<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: lawrenceduk</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lawrenceduk</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:39:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lawrenceduk" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There will still be some noise. But yes, it’ll be less noisy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 08:22:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561991</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49561991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "Destroying My Homelab with Kubernetes – Linux Society UNSW 2026 [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice intro to Kubernetes talk. Not sure the title’s accurate though, you didn’t seem to destroy anything.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:09:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320243</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320243</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49320243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it astonishing you got to 17% with some vibe code? Sure.<p>But most of the stuff I’ve vibe coded this year has been astonishing by 2025’s standards.<p>If you got 100% I’d be genuinely blown away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:01:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790163</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "Study investigates how mass distribution of baseball bat affects performance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Clicked on the story expecting underwater bat-like weapon system. Was incredibly disappointed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:26:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696498</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We monitor air data quite closely at work.<p>CO2 rises really fast with people in even a large space.<p>I wouldn’t put too much effort into vents above a door as we’ve seen that CO2 will leak through doors and even floors/ceilings very quickly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:53:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46445835</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46445835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46445835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "X-59 3D Printing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Got briefly excited thinking they’d actually 3D printed the real thing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:15:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46340608</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46340608</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46340608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "How to Run WordPress completely from RAM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah I skimmed it and it all read like when I ask ChatGPT to go wild and be “fun”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 16:53:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559668</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45559668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "Solar power has begun to transform the world’s energy system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We usually drive to work. That means that when the sun’s shining, the car isn’t home.<p>Conversely, if we didn’t drive to work, we probably wouldn’t have a car.<p>On the other hand, we have a big solar array at work so if we had on-site parking (we don’t) we could drive our power home.<p>It’s probably impractical in reality though, the tax treatment would be chaos and we use the power we generate at work during the day on-site.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:53:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44518821</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44518821</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44518821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "Electric Propulsion's Dirty Secret: Why Lithium Can't Fly (Or Float) Profitably"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pilot here, I don’t think this is right.<p>Aircraft typically operate at 80-100% power output. It’s not the average 20% power output of your car.<p>Weight is pretty much everything, the savings from regenerative braking in an aircraft are almost 0% but the cost of enabling it is some tons.<p>This tech makes loads of sense in a car but I’ve never flown an aeroplane in stop-start traffic because that’s not how the sky works.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 23:51:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732924</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "Planes are having their GPS hacked. Could new clocks keep them safe?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s because they’re next to Kaliningrad, that weird Russian exclave</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:27:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322227</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s ok, it’s now a million dollars/year cheaper when your renewal comes up!<p>Jokes aside though, some good performance sleuthing there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:25:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42067845</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42067845</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42067845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "Shedding light on alcohol's long shadow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you sure you’re not just flying more now you’re not drinking?<p>Single pilot IFR being fun or scary mostly comes down to currency!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 21:38:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41760551</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41760551</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41760551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "Show HN: Safe Routes. real time turbulence data, ML predictions with an iPad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mostly mountain wave presumably?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Jun 2024 14:23:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40830831</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40830831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40830831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "Montessori Education"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Went to Steiner school, can confirm I’m capable of knitting a chicken.<p>It worked out well for me in terms of education but that’s a small data point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 08:27:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40413445</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40413445</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40413445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "VATSIM: The International Online Aviation Network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>VATSIM’s pretty neat, really enjoyed flying in sim using it before I got my actual license.<p>I’m not sure how much it helped though, the real challenge (at first) is making your brain handle “fly the aeroplane” and “talk to people” at the same time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 21:28:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543643</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543643</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "Can Microsoft Flight Simulator help me learn to fly or make me a better pilot?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Weirdly often not! They’re quite different recreational activities.<p>Flying powered is a “go to the airfield and takeoff” whereas gliding is more of an all-day team sport at most clubs as there’s a lot of ground handling required for towing, winches etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2023 16:06:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38754384</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38754384</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38754384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "Active turbulence cancellation makes bumpy flights smoother"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this would effectively increase the stresses on the airframe leading to greater metal fatigue which probably isn’t a good outcome</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2023 16:22:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38614272</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38614272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38614272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "DIY-Thermocam: A low-cost thermal imager based on the FLIR Lepton sensor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the company originally 
 made forward looking infrared sensors for military aircraft.<p>The name’s just stuck around since.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2023 14:12:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35851728</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35851728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35851728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "The Maintenance Race"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just so happen to be in La Rochelle tomorrow. I’ll go find Joshua!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2022 22:56:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32198105</link><dc:creator>lawrenceduk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32198105</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32198105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lawrenceduk in "ESP32-C5: Espressif’s First Dual-Band Wi-Fi 6 MCU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have 10s of thousands of street lights using LoRaWAN amongst other things.<p>It’s very much being used! Just might not be that obvious.</p>
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