Hacker News: onjectic

New comment by onjectic in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

onjectic — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:00:33 +0000

You are right this seems to be misleading in a calculated way. And just because this is a junk paper doesn’t mean the groundwater issues aren’t real. I don’t really know who would be incentivized to publish this because as you say if it’s environmentalists they risk discrediting themselves.

New comment by onjectic in "NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year"

onjectic — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:46:36 +0000

> The user seems frustrated.

New comment by onjectic in "NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours""

onjectic — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:47:56 +0000

People will think you are exaggerating, you aren’t. They will also think I’m exaggerating that you aren’t, I’m not. Learning about capability-based microkernels and realizing this has been a solved problem for years, and is actually one of the rare easy freebie problems in computing, is a highly sobering experience!

Only thing I disagree on is that we lost that knowledge, we did not, there isn’t much to capabilities, they actually simplify OS design IMO.

New comment by onjectic in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

onjectic — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:50:34 +0000

> It’s rude too because is expecting me to pick up their slack.

I just had to deal with this, they never pushed back on my PR comments, just copy pasted everything I said back into Claude. Its just second hand vibe coding at that point, might as well fire the middle man…

New comment by onjectic in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

onjectic — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:14:52 +0000

This is awful advice… Academia, specifically STEM, is already oversaturated with people on the opposite side of the spectrum from “attention difficulties” but are otherwise only above-average people intellectually. They were able to follow the beaten path to the letter all their lives, but are not really capable of making meaningful contributions to their field. We should be filtering these people out more not less.

New comment by onjectic in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

onjectic — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:50:52 +0000

I’ll second this. Great way to recalibrate yourself, once you see it confidently assert the exact opposite statement.

New comment by onjectic in "You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)"

onjectic — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:47:53 +0000

Something something microkernels + capability-based security.

New comment by onjectic in "ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030"

onjectic — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:03:31 +0000

It is a strong example of European innovation though. It’s a multinational project. I wasn’t casting shade on ASML, I was just pointing out the wording of the article implies some sort of competition between ASML and the US that does not exist.

New comment by onjectic in "ASML unveils EUV light source advance that could yield 50% more chips by 2030"

onjectic — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:30:13 +0000

> SAN DIEGO, California

> to help retain the Dutch company's edge over emerging U.S. and Chinese rivals

Great news, but what a strange attempt to equate the U.S. and China in this and build a narrative. Cymer was founded in San Diego.

New comment by onjectic in "Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers"

onjectic — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:52:47 +0000

Reminds me a lot of the UI styles in the Minecraft mod ComputerCraft.

New comment by onjectic in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

onjectic — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:46:50 +0000

> The Second Amendment was written so that the US could avoid having a standing federal army and quickly gather up defense forces from States as necessary when attacked.

Too narrow. It secures an individual right, not a federal mobilization clause.

> Isn’t this the exact scenario those arguments were talking about? Have all the second amendment supporters been employed by ice/agree with what they're doing, or was it just empty talk?

Only if you think the second amendment is an on demand partisan defense force. It is not. It is a personal guarantee and a reserve of capacity, not a subscription service where “second amendment supporters” are obligated to show up on cue.

> It was never really a practical idea, more a sort of latent threat that has proven to be ineffective.

“Latent” is largely the point. Deterrence is not measured by constant use, and a right is not refuted by the fact that strangers do not take on extreme personal risk to prove it to you. The first line checks are still speech, courts, elections, oversight. This right exists for when those fail.

> Exactly what the constitution was written to prevent. I guess they did a bad job.

If power has drifted, enforce the constraints. It is the second amendment, placed immediately after speech and assembly, not the third or the tenth. Do not redefine the right into irrelevance and call that proof it failed.

New comment by onjectic in "Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async"

onjectic — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:27:23 +0000

Superloop is common terminology in the firmware space. They are cruder than a giant-state-machine-like case statements(but may use still them for control flow). They usually involve many non-nested if statements for handling events, and you usually check for every event one by one on every iteration of the loop. They are an abstraction and organizational nightmare once an application gets complex enough and is ideally only used in places where an RTOS won’t fit. I would not consider asynchronous frameworks like Embassy to be superloops.

New comment by onjectic in "State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'"

onjectic — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:27:20 +0000

I’m not sure how this counter argues my observation. You seem to be implying that the end goal would be to stop people from saying certain things you find abhorrent. Humans won’t ever stop doing that, it’s that it would sometimes be nice to know that the person presenting themselves as a disillusioned American voter is actually on the opposite side of the planet.

New comment by onjectic in "State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship'"

onjectic — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:01:40 +0000

We need to have a serious conversation about the pros and cons of anonymity on public online forums. It’s objectively an unnatural form of communication, most of us see the harm, but we also don’t want to swing towards mass surveillance(which is a very real risk).

EDIT: By unnatural I am referring to not knowing who you are talking to, not knowing the slightest thing about them, our brains don’t process this aspect for what it is, instead we fill in this identity with our imaginations. Perhaps there was a better word for this than unnatural, but to me its especially unnatural because it doesn’t really occur in nature(at least not easily), where as communication across long distances or time happens all the time in nature. TLDR: It’s unnatural that we no longer even know if a comment was written by a human.

EDIT2: I am not strongly in favor of removing anonymity from the internet. I don’t know what the answer is.

New comment by onjectic in "[dead]"

onjectic — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:04:06 +0000

Post title(and paper title) should be updated to include the number of undisclosed deaths(2 out of 38 deaths in the first 6 months). From what I can tell there were 43k total participants.

New comment by onjectic in "Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship"

onjectic — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:23:11 +0000

Where are you conversing online that this is a concern?

New comment by onjectic in "The Fatal Trap UBI Boosters Keep Falling Into"

onjectic — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:20:47 +0000

I would say it’s meant to be exploited in the way you are describing and really just a progressive tax mechanism, but instead of hitting zero tax at zero income, you hit zero higher and can start to pay “negative tax”.

New comment by onjectic in "Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing"

onjectic — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:36:22 +0000

You’ll notice that more senior engineers are often much better at giving useful review comments, and they will do it faster than you, thats just a skill that seems to come with experience reading other peoples code(or your own code you wrote two years prior). It can’t be taught, only practiced, same goes for reading other types of technical/academic works.

New comment by onjectic in "Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network"

onjectic — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 18:41:21 +0000

Microtube != Nanotube as far as I understand, though I admit the name is terrible and Penrose was my first thought when I read the title.

New comment by onjectic in "Why did containers happen?"

onjectic — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:07:29 +0000

> Unix security is fundamentally good

L. Ron Hubbard is fundamentally good!

I kid, but seriously, good how? Because it ensures cybersecurity engineers will always have a job?

seL4 is not the final answer, but something close to it absolutely will be. Capability-based security is an irreducible concept at a mathematical level, meaning you can’t do better than it, at best you can match it, and its certainly not matched by anything else we’ve discovered in this space.