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sciuruson Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

I think they're talking about https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-ousts-army-chief-of-sta...

> Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down and take immediate retirement, sources familiar with the decision told CBS News...

> Two other Army officers were removed from their roles, according to three sources familiar with the matter: Gen. David Hodne, who led the Army's Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. William Green, who headed the Army's Chaplain Corps...

> Hegseth has fired more than a dozen senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. C.Q. Brown, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. James Slife and the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse.

sciuruson OpenTelemetry profiles enters public alpha

You can send profiles collected by opentelemetry to pyroscope.

https://grafana.com/docs/pyroscope/latest/configure-client/o...

sciuruson Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived

The repo page says "This repository was archived by the owner on Feb 10, 2026. It is now read-only."

sciuruson High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon

Very cool project!

I saw you were looking for help sourcing things like balloons and gas. https://groups.io/g/GPSL/ worried be a great place to go and ask for help with that, if you haven't already.

sciuruson High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon

If you're interested in high altitude ballooning, there's an active community around it.

https://arhab.org/

https://www.superlaunch.org/

sciuruson Postal Arbitrage

I checked the first five items while logged in with Amazon Prime. They all required a minimum order of either $25 or $100 to get free shipping.

sciuruson Iran is likely jamming Starlink

The GPS satellites aren't receiving anything. The GPS satellites transmit signals, and the starlink terminals (and other users of GPS) receive those signals.

sciuruson Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)

SurveyMonkey | Canada (Remote), US (Remote), Ireland (Remote), India (on-site) | https://www.surveymonkey.com/

SurveyMonkey lets people create beautiful, engaging surveys and forms that inspire powerful feedback and inform smarter business decisions. We're hiring for a number of roles, including

* Director of Platform Services

* Cloud / Infrastructure Engineers

* ML Engineers

* Full-stack Software Engineers

You can find more details and apply via https://www.surveymonkey.com/careers/dept/engineering/

sciuruson I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours

https://testanything.org/ ?

sciuruson Amazon EC2 M9g Instances

https://instances.vantage.sh/ shows coremark scores for each EC2 instance type.

sciuruson Clockss: Digital preservation services run by academic publishers and libraries

See https://clockss.org/about/how-clockss-works/ for an overview of the implementation.

sciuruson We bought the whole GPU, so we're damn well going to use the whole GPU

(I think we was just introducing himself as Ben Spector, the lead author of the paper.)

sciuruson Show HN: Aris – a free AI-powered answer engine for kids

> Glad to hear it didn't go into detail on human anatomy.

Why do you think children shouldn't get answers to questions about human anatomy?

sciuruson The key points of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"

You're assuming the "legacy" system is being replaced by a new one, which isn't the scenario being described in the link or the book. They cover approaches for continuing to safely evolve the legacy (i.e. untested) system.

sciuruson Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer

sciuruson The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report

> Mitchell Baker did not leave the gravy train by stepping down as CEO, she merely moved to a different seat on the gravy train - chair of the Mozilla Foundation

Mitchell has not been a member of the Mozilla Foundation or Mozilla Corporation boards since February 2025.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growt...

sciuruson Google suffers data breach in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

I saw a similar pattern when I worked at Mozilla. We had bugzilla and jira, mediawiki and confluence, irc/matrix and slack, the list goes on...

I just checked and https://github.com/mozilla/jira-bugzilla-integration is alive and well.

sciuruson Show HN: A high-altitude low-power flight computer for high-altitude balloons

If you haven't seen it, you may be interested in https://www.areg.org.au/archives/210334

sciuruson Scaling our observability platform by embracing wide events and replacing OTel

Although this is oversimplifying things [0], in the face of partitions zookeeper emphasizes consistency over availability.

[0] https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/05/11/please-stop-calling-...

sciuruson SkyRoof: New Ham Satellite Tracking and SDR Receiver Software

Getting into SDRs and ham radio is what brought me back to Windows after running Linux on all my personal computers for more then a decade. For whatever reasons, there's a lot of radio-related software that targets Windows primarily or exclusively.

sciuruson Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

I'm not sure how you're getting that from a post that explicitly says Mitchell isn't on either board any more.

To help highlight where there are changes and where there is continuity at the top level, here's a table of who was the MoCo CEO, MoCo and MoFo Board Chairs, MoFO President, and MoFo ED over time for the last ten years.

https://imgur.com/a/OLD9EiI

sciuruson Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot

The leadership has been ousted.

> This includes major growth in our Boards, with 40% new Board members since we began our efforts to evolve and grow back in 2022. We’ve also been bringing in new executive talent, including a new MoFo Executive Director and a Managing Partner for Mozilla Ventures. By the end of the year, we hope to have new, permanent CEOs for both MoCo and Mozilla.ai... With these changes, Mitchell Baker ends her tenure as Chair and a member of Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation boards.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growt...

sciuruson Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy

Take a look at salary reports from places like https://www.levels.fyi/2024

If you think $124k a year is high compensation for someone with 17 years of experience in Portland, your compensation expectations are way off.

sciuruson I created Perfect Wiki and reached $250k in annual revenue without investors

By my count they mention AI seventeen times on their homepage.

https://perfectwikiforteams.com/

sciuruson arXiv moving from Cornell servers to Google Cloud

From my past experience, I can say that Google Cloud services (e.g load balancers) by default blocked traffic from ITAR sanctioned countries. Not just blocking people in those countries from becoming customers of GCP, but blocking them from accessing content hosted on GCP.

I didn't know how that situation had evolved since I last used GCP.

sciuruson Potatoes in the Mail

In the US there is a reduced media mail rate for educational materials. Not sure how it would work internationally.

https://about.usps.com/notices/not121/not121_tech.htm

sciuruson Google is winning on every AI front

> I actively avoid watching videos I think MIGHT be interesting because the risk is too high

You can remove videos from your viewing history. I do this when I start watching something but the content turnes out to not be what I expected. It seems to prevent polluting my recommendations.

sciuruson Gemini 2.5 Flash

For many workplaces, it's not just that that don't pay for a service, it's that using it is against policy. If I tried to paste some code into ChatGPT, for example, our data loss prevention spyware would block it and I'd soon be having an uncomfortable conversation with our security team.

(We do have access to GitHub Copilot)

sciuruson Control your attention on the web – Block sites on certain days and times

I've been using https://www.proginosko.com/leechblock/ for this.