silksowed (u/silksowed)

silksowed commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) · Posted by u/david927

heyyeah · 6 days ago

Mostly art projects:

- VR version of Surface Browser (3d internet browser): https://boxc.net/surfacebrowser.html

- Crowd Strike: faster self-driving: an exhibition where the visitors help autonomous drones target a different visitor each minute with lasers

and also Wingman: a dating app secretary (privacy focus, runs locally on your computer for any dating app that has a web site. It tells you if favourites have messaged you): https://boxc.net/wingman_app.png I'll open source this one if interest.

silksowed · 6 days ago

Is crowd strike like a digital twin / virtual world sandbox for autonomous drones? Do you have any additional information I could check out? Been working on autonomous drone flights but eventually need a digital world to experiment in but have yet to reach that step. Debating working with Unreal Engine or NVIDIA omniverse but unsure what the right direction is.

silksowed commented on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026) · Posted by u/david927

raooll · 6 days ago

I’m building a decentralized Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS) orchestration layer that treats aerial robotics as a simple API endpoint.

The system allows users to submit a JSON payload containing geocoordinates and mission requirements (e.g., capture_type: "4K_video" | "IR_photo"), the backend then handles the fleet logistics, selecting the optimal VTOL units from distributed sub-stations based on battery state-of-charge and proximity.

silksowed · 6 days ago

Been experimenting with AI -> MCP driven drone orchestration/flight would love to learn more about what your building and compare. Thoughts?

silksowed commented on Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2 blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

delichon · a year ago

I think I would buy "yes" shares in a Polymarket event that predicts a motion picture created by a single person grossing more than $100M by 2027.

silksowed · a year ago

very excited to play around. will be attempting to see if i can get character coherence between runs. the issue with the 8s limit is its hard to stitch them together if characters are not consistent. good for short form distribution but not youtube mini series or eventual movies. another comment about IP license is indeed an issue but its why i am looking towards classical works beyond their copyright dates. my goal is to eventually work from short form, to youtube to eventual short films. tools are limited in their current form but the future is promising if i get started now.

silksowed commented on Ask HN: What do you use for ML Hosting? · Posted by u/blululu

aaronharnly · 3 years ago

Looks great. It appears aimed at the inference use case rather than training, yes?

silksowed · 3 years ago

how were you able to tell this? still trying to understand what infra is better used for inference (say realtime image category matching) vs training (feeding a chatbot huge sums of data)

silksowed commented on Mercedes Reveals EQE and EQS 'Acceleration Increase' Subscription Pricing caranddriver.com/news/a43... · Posted by u/djyaz1200

evo_9 · 3 years ago

I'm surprised the auto's, esp. Tesla, haven't figured out that all these software driven 'features' can/should be microtransaction. Normally, I hate those, but in this case it makes sense. Basically, I'm VERY likely to just buy a weekend block of time/access to the Performance Upgrade on my Model 3 when a buddy is in town and I want to show off. Or even an impulse buy at a light after having some BMW M guy needing a smackdown lines up next to me. If I can buy this access for a reasonable price, I'd do it, and they'd make money off me / people like me that wouldn't otherwise pay the extra money for that feature.

Same with 'FSD', which setting aside it's actual self-driving, I would be more willing to pay for that package for a few weeks / month when the family is doing a road trip and having it for highway use is handy.

I wouldn't pay up front for either of those feature, I just don't think they're worth the price, or would be used frequently enough to warrant the expense. I don't need FSD that often, and I don't need to blast off the line a second quicker every time I drive the car, but once in a while? Sure, if the price is right.

silksowed · 3 years ago

face ID scan, click to confirm more power...! very good idea that i think would do very well considering the psychology of how people spend money

silksowed commented on Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, or 500 staff blog.dropbox.com/topics/c... · Posted by u/doomleika

spamizbad · 3 years ago

Having worked in this industry for two decades (and a Dropbox user since its public launch) the "product strategy" of most of these companies is close to just spitballing. If you want a recent example you can look at Facebook lighting almost $40 billion with their Metaverse product.

To add to that, Product leadership at technology companies has evolved to be much less technical, so they aren't going to have any deep insight about AI that, say, a software engineer who has worked in that field might have.

But hey, if in a few years Dropbox launches a popular AI-based feature I'll gladly eat my words because I'll probably be using it. They could benefit from enhancing their search functionality, for example -- but that's just a nice-to-have feature, not something revolutionary.

silksowed · 3 years ago

add in an equivalent to https://www.glean.com/ to enterprise dropbox and you have a new AI product that actually solves large org problems

silksowed commented on Hetzner launches three new dedicated servers hetzner.com/_ray/pow... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

input_sh · 3 years ago

The biggest catch is that you're getting more desktop-grade hardware than server-grade (notice Intel's i series instead of Xeon, non-ECC RAM). Doesn't make a lot of difference for the vast majority of use cases, but something to keep in mind.

You can get server-grade hardware from them, but then the pricing difference isn't so significant when compared to other providers.

silksowed · 3 years ago

i really wonder how they are housing the desktop grade hardware. im so used to rack and stack servers (1U/2U), but do you really need that big of a chassis for a desktop cpu, a couple ram dimm's and some ssd? what are you're thoughts?

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silksowed · 3 years ago

it might be pastrami on rye time!

silksowed commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023) · Posted by u/whoishiring

crusoehiring · 3 years ago

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silksowed · 3 years ago

very interesting space, application sent!

silksowed commented on Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow darrellowens.substack.com... · Posted by u/yboris

epistasis · 3 years ago

The coastal zone is also subject to Coastal Commission oversight, which I believe could override the Builder's Remedy, though the legal specifics would probably have to be settled in court, IIRC. Chris Elmendorf has written on this, if you want details.

But the prospect of a long lawsuit or a long decision will be enough to kill nearly all Builders Remedy projects in the coastal zone, as it would jack up the risk of success far too high to pay for the profits, most likely.

silksowed · 3 years ago

ahh makes sense. not sure how far in the coastal commission would have control, but even a 10 story building far enough in would drastically change the landscape of say the sunset district in San Francisco