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Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by btown »

2026iknewit wrote: post #80
jvanderbot wrote: post #59

OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…

There is an archive of a lot of television transmission in space. archive.space You just need to be traveling faster than the radio waves, catch up and enjoy :)

With gravitational lensing, this is actually viable! Just send a signal at a gravity sink, and travel at sublight speeds to position yourself in a place where it will be redirected to eventually along a longer path, and you can intercept your own signal! You just have to be really, really lucky.

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by alt227 »

ctrlmeta wrote: post #171
alt227 wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its on the front page, that means it atttracted attention and was upvoted. If what you are saying was true, these posts would die very quickly and we would never see them. Maybe its just you who doesnt like them?

> Maybe its just you who doesnt like them? Obviously it's just me who doesn't like them. What's your point?

I already made my point. If the community agrees with you then we wont see these on the front page anymore. If not then you will either need to be ok with seeing more of them, or not read HN.

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by npongratz »

jvanderbot wrote: post #59

OK, so the "Storing data in the network ... " title made me remember something. If you transmit a message to Mars, say a rover command sequence, and the outgoing buffer is deleted on the sending side (the original code is preserved, but the transmission-encoded sequence doesn't stick around), then that data, for 20-90 minutes, exists nowhere _except_ space. It's just random-looking electrical fluctuations that are pr…

pingfs has similar inspiration, where storage capacity scales with latency.

https://code.kryo.se/pingfs/

Discussed in 2015:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9844725

Re: Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest

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Post by stronglikedan »

minimaxir wrote: post #230
Svoka wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hired many many people and never once I cared about GitHub stars. Not even sure what signal it suppose to be.

It's a quick signal that the developer is capable of writing and maintaining code that can be used by many others.

Or that they're just a person who knows how to game stars. As Goodfart says, "When a measure becomes a target, it gets gamed beyond usefulness."
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