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New comment by lbeckman314 in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

lbeckman314 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:19:59 +0000

Lord of the Rings — second read after ~15 years, excited to revisit!

New comment by lbeckman314 in "Pirating the Pirates"

lbeckman314 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:06:08 +0000

"Death to the opposition!"

- Commander Worf, Take Me Out to the Holosuite (7x4)

New comment by lbeckman314 in "Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos"

lbeckman314 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:59:22 +0000

Gift article!

> https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/writers-way-gal...

Big fan of Will Matsuda's photography + just wanted to share :p

> https://www.willmatsuda.com

Paradise Revisited: What Darwin Saw in the Galápagos

lbeckman314 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:59:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/writers-way-galapagos-charles-darwin-travel/687480/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48634485

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by lbeckman314 in "Sigbovik 2026 Proceedings [pdf]"

lbeckman314 — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:06:03 +0000

Praise be to heretics everywhere!

Here were the SIGBOVIK 2026 papers I was able to find in the wild while the official proceedings were being published, excited to revisit them alongside the new ones:

AI Agents Decline Free Beer but Have a Big Heart [0]

No one can force me to have a secure website!!! [1]

On parallels between Large Language Models and the Black Knight [2]

[0] https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:2055070/FULLTEXT...

[1] https://tom7.org/httpv/httpv.pdf

[2] https://dennissoemers.github.io/assets/publications/SIGBOVIK...

New comment by lbeckman314 in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

lbeckman314 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:22:58 +0000

" They could've made this clearer..."

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/26vdkf/dont_do...

New comment by lbeckman314 in "Runners who churn butter on their runs"

lbeckman314 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:47:54 +0000

Good competition for Fatih Karakaya (@runners_pie)!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DCuSImnocL7 (November 23, 2024)

> Fatih is a master pastry chef and marathon runner, and he baked a Sachertorte during his marathon at the Ring Running Series at the Hockenheimring.

> Fatih ist Konditormeister und Marathonläufer und hat während seines Marathons bei den Ring Running Series am Hockenheimring eine Sachertorte gebacken.

New comment by lbeckman314 in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"

lbeckman314 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:59:24 +0000

Oof TIL, thanks for the heads up that's a shame!

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/417269/archive-toda...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment...

https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-...

New comment by lbeckman314 in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"

lbeckman314 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:39:55 +0000

https://archive.is/fuJCe

(Apologies if this archive link isn't helpful, the unlocked_article_code in the URL still resulted in a paywall on my side...)

New comment by lbeckman314 in "A shortage of tenors"

lbeckman314 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:26:57 +0000

This is now my favorite benign conspiracy/cause of the lack of tenors!

Damn those big-voiced basses — they're stealing all our love interests :p

New comment by lbeckman314 in "Make.ts"

lbeckman314 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:33:55 +0000

If God didn't want me to use the em dash, why did he enshrine it in

nature? In the horizon line—the lightning-harrowed bough—the canyon's

pink striation—the pupil of the goat

    — @ctrlcreep

https://twitter.com/ctrlcreep/status/1808321708627317061

https://nitter.net/ctrlcreep/status/1808321708627317061

New comment by lbeckman314 in "I made Zig compute 33M satellite positions in 3 seconds"

lbeckman314 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:52:05 +0000

- https://atlasof.space

New comment by lbeckman314 in "I made Zig compute 33M satellite positions in 3 seconds"

lbeckman314 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:19:06 +0000

Beautiful visualization at https://attron.github.io/astroz-demo! (~160 MB transfer)

My (very amateur) belief is that we're in a quiet golden age of cool space viz/tools, for example:

- https://www.asterank.com/3d

- https://dmytry.github.io/space/

- https://www.tng-project.org/explore/3d

- https://github.com/da-luce/astroterm

- https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools

Feels like the halcyon techno-optimism from TOS + TNG!

New comment by lbeckman314 in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

lbeckman314 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:48:07 +0000

https://liambeckman.com

https://github.com/lbeckman314/lbeckman314.github.io

Excited to check out everyone else's sites here : )

New comment by lbeckman314 in "The Eggstraordinary Fortress"

lbeckman314 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:19:24 +0000

So one of those egg council creeps got to you too, huh? [0,1]

[0] https://frinkiac.com/video/S06E12/-1x9jGk4guJdUb76ZrC2FbPyug...

[1] https://youtu.be/AHAFMFFQlkI

New comment by lbeckman314 in "Advent of Code on the Z-Machine"

lbeckman314 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:32:07 +0000

This Z-Machine is also featured in 'Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon' [1] by Lightning on Demand [2]!

[1] https://youtu.be/lix-vr_AF38?t=3m12s

[2] https://lod.org

New comment by lbeckman314 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)"

lbeckman314 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:31:54 +0000

Location: Portland, Oregon, US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go, Python, Kubernetes, Helm, Typescript, PostgreSQL

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/lbeckman314/resume/releases/latest/downlo...

Email: lbeckman314@gmail.com

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Fullstack software engineer with 6 years of experience in deploying cloud environments and building and managing workflows, CLIs, and databases.

GitHub → https://github.com/lbeckman314

Website → https://liambeckman.com

New comment by lbeckman314 in "Tumult and Sympathy – The Letters of Oliver Sacks"

lbeckman314 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:23:06 +0000

Ah I've only recently discovered Oliver Sacks and have just picked up his Letters and Gratitude [1, 2] from the local library!

Marginalian also has a great exploration of his letters as well [3]:

> I think “the meaning of life” is something we have to formulate for ourselves, we have to determine what has meaning for us… It clearly has to do with love — what and whom and how one can love.

[1] https://www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks-books/letters

[2] https://www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks-books/gratitude

[3] https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/11/08/oliver-sacks-lette...

New comment by lbeckman314 in "ChatGPT Developer Mode: Full MCP client access"

lbeckman314 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:27:55 +0000

TIL Domino's has an (unofficial/experimental) MCP Server + API

https://mcpizza.vercel.app

https://riaevangelist.github.io/node-dominos-pizza-api

https://tech.dominos.co.uk/blog/tag/API (September 2023)

New comment by lbeckman314 in "The most otherworldly, mysterious forms of lightning on Earth"

lbeckman314 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:35:11 +0000

We're spoiled in terms of cool astronauts! A couple of personal favorite posts:

1. Jonny Kim: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkj52PuO6h/

> My first time-lapse. Thanks to some instruction and tips from @Astro_Ayers, I caught my first aurora. After seeing the result, I told her this felt like fishing. Prepping the camera, the angle, the settings, the mount, then setting your timer and coming back to hope you got a catch. And after catching my first fish, I think I’m hooked. Thanks, Vapor!

———

2. Don Petit: https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/xbmhz4/i_captured_so...

> These are Star Trails taken from my previous mission to the ISS, Expedition 30, in 2012. I call it "Lightning Bugs."... In the photo, stars make arcing trails in deep space, while a huge thunderstorm pounds Earth below as seen from the time history of lightning flashes.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250215124004/https://blogs.nas...