Hacker News: hillcrestenigma

An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon

hillcrestenigma — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:22:42 +0000

Article URL: https://moonrf.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656622

Points: 243

# Comments: 55

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "List animals until failure"

hillcrestenigma — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 05:10:12 +0000

I like how it triggers an overlay when you try "human", it's a nice touch

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?"

hillcrestenigma — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 04:50:58 +0000

I get the point you are making, but the hypothetical question from your manager doesn't make sense to me.

It's obviously true that any of your particular coworker wouldn't be useful to you relative to an AI agent, since their goal is to perform their own obligations to the rest of the company, whereas the singular goal of the AI tool is to help the user.

Until these AI tools can completely replace a developer on its own, the decision to continue employing human developers or paying for AI tools will not be mutually exclusive.

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study"

hillcrestenigma — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 21:50:35 +0000

I think the initial job loss from AI will come from having individual workers be more productive and eliminate the need to have larger teams to get the same work done.

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "Telegram Stars: Pay for Digital Goods and More"

hillcrestenigma — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:26:40 +0000

Discord is one other messaging platform that I've found to be very bot friendly

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "Apple subreddit reopens after moderation team threatened with removal"

hillcrestenigma — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:59:36 +0000

> Like how Reddit is fine with r/Superbowl deleting any post that isn't a picture of an owl.

Minor nitpick: I agree with the idea, but the deletion of any post that doesn't contain an owl on r/Superbowl isn't a ridiculous rule. The subreddit is dedicated to "superb owls" and not to anything else.

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "List one task, do it, cross it out"

hillcrestenigma — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 21:23:27 +0000

Applying LLMs or AI to our schedules isn't an unreasonable idea. If it could improve our own productivity even just slightly, I would consider that a win. It would be democratizing the effects of value add from traditional assistants to everyone.

I think good ideas sometimes come from connecting two concepts that seem unrelated, and we shouldn't really silence any of these ideas.

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "Chinese Businesses Fueling the Fentanyl Epidemic Receive Millions in Crypto"

hillcrestenigma — Thu, 25 May 2023 02:25:07 +0000

All this feels like a rehash of the British Empire selling Opium to China in the 18th century. Only this time it's China supplying the United States along with other addictive digital platforms such as TikTok.

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software"

hillcrestenigma — Tue, 23 May 2023 23:09:42 +0000

I've found myself running into sync-conflicts while editing my Obsidian Vault in a syncthing folder in the past. Did syncthing work flawlessly OOB in your experience?

Framework Laptop 13 review: a DIY dream come true

hillcrestenigma — Tue, 16 May 2023 20:33:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/23725039/framework-laptop-13-2023-intel-review

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35967381

Points: 110

# Comments: 94

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "Design a keyboard with Ergogen v4"

hillcrestenigma — Mon, 01 May 2023 05:43:11 +0000

A similar web-based keyboard model/layout generator for Dactyl (concave) keyboards is https://ryanis.cool/dactyl.

I think concave keyboards tend to be more ergonomic than 2d layouts, but to each their own.

The Space Git Flow

hillcrestenigma — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 05:12:52 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jetbrains.com/space/2023/04/18/space-git-flow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35636660

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Diagonator: X11 compositor that draws diagonal lines to make you take a break

hillcrestenigma — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:50:16 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/yaxollum/diagonator

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35374632

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "‘Catch Me If You Can’ conman lied about his lifetime of lies"

hillcrestenigma — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 22:47:00 +0000

I agree. Abagnale never outputted anything for the public, but he has outputted tremendous good for himself at the expense of others. Him and Jobs both achieved feats that no average man could have achieved.

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "ARM64 Linux Workstation"

hillcrestenigma — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 21:12:12 +0000

Does anyone know how cost effective a base M1 Mac Studio would be compared to a PC build with comparable cost? There's also the obvious set of trade offs, such as being quiet, compact, but being unrepairable, while the PCs having nearly the opposite qualities. Is the power efficiency of Apple Silicon still a major advantage in a desktop system?

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "Berkshire Hathaway bought a $4.1B stake in Apple chipmaker TSMC"

hillcrestenigma — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:09:29 +0000

Yes, but if you know that you can probably steal the enemy's golden goose if you tried hard enough, I would think you wouldn't kill it outright.

CCP is better off keeping the world's best chip fab in a region they claim to be their territory.

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "Show HN: Recut automatically removes silence from videos – built with Tauri"

hillcrestenigma — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 17:12:47 +0000

This looks pretty cool. Might be too similar to https://jumpcutter.com/ though.

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "Why JSON Isn’t A Good Configuration Language (2018)"

hillcrestenigma — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:30:26 +0000

They aren't supported by the standard libraries of those languages though. It is still a major advantage of JSON.

Pocket Operator for Pixel

hillcrestenigma — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 21:38:00 +0000

Article URL: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teenageengineering.pocketoperatorforpixel&hl=en_US&gl=US

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31646655

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hillcrestenigma in "Tell HN: HN is not immune to manipulation"

hillcrestenigma — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 01:20:53 +0000

Maybe there needs to be a way to flag a user if they are negatively contributing to HN.