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Near-Earth Asteroid 2026 JH2 close encounter [live stream] [video]

wumms — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:01:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsPz2nOxDA4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184776

Points: 2

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New comment by wumms in "OpenTrafficMap"

wumms — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:15:55 +0000

> What is concerning is that vehicles appear to broadcast a MAC address.

Somewhat related: 'Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you': https://networks.imdea.org/your-cars-tire-sensors-could-be-u...

New comment by wumms in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

wumms — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:57:56 +0000

What is coming into view from the top center at 08:26:25 [0], right after the commentator says, "the weather conditions remain go"? It stays visible for more than seven minutes before disappearing behind the horizon.

[0] https://youtu.be/X9Miy8ngusQ?t=30382

New comment by wumms in "Velxio 2.0 – Emulate Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi 3 in the Browser"

wumms — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:54:05 +0000

Nice work! One minor point for me: it wasn’t immediately clear that you need to press Compile before Play gets enabled (e.g. Arduino IDE let's you upload right away and compiles if needed)

New comment by wumms in "Launch HN: Kita (YC W26) – Automate credit review in emerging markets"

wumms — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:26:45 +0000

Germany (~5% of SMEs underfunded [0]) isn’t underbanked; it’s just bureaucratically annoying; so more of an UX problem (which Kita helps address) with a somewhat similar outcome.

The US ("63M underbanked businesses") are already targeted: "Automate document review for business loan applications so you can fund more enterprises without scaling your back office." https://www.usekita.com/united-states

[0] https://www.eib.org/files/publications/20230340_econ_eibis_2...

New comment by wumms in "Launch HN: Kita (YC W26) – Automate credit review in emerging markets"

wumms — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:47:38 +0000

Sidenote: unlike in Tagalog, Kita means “day-care facility for children” in German, so names like Kita Capture and Kita Credit Agent could carry unintended connotations.

New comment by wumms in "LoGeR – 3D reconstruction from extremely long videos (DeepMind, UC Berkeley)"

wumms — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:54:39 +0000

Street View cars added Velodyne LiDAR around 2017 [0][1], but it's optional. I found no data on 'LiDAR vs image only'-percentage.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/googles-street-view-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View

New comment by wumms in "Notes on Baking at the South Pole"

wumms — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:47:21 +0000

Crunchyroll uploaded E01 for free: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt573QIevIM

New comment by wumms in "An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever Published"

wumms — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:00:55 +0000

Writing system [0]: "In a talk at the Oxford University Society of Bibliophiles on 11 May 2009 [1], Serafini stated that there is no meaning behind the Codex's script, which is asemic; that his experience in writing it was similar to automatic writing [2]; and that what he wanted his alphabet to convey was the sensation children feel with books they cannot yet understand, although they see that the writing makes sense for adults. However, the book's page-numbering system was decoded by Allan C. Wechsler and Bulgarian linguist Ivan Derzhanski, as being a variation of base 21."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus#Writing_sy...

[1] I could not find a source for that talk

[2] Automatic writing, also called psychography, is a claimed psychic ability allowing a person to produce written words without consciously writing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_writing

New comment by wumms in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

wumms — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:49:55 +0000

> His primary school principal described him as ‘a happy little fellow who has a clear understanding of the fact that he is different’.

New comment by wumms in "Git's Magic Files"

wumms — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:26:05 +0000

Also, files that are added to .gitignore after they’ve already been committed will still appear as modified. To stop tracking them, you need to remove them from the index (staging area):

    git rm --cached

New comment by wumms in "Microsoft team creates data-storage system that lasts for millennia"

wumms — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:01:56 +0000

If they get the read speed up to a couple of GBit/s (~100x current max write speed), 4.8TB might be a good fit for 32k movies.

New comment by wumms in "Microsoft team creates data-storage system that lasts for millennia"

wumms — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:26:46 +0000

They mention it in the article:

> Microsoft began to build on their work in 2017. Although Kazansky’s approach maximizes durability and the density of data, in the latest work, Microsoft has gone for practicality. They explore a method that enables data to be written faster and decoded more reliably than did Project Silica’s previous iterations, says Black, and it uses cheaper borosilicate glass, rather than harder-to-make fused silica.

Following your link, I found a prototype of the media storage system (2023) with just 2828 views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnK-uB4OsgU

New comment by wumms in "The Pentagon just threatened to blacklist Anthropic"

wumms — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:24:57 +0000

Pentagon might ask contractors to certify they don't use Anthropic's Claude (wsj.com)

13 points by fortran77 20 hours ago | 6 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057294

New comment by wumms in "Microsoft team creates data-storage system that lasts for millennia"

wumms — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:39:17 +0000

Current write speed (No read speed given):

    Blu-ray (1×)            ~36   Mbit/s
    MS-Glass (single beam)  ~25.6 Mbit/s
    MS-Glass (multi-beam)   ~65.9 Mbit/s

That's ~7-18 days per 120mm x 120mm medium (4.8TB). Glass prices stable for now. Also, the authors make no statement about horizontal vs. vertical storage.

New comment by wumms in "A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (2024)"

wumms — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:01:54 +0000

> Imagine some future event even more powerful

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyake_event

New comment by wumms in "On being sane in insane places (1973) [pdf]"

wumms — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:27:31 +0000

Reminds me of: Man’s Search for Meaning (1946) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning

New comment by wumms in "A web server on a single floppy disk"

wumms — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:23:05 +0000

Sorry, nitpick: 720kB DD 1.44MB HD

New comment by wumms in "Twin – The AI Company Builder"

wumms — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:48:23 +0000

> Today we're launching Twin publicly, after a 1-month beta where users deployed more than 100,000 fully autonomous agents. We're also announcing a $10M seed round led by LocalGlobe.

So... 20%?

New comment by wumms in "Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video"

wumms — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:51:22 +0000

Whoops! Mistook the "You're about to speak with an AI."-progress bar for processing delay.