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AtomicOrbital

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software engineer c/c++/java/nodejs currently building a system which leverages evolution to capture as a genome any song/sound/time-series which can then be very efficiently transported/analyzed/re-designed/bred - WebGL / web audio API / node.js

scottstensland at gmail dot you know what

https://github.com/scottstensland

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/infinitenow; my proof: https://keybase.io/infinitenow/sigs/0nmQYD8ZqScTjAXJbdnKILm4zlBRMq9mtnifI6HmMbM ]

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AtomicOrbital··on Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?
I wrote a compute platform where folks can use their MCP to launch compute needs onto my servers via webassembly

... or even via traditional container if need be

looking forward to a public launch days away

AtomicOrbital··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
they meant to let them out ... simple as that

obviously if the model was trained to know to avoid the internet at large none of this would be allowed

AtomicOrbital··on Combustion engine web-based simulator
we have all heard of V8 ... now visualize a W12

... two pairs of V3 in a Bentley

AtomicOrbital··on What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard
children are pack animals ... as a kid the neighborhood was full of children and all of us had freedom to walk or when older ride our bikes anywhere always in a herd ... this is still the case in that tiny one red light village ... challenge is due to globalization most of the factories within driving distance have shuttered so working age adults have moved to where the jobs are leaving that village dominated by grandparents ... same freedom exists yet without the density of kids
AtomicOrbital··on Show HN: Weird Clocks
years ago in Japan daylight and nighttime were each given 12 hours and clocks were made to adhere to this ... throughout the year as summer days grew longer and nighttime shorter their clocks adjusted to make an hour longer or shorter self adjusting
AtomicOrbital··on Spanish legislation as a Git repo
all of government data including all laws especially tax law needs to be put online and optimized by ML
AtomicOrbital··on Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink
spacex has cost advantage due to rocket lands back on launch pad not getting destroyed like all others
AtomicOrbital··on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
take your abandon laptop which still runs and install Ubuntu on it ... you will see how easy linux is today ... there is no justification for microsoft windows in 2026
AtomicOrbital··on A History of Haggis (2019)
I've had haggis in the UK and it's absolutely delicious. interesting thing is if you go to an Arab butcher shop in Brussels they have essentially the same thing. they don't call it haggis but it's the same ingredients so the plot thickens as to the history, I think it's a universal treat
AtomicOrbital··on After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand
after+30 years writing code in a dozen languages building systems from scratch I love vibe coding ... it's drinking from a fire hose ... in two months I vibe coded a container orchestration system which I call my kubernetes replacement project all in go with a controller deciding which VM to deploy containers onto, agents on each host polling etcd for requests created by the controller ... it's simple understandable maintainable extendable ... also vibe coded go cdk to deploy AWS RDS clusters, API gateway, handful of golang lambda functions, valkey elasticache and a full feature data service library which handles transactions and save points, cache ... I love building systems ... sure I could write all this from scratch by hand and I have but vibe coding quickly exposes me to the broad architecture decisions earlier giving me options to experiment on various alternatives ... google gemini in antigravity rocks and yes I've tried them all ... new devs should not be vibe coding for the first 5 years or more but I lucked into having decades of doing it by hand
AtomicOrbital··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KFvhpt8FN18 clear detailed explanation of the AWS outage and how properly designed systems should have shielded the issue with zero client impact
AtomicOrbital··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Sounds like a replacement for slack is needed
AtomicOrbital··on Running our Docker registry on-prem with Harbor
harbor is great ... simple to install ... it's the only container registry I ever use
AtomicOrbital··on Elon Musk's Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla
US fed gov is long overdue for a hard reset ... Trump is not a politician so is not beholden to the deep state and/or neocons ... DOGE is exactly what is needed ... if you have done your homework to appreciate just how radically efficient Tesla, SpaceX, X and xAI are it's a gift to the USA tax payers to have Musk gut out the graft ... government is a monopoly with zero competition run by the non tech savvy ... Tesla is light-years ahead of ICE manufacturers and has an extremely deep bench ... Musk himself says cars will be a minor player in the Tesla portfolio

haters dumping on Musk rn are running scared so expect ongoing hit pieces ... that Wired article is tat ... Buckle up and be prepared to hear devastating reveals from DOGE soon

AtomicOrbital··on Multiple Security and Privacy Flaws in DeepSeek iOS Mobile App
android also insecure?
AtomicOrbital··on Show HN: Synthetic User Interviews
possible goal of your project would be to allow users even on your free level to get interviewed by your ML and receive feedback ... to me that has as much traction as being simply hiring manager focused
AtomicOrbital··on SEC fines 6 major credit rating agencies over failure to keep electronic records
These are the same ratings agencies who were paid enormous sums from investment banks to give their subprime asset backed security products AAA ratings in lead up to financial crash of 2007 .... pure corruption ... I know I was boots on the ground
AtomicOrbital··on The Fourier Uncertainty Principles [pdf] (2021)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1WfID6kk90

take a time series dataset like an audio file or stock ticker price over time ... give your self a healthy period of time ... for example a second of broadcast quality audio gives you 44,100 data points spread across that time period stored as information ... importantly this time series audio curve wobbles up and down as it's recorded over time ... in order to justify taking 44,100 audio samples per second (on the X axis) you must balance that by breaking up the granularity of your measurement of the up and down wobble (Y axis) by devoting two bytes (a bit depth of 16 bits) of memory storage per data point which gives you 2 raised to the 16 power distinct gradations of resolution

above defines the time domain representation of the one second of audio data ... now feed this dataset into a Fourier transform which will output the same information you started with but now in the frequency domain ... it will give you not 44,100 points in time but instead 44,100 distinct frequencies ... super cool side note you can feed this new frequency domain representation of the dataset into an inverse Fourier transform to rescue back the original time series audio

If instead of a second of audio we start with a fraction of that number this reduction of recording duration will compromise the frequency resolution of the data in the frequency domain giving it less granularity hence larger increments to the next frequency

AtomicOrbital··on Anger over sale of George Orwell archive
make it so number one
AtomicOrbital··on Swiss firm Final Spark doing computation using biological neurons
site https://finalspark.com/neuroplatform/
AtomicOrbital··on Cat as a Service
nice compliment to other REST api test data endpoint https://catfact.ninja/fact
AtomicOrbital··on Why writing by hand beats typing for thinking and learning
To the extent this is true the act of writing software may benefit from a more tactical user interface than a keyboard... or at a minimum thought process during coding should be at a unit of thought level aided by clean simple syntactic chunks easily understood at a glance ... short focused functions ... composed typed functions comes to mind
AtomicOrbital··on Apple introduces M4 chip
I strongly suggest putting in the time to learn how to install and maintain a linux laptop ... Ubuntu 24.04 is a great engineer platform
AtomicOrbital··on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat
Would be great if mobile HN clients handled such HN links so on a click it opened article instead of a browser ... Just saying
AtomicOrbital··on Ask HN: Cheapest way to use LLM coding assistance?
checkout the cody extension https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody available for various editors like vscode
AtomicOrbital··on Radios, how do they work?
Essence of radio is very simple ... radio station broadcasts a high power RF signal into which some human listenable audio (your favorite singer's song) is mixed ... so the radio station propagates this RF signal modulated by the song being played ... across town at your house your radio synthesizes an RF signal identical to that broadcast from the radio station ... your radio amplifies the result of combining its local RF signal together with the received RF signal from the radio station ... this combining will add together both RF signals it will also subtract both ... when it subtracts ( wave interference ) the result is the difference between the radio station modulated RF signal and your radio RF signal (both at identical frequencies) which leaves you with just the song
AtomicOrbital··on Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?
I am productionizing a golang project which I have working ... it parses an input image at the pixel level to synthesize its audio equivalent ... inspired by a 3Blue1Brown video on Hilbert Curves ... as it traverses the entire image pixel by pixel it assigns to each pixel an audio frequency which it increments for next pixel ... in doing so it collapses the 2D image into a 1D line of pixels ... then it engages audio oscillators at each element of this line at the assigned frequency with volume determined by the light intensity of the respective source pixel ... it then aggregates all these audio tones into a single tone which represents the source input image ( inverse Fourier Transform ) ... entire process above is reversible so the system can go from image to audio as well as audio to image ... goal is to allow Blind people to see with their ears ... alternatively it can allow the Deaf to hear with their eyes ...
AtomicOrbital··on Understanding Google's File System (2020)
It's understandable hyper scalers roll their own infrastructure tools yet naturally small shops reach for 3rd party tools ... it's telling when speaking with each how justified each feels ... yet at the boundary zone between those extremes folks it gets interesting ... mid sized shops need to be aware of the benefits of rolling their own and at a minimum not frown on job candidates coming from a big shop who instinctively lean towards build versus just use off the shelf libs
AtomicOrbital··on Want to build a sequencer? 454.bio opens up their plans
A real catalyst would be to couple a sequencer to digitize the DNA together with a matter compiler to output real DNA from the digital DNA representation

Why? craft software to grow the organism in a biologically plausible manner in simulation from the digital DNA... then expose evolutionary pressure to this growth to evolve the DNA in simulation into a more value added organism

real organism --> sequence it's DNA into digital DNA --> evolve the DNA in simulation software --> output real DNA from digital DNA --> insert this evolved real DNA into a real cell to clone an organism now with enhanced attributes

AtomicOrbital··on Unix desktops
seems bizarre Ubuntu is not mentioned ... its the 800 pound elephant in the room ... to me its the path of least resistance for server side developers ... especially when kicking tires of endless repos on a daily basis
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