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Ambivalent Engineer
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Ambivalent Engineer is a personal blog at ambivalentengineer.blogspot.com about programming and history. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its post on ARGUS-IS, the US military wide-area surveillance camera system. Comments cite it as a source on the system's data handling and platform.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2012/08/argus-is.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-07
What Hacker News says?
I also found this detailed post on ARGUS-IS http://ambivalentengineer.blogspot.com/2012/08/argus-is.html
Comment linking /2012/08/argus-is.html
on “Mysterious Planes Over Baltimore Spark Surveillance Suspicions”Submitted Early Days on Street View as a story · 204 points
HN discussionit's like saying that Netflix sends "one million terabytes per day"... if you are looking at the decompessed bitmaps Gorgon Stare is the platform to which the ARGUS-IS system is basically a camera upgrade. It works by "tiering" the data so objects of tactical interest get downlinked quicker and more frequently. You're certainly not sending raw bitmaps over the air https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare I would i…
Comment linking /2012/08/argus-is.html
on “A Multibillion-Dollar U.S. Spy Agency Few Know Exists”