<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: megaloblasto</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=megaloblasto</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:34:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=megaloblasto" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by megaloblasto in "Harold and George Destroy the World"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I strongly disagree. Just because compression is common in pop music (and perhaps overused in some genres) doesn't mean new music isn't innovative and dynamic. When I listen to music say from 1920 to 1950, it is so often so incredibly lame (not always). It's basic ideas and chord progressions and simple melodies with lyrics that don't say much.<p>Music is a way for people to express themselves and relate about how they see the world. People didn't stop doing that recently. In fact, I'd say people have been emboldened to say even more and push what music really means.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:02:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387485</link><dc:creator>megaloblasto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387485</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47387485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by megaloblasto in "Exercise has 'similar effect' to therapy, study on depression shows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It sounds like you're saying that low will power leads to depression.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:28:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47087800</link><dc:creator>megaloblasto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47087800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47087800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by megaloblasto in "'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hope this is a joke. Calvin's dad lying to him wasn't supposed to be idealized.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:04:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45993294</link><dc:creator>megaloblasto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45993294</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45993294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by megaloblasto in "Why hasn't there been a new major sports league?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like they missed Major League Cricket (MLC) founded in 2023</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 14:50:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45856983</link><dc:creator>megaloblasto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45856983</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45856983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by megaloblasto in "How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everyone loves to compare AI with the dot com bubble. My question is, were there any policies put in place after the dot com bubble to mitigate a similar crash? Or did we learn nothing?</p>
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<p>50 cent's intrinsic value doesn't decrease over time so to maintain that value, his name must go up.</p>
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<p>How is thinking that a company might be doing PR work in a hacker news tread a conspiracy theory?</p>
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<p>It takes the great minds at yale to figure these things out</p>
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<p>Keebio LM is really nice. I've had one for about 3 months now and it's been great <a href="https://keeb.io/products/iris-lm-keyboard" rel="nofollow">https://keeb.io/products/iris-lm-keyboard</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:44:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45421969</link><dc:creator>megaloblasto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45421969</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45421969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by megaloblasto in "Is life a form of computation?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It often seems that people think that the answers to the important questions must align with the subject they know best. Statisticians think life is all about probabilities. Economists think it's game theory. Computer scientists think it's computational.<p>"Everything can be understood through mathematics" is usually said by a mathematician.</p>
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<p>HackRF One can go up to 6GHz ($400 new or $100 on alibaba for a similar device). Any higher frequency than that you'll be paying thousands.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:29:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45263616</link><dc:creator>megaloblasto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45263616</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45263616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by megaloblasto in "Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They will continue to orbit for about 150 years, slowly falling towards earth until the drag from the atmosphere burns them up.<p>"Like many older satellites, the POES satellites do not have thrusters to support a controlled reentry into Earth’s atmosphere at the end of their mission life. Instead, once passivated, they are safely powered down, placed in a non-operational state, and left in a stable orbit. Without onboard propulsion or significant atmospheric drag at their current altitude, NOAA estimates they will remain in orbit for roughly 150 years before gradually reentering the atmosphere and disintegrating."[1]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/legacy-orbit-noaa-decommissions-the-poes-satellite-constellation" rel="nofollow">https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/legacy-orbit-noaa-decommiss...</a></p>
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<p>Sadly, you can't really get NOAA satellite images any more. NOAA-15 and 19 were decommissioned August 19, 2025, and NOAA 18 was decommissioned in June. It's my understanding that you'll need a much more powerful antenna to get images from the new satellites. Still, SDR is great fun. It's incredible to realize that all this information is stored in electromagnetic waves and passing through us all the time.</p>
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<p>This is great info. Thanks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:04:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45213173</link><dc:creator>megaloblasto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45213173</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45213173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by megaloblasto in "GrapheneOS and forensic extraction of data (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kind of. I don't use grapheneOS and I'd like to, but de-googling your phone by buying a Google phone seems a bit sketchy. I don't want to take away from a privacy focused project. I'm super thankful for this option and I can't stand android or iPhone. But in the back of my mind I wonder if I'm being tricked.</p>
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<p>Someone clearly replied with the same link. I'm not sure how many people would keep replying the same thing without even doing a simple thread search.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:54:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45212412</link><dc:creator>megaloblasto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45212412</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45212412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by megaloblasto in "GrapheneOS and forensic extraction of data (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks<p>> These devices meet the stringent privacy and security standards and have substantial upstream and downstream hardening specific to the devices<p>It still seems strange. A big part of GrapheneOS is to provide a safeguard from Googles data hoarding, yet it works primarily on Google phones.</p>
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<p>I've always found it strange that GrapheneOS only runs on Google hardware. Can anyone explain this choice?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:47:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45212316</link><dc:creator>megaloblasto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45212316</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45212316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by megaloblasto in "Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – it's product management"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see what your saying but I would argue that vibe coding an ODE solver is an incorrect use of the tool. For something like and ODE solver you need to have a really solid understanding of what data structures you will use,and solid general knowledge of the numerical methods you want to implement. Then, you can use AI as an assistant when you get stuck, or to deepen your understanding, look over your implementation, etc.<p>It seems like developers used to always joke about how much they used stack exchange (even senior devs). Now it seems like there are suddenly so many people who claim to never need any help and can just smoothly bust out beautiful code all day long.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:33:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45078191</link><dc:creator>megaloblasto</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45078191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45078191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by megaloblasto in "Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – it's product management"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Damn bro. Deep dive into the comments.<p>The bad algo was a scaling problem for one equation. That particular equation wasn't some y = mx + b thing, it was the result of a discontinuous galerkin finite element scheme that I wrote from scratch. The actual equation was one that I found after about 2 pages of hand written derivations with high level math. Not really a coding issue, just an algebra issue after really intense manipulations of partial differential equations.<p>The fact that AI found that problem, a problem that could only be found by someone able to do complex manipulations of PDEs is incredible to me. Perhaps I didn't tell the story well in the past comment, but it isn't like I didn't know python syntax and AI held my hand.<p>I don't post repos because I keep my hacker news life separate from my personal life, and my repos are tied to my name.<p>Most major software companies are demanding that their employees use AI, so you should be able to look at any open repo from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc for examples of AI use in code.</p>
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