Hacker News: BHSPitMonkey

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

BHSPitMonkey — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:50:57 +0000

On any device you can install KOReader, PG is one of the default options in the builtin OPDS browser.

https://koreader.rocks/

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control"

BHSPitMonkey — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:21:33 +0000

I'm planning to attempt this soon!

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control"

BHSPitMonkey — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:50:17 +0000

Not a new project, but one that's relevant to a lot of recent discussions of privacy-invasive connected systems built into modern cars

OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control

BHSPitMonkey — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:50:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openvehicles.com/home

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141732

Points: 99

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New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Googlebook"

BHSPitMonkey — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:02:12 +0000

ChatGPT and similar are, in some sense, a semantic web search engine combined with an operator that's able to jot down its findings, pivot to different lookups, and filter/combine outputs.

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

BHSPitMonkey — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:44:29 +0000

It's highly reasonable for them to limit image size/quality to whatever looks fine to 98% of their readers. They store and serve an absolute ton of ever-changing content to browsers/apps; The very small (and likely revenue-negative) contingent of highly motivated people can find the originals if the images are especially noteworthy like these.

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

BHSPitMonkey — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:03:11 +0000

Now imagine that adversaries maintain and monitor profiles on known military personnel with leaky online accounts such as these, supplemented with intelligence about their rank, unit, specializations, and so forth - correlating all of these pings together with known and unknown vessels, and across land. They can learn a lot more than "a big ship is there", without even necessarily having access to recent satellite imagery or other hardware.

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification"

BHSPitMonkey — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:10:29 +0000

All the more reason to draw lots of attention to this issue now.

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

BHSPitMonkey — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:38:02 +0000

An earlier post to a news article rather than to a tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186662

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Rise of the Triforce"

BHSPitMonkey — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:48:17 +0000

I can't recall if the PS2 was cheaper than available DVD players when it launched, but I do distinctly remember it being true of the PS3 and Blu-ray for some time given how new it was then

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

BHSPitMonkey — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:32:58 +0000

Could be a sort of canary, with the timing being a spotlight on the highly-visible pressure coming from the U.S. government.

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Turn Dependabot off"

BHSPitMonkey — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:13:27 +0000

You can add a dependabot.yml config to regulate when Dependabot runs and how many PRs it will open at a time:

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/reference/supply-ch...

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Rise of the Triforce"

BHSPitMonkey — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:38:03 +0000

I'm always left in awe by not only the Dolphin team's work, but the quality of their articles and release notes. This was no exception!

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser"

BHSPitMonkey — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:44:32 +0000

It's obviously not something you'd want to happen _passively_ when visiting a web page, but if the alternative is installing an executable / using a package manager / etc., why not? At least the browser is a more secure sandboxed environment for running untrusted code than most peoples' native OS.

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

BHSPitMonkey — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:16:44 +0000

The progressive loading of the tile images really goes great with the pixel art style. Nice touch!

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "I'm just having fun"

BHSPitMonkey — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:37:16 +0000

It's how we all used to talk on IRC, well before Gen Z came online :)

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "10 Years of Let's Encrypt"

BHSPitMonkey — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:51:50 +0000

This exchange seemingly proves the argument that user trust gained from the EV treatment is misplaced, and that the endeavor was a farce all along. It's not as though the user's browser was distinguishing the good CAs from the bad!

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

BHSPitMonkey — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:45:40 +0000

> Tailscale for space

Technically the article was about running it not on a sat, but on a dish (something well within the realm of possibility this year if the router firmware on the darn things could be modified at all)

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"

BHSPitMonkey — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:05:02 +0000

You don't just accept the review as-is, though; You prompt it to be a skeptic and find a handful of specific examples of claims that are worth extra attention from a qualified human.

Unfortunately, this probably results in lazy humans _only_ reading the automated flagged areas critically and neglecting everything else, but hey—at least it might keep a little more garbage out?

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset"

BHSPitMonkey — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:21:02 +0000

It's the same distinction as making a backup copy of a movie to your hard drive vs. redistributing it to other parties.