Hacker News: BHSPitMonkey

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Turning a dumb AC unit smart (without losing my security deposit)"

BHSPitMonkey — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:57:47 +0000

Why? A dual-hose portable is more efficient than a single-hose, but a PTAC should (in theory) be more efficient (and possibly quieter) on account of having the heat-emitting side of the cooling loop outside of the living space, which is closer to the ideal split system - though I suppose that advantage could be undermined by the unit's age and condition.

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

BHSPitMonkey — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:17:08 +0000

I was going to say, neither of those forms of exercise are expressions of a natural talent... they're things you simply do (at whatever levels you can currently manage) to stay healthy. They're good for your mental state, too! (And I could stand to do both a bit more regularly...)

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

BHSPitMonkey — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:05:20 +0000

On the contrary, I worry about the ability of these grassroots user-generated content distribution systems to withstand the barrage of generated slop uploaded by armies of autonomous agents. Fighting it off is an asymmetric battle that makes it increasingly hard to distinguish the legitimate users trying to share their work.

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"

BHSPitMonkey — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:23:05 +0000

That satellite's orbit very clearly did decay, though. The problem in that instance is the descent wasn't controlled, but that's a different kind of failure than the one this thread is worried about (i.e. satellites lingering for many years without active collision avoidance).

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Stealing Is a Skill"

BHSPitMonkey — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:03:59 +0000

I think there's a big difference between jazz and corporate landing pages. Should we be surprised or shocked when different brands of microwave ovens have very similar controls?

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Stealing Is a Skill"

BHSPitMonkey — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:00:59 +0000

Do you not believe that the design of the "stolen" landing page was not itself 97% stolen from marketing landing pages that came before it?

It's unusual seeing the process stated so bluntly, but for something as cookie-cutter as a company homepage this has been how web designers have done things for decades. Or, at the very least, it's how the craft is learned.

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

BHSPitMonkey — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:48:47 +0000

Same goes for the ICCU, I guess! (Mine hasn't blown yet, knock on wood...)

New comment by BHSPitMonkey in "MapComplete: Maps about various topics which you can contribute to"

BHSPitMonkey — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:42:58 +0000

It's being worked on!

https://github.com/orgs/streetcomplete/projects/1

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...