Hacker News: 650REDHAIR

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "For most US drivers, EVs offer emissions benefits and cost savings"

650REDHAIR — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:34:16 +0000

What road trips are you taking frequently enough that an EV just won’t work?

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Roblox Officially Supports GrapheneOS"

650REDHAIR — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:56:10 +0000

I guess that makes sense given the type of adults that prowl on Roblox.

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

650REDHAIR — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:56:16 +0000

It’s great, but there’s really no way that I’ve figured out for granular control. So it’ll just auto-answer everyone.

I forgot to turn it off and it auto-answered an AI spam bot and apparently they had a 10m conversation with my TV yesterday.

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

650REDHAIR — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:21:02 +0000

Eye tracking is not something I’ve considered! Neat!

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

650REDHAIR — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:36:54 +0000

I use the back tap feature for shortcuts and have my iPad auto-answer FaceTime calls when I’m out so I can check in on the dogs.

Lots of neat features hiding beneath the surface!

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"

650REDHAIR — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:17:37 +0000

Are you suggesting Trump is “trolling” Greenland?

And admittedly I didn’t realize Taiwan was in Europe. Sorry.

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"

650REDHAIR — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:14:08 +0000

I don’t remember the last time China threatened to invade Denmark?

I do remember the last time the USA did. It was hours ago at a NATO summit.

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

650REDHAIR — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 18:36:22 +0000

How did you come to that conclusion?

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Show HN: Searchable directory of 22k+ products from worker-owned co-ops"

650REDHAIR — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:10:24 +0000

This is awesome- thank you!

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "In San Francisco, even $180k tech salaries are no longer enough"

650REDHAIR — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:26:14 +0000

I don’t think it’s that simple at all.

I see plenty of vacancies around me.

I think we need to build higher density housing and I also think there is some amount of market manipulation happening.

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "In San Francisco, even $180k tech salaries are no longer enough"

650REDHAIR — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:34:00 +0000

Of those some immediate standouts are:

Scam listings.

One that is >$2k a WEEK.

A bunch of listings not actually in SF.

Anecdotally; A friend of a friend just moved into an awful building on Ellis and is paying $1650/month for a small studio. 1br in my building are renting for $3,300+ and I'm not in a particularly desirable neighborhood, a new building, or a rent-controlled building.

So yeah, it feels really true.

Not really sure how rents are skyrocketing when every 3rd person I know in tech has been laid off in the last year.

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

650REDHAIR — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 23:28:04 +0000

I feel like I’ve read about three letter agencies using the humming of power lines to geo-locate where a video/audio was recorded.

“Electrical Network Frequency (ENF) analysis”.

I’m going to dig more and will leave some links when I get back to a computer.

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Om Malik has died"

650REDHAIR — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:16:34 +0000

There’s a large group of people who want to help and see you succeed- even if it won’t benefit them directly.

I stepped away nearly a decade ago so I don’t know how true that is for the tech “scene” today, but it was really great and inspiring for a very young transplant like me.

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

650REDHAIR — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:23:04 +0000

I mean…

My banks in the US and abroad all require 2fa and some of them are app-based 2fa not just SMS. All traditional banks- no neobanks.

Some government services require apps or the experience is infinitely worse without a smartphone.

Do we need the newest/fastest/best? Probably not, but I don’t see any major mobile OS making software more efficient for older/ lesser hardware and if you try to hold onto your old phone eventually it will be vulnerable to attacks after support for it ends.

It’s gross.

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

650REDHAIR — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:17:22 +0000

There are many rumors that the new iPhone 18 Pro will start at ~$1300.

So maybe their mobile hardware will be next.

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

650REDHAIR — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:06:02 +0000

Was the commenter wrong?

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

650REDHAIR — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:02:50 +0000

Until you’re flagged for some vague reason and support/fraud can’t help you.

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

650REDHAIR — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:45:51 +0000

It was ~8mo ago.

Not anymore.

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

650REDHAIR — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:53:22 +0000

The current drone-heavy theatres.

That could change in an instant.

New comment by 650REDHAIR in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

650REDHAIR — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:32:10 +0000

I got wooshed.

Nice work!