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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.

Kyle Busch Has Died

milleramp — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:41:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/48838614/nascar-icon-kyle-busch-dies-age-41

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48229707

Points: 5

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New comment by milleramp in "Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)"

milleramp — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:50:09 +0000

He has a TV show called Strange Angel, and it's pretty good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Angel

New comment by milleramp in "Google I/O"

milleramp — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:23:29 +0000

People who were playing the drinking game to this are going to be feeling it tomorrow.

New comment by milleramp in "What British people mean when they say 'sorry'"

milleramp — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:08:23 +0000

In Los Angeles, its the same in person, in a car it's the finger. (Unfortunately)

New comment by milleramp in "First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line"

milleramp — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:59:08 +0000

I hope so. Regardless of who does it, generations of children in Los Angeles growing up in the corridors of the 5,10,110,210,405,605,710 freeways have asthma, likely caused from the soot of diesel trucks. Edit, couldn't leave out the worst experience in the US, i405.

New comment by milleramp in "New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges"

milleramp — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:44:23 +0000

It really ties the room together.

New comment by milleramp in "The FCC is about to ban 21% of its test labs today. I mapped them all"

milleramp — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:23:37 +0000

Yes when qualifying new equipment often the source of failing emissions is the power supply (or some other third party device) that has already 'passed' testing.

New comment by milleramp in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"

milleramp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:09:44 +0000

This guy has been making music controlled LED items, boxes and wrist bands. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/markusloeffler/lumiband...

New comment by milleramp in "Neighbors Say SF Tesla Supercharger Lot Has Become Urine Dumping Ground"

milleramp — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:07:47 +0000

So it's cleaner than the sidewalks?

New comment by milleramp in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"

milleramp — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:21:43 +0000

I don't know, the one with the simple minds song was pretty good.

New comment by milleramp in "A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data"

milleramp — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:13:57 +0000

It's the vinyl of computing.

New comment by milleramp in "Pebble Production: February Update"

milleramp — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:41:19 +0000

Left handed mode, nice!

New comment by milleramp in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

milleramp — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:11:23 +0000

Maybe it's incentive is to 'close the ticket' as fast as possible.

New comment by milleramp in "Prism"

milleramp — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:51:17 +0000

He is referencing the book Stranger in a Strange Land, written in 1961.

New comment by milleramp in "I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]"

milleramp — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:35:55 +0000

The db scale is logarithmic but doesn't match how our eyes sense light. So small changes in db may result in large visible light changes, or vise versa. Have you ever looked at a raw image, it doesn't look correct untill a gamma is applied, even though roughly the same information exists in both raw and gamma images. This is a similar concept. To do do this: db > linear > gamma This can be precomputed into a lookup table with the number of entries being the number of current steps, 8-bit 256 entries.

New comment by milleramp in "I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]"

milleramp — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:39:53 +0000

Very cool, was there a conversion or look up table to convert db to gamma for more accurate human visualization?

New comment by milleramp in "STFU"

milleramp — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 03:49:01 +0000

I wish there was an app for the other annoyances of the 'Bombay' airport. Like the get your ass in line app, or I don't need you to carry my luggage 5ft and demand a tip app.

New comment by milleramp in "Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism"

milleramp — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:06:03 +0000

Also Greg Egan's Permutation City covers these topics in a different way.

New comment by milleramp in "Turn a single image into a navigable 3D Gaussian Splat with depth"

milleramp — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:44:58 +0000

It's using Apple's SHARP method, which is monocular. https://apple.github.io/ml-sharp/