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noughtmeon CM0 – A new Raspberry Pi you can't buy

Who is simonw?

noughtmeon Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban

The source of the Seine is in Burgundy. Not a European, so wondering what the relationship between the Seine and EU regulations is.

noughtmeon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)

Location: Montreal, QC Canada / Vancouver, BC Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

  - Typescript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, Pupeteer
  - Python, Pydantic, uv, FastAPI, HTMX, OAuth2
  - LLMs, Docker, Chroma DB, Pytorch, llama.cpp, CUDA
  - EC2, S3, Caddy, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Prometheus
  - Julia, Go, Express.js, Storybook, Mongo
  - D3, GIS, GeoJSON, Deck.gl, Mapbox, React Map GL, Vector Tiles
  - IoT, MIDI, MQTT, GTFS/ Protobuf, webRTC, V4L2
  - Linux, Raspberry Pi

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/anselbrandt/cv

Sample Projects: https://anselbrandt.com

Email: ansel@anselbrandt.com

Hi, I'm Ansel! I'm a full-stack developer with recent experience at a workforce management company, where I built scheduling and real-time communication tools to streamline shift coordination. I come from a background in project management and real estate development, which sparked my interest in data visualization and web development. My formal training is in quantitative finance and music technology.

noughtmeon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)

Location: Vancouver, BC Canada / Montreal, QC Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies:

  - Typescript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, Pupeteer
  - Python, Pydantic, uv, FastAPI, HTMX, OAuth2
  - LLMs, Docker, Chroma DB, Pytorch, llama.cpp, CUDA
  - EC2, S3, Caddy, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Grafana, Prometheus
  - Julia, Go, Express.js, Storybook, Mongo
  - D3, GIS, GeoJSON, Deck.gl, Mapbox, React Map GL, Vector Tiles
  - IoT, MIDI, MQTT, GTFS/ Protobuf, webRTC, V4L2
  - Linux, Raspberry Pi

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/anselbrandt/cv

Email: ansel@anselbrandt.com

Full stack React/Next/Express web dev with professional experience in start up environments. Currently working on LLM GraphRAG NLP pipelines and ML in Python/FastAPI and HTMX. Lots of experience in dataviz and mapping.

noughtmeon What I Saw in the Darién Gap

Good overview and history of the Darien Gap migrant issue:

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/10/10/how-treacherous-darien-g...

Also, see the work of journalist Michael Yon.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VVxUYulIEUk

noughtmeon America's Drivers Agree: LED Headlights Are Just Too Bright

For me it’s mostly battery life. Most bike light batteries are tiny and would require more regular charging if put in solid mode.

noughtmeon Maersk names first vessel of its large methanol-enabled fleet "Ane Maersk"

I don’t think fish like CO2. It makes the water more acidic.

noughtmeon Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-recycling-p...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/enquete-recycling-pl...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/recycling-glass-eigh...

noughtmeon Plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals

Or, "Public has head in sand about plastic recycling." In my city it's public knowledge (even if not well known) that nearly all plastics that get collected on recycling day end up in the local landfill, yet everyone dutifully washes, separates and collects plastics for recycling. This costs tax payers hundreds of millions of dollars, just so they can feel good about not putting plastic in the trash.

noughtmeon Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7

Very likely no money was saved by Boeing, composites are almost always more expensive.

Maybe someone with aviation industry knowledge can reply, but my guess is adding a trivial timed shutoff would have triggered an elaborate FAA approval and certification process. That’s probably where the savings were.

noughtmeon How Will the Golden Age of "Making It Worse" End?

? That’s nearly one 737 Max worth of fatalities per year in your small country, granted buses are probably safer than cars.

noughtmeon Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7

Cowlings are now composite (ie plastic) instead of aluminum. They are limited to 5 minutes of use in dry air to prevent the cowling from melting, flying apart, or getting into the engine and causing it to fly apart.

noughtmeon Reflections on running 3k miles in 2023

I used to run 10km per day, and 20km twice a week, which is about 56 miles a week, or 2900 miles a year (with no days off). Definitely doable. Now I’m lucky if I run 10km a week.

noughtmeon Tesla shares 48V architecture with other automakers

Didn’t read the article, but Musk mentioned in an interview yesterday they are specifically not using CAN and are using Ethernet. He didn’t explicitly say, but it seems likely they are using PoE, saving a lot of wiring as you can daisy chain a higher bandwidth connection and you don’t need separate power cables.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ky1Z2klPalw

noughtmeon Reasonable GPUs

If I just needed a GPU for learning purposes, is 2xGPUs necessary? Would a single 24GB GPU significantly bottleneck training with any publicly available datasets? Just need something faster than my laptop, but if it takes twice as long, not really an issue.

noughtmeon The secretive rise of the 'overemployed'

I know multiple software devs that play hockey 3 times a week during the work day. They could easily be working 2 full time jobs at the same time, but why would you, if you didn’t need to?

noughtmeon World's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley

And a typical US 53ft trailer can carry 22 tons.

noughtmeon Canada to regulate podcasts

That’s not how it works. Applying for CanCon status confers certain tax and subsidy incentives. You can forgo the onerous application process and operate as a normal business.

noughtmeon Canada to regulate podcasts

Totally okay with that. I would rather follow independent Canadian media that doesn't qualify as CanCon anyways. Canadian media regulation only benefit existing large media institutions.

> Canada's current spat with Google over news is a recent example.

That was particularly hilarious.

noughtmeon Canada to regulate podcasts

Maybe I misunderstand, but this is a requirement for platforms to register (Apple, Google, Spotify, Twitter, etc).

The fear is of indirect censorship. As was the case with law enforcement/intelligence informally requesting take downs in the US, Canada will be making this process formal.

noughtmeon Yandex open sourced it's BI tool DataLens

Also Metabase, which I found easier to deploy and use.

noughtmeon Move Over, Software Developers – In Cybersecurity, the Government Wants to Drive

Sawdust is unfortunately an actual food ingredient you’re more likely to find in industrial food regulated by the FDA. There’s an argument to be made that the free market, mom and pop/artisanal providers will be of higher quality than something regulated by the government.

noughtmeon America’s surprising partisan divide on life expectancy

> The geography of U.S. life expectancy — and the policy environments that determine it — is the result of differences that are regional, cultural and political

The attribution of all differences in America to political affiliation is a bizarre past time. So many missing confounding variables.

noughtmeon Air quality double whammy from domestic firelighters

Charcoal and coal are quite different.

noughtmeon Air quality double whammy from domestic firelighters

For anyone unfamiliar with the term firelighter, they are talking about fire starters.

Are these that widespread that they are concerning? I thought they were mostly for lazy outdoors people.

I use newspaper with olive oil to start charcoal grills. Never had trouble starting a fireplace, wood stove or camp fire with anything other than tinder.

Fire starter tablets often contain hexamine which I don’t really want close to my food.

noughtmeon X violated its own policy by blocking First Amendment group’s ads

5500 words to say the ad was blocked in error:

'According to X, the account had been labeled as political in 2020 "when political ads were prohibited"'(prior to Musk's takeover)

noughtmeon On Cans (2014)

(food) By Harold McGee

noughtmeon You're a cyclist who was just struck by a car driver. Why it was your fault

I am unfamiliar with the Denver stop.

My experience in many cities that have adopted the Idaho stop (allowing cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs), is that most cyclists are hilariously reckless and roll through at full speed. Watching streams of cyclists hold up confused drivers at 4-way stops is endlessly entertaining.

noughtmeon U.S. Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption

That would be ideal. Citizens should be deciding what they view as anti-comptetitive, or reasonable defensive actions, and the FTC and the DOD should act based on those decisions. In an ideal world.

noughtmeon 'Mystery company' buys land worth $800M near Travis AFB, raising concerns

First page of google results:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/california-landowne...

“various energy and power entities had contracts or proposals to operate on Flannery-owned land”