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New comment by floxy in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

floxy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:56:54 +0000

>we can talk about something that doesn't involve the Iran war, ICE etc.

And yet, you did bring them up.

New comment by floxy in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

floxy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:34:10 +0000

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601017

New comment by floxy in "NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon"

floxy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:10:49 +0000

I want humanity to continue to be explorers. The Moon is a good next thing, then asteroid mining, humans on Mars and Venus, and eventually colonizing the Milky Way.

NASA Artemis II Launch Day Updates Blog

floxy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:01:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/04/01/live-artemis-ii-launch-day-updates/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601017

Points: 3

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New comment by floxy in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

floxy — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:51:41 +0000

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/03/30/nasas-artemis...

"countdown clock started ticking down" "to a targeted launch time of 6:24 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1."

New comment by floxy in "Fets and Crosses: Tic-Tac-Toe built from 2458 discrete transistors"

floxy — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:38:37 +0000

Sweet. About the same number of transistors used in the Intel 4004.

New comment by floxy in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

floxy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:57:14 +0000

Yo! Apparently not enough em-dashes or bullet points.

New comment by floxy in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

floxy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:43:01 +0000

Just because people get murdered doesn't mean that laws against murder are useless. Although I don't have any evidence of that.

New comment by floxy in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

floxy — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:57:21 +0000

>> that Google spends >$1B/year to develop.

Isn't this downright crazy when you think about it? Seems like we need to start from scratch. Create a minimal bytecode (like webasm or whatever) that writes to a virtual frame-buffer of sorts, and has keyboard/mouse inputs. Then content is distributed as compiled byte-code apps. All the fancy stuff you want in your app has to be provided by the app creator, and not essentially using the browser as a library.

New comment by floxy in "Medicaidspending.org – Search $1.09T in Medicaid provider payments (2018-2024)"

floxy — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:22:09 +0000

Thanks for doing this. I really like the idea of open/transparent government.

New comment by floxy in "Half million 'Words with Spaces' missing from dictionaries"

floxy — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:35:07 +0000

How in the world does "int argc" not make the list? But good to know that "frit flies" does.

New comment by floxy in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

floxy — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:24:40 +0000

>How much precedence is there for machines or tools getting an author credit in research?

For a datum of one, the mathematician Doron Zeilberger give credit to his computer Shalosh B. Ekhad on select papers.

https://medium.com/@miodragpetkovic_24196/the-computer-a-mys...

https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/akherim/EkhadCredit...

https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/pj.html

New comment by floxy in "A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST"

floxy — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:35:05 +0000

>the shapes we see were apparently at the quantum scale

I thought that was sound waves?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=baryon+acoustic+oscillations&t=ffa...

...unless you are thinking about something else?

New comment by floxy in "A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST"

floxy — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:12:18 +0000

>you probably aren't going to get any advantage by trying to build one in Earth orbit.

People want to put a radio telescope on the far side of the moon, so that it doesn't have interference from terrestrial RF sources:

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

...and your spatial resolution is proportional to the size of your telescope. So you could have really high resolution if you speckled your interferometric telescope array units around L1, L2, L4, and L5.

New comment by floxy in "Renting is cheaper than owning in every major U.S. metro"

floxy — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:42:35 +0000

It seems like this is saying that of the people who choose to rent a house, they pay less per month in housing costs than those people who choose to buy a house. So there isn't an accounting for the difference in houses that people want to rent vs. those who want to buy. What I think the headline is implying is that you can rent a comparable house (size, location, upkeep, etc.) for considerably less than owning that same house. Which I don't think is what the data is saying.

https://www.lendingtree.com/home/mortgage/comparing-rent-vs-...

New comment by floxy in "Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation"

floxy — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:55:33 +0000

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Ft...

New comment by floxy in "Waymo seeking about $16B near $110B valuation"

floxy — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:31:56 +0000

>I’m not even convinced humanoid robots are going to pan out in general.

I want one personally, so it can rake the leaves, mow the lawn, tend the garden, do the laundry and dishes, replace the roof, etc., when I'm old. But they should also be used to pick up litter along the highway, paint over graffiti, etc..

New comment by floxy in "Ask HN: Why is it so hard to get responses from founders over email?"

floxy — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:25:04 +0000

What magnitude response rate would you expect? 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%? Have you ever benefited from following up on a cold email?

New comment by floxy in "NASA delays Artemis moonshot with astronauts due to extreme cold in Florida"

floxy — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:16:32 +0000

Today's story, from NASA:

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/30/nasa-updates-...

General Artemis II blog:

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/artemis/

New comment by floxy in "Artemis II–first manned moon mission in 52 years–could launch as early as Feb 6"

floxy — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:29:09 +0000

Might as well link directly to NASA:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/26/nasa-moves-st...