Hacker News: voxadam

New comment by voxadam in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

voxadam — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:01:38 +0000

https://archive.is/Q8NSx

RIP Cybertruck

voxadam — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:01:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/rip-cybertruck-you-were-unloved-unwanted-and-utterly-absurd/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50393154

Points: 302

# Comments: 4

New comment by voxadam in "FAT32 File-System Seeing as Much as 265x Improvement with Linux 7.4"

voxadam — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 01:08:17 +0000

It's been pretty archaic for 20 years or more.

Zephyr RTOS 4.5 Now Available

voxadam — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 02:54:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zephyrproject.org/zephyr-rtos-4-5-now-available-two-new-architectures-multimedia-pipelines-sboms-and-more/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50284044

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Police Pulling People over Because AI Deems Their Driving Patterns "Suspicious"

voxadam — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:45:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ai-driven-police-stops

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251477

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

New comment by voxadam in "Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now"

voxadam — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:16:38 +0000

Benevolent worms.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/benevolent_wo...

Modernizing the console with kmscon

voxadam — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:13:59 +0000

Article URL: https://fedoramagazine.org/modernizing-the-console-with-kmscon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50159278

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants?

voxadam — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:36:51 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/why-is-nasa-bringing-7500-contractors-back-to-work-as-civil-servants/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984480

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by voxadam in "Find the flattest route between any two points in SF"

voxadam — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:36:50 +0000

Flattest or most level? They're different, but related measurements.

A surface can be flat while still increasing or decreasing in relative elevation.

New comment by voxadam in "NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart"

voxadam — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:41:54 +0000

If you haven't already read it Ben Rich's Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed is truly excellent read. Highly recommended.

New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators

voxadam — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:38:49 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09/new-jersey-fines-data-center-1-1m-after-satellite-pics-expose-62-gas-generators/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49835019

Points: 94

# Comments: 29

Netflix's 'Wonka's the Golden Ticket' Is a Ghoulish Misuse of AI Gene Wilder

voxadam — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:52:30 +0000

Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/tv/reviews/wonkas-golden-ticket-review-ai-gene-wilder-1236872754/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817097

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses

voxadam — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:08:47 +0000

Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/09/01/tesla-solar-roof-exit-installers-losses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49601846

Points: 135

# Comments: 133

We Are Living in the Fantasy World of 13-Year-Old Boys

voxadam — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:50:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/08/silicon-valley-science-fiction-jill-lepore-book-review/688467/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522010

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by voxadam in "The AI Backlash Gets Professional"

voxadam — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:06:18 +0000

https://archive.is/k0hSY

The AI Backlash Gets Professional

voxadam — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:06:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/irreplaceable-climate-activists-ai-backlash/688404/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484801

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Con Kolivas Revives -ck Patches & MuQSS To Improve Linux Desktop Responsiveness

voxadam — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:43:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Con-Kolivas-Linux-Patches-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338680

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by voxadam in "Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful"

voxadam — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:39:25 +0000

It's been years since I cracked open a copy, maybe I should give it another shot.

New comment by voxadam in "Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful"

voxadam — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:04:22 +0000

>there is indeed a huge logical error at the heart of the whole enterprise but it was not discovered until much later by Kurt Gödel.

Which leads us to our next borderline impenetrable book, Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.

New comment by voxadam in "Chartreuse, a case study in how scarcity and authenticity can drive desirability"

voxadam — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:15:30 +0000

I'm right there with you bud. I just wish it wasn't such a pain to get my hands on a bottle here in Portland so much of the time. So many cocktail nerds to compete with.

Now I want a Last Word, is quarter after two too early for a cocktail?