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New comment by connicpu in "Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3"

connicpu — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:17:32 +0000

Some jobs are also just so much that there's little room for doing something so similar to your work after you get home.

New comment by connicpu in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

connicpu — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 14:47:20 +0000

I would assume the 200K lines of software and the firmware is presumably flashed after receiving the product from the assembly house.

NASA Taps SpaceX's Starlink to Deliver Artemis III Imagery from Orion

connicpu — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:18:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/07/16/nasa-taps-spacexs-starlink-to-deliver-artemis-iii-imagery-from-orion/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48953329

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New comment by connicpu in "The state of open source AI"

connicpu — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:52:29 +0000

Technically open source requires some amount of monetary volunteering, it's just that the electricity to run a code editor and compile (most) open source code bases is within hobby budget for most people.

New comment by connicpu in "Satellite Tracker – Live Map of Starlink and 30k Satellites"

connicpu — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:44:03 +0000

It's not haphazard, it's a circular orbit. And at those altitudes satellites move at a little over 7km/s.

New comment by connicpu in "Show HN: Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection"

connicpu — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:46:27 +0000

I find C++ beautiful only when I come across simple, powerful things that use the minimal amount of advanced language features possible

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

connicpu — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:38:37 +0000

Satellites flying at 360km (the target altitude for starlink V3) deorbit very quickly without regular burns. Dead starlink satellites are guaranteed to come down within 5 years.

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

connicpu — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:36:42 +0000

Just coverage is already provided by the 600-something direct to cell satellites already in orbit yes, but you need more if you want it to be useful beyond loading text-only posts or sending SMS

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

connicpu — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:30:47 +0000

Starlink actively works with radioastronomy sites to avoid causing interference. They've posted about this before.

New comment by connicpu in "When 2+2=5"

connicpu — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:46:16 +0000

One difference is you usually only get one shot to manipulate a human before they get suspicious. If the LLM's context resets you can try all over as if your first failed attempt didn't even happen.

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

connicpu — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:12:17 +0000

It was more that IT considered the college-hosted git instance "experimental" still, in multiple project courses we were required to use college hosted version control as part of the class, but those who wanted to use git were on their own to figure it out.

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

connicpu — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:43:11 +0000

When I went to college (early 2010s) professors were still encouraging students to use SVN, so I probably have a fair number of peers who didn't learn git until they got out into the real world

New comment by connicpu in "What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?"

connicpu — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:39:10 +0000

If you're big enough you can get direct access to Nvidia engineers, and they are usually transparent when they find out the bug was in their software and send you a patched version to try to resolve the issue

New comment by connicpu in "What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?"

connicpu — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:45:24 +0000

When you run CUDA at scale dealing with nvidia driver and library bugs takes up a disgustingly large percentage of engineer time, I don't know a lot of people who would be looking forward to rely on more nvidia libraries.

New comment by connicpu in "Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers"

connicpu — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:33:23 +0000

If you make over $130k then you make enough that you can be worked 24/7 without violating a $15 minimum wage + 1.5x over 40 hours per week.

New comment by connicpu in "Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour"

connicpu — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:40:16 +0000

Hard to compete there when most of the margin is going to NVIDIA, pretty much impossible if you don't have the scale of Dell/Supermicro/etc

New comment by connicpu in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

connicpu — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:29:21 +0000

Interesting, I just tried it and it got server-side the first try, although it wants to insert a hyphen. I did download the larger dictionary from their site.

New comment by connicpu in "Epidurals are a miracle technology"

connicpu — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:01:21 +0000

But in Europe the state also tends to cover their schooling to become a doctor.

New comment by connicpu in "Steam Machine launches today"

connicpu — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:48:01 +0000

I'm somewhat lucky in that I didn't have to be the one to force that issue, another friend in my gaming group already made the decision that he would switch to Linux and no longer play any games that did not work on Linux/Proton. So it was pretty easy for me to just switch last year.

New comment by connicpu in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

connicpu — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:05:04 +0000

Not sure how much data they retained but it's possible they also have the _input_ tokens, and in the "early" days (how far everything moves in just a couple years...) more of those input tokens would have been non-AI-generated