Hacker News: nanomonkey

New comment by nanomonkey in "Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival"

nanomonkey — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:20:47 +0000

Interesting, the Devonian also appears to be the period at which fish started sporting limb like appendages and muscle structures, and other animals started to explore land. Perhaps unlimited body growth doesn't work well for animals not entirely supported by water.

New comment by nanomonkey in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

nanomonkey — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:28:31 +0000

some of us are anti-capitalist

New comment by nanomonkey in "Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests"

nanomonkey — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:34:15 +0000

I believe they are implying that the US itself isn't in a healthy state. Economic disparity mostly, but also politically, socially, and likely physically. I think many would agree.

New comment by nanomonkey in "Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)"

nanomonkey — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:50:22 +0000

I can second this, Termux + Emacs turned my phone back into a personal computer.

It is helpful to add extra keys to your touch keyboard, which you can do by editing your termux properties file (see https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Touch_Keyboard). Helpful when you don't have a hardware keyboard available.

New comment by nanomonkey in "The last product to get cancelled"

nanomonkey — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:18:51 +0000

Thanks for the clarification. I got what they were going for it just didn't hit right.

I think supplements would have been a more effective word choice for the analogy for me, as vitamins reference something that is required for life.

New comment by nanomonkey in "The last product to get cancelled"

nanomonkey — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:50:55 +0000

This seems like a terrible analogy, as a vitamin is something you can't live without, while pain killers mask the problem. I'd think one would want to be a vitamin and not a pain killer, but the opposite suggestion is being made. Maybe that's why this hasn't stood the test of time.

New comment by nanomonkey in "CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally"

nanomonkey — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:25:25 +0000

Correct, going from cold compressed liquid co2 though. For supercritical CO2 one would then heat up the gas and use it as a working fluid to turn the turbines further.

If you could reuse the same turbine, one could store excess solar/wind energy in the compressed gas form, and then fire up a natural gas or biomass gasification reactor and then feed the heat into the system to produce more electricity on demand.

New comment by nanomonkey in "CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally"

nanomonkey — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:02:08 +0000

I'm curious if this method could be used along with super critical CO2 turbine generators. In other words after extracting the energy stored in compressed CO2, if you could then run it through a heat exchanger to bring it up to super critical temps and pressure and then utilize it as the working fluid in a turbine.

New comment by nanomonkey in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

nanomonkey — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:46:20 +0000

There are some contradictory claims here.

Boilerplate comes when your language doesn't have affordances, you get around this with /abstraction/ which leads to DSLs (Domain Specific Languages).

Matrix math is generally done on more than raw bits provided by digital circuits. Simple things like numbers require some amount of abstraction and indirection (pointers to memory addresses that begin arrays).

My point is yes, we've gotten ourselves in a complicated tar pit, but it's not because there wasn't a simpler solution lower in the stack.

New comment by nanomonkey in "Phreeli, no ID cell service provider"

nanomonkey — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:27:55 +0000

I haven't tried them, but they only require a zipcode and use ZKP (zero knowledge proofs) for payment authentication.

Phreeli, no ID cell service provider

nanomonkey — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:26:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phreeli.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280929

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by nanomonkey in "“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number"

nanomonkey — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:23:47 +0000

I agree, but you can mitigate that to some extent by using a phone number that is not linked to your identity.

Phreeli [https://www.phreeli.com/] allows you to get a cell number with just a zip code. They use ZKP (Zero Knowledge Proofs) for payment tracking.

New comment by nanomonkey in "Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux"

nanomonkey — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:31:13 +0000

As much as I like e-ink, it has terrible refresh rates. I'd love a larger version of the Sharp Memory display technology that could support at least 80 characters wide, and perhaps 8 bit greyscale. The current ones support 60hz refresh and sip power but are limited to black and white only.

New comment by nanomonkey in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

nanomonkey — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:46:28 +0000

As a LineageOS user, I'd be interested in the disparity between GrapheneOS and LineageOS.

New comment by nanomonkey in "Functional Quadtrees"

nanomonkey — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 03:44:17 +0000

I've been looking for the same for scheme and clojure. Here are a few I've found:

Functional Data Structures and Algorithms, A Proof Assistant Approach by Tobias Nipkow (Ed.) [https://fdsa-book.net/functional_data_structures_algorithms....]

Purely Functional Data Structures thesis by Chris Okasaki [https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/students/okasaki.pdf]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely_functional_data_structu...

New comment by nanomonkey in "Novelty Automation: A collection of satirical home-made arcade machines"

nanomonkey — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:12:24 +0000

The videos of each "arcade" are quite entertaining:

https://novelty-automation.com/10_current-machines.htm

New comment by nanomonkey in "Novelty Automation: A collection of satirical home-made arcade machines"

nanomonkey — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:11:07 +0000

What a creative fellow. The illustrations on those shows are great.

Novelty Automation: A collection of satirical home-made arcade machines

nanomonkey — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:21:21 +0000

Article URL: https://novelty-automation.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46114956

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by nanomonkey in "True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network"

nanomonkey — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:44:55 +0000

Curious why you believe it was broken, and is now fixed. What new development are you referring to? I agree that Patchwork kinda took a dive, and functionality started to bitrot with each new maintainer...but it still replicates feeds.

New comment by nanomonkey in "Nearby peer discovery without GPS using environmental fingerprints"

nanomonkey — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:40:52 +0000

This could be useful for dynamic clique routing used in mesh networking in large crowds. Although I would think one would need to do the peer discover prior to any Internet shutdown events. It gets around the problem of GPS spoofing, and physical barriers that traditional GPS based groupings have.