Hacker News: 20after4

New comment by 20after4 in "Man Charged with 3 Felonies for Breaking 3D-Printed 'Decoy' Flock Camera"

20after4 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:38:00 +0000

You must not know much about the history of policing.

New comment by 20after4 in "ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs"

20after4 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 04:09:14 +0000

My friends' band "Dead Sexy" released an album in 2005 that embodies the aesthetic perfectly: https://www.last.fm/music/Dead+Sexy/Between+The+Lines

(there were multiple bands with that name over the years)

New comment by 20after4 in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

20after4 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:31:17 +0000

I think this is legitimately (at least part of) the motivation for cornering the supply and driving up the price.

New comment by 20after4 in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

20after4 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:31:04 +0000

With the price of memory skyrocketing, maybe that equation changes slightly.

New comment by 20after4 in ""It's unclear how Sopwith escaped to the general public.""

20after4 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:26:24 +0000

I played sopwith for many hours when I was ~4 years old. One of the best early PC games.

New comment by 20after4 in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

20after4 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:02:19 +0000

Hegseth is a crusader more than he's a bringer of Armageddon. Unfortunately, there are plenty of christian Zionists in the administration who do indeed want to bring about Armageddon. This other guardian article covers the topic much more thoroughly:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/...

New comment by 20after4 in "Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota"

20after4 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:23:36 +0000

WTF are you even talking about? Be specific rather than spewing vague political smears.

New comment by 20after4 in "GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN"

20after4 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:29:10 +0000

Valid points, not sure why you were down-voted.

New comment by 20after4 in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

20after4 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:27:18 +0000

That's actually kind of brilliant.

New comment by 20after4 in "Texas Police Spent $4.5M on Four Chevy Tahoes"

20after4 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:10:02 +0000

The police almost never use any available evidence to exonerate anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

New comment by 20after4 in "Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years"

20after4 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:51:39 +0000

Maybe the fighter jets switched to a different kind of fuel and are now producing hotter exhaust.

New comment by 20after4 in "Bananas sprout in Rayleigh Garden UK after 15 years"

20after4 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:04:40 +0000

His other book, "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus"¹ is also excellent.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New_Revelations_of_the_A...

New comment by 20after4 in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

20after4 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:34:42 +0000

UDP rules for this sort of thing. Art-net sounds very similar to OSC¹ and that's a good thing.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control

New comment by 20after4 in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

20after4 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:27:46 +0000

Literally typing is definitely part of the fun for me. I’m a mechanical keyboard nerd though so that might explain a lot.

Beyond the typing though, I find enjoyment in perfecting the structure of the code, thinking deeply about how the pieces fit together. I enjoy the process of iteratively refining the code so that it clearly represents the program using the optimal level of abstraction and minimizes superfluous code/syntax. I find that using an LLM eliminates all of this and produces code that lacks all of the elegance and readability that I aspire to in my own code.

New comment by 20after4 in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

20after4 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:40:52 +0000

There are notable games missing from that list. Unrailed 2, for example, which is, in my opinion, one of the best games ever created. I am not even a avid gamer and I recognize several games from that list.

New comment by 20after4 in "FAANG Simulator"

20after4 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:44:26 +0000

Cost of living has risen dramatically everywhere. Unless you live in a small town in a poor state like I do then 85K sounds pretty bad. That's barely above the poverty line at this point.

New comment by 20after4 in "Majority of Americans Support Banning Social Media for Kids Under 16"

20after4 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:10:54 +0000

Do you really think that unrestricted internet access is equivalent to giving children one of the most addicting and deadly drugs around?

New comment by 20after4 in "Majority of Americans Support Banning Social Media for Kids Under 16"

20after4 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:07:32 +0000

I think 13+ is an appropriate age to view explicit content. No matter how hard you try to prevent it, kids are going to be exposed to things. By the age of 13 or 14, like it or not, a lot of kids are partaking in the activities you would have them prevented from even seeing.

New comment by 20after4 in "Majority of Americans Support Banning Social Media for Kids Under 16"

20after4 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:59:11 +0000

I've seen enough of tiktok (and youtube, and facebook) to understand that there are extreme levels of manipulation happening. I think it's just as harmful to adults as it is to teenagers. The whole over-protective "think of the children" routine is just disingenuous and frankly it's just yet another example of emotional manipulation on the part of the people promoting these laws. I'm confident that they don't give a rats ass about actually reducing harm or regulating the dark patterns that are now everywhere in modern society.

New comment by 20after4 in "JPMorgan, BofA and Others Explore Buying Card Network to Raise Debit-Card Fees"

20after4 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:36:40 +0000

Thanks moloch¹

1. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/