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> Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, sources familiar with the decision told CBS News...

> Two other Army officers were removed from their roles, according to three sources familiar with the matter: Gen. David Hodne, who led the Army's Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. William Green, who headed the Army's Chaplain Corps...

> Hegseth has fired more than a dozen senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Slife and the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse.

New comment by sciurus in "OpenTelemetry profiles enters public alpha"

sciurus — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:50:21 +0000

You can send profiles collected by opentelemetry to pyroscope.

https://grafana.com/docs/pyroscope/latest/configure-client/o...

New comment by sciurus in "Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived"

sciurus — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:32:31 +0000

The repo page says "This repository was archived by the owner on Feb 10, 2026. It is now read-only."

New comment by sciurus in "High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon"

sciurus — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:33:23 +0000

Very cool project!

I saw you were looking for help sourcing things like balloons and gas. https://groups.io/g/GPSL/ worried be a great place to go and ask for help with that, if you haven't already.

New comment by sciurus in "High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon"

sciurus — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:18:51 +0000

If you're interested in high altitude ballooning, there's an active community around it.

https://arhab.org/

https://www.superlaunch.org/

The Productivity Ceiling of AI Coding Tools

sciurus — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:18:28 +0000

Article URL: https://pushtoprod.substack.com/p/stop-babysitting-your-ai-coding-agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794980

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by sciurus in "Postal Arbitrage"

sciurus — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:22:08 +0000

I checked the first five items while logged in with Amazon Prime. They all required a minimum order of either $25 or $100 to get free shipping.

New comment by sciurus in "Iran is likely jamming Starlink"

sciurus — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:27:27 +0000

The GPS satellites aren't receiving anything. The GPS satellites transmit signals, and the starlink terminals (and other users of GPS) receive those signals.

New comment by sciurus in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)"

sciurus — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:34:32 +0000

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* Director of Platform Services

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New comment by sciurus in "I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours"

sciurus — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:29:45 +0000

https://testanything.org/ ?

New comment by sciurus in "Amazon EC2 M9g Instances"

sciurus — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:53:29 +0000

https://instances.vantage.sh/ shows coremark scores for each EC2 instance type.

New comment by sciurus in "Clockss: Digital preservation services run by academic publishers and libraries"

sciurus — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:46:17 +0000

See https://clockss.org/about/how-clockss-works/ for an overview of the implementation.

New comment by sciurus in "We bought the whole GPU, so we're damn well going to use the whole GPU"

sciurus — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 02:04:08 +0000

(I think we was just introducing himself as Ben Spector, the lead author of the paper.)