Hacker News: ARandomerDude

New comment by ARandomerDude in "Deflock Casa Grande"

ARandomerDude — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:21:29 +0000

That's because you haven't thought it through. "We only want info on the bad people" might not alarm you personally until any government entity changes the definition of bad and now you're a "bad guy".

New comment by ARandomerDude in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

ARandomerDude — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:46:34 +0000

Digital property is property.

New comment by ARandomerDude in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

ARandomerDude — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:28:05 +0000

Auto GCAS (Ground Collision Avoidance System) exists (pre-AI), although it is nowhere near as sophisticated as what you described. Similar type of idea though.

If the pilot passes out during high-g maneuvers, the aircraft will pull up and bring the wings level until the pilot regains consciousness.

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/autogcas.html

New comment by ARandomerDude in "Nvidia DGX Spark as a daily driver"

ARandomerDude — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:03:28 +0000

I know nothing about this topic but your comment piqued my curiosity. What would a $500 AMD GPU do better than DGX?

New comment by ARandomerDude in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

ARandomerDude — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:23:34 +0000

Also to reduce capital murder...

New comment by ARandomerDude in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

ARandomerDude — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:30:55 +0000

I've literally had my vehicle alarm and tell me to keep both hands on the steering wheel when I had both hands on for a long time. My biggest concern is where do false alarms take us in the not-too-distant future? Inept sensing -> you can't drive.

New comment by ARandomerDude in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

ARandomerDude — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:27:31 +0000

Not being mandatory and not having an effect are different claims.

New comment by ARandomerDude in "Electric anti-aircraft interceptor drone breaks world air speed record at 434mph"

ARandomerDude — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:33:56 +0000

> will still be able to intercept drones cheaply

But likely not at the scale required to make a real dent. This is the problem with the "this new weapon will win the Russia-Ukraine war" mantra we've heard so often (Javelin, HIMARS, F-16, etc). Lots of very capable weapons have entered the fight, but at limited scale compared to Russia's enormous manpower and manufacturing advantage.

Publishers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for training ChatGPT with their content

ARandomerDude — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:52:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/openai-newspaper-lawsuit-22322605.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722603

Points: 3

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New comment by ARandomerDude in "US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections"

ARandomerDude — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:39:27 +0000

IANAL, what are the practical implications of this? I assume the outcome is police would first need probable cause to suspect a specific person of a crime, and then get a warrant for that person's location. Am I wrong?

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

ARandomerDude — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:39:55 +0000

This is the problem in the discussion. Many on HN don't remember what it was like to buy a house in 2010, so they assume it hasn't gotten (far) worse. It has.

New comment by ARandomerDude in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

ARandomerDude — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:50:25 +0000

This wildly assumes that "I voted for $candidate" means "I like $candidate." Every presidential election cycle we get served up two turds, one with a (D) and the other with an (R) by their name, and we have to pick which turd we'd like to ruin our country for us the least.

New comment by ARandomerDude in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

ARandomerDude — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:13:41 +0000

> Starting price reportedly around $2,000.

I'll guess it won't be a Vision Pro level disaster, but most people will skip this device unless the price drops substantially.

New comment by ARandomerDude in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

ARandomerDude — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:22:56 +0000

What if we took Japan’s flag, imagined it printed on paper, but made the dot blue?

New comment by ARandomerDude in "Benchmarking SurrealDB 3.x vs. Postgres, Mongo, Neo4j and Redis (With Fsync)"

ARandomerDude — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:40:19 +0000

> MongoDB still leads on single-record writes, while SurrealDB is ~1.3× faster on reads

I greatly appreciate when a vendor is willing to run the test and publish unfavorable information, even if it's only in one benchmark category.

New comment by ARandomerDude in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

ARandomerDude — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:46:08 +0000

“cum” (rhymes with “broom”, rather than “dumb”) is Latin for “with”.

New comment by ARandomerDude in "Lisp in Vim (2019)"

ARandomerDude — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:40:43 +0000

These days Conjure is the best way to write a lisp language in Neovim, in my opinion. It supports Clojure, Common Lisp, Fennel, etc. Not my project but I’m very thankful for those who contribute!

https://github.com/Olical/conjure

New comment by ARandomerDude in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

ARandomerDude — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:05:50 +0000

For what purpose? Murder? Arson? It's amazing how often people say things like "no one is above the law" whenever it's convenient, then totally flip the script when it's not.

New comment by ARandomerDude in "Greek Alphabet Cards"

ARandomerDude — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:57:18 +0000

For ancient Greek, two great books are:

Greek: an Intensive Course by Hansen and Quinn.

Basics of Biblical Greek by William Mounce

Both are standard texts with solutions easily available online.

New comment by ARandomerDude in "Greek Alphabet Cards"

ARandomerDude — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:55:33 +0000

Get a decent Greek grammar book and go through the first couple chapters, even if you don’t plan to complete the book. After completing the exercises you’ll be amazed by how quickly the Greek alphabet stuck. Repeat every 10 years if necessary.