Hacker News: NDlurker

New comment by NDlurker in "Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude"

NDlurker — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:07:09 +0000

I suppose this will help the training data?

New comment by NDlurker in "How to head into VR without wearing a headset"

NDlurker — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:41:58 +0000

If you're sleeping you aren't going to be aware of your surroundings. You're just going to have a hard time getting to sleep with goggles strapped on your face. Probably wake up a lot too. I'll watch the video when I get home, out at a park enjoying nature and Hacker News haha yes I see the parallels and I should put the phone away.

New comment by NDlurker in "PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial"

NDlurker — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:03:22 +0000

Congratulations and thank you

New comment by NDlurker in "How to head into VR without wearing a headset"

NDlurker — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:00:12 +0000

>Some days he’s in VR more than he’s out of it. He’d even try to sleep there, but the headset made it hard to get comfortable.

Why?

New comment by NDlurker in "Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment"

NDlurker — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:07:19 +0000

Huh? People with mental illnesses should not be in government.

New comment by NDlurker in "Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment"

NDlurker — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:21:41 +0000

Yeah, that's all disgusting human behavior. And it's even more disgusting that agents of the Saudi government will murder him over it.

New comment by NDlurker in "Anger as man sentenced to death for Facebook comment"

NDlurker — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:06:52 +0000

Religious extremism is a mental illness and has no place in government.

>Saudi Arabia is among the world's most prolific executioners. According to Amnesty, at least 175 people had been executed in the kingdom this year as of 5 October, most of them foreign nationals, including at least 94 people from more than 20 countries. It has no written penal code, leaving many offences and punishments to judges' interpretation of Sharia, and broad provisions in its counter-terrorism and cybercrime laws have been used to impose long sentences for social media posts.

This should be widely publicized. No foreigner is safe.

New comment by NDlurker in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

NDlurker — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:50:02 +0000

Piracy is legal if you're big enough

New comment by NDlurker in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

NDlurker — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:28:01 +0000

There is no logic to their tint law. I live in a community that exists in 2 states. And civil disobedience is morally ok. Anyway, nobody is going to pull me over for my tint and if they do, that's fine, I know I'm risking a ticket. It's not that serious.

New comment by NDlurker in "Reverse Engineering of the M-VAVE FM-1 Pocket Synthesizer Firmware"

NDlurker — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:17:45 +0000

I bought one a few months ago as a cheap DX7 clone. It's great just as that. So then all these new firmwares coming out have just been incredible. It's like a poor man's OP1 now.

New comment by NDlurker in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

NDlurker — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:57:12 +0000

Yeah. There's no reason the legal tint level should be different on an SUV vs car.

New comment by NDlurker in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

NDlurker — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:19:40 +0000

Yes because people can't be expected to make expensive modifications to their vehicles while visiting another state. And the law in Minnesota is ridiculous especially in situations like a Crosstrek vs an Impreza. They have the same body but the allowed tint levels are different because one is classified as an SUV and the other as a station wagon. I could lift my Impreza and make it look exactly like a Crosstrek, but the tint would still be illegal. I find that funny.

New comment by NDlurker in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

NDlurker — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:58:19 +0000

I wouldn't say that's an edge case. Would you consider a huge chunk of our military edge cases too?

New comment by NDlurker in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

NDlurker — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:58:57 +0000

Their tint law is stupid. See my previous comment on Crosstrek vs Impreza. Also, I've never heard of anyone getting pulled over for tint unless it's like really dark, so I'm not concerned, just pointing out it's ridiculous.

New comment by NDlurker in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

NDlurker — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:45:36 +0000

I'm not going to remove my legal tint to comply with rules for a state I don't live in. It's incredibly unlikely I'd get pulled over for it, but it is possible if a cop wanted a reason to pull me over.

New comment by NDlurker in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

NDlurker — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:16:56 +0000

States have so many variances on what kind of tint is legal and sometimes just absurd rules. For example, Minnesota has very little limitations on tinting SUVs but strict limits on cars. A Subaru Crosstrek is pretty much a lifted Impreza. The tint on my Impreza is illegal in Minnesota, but would be legal if it was a Crosstrek.

New comment by NDlurker in "California closed the Montana license plate loophole"

NDlurker — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:11:28 +0000

I moved between 4 states 5 times before I was 25. I currently live a mile from a state I drive into almost everyday where my tint is illegal.

New comment by NDlurker in "What's Earth's dominant species by mass?"

NDlurker — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:38:44 +0000

Haha of course it was! Thanks for the link.

New comment by NDlurker in "What's Earth's dominant species by mass?"

NDlurker — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:32:15 +0000

What would .2 billion tons of viruses look like? Or any large mass of viruses? Goopy? What color what it be? These are probably questions for an LLM

New comment by NDlurker in "First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months"

NDlurker — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:21:44 +0000

As a small time Fervo investor, yay!