Kosuke July Hata
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creating and destroying; flying cars, propulsion, @kittyhawkcorp, @roc_camera, https://t.co/CD9YJpLLqM, https://t.co/6SC16R6prb
SF, CA, USA, Earth
Joined September 2021
Excited to announce Roc Camera is open for batch 2 orders! Current lead times are about 2-3 weeks depending on where you are Check out our new website in the comments :)
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How often do you hear technical or STEM-adjacent people do that thing where they go, "Well, actually, it's a lot more complicated than that.” The knee-jerk reaction is to feel that it is pedantic at best and abrasive at worst. When it is actually a push back that comes from a
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Btw, this is why often when you work for other people, or just consult, or in general do other work for other people, you often directionally do the most creative work, which is kind of ironic. The difficulty though is not being fulfilled usually because that direction isn't
Often society (and also just us in general) hold these positions such as, "I'm all for creativity." But then we encounter actual creative risk we’re like uhh no. And I don't just mean like a little school project, but something that really forces you to put yourself and your
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Often society (and also just us in general) hold these positions such as, "I'm all for creativity." But then we encounter actual creative risk we’re like uhh no. And I don't just mean like a little school project, but something that really forces you to put yourself and your
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Often society (and also just us in general) hold these positions such as, "I'm all for creativity." But then we encounter actual creative risk. And I don't just mean like a little school project, but something that really forces you to put yourself and your life on the line for
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Something you don’t like / hate is just a part of you trying to find its way home
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I like to think of energy levels like the field of view (FOV) of a camera. The more energized you are, the wider FOV that you have, you see more opportunity, naturally curious. The more tired that you are, the narrower your focus, the less attuned you become to opportunities that
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Most people hundreds of years from now will not know about OpenAI or the iPhone, or AOL, and will most often not correctly be able to say which one came first and in what order
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Books I read in Sept 2025: - Spacepower Ascendant (Carlson) - Why Don't We Learn from History (B.H. Liddell Hart) - Georgics of Virgil (Virgil) - On Living and Dying Well (Cicero) - Ficciones (Borges) - Wind, Sand, Stars (Saint-Exupéry) - To The Lighthouse (V. Woolf)
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IF we want real, true spatial computing / AR: augmented reality data, we need information that could be good for something like a Bloomberg for physical reality; something that uses this verified reality protocol. An SSL for reality. Think of it this way: In the first dot-com
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“The general trend under heaven is that anything that has been united for a long time will split, and anything that has long been split will unite.” - Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms
We spent decades bundling: watches, cameras, maps, music players, computers, almost everything into smartphones. Now we’re unbundling: into pendants, glasses, rings, pins, pods, cars, clothes, companions. Inevitably we'll bundle again, just a question of what the next bundling
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“Another effect of public instability is the unreasonable advantage it gives to the sagacious, the enterprising and the moneyed few, over the industrious and uninformed mass of the people” - James Madison, Federalist Paper No.62
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Books I read in October 2025: - Myth of Sisyphus (Albert Camus) - Proofs and Theories: Essays on poetry (Louise Glück) - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction & other essays,(Walter Benjamin) - Playing to Win (David Sirlin) - The Question Concerning Technology
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btw, @roc_camera (a ZK camera) was the 2nd most popular story on HN in the past 24 hours I've had 5 normie friends message me about it today Provable technologies: slowly, then all at once...
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Also as a side note: I will be moving to Japan/Taiwan 50% of the time in 2026 (and consequently in Shenzhen more ass well) the 5yr old in me wants to build a factories
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Roc Camera on HN ended up with about ~500+ upvotes and 400+ comments, many inbound messages, emails and questions Were open for orders for batch 2 today
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We're now accepting orders for batch 2!
Excited to announce Roc Camera is open for batch 2 orders! Current lead times are about 2-3 weeks depending on where you are Check out our new website in the comments :)
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