Hacker News: solotronics

New comment by solotronics in "Hacking Moltbook"

solotronics — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:03:06 +0000

Probably have it do 10 trivial for AI but hard for people tasks within a small time frame.

New comment by solotronics in "Think"

solotronics — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:54:41 +0000

I collect IBM ads from the Space Race era, some of them are really cool. https://images.computerhistory.org/revonline/images/50000430...

https://www.ibm.com/history/apollo

https://www.ibm.com/history/mercury

New comment by solotronics in "We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months"

solotronics — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:46:41 +0000

The part people are missing here is that if the trading firms are all doing something, that in itself influences the market.

If they are all giving the LLMs money to invest and the AIs generally buy the same group of stocks, those stocks will go up. As more people attempt the strategy it infuses fresh capital and more importantly signaling to the trading firms there are inflows to these stocks. I think its probably a reflexive loop at this point.

New comment by solotronics in "Ghostty compiled to WASM with xterm.js API compatibility"

solotronics — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:54:58 +0000

I always thought it would be interesting in backend systems to catch a certain exceptions and auto-generate a link to a shell. Given the proper authentication is implemented would this be a good tool to achieve that "remote debug" shell?

New comment by solotronics in "FBI Director Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Three Senior Staff"

solotronics — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 22:22:36 +0000

Now that we have real time brain scanning techniques I bet there is something way more accurate than a polygraph out there now.

New comment by solotronics in "We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source"

solotronics — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:11:48 +0000

This problem statement was actually where the idea for Proof of Work (aka mining) in bitcoin came from. It evolved out of the idea of requiring a computational proof of work for sending an email via cypherpunk remailers as a way of fighting spam. The idea being only a legitimate or determined sender would put in the "proof of work" to use the remailer.

I wonder how it would look if open source projects required $5 to submit a PR or ticket and then paid out a bounty to the successful or at least reasonable PRs. Essentially a "paid proof of legitimacy".

New comment by solotronics in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"

solotronics — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:33:22 +0000

If you could, theoretically, make a LLM that could actually excel at poker would that mean that it is good at lying to people?

New comment by solotronics in "60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal details"

solotronics — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:33:16 +0000

For anybody near DFW the Apollo 7 Command Module is on display at the Frontiers of Flight museum at Dallas Love Field. Its pretty amazing to see it in person and think about the engineering involved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7#/media/File:Apollo_7_...

New comment by solotronics in "You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title"

solotronics — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 01:19:57 +0000

Sorry I meant the systems we built not the interview itself.

New comment by solotronics in "You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title"

solotronics — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:32:02 +0000

It's been 10 years since I did an interview and I think I would rather retire and grow rare lizards than jump through the interview hoops at a new company. I am 90% sure I couldn't pass the interview for my current position but I'm the one who designed the whole thing. -staff level backend engineer

New comment by solotronics in "Email addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts"

solotronics — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 15:30:25 +0000

Is there a way to actually "own" your domain instead of paying registration fees every year?

New comment by solotronics in "Cloud outage causes Bambu 3D printers to start printing on their own"

solotronics — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 15:34:49 +0000

+1 for Voron project. I recommend first time builders to get a reputable Voron kit, you will save a lot of time creating wiring harnesses and such.

New comment by solotronics in "YouTuber who staged plane crash faces up to 20 years jail"

solotronics — Fri, 12 May 2023 15:33:04 +0000

Is it actually even illegal to crash a plane on purpose? Plane companies do this all the time for testing purposes, albeit in a controlled manner.

New comment by solotronics in "GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations"

solotronics — Tue, 09 May 2023 14:18:14 +0000

GIT is actually a great protocol for keeping distributed copies of code. You can pretty easily with bash cycle through a list of backup urls for a git repo, looking for updates.

New comment by solotronics in "NAT between identical networks using VRF"

solotronics — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 05:58:26 +0000

All of this just because people didn't want to figure out IPv6!

New comment by solotronics in "Why are antennas popping up over the Salt Lake City foothills?"

solotronics — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 23:59:22 +0000

I always assumed these helium miners were doing some weird radio data collection, IP obfuscation, or something. There has to be some incentive behind getting people to set up these radios everywhere.

New comment by solotronics in "NYC officials say they can't find EV garbage trucks powerful enough to plow snow"

solotronics — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 07:12:29 +0000

How hard would it be to make an EV garbage truck that turns some of the garbage into electricity?

New comment by solotronics in "Billionaire Winklevoss Twins’ $900M Disaster Is No Shock"

solotronics — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 05:36:03 +0000

Not your keys, not your coin. Best practice is to try to minimize the amount of time you leave Bitcoin on an exchange. Don't ever loan it out! What could they possibly be doing with it that is a safe investment?

New comment by solotronics in "Europe makes shipping vessels pay for carbon emissions"

solotronics — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:04:53 +0000

where is all the lithium and rare earth minerals going to come from to electrify all the cargo ships?

New comment by solotronics in "BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout spreads"

solotronics — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:15:44 +0000

If you can write down 12 or 24 words on a piece of paper thats all you need for a backup. Hardware wallets make this easier but I agree it needs to be simplified for the masses.