Hacker News: clumsysmurf

Nema Nodes: They Turn Streetlights into a Surveillance Network

clumsysmurf — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:57:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gadgetreview.com/you-know-about-flock-cameras-meet-nema-nodes-they-turn-streetlights-into-a-surveillance-network

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968744

Points: 3

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New comment by clumsysmurf in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

clumsysmurf — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:14:59 +0000

Its very obvious once you know what to look for, they are identical to the simulation at the top of the page below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_flare

Evenly spaced, every 20-30 seconds. Very, very bright at peak reflectivity, with easing in / out. I have no idea what kind of satellite it is though.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Understanding the Odin Programming Language"

clumsysmurf — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:02:09 +0000

I'd like to hear more about Odin + STM32 MCU firmware, do you have any good resources? I'm also curious how difficult it may be to using it with ESP32 (ESP-IDF) / RP2350.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

clumsysmurf — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:04:26 +0000

I'm in a heavily light polluted city (Phoenix) and even with all the air and light pollution, can still see satellites every moment past 2AM to the east. At least this time of year.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

clumsysmurf — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:38:52 +0000

> theoretically, it would be possible to run the main process separated from the renderer process on a different machine, with an appropriate IPC transport.

Is this really possible? If Electron apps could do this, and we could run them on a Linux SBC like RPI with the renderer on the user's laptop, that would be interesting ...

Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression'

clumsysmurf — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:42:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/software-engineers-face-an-ai-identity-crisis-vc-partner-says-2026-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666891

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Deno Desktop"

clumsysmurf — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:27:25 +0000

Compose and AOT compiled binaries would be amazing (GraalVM Native Image kinda thing) but it doesn't look very easy at the moment. Leyden with a regular JVM might be the best we get.

Soot from rocket launches is polluting Earth's upper atmosphere

clumsysmurf — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:00:20 +0000

Article URL: https://physicsworld.com/a/soot-from-rocket-launches-is-polluting-earths-upper-atmosphere/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48564440

Points: 8

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Zelle Heads to India, Unveils ZelleUSD Stablecoin for Other Markets

clumsysmurf — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:20:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.earlywarning.com/press-release/zelle-heads-india-unveils-zelleusd-stablecoin-other-markets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499093

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Raspberry Pi 5 – 16GB RAM"

clumsysmurf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:02:35 +0000

> 2.4GHz 802.11 b/g/n wireless LAN

> Bluetooth 4.2, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), onboard antenna

Oof ... BLE 5 has some huge improvements over 4.2. BLE 5 stuff has been on sale for almost 10 years now ...

Hopefully this gets a refresh soon.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

clumsysmurf — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:06:09 +0000

I had an appliance delivered from Home Depot, and after it was installed, the person mentioned he had Meta glasses on. I didn't realize the whole time he was wearing them in my home, because I didn't know what they looked like. I felt uneasy.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?"

clumsysmurf — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:56:43 +0000

> the bluetooth libraries across different devices (particularly in Android land) has me concerned

At Google IO 2026 there little discussion of core improvements to Android as a platform. It was mostly AI related, nothing about Gabeldorsche etc, which I find more interesting.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam"

clumsysmurf — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:10:26 +0000

Another part of the problem is our lax regulatory "anything goes" environment which puts no guardrails on how AI can be used / abused. For example, eventually nearly everyone needs healthcare, and the idea you might be denied by AI or fighting AI to get a claim accepted is unpopular.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)"

clumsysmurf — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:31:39 +0000

Not much, it seems

https://www.axios.com/2026/05/17/ai-backlash-polling-sentime...

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms"

clumsysmurf — Fri, 15 May 2026 06:21:52 +0000

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to dylan.gr. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

New comment by clumsysmurf in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

clumsysmurf — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:29:59 +0000

It is a naive and suboptimal implementation, they even describe it in the link you posted

"We have now approached the problem again by refining our low-memory detection and tab selection algorithm and narrowing the action to the case where we are sure we’re providing a user benefit: if the browser is about to crash."

I would prefer FF to be more proactive in unloading tabs way before "its about to crash" to keep system level memory pressure lower. Firefox is the main memory hog on my M1 mac.

Chrome can do this, there is no reason we should be stuck with "manual tab unload" and "unload when the browser is about to crash".

I am using an extension, but that just reinforces the argument: they could be doing much more here.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

clumsysmurf — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:25:13 +0000

Indeed, I am using something similar "auto tab discard".

New comment by clumsysmurf in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

clumsysmurf — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:23:44 +0000

I disagree, there is low-hanging fruit Firefox is leaving on the table. The main thing that comes to mind is tab unloading. They don't unload tabs automatically like chrome can.

I was pleasantly surprised at the tab unloading settings under "memory saver" in ungoogled-chromium.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "Software Internals Book Club"

clumsysmurf — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:48:39 +0000

"High Performance Browser Networking"

I wish there was an update to this book, reading it a while back I think it covered some proposed HTTP/2 features but definitely not HTTP/3.

Many of the issues discussed had to do with TCP itself.

New comment by clumsysmurf in "SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites"

clumsysmurf — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:23:23 +0000

Perhaps the reasons are not technical. Perhaps it has more to do with jurisdiction, not being physically dependent (or susceptible) to any physical state.