Hacker News: deepspace

New comment by deepspace in "The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence"

deepspace — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:26:30 +0000

That's my experience too. I mostly don't pick up calls from numbers that I don't recognize. On the very rare occasion that I am expecting such a call, I always stay silent after picking up. A real human will without fail start talking after a second or two.

New comment by deepspace in "Codex Micro"

deepspace — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:39:11 +0000

Yuk. Windows only and closed source. Pass.

New comment by deepspace in "Show HN: Self-hosted voice AI agent for Asterisk/FreePBX"

deepspace — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:26:12 +0000

There was a window between the early 2000s and the late 2010s when self-hosted telephony made sense. But these days, there are so many cheap commercial services that it is almost impossible to justify the cost of maintaining your own voice infrastructure. Moreover, the proliferation of spam / scam calls has tarnished the perception phone interactions so much that most people avoid them at all costs.

And the few people who do still use the phone absolutely, unequivocally do not want to talk to an AI voice agent ever.

New comment by deepspace in "Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended"

deepspace — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:54:10 +0000

I don't believe Namecheap ever did that, unless that was in the distant past. Never had a problem with them.

New comment by deepspace in "Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?"

deepspace — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:35:05 +0000

Wasn't there a recent discussion here, where it was pointed out that leap seconds are about to be phased out in less than 10 years' time? I would be extremely surprised if a negative leap second was implemented before then, given that IERS already balked at doing that several years ago.

New comment by deepspace in "Show HN: LastShelf – an emergency map of your family's documents bills& contacts"

deepspace — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:52:55 +0000

Anything can happen of course, but my actuarial life expectancy is at least 30 years from now. I am 95% certain that my safe deposit box in my bank (where my info is currently stored) will still exist then. What are the odds of this site surviving that long?

New comment by deepspace in "FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama"

deepspace — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:49:28 +0000

It is not a disaster. It is a part of carefully orchestrated attack on Western democracies by enemy states.

New comment by deepspace in "Everything is logarithms"

deepspace — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:38:56 +0000

0db is usually defined as the loudest sound that the audio system can produce. Hence, everything else must be negative.

New comment by deepspace in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"

deepspace — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:30:51 +0000

Same here. I work with a lot of startups, some of them very prominent and none of them are listed.

New comment by deepspace in "Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further"

deepspace — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:17:15 +0000

I was watching the video the other day, and my jaw dropped. Wenting is a display-technology beast. Watch his other videos too; he seems to be able to squeeze every last bit of possible performance out of every kind of display, and then some.

New comment by deepspace in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

deepspace — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:41:32 +0000

This story falls in the completely false camp. What restaurant can afford an entire reservations team? Why did they feel the need to do anything regarding reservations if they were always fully booked? It's just AI hallucinated slop.

New comment by deepspace in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

deepspace — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:46:31 +0000

That is an utterly meaningless statistic. Canada, with four times the population, ranks #233, because most of the country is uninhabited / uninhabitable.

New comment by deepspace in "Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS"

deepspace — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:20:42 +0000

Neat, but this feels to me like buying a single-use kitchen gadget. Yes, the console does not have everything neatly together like this, but it can manage everything across all AWS services.

Having to deal with a separate (electron) app for every AWS service would be a nightmare.

New comment by deepspace in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

deepspace — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:04:55 +0000

We used landlines of course, and it was an utter pain in the behind.

There was no way of letting anyone know that you were running late once they were already underway to pick you up.

New comment by deepspace in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

deepspace — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:28:35 +0000

Please leave the fat shaming for Reddit. And if you are going to do it anyway, at least make sure your facts are correct. Lots of thin people suffer form sleep apnea.

New comment by deepspace in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

deepspace — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:57:17 +0000

CPAP reduces my AHI from 55-60 down to less than 0.5. For people with severe sleep apnea, an 'improvement' of 4 events per hour does absolutely nothing for their health and provides a false sense of security. Their time, money, and energy is much better spent learning how to adapt to CPAP.

New comment by deepspace in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

deepspace — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:52:55 +0000

Yes! It is a shame that this kind of nonsense gets upvoted. Pure snake oil.

New comment by deepspace in "Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)"

deepspace — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:12:58 +0000

The dot-com era called. They want ClearCase back.

New comment by deepspace in "PART Telescopes – Bringing radio astronomy within reach of rural schools"

deepspace — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:31:38 +0000

Call me cynical, but pretty much 100% if the time when there is an article about "teen accomplishes almost impossible scientific feat" or "group of teens design world-saving product costing pennies", it turns out to be a disingenuous narrative pushed by some adult with an ulterior motive and often deep pockets.

The complete lack of details in the article does not do anything for its credibility.

New comment by deepspace in "EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]"

deepspace — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:50:33 +0000

Another allrounder and close cousin in time and but with much more functionality is the 4046 CMOS Phase Locked Loop.

It can be configured as a versatile oscillator like the 555, but it can also implement an FM modulator / demodulator, a FSK modem, a tone discriminator, a clock multiplier, a phase detector, a voltage to frequency and frequency to voltage converter a speed control loop and much more.

Not bad for a $1 chip. My circuits professor always carried a bunch in his lab coat pocket and handed them out like candy almost everyone anyone needed a circuit to do something to do with oscillation.