:38:34 +0000

Up-to-date Firefox on Linux allowed me to complete certification of a shipment of Jet fuel, no trouble all the way through.

Great concept and execution.

New comment by cameron_b in "Ohio EPA weighs allowing data centers to dump wastewater into rivers"

cameron_b — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:58:52 +0000

Thermal pollution is pollution.

New comment by cameron_b in "Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming"

cameron_b — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:26:50 +0000

Tilapia, because the grow-out plan is very well documented. I'd happily sacrifice growth rate for a fish with higher "desirability" factor, and perhaps a lower optimal temperature. I previously tried Bluegill and lost them, I think, due to stress from temperature variation. I'd like to try them again or go with Catfish. Catfish are the top species (for food, by weight) produced in the US, and they seem nearly as durable as Tilapia in small systems.

The pescalators sound great. There are so many tools like that where the application specifics ( species, system, life stage ) could make room for a scalpel-precise optimization of some tool, but the benefits would have to come from scale, and there just haven't been many first-movers ( or they keep quiet and defend the moat ) who seem poised to raise the tide for the whole industry. It is very ripe for the work you are doing to help the downstream gains over generations of stocks.

Cheers to you guys!

New comment by cameron_b in "Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming"

cameron_b — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:08:38 +0000

As a home aquaponics grower, I am really interested in the opportunity to develop tools that help this industry grow smarter. The impact to open-water fisheries can be undone if the markets can be affected to appreciate farm-raised fish for their quality.

I think there is such an incredible opportunity in the sector, and it probably looks a lot like any of the other sectors that have been augmented by data - gather giant piles of any measurable detail, and hope that after filtering you see a pattern that doesn't depend on your production environment running as many sensors ( or tensors ).

Last Thought: Fish transfer pumps are not only a thing, but one of the best ways to have the whole pond population march past your camera in a lighting environment where you have more control.

https://www.miprcorp.com/fish-pumping/ - just one example with decent pictures

New comment by cameron_b in "zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32"

cameron_b — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:24:47 +0000

desk rover - https://www.huyvector.org/diy-cute-desk-robot-mo-chan

a kid-pleaser at the very least

Farm-to-Table Doesn't Work (and Here's Why) [video]

cameron_b — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:56:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTh698d3HHA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062381

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by cameron_b in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

cameron_b — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:02:22 +0000

By some

Some of us were impressionable when Jurassic Park came out.

New comment by cameron_b in "Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986"

cameron_b — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:09:26 +0000

Cheers for this!

Thank you for sharing your story.

New comment by cameron_b in "The shadowy world of abandoned oil tankers"

cameron_b — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:32:34 +0000

This is likely the closest thing to viable, some sort of mineral extraction permanent life insurance policy to protect the surrounding area and workers would go a long way toward safeguarding the wealth created from being swallowed in shareholder greed.

Understanding Green Day's "Holiday" [video]

cameron_b — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:38:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=163MUrEoj5Y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949957

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

OpenMP Forms Python Subcommittee

cameron_b — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:52:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openmp.org/press-release/python-new-member-anaconda/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904240

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Apple Pie and Rockets, a Vision of Life with AI

cameron_b — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:52:37 +0000

Article URL: https://classicalchristian.org/classis/apple-pie-and-rocket-ships-a-hopeful-vision-of-life-with-artificial-technology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46658066

Points: 1

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New comment by cameron_b in "Imagine 130M Washing Machines"

cameron_b — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:48:14 +0000

The main token in POSWID seems to apply to reasonably mature instances of S for which several passes have been taken through the build loop. Once someone has edited the thing, it is reasonable to assume that the outputs are the fruits of the intentions.

Firsts: Computing from the Paul G. Allen Collection

cameron_b — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:58:56 +0000

Article URL: https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/firsts-history-computing-paul-g-allen-collection/lots/3726

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46208168

Points: 1

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New comment by cameron_b in "Living my best Sun Microsystems ecosystem life in 2025"

cameron_b — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:40:08 +0000

I would love to hear counterpoints -- The Sun Ray thin client experience seems interesting, but the modern version of that seems to be the web/app/cloud ecosystem we have now (where the load and storage of your interaction are resident on some other system, potentially freeing up your local device from resource needs). Specifically, a self-hosted collaborative model with Nextcloud + Collabora or similar. I do wonder what workloads or designs would be fit for a more "time-sharing" approach.

New comment by cameron_b in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"

cameron_b — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:52:12 +0000

Before 1913, State's legislatures would elect their US Senators. Since 1913, Senators are directly elected but to longer terms than their peers in the House, as a way to make them less beholden to the whims of the zeitgeist and more stable in their consideration of "what serves the state" in that they do not face elections immediately and the results of their work are meant to be evaluated over a longer period. -- this is the intent, reality may bear out differently

New comment by cameron_b in "How many video games include a marriage proposal? At least one"

cameron_b — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:44:41 +0000

This is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by cameron_b in "Yamaha Helm Master Ex"

cameron_b — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:33:58 +0000

I fully expected this to be their entry into Kubernetes automation (brass instruments, pianos of all kinds, motorcycles, Outboard motors, Why not)

The magic here is that all of the components beg for this sort of thing as an obvious next step, but this seems to be done really well. The value is always in the integration of the component systems.