divbzero (u/divbzero)

divbzero commented on Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/... · Posted by u/gnufx

frob · 3 days ago

I spent days and days inside the STAR control room in grad school, often during the 12:30am-7:30am graveyard shift. We needed to run 24/7 for efficiency reasons during the experimental season. Getting superconductors down to temp is costly, so once you get it there, it is go time all the time.

You had to stay on top of all the detectors and triggers, since every minute of beam time cost around $1k. You often sat around doing little, probably working on other research, and then would need to drop everything to reboot a detector so we could get back to collecting data.

RHIC is dead. Long live eRHIC.

divbzero · 3 days ago

Thanks for contributing to research.

What was the “experimental season”? Why was there an experimental season vs. running RHIC all year?

divbzero commented on Coding agents have replaced every framework I used blog.alaindichiappari.dev... · Posted by u/alainrk

rglover · 3 days ago

A significant number of developers and businesses are going to have an absolutely brutal rude awakening in the not too distant future.

You can build things this way, and they may work for a time, but you don't know what you don't know (and experience teaches you that you only find most stuff by building/struggling; not sipping a soda while the AI blurts out potentially secure/stable code).

The hubris around AI is going to be hard to watch unwind. What the moment is I can't predict (nor do I care to), but there will be a shift when all of these vibe code only folks get cooked in a way that's closer to existential than benign.

Good time to be in business if you can see through the bs and understand how these systems actually function (hint: you won't have much competition soon as most people won't care until it's too late and will "price themselves out of the market").

divbzero · 3 days ago

An HN post earlier this week declared that “AI is killing B2B SaaS”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888441

Developers and businesses with that attitude could experience a similarly rude awakening.

divbzero commented on 1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico cnn.com/2026/01/29/scienc... · Posted by u/breve

shartshooter · 7 days ago

I wish this article shared more about how this tomb was discovered. Was it buried under mountain of dirt? Under a jungle canopy no one explored? Has it been there all along at an existing ruins site but was hidden in some way? Give us details man!

divbzero · 7 days ago

I wonder if locals have always known about the tomb, but never realized it could be of interest on an international level.

divbzero commented on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years millert.dev/... · Posted by u/wodniok

kleiba · 8 days ago

...although this one would have been a good fit too, of course: https://xkcd.com/149/

divbzero · 8 days ago

This xkcd is featured as the maintainer’s user icon on GitHub:

https://github.com/millert

divbzero commented on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years millert.dev/... · Posted by u/wodniok

divbzero · 8 days ago

“Machine Room Temperature” from Todd C. Miller’s website:

https://www.millert.dev/therm/

Server exhaust fan temperature was typically 94°F (ranged 92°F to 96°F) over the previous week and has climbed to 97°F.

divbzero · 8 days ago

But, on the whole, the server seems to be doing well enough for something near the top of HN. The website is served by nginx and appears to be mostly static pages.

divbzero commented on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years millert.dev/... · Posted by u/wodniok

fdupress · 8 days ago

Seeing the server temperatures go up as this gets posted to HN is fun. I'm not sure his server agrees.

divbzero · 8 days ago

“Machine Room Temperature” from Todd C. Miller’s website:

https://www.millert.dev/therm/

Server exhaust fan temperature was typically 94°F (ranged 92°F to 96°F) over the previous week and has climbed to 97°F.

divbzero commented on Apple I Advertisement (1976) apple1.chez.com/Apple1pro... · Posted by u/janandonly

divbzero · 9 days ago

This anecdote from history feels timely given the recent shift of Apple’s iWork suite (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) from being bundled with Macs to being a freemium subscription.

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/28/apple-updates-keynote-n...

divbzero commented on List animals until failure rose.systems/animalist/... · Posted by u/l1n

divbzero · 10 days ago

Instead of trying to think of just any animal, I found it easier to add a constraint…

1. Animal that starts with A

2. Animal that starts with B

3. Animal that starts with C

…

(I also appreciated the easter eggs: “Are you Australian?” and “You listed both dingos and dogs, so I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but there's disagreement on whether the dingo is its own species of canid, a subspecies of grey wolf, or simply a breed of dog.”)