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d_silin

2,250 karmajoined قبل 7 سنوات
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Small satellite operators confront a bottleneck to space access

spacenews.com
9 points·by d_silin·قبل 16 يومًا·0 comments

Ask HN: Examples of products and services created via agentic coding

3 points·by d_silin·قبل شهرين·0 comments

SpaceX Starship Documentary – Test Like You Fly

spacex.com
5 points·by d_silin·قبل 3 أشهر·0 comments

The Technological Republic, in Brief

twitter.com
11 points·by d_silin·قبل 3 أشهر·4 comments

Artemis II mission countdown clock started

nasa.gov
26 points·by d_silin·قبل 3 أشهر·0 comments

NASA Unveils Initiatives to Achieve America's National Space Policy

nasa.gov
4 points·by d_silin·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

SpaceX Announces TeraFab

twitter.com
10 points·by d_silin·قبل 4 أشهر·10 comments

The New World War

newstatesman.com
6 points·by d_silin·قبل 4 أشهر·2 comments

Rise of the AI Soldiers

time.com
6 points·by d_silin·قبل 4 أشهر·3 comments

Support Celestrak

giving.classy.org
1 points·by d_silin·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

Bringing the genetically minimal cell to life on a computer in 4D

cell.com
4 points·by d_silin·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

CTF is dying because of AI?

blog.krauq.com
3 points·by d_silin·قبل 4 أشهر·0 comments

User Interview #3

twitter.com
1 points·by d_silin·قبل 4 أشهر·1 comments

Hardwiring LLM model weights to ASIC

eetimes.com
1 points·by d_silin·قبل 5 أشهر·0 comments

Be the Cat

medium.com
3 points·by d_silin·قبل 5 أشهر·0 comments

Ask HN: What don't software developers unionize?

3 points·by d_silin·قبل 5 أشهر·0 comments

SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution

svardos.org
73 points·by d_silin·قبل 5 أشهر·16 comments

Why Colonize Space: The Need for Frontier

medium.com
1 points·by d_silin·قبل 5 أشهر·0 comments

SpaceX shifts priorities to Moon city instead of Mars colony

twitter.com
8 points·by d_silin·قبل 5 أشهر·7 comments

The Iron Heel

en.wikipedia.org
5 points·by d_silin·قبل 5 أشهر·2 comments

comments

d_silin
·قبل 6 أيام·discuss
One of the most interesting technologies that is not about LLMs/AIs.
d_silin
·قبل 13 يومًا·discuss
My bad! Global aerospace industry then.
d_silin
·قبل 13 يومًا·discuss
1969 was truly the pinnacle of US aerospace industry - Concord, Boeing 747 and Apollo 11 all happened during this year.
d_silin
·قبل 16 يومًا·discuss
This should be way higher.
d_silin
·قبل 19 يومًا·discuss
There is no metric a reasonably intelligent person can't sabotage or subvert...

...for example, you can write a script to burn tokens and write the code yourself.
d_silin
·قبل 19 يومًا·discuss
Nobody forces you to use AI.

It has become sort of junk food for the brain. Temptations and ads for it everywhere.
d_silin
·قبل 26 يومًا·discuss
That's one idea I am willing to bet on (with my money and skills).
d_silin
·قبل 27 يومًا·discuss
Fair enough. I appreciate your civility.
d_silin
·قبل 27 يومًا·discuss
When does it stop, though?

A white lie during interview, a deadline you promised and knew you could not deliver? A product you ship that claims to do X, but it doesn't?
d_silin
·قبل 27 يومًا·discuss
Culture begins at the front door, corporate or personal.

I would expect absolute sincerity from pilot or a doctor during the interview, including history of mental health and professional mistakes. Authority over lives of people must come with full transparency. If you are caught lying or misrepresenting your experience and skills, not only you would lose your job, you should be blacklisted from occupation as well.

In every skill, everyone benefits from honesty, both employers and employees. But I am aware this is a minority view.
d_silin
·قبل 27 يومًا·discuss
Goes both way, yes.

History has examples of extremely underprivileged people not compromising on the values even when facing death or torture.
d_silin
·قبل 27 يومًا·discuss
Having any kind of integrity is expensive, financially, emotionally and sometimes physically.

Software development is not that high-stakes of a job anyway. There is always another interview. I got another one soon enough, where the employee AI policy fully aligned with mine, so telling the truth was an easy, pleasant experience.

Imagine you are a pilot or doctor. Any kind of interview reply that doesn't fully align with your values now carries a real risk for human lives.
d_silin
·قبل 27 يومًا·discuss
Correct. I did it anyway (and yes, it was awful).
d_silin
·قبل 27 يومًا·discuss
In the end, everyone makes their own choices.

I don't want to preach martyrdom, but I am also offended by people choosing moral bankruptcy when faced with even the slightest hardships.
d_silin
·قبل 27 يومًا·discuss
Yes.
d_silin
·قبل 27 يومًا·discuss
It is not. I made that choice in the past and will do it again.

"Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes"
d_silin
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
The only effective action is push back on Athropic.
d_silin
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
SpaceX already blown through a number of "... but this cannot be!" forecasts. Would not discount them easily.
d_silin
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
TL;DR:

- AI part of SpaceX is absolute disaster, while its IPO valuation hinges on its future success.

- Lot's of questionable corporate shenanigans and accounting tricks.

- Public shareholders have zero power over Elon after IPO.

Some numbers for 1Q 2026

Launch: -660M

Starlink +1.1B

AI: -2.5B
d_silin
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Entire civilization flourished for 2000 years and then disappeared without any clue why.

I have a pet theory about Indus Valley script - inscriptions on the seals are so short and unique because they are just name signatures, to stamp other objects.

Having to be durable, they were the only inscribed objects that survived.