Hacker News: guidoism

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

guidoism — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:38:14 +0000

I think this is cool and all, especially watching all of the launches, but I don't understand why we aren't all talking about the growing potential of a Kessler Syndrome and are inability to access spaces for a century or so. Maybe I'm completely out-of-touch but it seems like a massive downside for only a small upside.

New comment by guidoism in "Show HN: 18 Words"

guidoism — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:04:51 +0000

Yeah screw the timer. I can't work under pressure like that when it comes to word games. Maybe other people will enjoy that, but not me.

New comment by guidoism in "LEDs Enter the Nanoscale, But efficiency hurdles challenge the smallest LEDs yet"

guidoism — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:04:41 +0000

Apparently the LED is on the order of 500 nm. Isn’t that essentially the same size as the actual wavelengths? (Just skimmed the article maybe this is discussed)

New comment by guidoism in "LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop"

guidoism — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:59:32 +0000

> Yes, I know I'm crazy, but

Any time I see this phrase I know these are my people.

New comment by guidoism in "Claude is a space to think"

guidoism — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:28:27 +0000

> ChatGPT is saying they will mark ads as ads and keep answers "independent," but that is not measurable. So we'll see.

Yeah I remember when Google used to be like this. Then today I tried to go to 39dollarglasses.com and accidentally went to the top search result which was actually an ad for some other company. Arrrg.

New comment by guidoism in "Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books"

guidoism — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 04:30:28 +0000

Nice! I've been using Claude Code and ChatGPT for something similar. My inspiration is Adler's concept of The Great Conversation and Adler's Propædia. I've been able to jump between books to read about the same concept from different author's perspectives.

New comment by guidoism in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

guidoism — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:41:59 +0000

They are identical in the same way that my Hacker News and Facebook are identical. They are both places where people post stuff and comment on stuff but the community in each is very different.

If Hacker News were to shut down for just the US users and people were told to go continue the conversation on Facebook do you think that it would feel the same?

Part of what makes TikTok and Hacker News great is the interaction with people all over the world. What's going to happen to the diaspora? Are they going to all end up in one place?

Again, if Hacker News kicked out all of the Americans living on US soil then would the rest of the users follow the Americans onto Facebook to continue the conversation?

New comment by guidoism in "Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time"

guidoism — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:36:02 +0000

That's similar to the idea I had for combating texting spam: - If your number is in my address book then texts are free for you - If this is the first time you are contacting me then you pay me $1

There are probably downsides and ways this will screw up real relationships but it will certainly increase the cost of spam.

New comment by guidoism in "JXL Art is the practice of using JPEG XL's prediction tree to generate art"

guidoism — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 19:21:07 +0000

Online generator: https://jxl-art.surma.technology

JXL Art is the practice of using JPEG XL's prediction tree to generate art

guidoism — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 19:20:30 +0000

Article URL: https://jxl-art.surma.technology/wtf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821669

Points: 4

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New comment by guidoism in "Uxn"

guidoism — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 17:37:17 +0000

Look up “convivial computing”. This fits within that ethos.

New comment by guidoism in "Making 'food out of thin air'"

guidoism — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 18:42:54 +0000

Aren’t plants literally making food out of thin air? They take a series of photons and pull the carbon out of the “thin air” to make food.

New comment by guidoism in "Why is Chile so long?"

guidoism — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 19:14:53 +0000

The most amazing sky I’ve ever seen was when I arrived in Urubichá in Guarayos region of Bolivia in 1998 before the electricity arrived in the area. I traveled by bus to visit my friend’s childhood home. The bus only went to the big city an hour away so I road in the back of a jeep the rest of the way, at night. I remember vividly not understanding what this super-bright light was in the sky. I know now it was either Venus or Jupiter, but it looked artificial because it was so much brighter than I was used to seeing.

New comment by guidoism in "Testing Generative AI for Circuit Board Design"

guidoism — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 17:25:39 +0000

This reminds me of my professor's (probably very poor) description of NP-complete problems where the computer would provide an answer that may or may not be correct and you just had to check that it was correct and you do test for correctness in polynomial time.

It kind of grosses me out that we are entering a world where programming could be just testing (to me) random permutations of programs for correctness.

New comment by guidoism in "Voyager 1 is back online: NASA spacecraft returns data from all 4 instruments"

guidoism — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 17:28:11 +0000

That’s just a standard chemical rocket for the initial push and then a few gravity assists right?

Couldn’t an ion engine with a nuclear reactor providing the electricity accelerate more over that period? I’m genuinely curious, I don’t know the answer.

New comment by guidoism in "A new term, ‘slop’, has emerged to describe dubious A.I.-generated material"

guidoism — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:53:06 +0000

Recipe articles with hundreds of words of irrelevant text before the actual recipe.

New comment by guidoism in "Rex Computing"

guidoism — Wed, 29 May 2024 21:53:14 +0000

Way more interesting than this old zombie company is that new podcast about cpu design. Cool!

New comment by guidoism in "TTE: Terminal Text Effects"

guidoism — Wed, 29 May 2024 02:00:06 +0000

I also got in trouble for playing Leisure Suit Larry in 6th grade computer class.

New comment by guidoism in "TTE: Terminal Text Effects"

guidoism — Wed, 29 May 2024 01:59:15 +0000

Ours had PS-2s on a token ring network with a TUI to get to the word processor etc but it also had a “drop down to DOS” option that the teachers didn’t know about.

New comment by guidoism in "TTE: Terminal Text Effects"

guidoism — Tue, 28 May 2024 19:11:20 +0000

Reminds me of the drip.com TSR program that I put on some of the school computers circa 1990.