Hacker News: ginkgotree

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

ginkgotree — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:56:38 +0000

From here on the space coast of Florida: GODSPEED THE CREW OF ARTEMIS II

New comment by ginkgotree in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

ginkgotree — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:34:21 +0000

Compared to LinkedIn, which consumes GBs of memory.

New comment by ginkgotree in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

ginkgotree — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:34:41 +0000

I installed BeOS in the 90s as a kid. It was awesome, and I love seeing this.

New comment by ginkgotree in "False claims in a widely-cited paper. No corrections. No consequences"

ginkgotree — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:22:30 +0000

Excellent summary, as unfortunate as it is.

New comment by ginkgotree in "Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom"

ginkgotree — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:00:27 +0000

Putting a camera and microphone on your head and wearing it all day, connected to a platform with Mark Zuckerberg at the helm... what do you expect?

New comment by ginkgotree in "Bet on German Train Delays"

ginkgotree — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:16:40 +0000

It's unfortunate what happened to DB over the years. I last rode a DB fast train in 2018. We just stopped in the middle of a field for no announced reason for 70 minutes. I missed my international flight home as a result. I haven't rode the DB since, and hear it has only gotten worse.

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

ginkgotree — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:43:32 +0000

I am a fan of the fish cursor. We should make the internet quirky again. This is like a modern take on Geocities websites, and they should do things like fish cursors now while they still can before a board of VCs comes in and makes them remove the fish cursor.

New comment by ginkgotree in "Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components"

ginkgotree — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 23:39:23 +0000

I'm only surprised it took this long for an exposure of backend data to the front end to be discovered in RSC

New comment by ginkgotree in "Testing shows automotive glassbreakers can't break modern automotive glass"

ginkgotree — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 19:20:52 +0000

I just keep a tomahawk axe in my car. That works.

New comment by ginkgotree in "Show HN: I turned algae into a bio-altimeter and put it on a weather balloon"

ginkgotree — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:35:24 +0000

This is absurdly impressive. If you have any interest in doing some more flight software work in aerospace / space / missile systems, shoot me an email scott@orcrist.com

New comment by ginkgotree in "OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract"

ginkgotree — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:27:12 +0000

Yep, pretty much.

New comment by ginkgotree in "OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract"

ginkgotree — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:26:57 +0000

why? it could help them asses threats, civilians / avoid collateral damage. Like any weapon or technology, it depends on its use. warfighter is the modern industry / academic term used for "soldier."

New comment by ginkgotree in "OpenAI wins $200M U.S. defense contract"

ginkgotree — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:56:52 +0000

Yeah, tons. SIGNT / HUMINT analysis. After action report summaries. war gaming to optimize deterrence. human machine teaming. LLM-in-the-loop for warfighters. rapid code gen in field deployments for units to spin up software solutions. The list is endless, imho.

New comment by ginkgotree in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

ginkgotree — Sun, 25 May 2025 23:18:57 +0000

All of the above. Thrust vectoring, throttleable, hand launchable. Yes, yes, and yes, and a few more covert reasons

New comment by ginkgotree in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

ginkgotree — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:47:34 +0000

Counter-drone defense tech https://orcrist.us

New comment by ginkgotree in "Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life"

ginkgotree — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 02:48:16 +0000

This actually has some super cool field digital note taking applications, where one may be away from power for a long time and just needs a digital means of writing TXT files. Awesome work!!

New comment by ginkgotree in "FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices"

ginkgotree — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 02:36:18 +0000

Silicon Valley and all these VC funded apps have no soul or honesty. I left 5 years ago, and will never look back. Let them rot.

New comment by ginkgotree in "CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep"

ginkgotree — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:50:41 +0000

April Fools

New comment by ginkgotree in "Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown"

ginkgotree — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 23:01:23 +0000

Right. CNN is absolutely the authority here.

New comment by ginkgotree in "Anti-Orbit Laser Submarines (2017)"

ginkgotree — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 03:02:59 +0000

Isn't it fun to noodle on? lol