Hacker News: pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pigpangHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 24 May 2026 18:10:00 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "China builds first dedicated drone carrier"]]>Carpet shelling or carpet bombing with kilotons of TNT beg to differ.

]]>Sun, 19 May 2024 04:18:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40404247pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40404247https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40404247<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "The Ukraine war is driving rapid innovation in drone technology"]]>> So while you may see videos of drones taking out tanks, they are often tanks that have already been killed and drones come in on an immobile target, etc.

Those tanks are immobilized by other drones or mines.

> You would also think that Ukraine is using more drones than Russia - based on the videos.

Yep, Ukraine uses more drones than RF in both absolute and relative terms, because Ukraine uses 10x less artillery shells.

]]>Sun, 12 May 2024 09:30:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40333206pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40333206https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40333206<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "The Ukraine war is driving rapid innovation in drone technology"]]>If Ukraine will win war with Russia, it will mean that Ukraine will take their place as mightiest country in the world. EU will be a good buffer for us.

]]>Fri, 10 May 2024 04:16:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315468pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315468https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315468<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "The Ukraine war is driving rapid innovation in drone technology"]]>Global warming can be stopped by nuclear winter only.

]]>Fri, 10 May 2024 04:06:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315438pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315438https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315438<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "The Ukraine war is driving rapid innovation in drone technology"]]>Supersonic missiles are very vulnerable to a debris in the sky. Instead of catching of a missile, a drone can be blown up in advance on predicted trajectory of the supersonic missile.

]]>Fri, 10 May 2024 04:01:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315414pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315414https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40315414<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices"]]>Exactly. "Foo" is democratic when democratic or non-democratic country does it in a democratic way.

]]>Mon, 06 May 2024 13:57:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40274745pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40274745https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40274745<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices"]]>> In Italy the current defence minister is personally earning considerable amount of money by sending weapons to Ukraine, because he's also an owner and manager of companies that make said weapons.

FUD is the reason why Russian liars are banned from EU.

]]>Mon, 06 May 2024 13:32:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40274469pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40274469https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40274469<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles"]]>When Tesla's will have built-in StarLink?

]]>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:19:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211203pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211203https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40211203<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"]]>When single bug may cost millions of dollars, then Rust is cheaper and faster than Go. Google manager is not a liar.

]]>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 19:04:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182515pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182515https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182515<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"]]>It's possible to write unsafe and slow code in Rust.

]]>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 18:56:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182458pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182458https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182458<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"]]>Many games are written in Rust already, but they are not AAA games. Example: https://bfnightly.bracketproductions.com/chapter_0.html

]]>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 18:32:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182287pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182287https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182287<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"]]>Unsafe Rust is not harder or safer than C/C++. If you can uphold all safety invariants for C/C++ code (OMG!), then it will be easier to do same thing for unsafe Rust, because Rust has better ergonomic.

]]>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:53:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40181450pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40181450https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40181450<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces"]]>I.e. don't throw bad apples into bin, because they will rot deeper, but keep them closer to healthy apples with hope that healthy apples will heal bad ones.

Nice idea, I like it too.

]]>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:10:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40180568pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40180568https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40180568<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years"]]>You can use unsafe code and pointers if you really want, but code will be unsafe, like C or C++.

]]>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:03:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40180025pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40180025https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40180025<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "Meta does everything OpenAI should be"]]>Meta.ai requires "login with FB" for me. :-/

]]>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:34:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143603pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143603https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40143603<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS"]]>Exercising in hot weather requires drinking electrolyte water to avoid hyponatremia. Drinking large amounts of soft or distilled water (around 6 liters) can lead to death.

]]>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 07:36:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40073882pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40073882https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40073882<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "BTFS: BitTorrent Filesystem"]]>How you will calculate hash of file, when it broken, to lookup for?

]]>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:21:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048319pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048319https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048319<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS"]]>It's not a legend, it's just chemistry.

]]>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:29:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40015416pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40015416https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40015416<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "Fivefold Slower Compared to Go? Optimizing Rust's Protobuf Decoding Performance"]]>Rust-protobuf is much slower than quick-protobuf or prost.

]]>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 12:11:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011660pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011660https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011660<![CDATA[New comment by pigpang in "Fivefold Slower Compared to Go? Optimizing Rust's Protobuf Decoding Performance"]]>Idiomatic quick-protobuf is much faster than non-idiomatic rust-protobuf: https://github.com/tafia/quick-protobuf/tree/master/perftest

]]>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:57:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011544pigpanghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011544https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40011544