Hacker News: AyyEye

New comment by AyyEye in "Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti"

AyyEye — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:21:08 +0000

At that point just skip the deet.

New comment by AyyEye in "The FBI Wants 'Near Real-Time' Access to US License Plate Readers"

AyyEye — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:35:49 +0000

Scotus rulings (and the constitution itself) haven't been worth the paper they are written on since long before anyone on this site was born.

New comment by AyyEye in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

AyyEye — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:10:10 +0000

It's flood routed. 3 bits is probably far past what is practical, except in very linear low-node-count networks.

New comment by AyyEye in "Kids can bypass some age checks with a drawn-on mustache"

AyyEye — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:39:23 +0000

Thanks for this comment -- it dredged up a memory I had almost forgotten.

I did this but inverted. When only pokemon red/blue were out in the US I downloaded a rom for pokemon yellow (discovered on whatever p2p I was using at the time) when searching for pokemon to play in an emulator. I didn't know it existed at the time and it was in Japanese. When I told my friends "pikachu follows you around!" None of them believed me.

New comment by AyyEye in "Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]"

AyyEye — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:43:36 +0000

Almost like "Claude is only down because it's too busy" is cope and the reality is it's vibe coded trash.

New comment by AyyEye in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

AyyEye — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:29:45 +0000

Neuralink and OpenAI were started months apart in the same tiny building. Draw your own conclusions.

New comment by AyyEye in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"

AyyEye — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:47:25 +0000

> Gas Town was released a little over three months ago

Should be plenty of time for a 100x zero-shot vibe god.

New comment by AyyEye in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

AyyEye — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:20:01 +0000

Residential proxy networks.

New comment by AyyEye in "5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy"

AyyEye — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:41:54 +0000

We always want to pretend that we're better and more evolved than those knuckle draggers of ages past -- simply because someone else made a computer for us to use.

New comment by AyyEye in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

AyyEye — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:08:11 +0000

> If it wasn't you driving, you know who

This is... Absolutely not true.

I had some family friends and their two (adult) sons come in (from Poland!) and loaned them my car for a week while they were driving around the states. They were all licensed and it could have been any one of them driving at any given point.

I've even been on road trips in my own car where figuring out the question "we got a ticket from nowhere, montana. Who was driving when we went through there?" Would be met with "that was over a month ago, I don't even know where that is much less who was driving then."

My husband and I and our kid take each other's cars for various reasons and trying to figure out who was driving on any given hour of the day over a month later when the ticket arrives in the mail would be an impossible task.

New comment by AyyEye in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

AyyEye — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:53:16 +0000

I understand the desire to act holier than thou and pretend that going through a red light with no traffic is murder in the making, but the situation they advocate for (running when clear) is even written into law in some states (at least for motorcycles/bicycles). Some vehicles don't trigger the sensors and the lights never change, so you are allowed to go after a full stop. I would not be surprised in the least if there were some states where the wording of the law applied to cars as well.

New comment by AyyEye in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

AyyEye — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:24:44 +0000

> I caved to peer pressure. If you don't fix this thing within four months I will switch to your competitor for one maybe even two product cycles.

He sure showed them. The people I know using super old iphones are doing more than their public commitment to buy more apple products as often as they can -- after a brief tolerance break, of course.

New comment by AyyEye in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

AyyEye — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:08:36 +0000

The real question -- who is behind this?

This is disgusting and everyone from the operator of the agent to the model and inference providers need to apologize and reconcile with what they have created.

What about the next hundred of these influence operations that are less forthcoming about their status as robots? This whole AI psyop is morally bankrupt and everyone involved should be shamed out of the industry.

I only hope that by the time you realize that you have not created a digital god the rest of us survive the ever-expanding list of abuses, surveillance, and destruction of nature/economy/culture that you inflict.

Learn to code.

New comment by AyyEye in "TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app"

AyyEye — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:11:29 +0000

Tiktok is also running web scrapers for some reason. I guess ML stuff. Their bot is hitting URLs on my server that haven't ever been linked elsewhere on the web and haven't been valid for years. Nobody else is still trying to get to them since I retired that subdomain.

New comment by AyyEye in "Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT"

AyyEye — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:34:43 +0000

Lol, messages showing up randomly days later is par for the course for our tiny group chat, most of whom are on matrix.org. Sometimes element won't download messages for some rooms (or even all rooms) for days/hours. Matrix has gotten far less reliable over the years (and I used to run a few homeservers).

New comment by AyyEye in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

AyyEye — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:18:24 +0000

Your bio says you are an AI professor. As far as I can tell the AI industry seems to be the mass surveillance machine's magnum opus. How do you square that circle?

New comment by AyyEye in "The Zen of Reticulum"

AyyEye — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:29:39 +0000

Not with flood routing.

New comment by AyyEye in "Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack"

AyyEye — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:58:14 +0000

Reticulum is not nominally for lora/sx radios. It is designed to operate over any transport from a serial link or infrared to high speed wireless lan or multi-gigabit ethernet.

New comment by AyyEye in "The Zen of Reticulum"

AyyEye — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:51:34 +0000

Reticulum is absolutely not flood routed and is not "LoRa-based" lmao. Typical hn comment.

Planetary-scale networks is mentioned as a design goal on the first page of the docs https://reticulum.network/ which are hidden at the very top of the git repo.

New comment by AyyEye in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

AyyEye — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:57:15 +0000

> Most of the world does not care. I suspect that is more true today than ever before

100% of the people I have spoken with, from uber drivers to grandparents, have all noticed, hated, and are sympathetic to the fight against the rental/subscription economy. In 2025 I don't think I've had a single person defend the status quo because they all know what's coming.