Hacker News: LandoCalrissian

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "EFF Logs Out of X"

LandoCalrissian — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:44:09 +0000

Good for them, correct thing to do. EFF is still one of the few true blues.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

LandoCalrissian — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:59:26 +0000

Easily my biggest guilty pleasure movie, warts and all, I still love it.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

LandoCalrissian — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:30:33 +0000

Probably not a great strategy to piss off every blue voter in the country and then try to setup a business in cities.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

LandoCalrissian — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:30:43 +0000

I tend to like skeuomorphic design, however, if you design an entire interface that way, it will look dated, for better or worse.

The one in the middle is probably what I would gravitate towards myself. The right three really wear their date on their sleeve.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons"

LandoCalrissian — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:47:25 +0000

Qualcomm blew this up in record time, impressive stuff.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness"

LandoCalrissian — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 21:18:49 +0000

He's earnest and legitimately excited about it and you can pick up on that. It's always fun to talk to people like that regardless of their interest.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action"

LandoCalrissian — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:51:10 +0000

In the context of a budget that's really funny too. If you make a 18 trillion dollar error just once, no big deal, just one error right?

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy"

LandoCalrissian — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 04:18:19 +0000

Trying to actively circumvent the intention of a judges order is a pretty bad idea.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think"

LandoCalrissian — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 21:45:23 +0000

Say what you will about Bluesky, but having your follower feed just be people you follow is extremely refreshing.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)"

LandoCalrissian — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 07:00:03 +0000

President is unilaterally shutting down federal agencies. If this goes on there really isn't a constitution anymore, not in practice anyway.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

LandoCalrissian — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:28:54 +0000

Appreciate the comments, found them very insightful.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the Starlink Admin Panel"

LandoCalrissian — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:44:47 +0000

Awesome, thank you. Seems pretty straight forward.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Ham Radio All-in-One-Cable"

LandoCalrissian — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:36:08 +0000

Oh that is cool, I have a really janky setup to do packet radio with my handheld and this would be awesome for that.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "The case for single-stair multifamily"

LandoCalrissian — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 18:00:44 +0000

Why not get rid of all fire safety protections? We can really get moving then. The ADA is pretty onerous, if we just ignore that we can have it up in half the time! I don't REALLY need all that electrical grounding in my house, all that extra copper adds up you know, think of how many more houses we could build without it?

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Binance founder Changpeng Zhao agrees to step down, plead guilty"

LandoCalrissian — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 23:17:08 +0000

Pretty great example of Hacker News when the top comment is "They should have done more crime but in a different way."

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Arduino raises $22M Series B round"

LandoCalrissian — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 15:57:39 +0000

"This investment will allow us to further fuel our transformational platform initiative for professional customers, lowering the barriers to entry in IoT and AI by providing a continuum from hardware to Cloud"

That entire sentence makes me want to jump off a bridge.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "SVB Used Former McCarthy Staffers to Weaken Regulations, Lobby FDIC"

LandoCalrissian — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 19:15:43 +0000

I can't remember all the specifics, but after the 2008 crash banks with a certain levels of holding have to pass stress test showing they can survive scenarios like this. I think the old limit was 50 billion but go changed to I think 150 billion which puts SVB below the threshold for the stress test.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable?"

LandoCalrissian — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 00:50:42 +0000

I caught one of the self checkouts rebooting at my local grocery store and it was still running Windows XP.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "Smith Chart"

LandoCalrissian — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:08:36 +0000

I still you the smith chart on my NanoVNA for ham radio.

New comment by LandoCalrissian in "DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar"

LandoCalrissian — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 21:01:03 +0000

Some states don't have a tip credit like Minnesota. They get minimum wage no matter what, plus tips.