Hacker News: voxleone

Please Let the Internet Die

voxleone — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:15:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/let-the-internet-die/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50272392

Points: 17

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New comment by voxleone in "Docker is weird"

voxleone — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:46:14 +0000

Thank you for Docker.

>>Containers aren’t real

To me a Docker container is less like a sealed box and more like a 'beam' of processes running through a set of isolation boundaries.

The Case for Lower Case

voxleone — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:41:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-case-for-lowercase/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50167171

Points: 2

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New comment by voxleone in "Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier"

voxleone — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 14:22:06 +0000

It occurs to me that heavy-duty flying drones could be the ultimate platform for solo skydiving.

Space warfare in your own eyepiece?

voxleone — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:28:45 +0000

Article URL: https://spaceweather.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50165338

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Who Will Benefit from the AI Revolution?

voxleone — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:04:26 +0000

Article URL: https://time.com/article/2026/10/19/who-will-benefit-from-the-ai-revolution-/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154893

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by voxleone in "Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware"

voxleone — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:57:27 +0000

I suspect we're going to see a resurgence of local computing because of LLMs, although not in exactly the same way as before.

Anthropic's Claude cruelty policy risks humanising AI

voxleone — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:46:35 +0000

Article URL: https://unherd.com/newsroom/anthropics-claude-cruelty-policy-risks-humanising-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090688

Points: 3

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The Tragedy of AI Coding

voxleone — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:30:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-programming-big-tech-regulations/688960/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075448

Points: 5

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New comment by voxleone in "Orkut.com"

voxleone — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:15:27 +0000

Google+ had some clever ideas: Circles, Hangouts, integration with Google's ecosystem, etc. But it was designed from a top-down product strategy. Google didn't necessarily make a mistake by trying Google+, but made a mistake by failing to recognize that social graphs are infrastructure; treating social networking as a new product to bolt onto Google, rather than recognizing that Orkut already contained the social graph and behavioral lessons Google needed.

New comment by voxleone in "The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists"

voxleone — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:37:30 +0000

In certain parts of the world an entire lifestyle has been built on the logistics of the old pesticide methods. Good luck getting rid of them. Furthermore, and this matters enormously, Walbachia is still a nuisance. If Walbachia replacement is deployed, a resident can quite reasonably say: “Great, dengue risk is lower, but why am I still getting eaten alive in my backyard?”. That resident may continue demanding spraying, larvicides, traps, pest control, etc.

Flying Doesn't Have to Be This Miserable

voxleone — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:10:06 +0000

Article URL: https://time.com/article/2026/09/29/flying-doesn-t-have-to-be-this-miserable/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49966753

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by voxleone in "Shimano Bicycle Museum Review"

voxleone — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:54:26 +0000

No rods or reels? As a Shimano fishing enthusiast, I feel slightly underrepresented here. :)

New comment by voxleone in "Why the Bronze Age Collapsed"

voxleone — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:21:13 +0000

There is account of the iron discovery in sub Saharan Africa about 2,000 BC[0][1][2]

If we grant, purely as a thought experiment, that a community in sub-Saharan Africa had developed reliable iron metallurgy around 2000 BC, it would be a reminder of how technology advancements shouldn't be taken for granted.

What social, ecological and economic circumstances allowed an invention to arise but prevented it from becoming a continuously expanding technological tradition.

Why didn't that discovery become part of a self-sustaining technological system? It could have led to a very different Africa and world today.

- [0] https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/sap/article/view/2710?...

- [1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-024-01383-2?utm_sourc...

- [2] https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-023-09545-6?utm_source=chatgp...

'Attention Infidelity' Is Ruining Romance

voxleone — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:30:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/opinion/attention-infidelity-ruin-romance.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909529

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by voxleone in "Calculating atmospheric drag on satellites for a Cubesat [pdf]"

voxleone — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:16:30 +0000

>>AI writing is everywhere -- except here. This website is written by Dr. Tony Phillips, a carbon-based lifeform with 30 yrs of forecasting experience.

Could they be lying?

Ask HN: Firefox VPN Anyone?

voxleone — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:53:10 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49829907

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by voxleone in "The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac (1939)"

voxleone — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:34:57 +0000

There's this little pet project of mine, the Functional Universe [0]. It explores a direction suggested by Dirac: treating mathematical structure and transformation not merely as a language for describing physical reality, but as potentially constitutive of it. FU models physical reality in terms of functional state evolution, with an emphasis on composition, aggregation, and transitions. In that sense, I think there's an interesting point of contact with Dirac's emphasis on transformations: Dirac points toward transformations as fundamental mathematical structures from which physics might be derived; FU asks what happens if physical reality itself is formulated in terms of transitions and their composition.

[0] https://voxleone.github.io/FunctionalUniverse/

Unexpected Satellite Explosion

voxleone — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:46:05 +0000

Article URL: https://spaceweather.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739388

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Geography Is Power

voxleone — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:27:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/briefing/the-houthis.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728526

Points: 2

# Comments: 0