Hacker News: silksowed

New comment by silksowed in "Fly Drones from the Browser"

silksowed — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:57:19 +0000

Interesting. I've been building around that MCP abstraction and have had some early success flying in Cosys-Airsim (and Gazebo before that): https://github.com/jakedcmp/droneserver . I am starting to realize I need to break apart the MCP interface from all the other pieces of the stack for cleaner architecture but thats pending work. My flow goes like this: LLM -> MCP tools -> droneserver -> MAVSDK/MAVLink -> PX4/Ardupilot -> Cosys-Airsim Software in the Loop testing. What is novel for me is not having to learn how to fly a drone and bringing that capability into already existing technologies like PX4 autopilot. I have been attempting to code my own mission planning so I will check out QGroundControl as that might already be a solved problem and not worth building from scratch. I have also built the foundation of video streaming back from the drone so I can run video/image perception. Once I get perception working I am hoping I can build intent level autonomy where images are analyzed according to high level mission plan and potentially re-task the drone based on that. For example, the user issues simple command to fly around the property and scan for broken parts of the fence. During flight if an image of a broken fence is perceived, then the drone stops its flight and goes closer to capture additional imaging/video and document a gps location. Still hacking things together towards a real demo so the code probably wont port over well but idk. To anyone in this thread who wants to discuss further or collaborate let me know, it seems we are all working in a similar domain but from slightly different angles. Exciting area to build, I know there is big demand for solutions in this space over the next decade.

New comment by silksowed in "Fly Drones from the Browser"

silksowed — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:38:02 +0000

Very cool, I'm working on a similar project but using MCP as the flight input layer. Would love to dm and discuss more about how you built it or collaborate.

New comment by silksowed in "Fly Drones from the Browser"

silksowed — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:36:44 +0000

Is an FPV controller any different than a regular video game controller? I interested in how hard it is to fly a drone even in a sim environment.

New comment by silksowed in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

silksowed — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:25:16 +0000

Is crowd strike like a digital twin / virtual world sandbox for autonomous drones? Do you have any additional information I could check out? Been working on autonomous drone flights but eventually need a digital world to experiment in but have yet to reach that step. Debating working with Unreal Engine or NVIDIA omniverse but unsure what the right direction is.

New comment by silksowed in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

silksowed — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:22:31 +0000

Been experimenting with AI -> MCP driven drone orchestration/flight would love to learn more about what your building and compare. Thoughts?

New comment by silksowed in "Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2"

silksowed — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 17:36:44 +0000

very excited to play around. will be attempting to see if i can get character coherence between runs. the issue with the 8s limit is its hard to stitch them together if characters are not consistent. good for short form distribution but not youtube mini series or eventual movies. another comment about IP license is indeed an issue but its why i am looking towards classical works beyond their copyright dates. my goal is to eventually work from short form, to youtube to eventual short films. tools are limited in their current form but the future is promising if i get started now.

New comment by silksowed in "Ask HN: What do you use for ML Hosting?"

silksowed — Wed, 03 May 2023 16:20:11 +0000

how were you able to tell this? still trying to understand what infra is better used for inference (say realtime image category matching) vs training (feeding a chatbot huge sums of data)

New comment by silksowed in "Mercedes Reveals EQE and EQS 'Acceleration Increase' Subscription Pricing"

silksowed — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:39:06 +0000

face ID scan, click to confirm more power...! very good idea that i think would do very well considering the psychology of how people spend money

New comment by silksowed in "Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff"

silksowed — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 16:36:00 +0000

add in an equivalent to https://www.glean.com/ to enterprise dropbox and you have a new AI product that actually solves large org problems

New comment by silksowed in "Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers"

silksowed — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:44:17 +0000

i really wonder how they are housing the desktop grade hardware. im so used to rack and stack servers (1U/2U), but do you really need that big of a chassis for a desktop cpu, a couple ram dimm's and some ssd? what are you're thoughts?

New comment by silksowed in "Rotating Sandwiches – That's It"

silksowed — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 17:58:45 +0000

it might be pastrami on rye time!

New comment by silksowed in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)"

silksowed — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 21:24:19 +0000

very interesting space, application sent!

New comment by silksowed in "Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow"

silksowed — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:52:44 +0000

ahh makes sense. not sure how far in the coastal commission would have control, but even a 10 story building far enough in would drastically change the landscape of say the sunset district in San Francisco

New comment by silksowed in "Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow"

silksowed — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:22:11 +0000

ocean sky scrapers on the west side of the bay area? hard to even picture this

New comment by silksowed in "Ask HN: I'm a PM, and I want to go back to coding"

silksowed — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 16:54:32 +0000

totally understand where you're coming from. lots of days i feel like my job is to get the right people involved in the problem, not solve the problem myself. best of luck to you, i might find myself moving a similar direction.

New comment by silksowed in "Ask HN: I'm a PM, and I want to go back to coding"

silksowed — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:27:43 +0000

i'm heading down the PM path from a CS degree background, working at a tech company for ~2 years. sometimes i wish i had gone into dev work so i could get better satisfaction in the day to day. it also seems like PM hiring is very picky which worries me if i lose my job. anecdotally lots of career pages have lots of open dev positions but few PM roles. is this a factor in your thought process for switching?

New comment by silksowed in "Supermicro throws its weight behind Arm servers"

silksowed — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 17:19:55 +0000

does anyone know of anyone using graviton for compute instances? would like to gauge how the experience has been

New comment by silksowed in "Ask HN: Top Skills to Learn for 2023?"

silksowed — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 19:00:40 +0000

for GPU programming what area's would you suggest to start with? should i just dive into CUDA?

New comment by silksowed in "Philips Cuts 4,000 Employees"

silksowed — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 18:29:01 +0000

had a footprint in radiation oncology, at least at the time i interned. lots of machines that go into hospitals that are used on you but you never see

New comment by silksowed in "Ask HN: Do I publish code that affects millions of wireless security cameras?"

silksowed — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 19:36:10 +0000

so if we run the traffic through a VPN we can connect existing infrastructure to mobile network devices? i'm very intrigued by the intersection of mobile networks and the existing TCP/IP that runs most of the modern data center. curious how those two pieces will evolve and communicate together. as a side note, any edge device that is outside of wifi network range also seems to be isolated. until you bring that device back into range there is no way to transmit the data, leading to localized storage issues the way i see it.