Hacker News: 55555

New comment by 55555 in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

55555 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:57:43 +0000

I didn't read the article but based on the title and subheading I assume they say "accidentally" because he was trying to reverse engineer the communication protocol to use his own device and he did not expect to find something as dumb as master credentials that would work on others' devices.

New comment by 55555 in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

55555 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:43:34 +0000

Are you referring to this case? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/swedish-queen-... Thanks

New comment by 55555 in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

55555 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 13:39:28 +0000

What are companies needing all of these hard drives for? I understand their need for memory, and boot. But storing text training data and text conversations isn't that space intensive. There's a few companies doing video models, so I can see how that takes a tremendous amount of space. Is it just that?

New comment by 55555 in "America has a tungsten problem"

55555 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:01:44 +0000

Actually, if you follow stock tip accounts on X, investing in Australian commodity miners is like the current hot trend, for a few weeks already.

This is not to assume that the parent commenter invested for this reason.

New comment by 55555 in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

55555 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 05:58:32 +0000

If you enjoyed From Barista to Billionaire, you should check out Andrew Wilkinson's newest book, 98% Down.

New comment by 55555 in "Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment"

55555 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:17:31 +0000

Israel is a special case.

Autonomous mosquito-killing drones (YC25)

55555 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 09:15:34 +0000

Article URL: https://tornyol.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45855354

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by 55555 in "FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is"

55555 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:29:51 +0000

https://archive.is/XdQRp

New comment by 55555 in "Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Valley secrets"

55555 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 09:51:00 +0000

Actually this stereotype is about Chinese women. Thai women aren't that materialistic, and where it is true, it only applies to poor Thai women, who are attracted to the man because he's probably 1,000X richer than her, which would be attractive to a poor woman from anywhere. If a prince from Lichenstein came to rural USA, he'd have no trouble dating.

This thread is bizarre and confusing. There's only been like 5 posts and already people are conflating rural Chinese, Singaporeans, and Thais.

New comment by 55555 in "Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels"

55555 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 03:41:35 +0000

Can you break down the costs and subsidies you had? Genuinely curious

New comment by 55555 in "NL Judge: Meta must respect user's choice of recommendation system"

55555 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:39:51 +0000

Please for the love of god make it a legal requirement that messaging must be made available as a separate app without addictive feeds. Or make it such that users can disable the feed in settings. We need to be able to message our friends without seeing a feed without having to convert all of our friends to a new platform.

New comment by 55555 in "Show HN: Sculptor – A UI for Claude Code"

55555 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 02:11:27 +0000

Just adding that on my iPhone 13 Pro it works fine.

New comment by 55555 in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

55555 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 01:56:54 +0000

I meant only video games. I’m not a robot or an NPC lol. I don’t have the attention span for most, and I spend too much time already looking at screens.

New comment by 55555 in "Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 brands accused of running $112M Ponzi scheme"

55555 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:27:46 +0000

It still works in manual mode and it is still mostly done manually, despite AI. This is the "chat" model powering 6 billion dollars of annual OnlyFans revenue and billions of dollars to dating sites advertising "girls in your area" on porn sites. Armies of mostly Filipino chatters pretend to be women and do what is essentially a soft romance scam.

Governments have essentially never looked into it, despite it having gone on uninhibited for 20+ years and at the scale of billions annually for at least 16+ years.

New comment by 55555 in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

55555 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 08:27:58 +0000

I don't play games. I clicked the link and played through the entire game. With a little work you could turn this into a modern Myst-type game, with a compelling story and atmosphere and mysteries/puzzles. I think this would be really fantastic.

New comment by 55555 in "Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant"

55555 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:39:26 +0000

I can't read the full article -- what happened with the other two recipients? Science is amazing!

New comment by 55555 in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

55555 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:09:32 +0000

It's not complicated. This is a normal sort of criminal enterprise. These rooms filled with SIM boxes are all over the world. The owners of them rent out the service to others -- letting them send 1,000 spam messages for a fee. One of the buyers of the service was indeed using it to threaten a politician. But this represents a tiny fraction (less than 1% of 1% of the SIMs normal use -- which is probably mostly phishing messages and other spam). It is a criminal enterprise and was used as some sort of political threat, but it's probably not set up by Russia or intended for that purpose.

New comment by 55555 in "Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose"

55555 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:46:30 +0000

Right. Plastic bags could be re-used, even after getting damp and because they wouldn't rip. So industry switched to them to be more environmentally friendly, and then after a while, no one actually re-used the bags, making them perhaps better in theory but ultimately worse in practice. I don't have the life experience you have but ChatGPT tells me this was a major reason.

New comment by 55555 in "Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose"

55555 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 02:47:20 +0000

If I’m not mistaken this is ecologically basically a paper bag that looks like a plastic bag. Remember when we all switched from paper bags to plastic bags to save the environment? The environmental issue isn’t plastic bags, it’s that you don’t reuse them.

New comment by 55555 in "YouTube is a mysterious monopoly"

55555 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:39:19 +0000

I likewise don't use one on my apple TV, but my friend recently told me there are proxy apps for Apple TV which use DNS-based ad blocking and which can get you the US Netflix library while abroad.