Hacker News: milleramp

New comment by milleramp in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

milleramp — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:03:00 +0000

I am not sure that it would be profitable to sell equipment that has been depreciated to 0$.

New comment by milleramp in "I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it"

milleramp — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:02:39 +0000

Na, the air is pink there, we would have seen the spectral signature.

New comment by milleramp in "A 5.3M-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone"

milleramp — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:57:54 +0000

I wonder if whales concept of heaven is down somewhere down, Instead of up.

New comment by milleramp in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

milleramp — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:26:18 +0000

Most fan lights have the e12 candelabra base, these led bulbs end to fail quite often, even in open fixtures. Look for fans with the e26 base the bulbs will last a lot longer.

New comment by milleramp in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

milleramp — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:21:29 +0000

I used a flipper zero to debug my fan, that's a good place to start your project.

New comment by milleramp in "Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1"

milleramp — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:48:16 +0000

It's research to collect data, and it's not your money, what do you care?

New comment by milleramp in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

milleramp — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:12:45 +0000

For time of use rates ~0.34/kWh is the cheapest rate for overnight hours. 4-9pm is over 50c/kWh. It's crazy how prices have increased the last decade.

The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

milleramp — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:48:42 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Metamorphosis_of_Prime_Intellect

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699946

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by milleramp in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"

milleramp — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:07:14 +0000

Made with imipolex g?

New comment by milleramp in "AI wealth is creating a 'mansion shortage' upending San Francisco housing market"

milleramp — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:46:25 +0000

Let's forward this title to the Onion.

New comment by milleramp in "Laurie Anderson’s next manuscript to be locked away for 88 years"

milleramp — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:21:00 +0000

Lock it in a massive ice block that takes 88 years to melt. https://elephant.art/laurie-anderson-duets-on-ice-performanc...

New comment by milleramp in "Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope"

milleramp — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:20:35 +0000

The TDS500, 600 and 700 series can expand memory by removing zero ohm resistors.

New comment by milleramp in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

milleramp — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:02:14 +0000

I wasted a lot of tokens last month asking "Please explain the meaning of this sentence in plain language"

New comment by milleramp in "Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga"

milleramp — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:38:21 +0000

I assumed it would use chicken broth. Obviously not a chef, but I am going to give it a go.

New comment by milleramp in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

milleramp — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:38:22 +0000

Physical guardrails do not deterministically bound cars.

New comment by milleramp in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

milleramp — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:14:40 +0000

The physician can mandate ambulance transfer.

New comment by milleramp in "The circuit that lets your brain think and see"

milleramp — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:11:18 +0000

"inhibition fails" reminded me of this passage from Fear and Loathing.

"Ah, devil ether. It makes you behave like the village drunkard in some early Irish novel... total loss of all basic motor skills. Blurred vision, no balance, numb tongue. The mind recoils in horror, unable to communicate with the spinal column."

New comment by milleramp in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

milleramp — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:30:23 +0000

I have heard it is also more difficult to get married in Germany.

Qualcomm in Talks to Purchase Tenstorrent

milleramp — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:09:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/qualcomm-talks-buy-tenstorrent-information-reports-2026-06-15/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547689

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by milleramp in "I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet"

milleramp — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:56:37 +0000

Through a series of tubes.