Hacker News: Rebelgecko

New comment by Rebelgecko in "Claude Opus 5.5"

Rebelgecko — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:33:11 +0000

I thought pacing is just walking back and forth? So pacing the frontier would be like staying in the same place instead of making progress

New comment by Rebelgecko in "Xbox continues its “reset” with dramatic restructuring"

Rebelgecko — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:37:23 +0000

TBH it seems like the Halo teams have been trying to copy COD for a while (going as far as adding COD mechanics to the Halo:CE remake).

If they're under the same roof, my optimistic hope is that they'll try to focus on how to differentiate the IPs. But realistically we'll probably just end up with even more micro transactions

New comment by Rebelgecko in "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead"

Rebelgecko — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:27:47 +0000

Outside of specifics like the space shuttle program, launch costs have never been that big of a factor. Like 5-15% of a program's cost. If your satellite or rover costs billions to build and another billion to run for a decade, saving a hundred million (or even a couple hundred million) isn't that much of a game changer

New comment by Rebelgecko in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""

Rebelgecko — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:27:35 +0000

In CA it's legal for regular citizens to detain someone if you think there's a reasonable public safety threat (but if you're wrong, you can obviously be in a lot of trouble)

New comment by Rebelgecko in "Waymo pulls over, calls cops on juvenile riders who had 'ghost gun""

Rebelgecko — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:04:46 +0000

In California, it's surprisingly hard to be a legal, responsible gun owner if you don't own your own car. Rideshare bans weapons via TOS, public transit (even unloaded in a locked container) is illegal.

New comment by Rebelgecko in "CIA Releases President's Daily Briefs in Commemoration of 9/11"

Rebelgecko — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:26:52 +0000

In surprised they're redacting things like labels on a map

New comment by Rebelgecko in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"

Rebelgecko — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:41:22 +0000

It may just be forced to lie when asked

New comment by Rebelgecko in "The UN challenges five centuries of cartography"

Rebelgecko — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:23:54 +0000

You might get a kick out of the AuthaGraph projection, if you haven't seen it before (although Antarctica may be a smidge distorted relative to dymaxion)

New comment by Rebelgecko in "iPhone Duo"

Rebelgecko — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:10:28 +0000

They come with one stock, and Samsung says you shouldn't remove it (which doesn't mean you can't, but I'm not brave enough to try). It's like $20 to get it replaced if you live near a Samsung shop

New comment by Rebelgecko in "iPhone Duo"

Rebelgecko — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:24:53 +0000

Somewhere between the 5 and 7 the crease was drastically reduced (except on mine, because the screen protector is delaminating)

New comment by Rebelgecko in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

Rebelgecko — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:10:34 +0000

Yeah, I was surprised to see they just gave DHH a $1.5m credit. Can't imagine they'll have good ROI on that (although what do I know)

New comment by Rebelgecko in "LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features"

Rebelgecko — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:56:48 +0000

Isn't it also a dep of some AI tools? Or maybe they use their own binary

New comment by Rebelgecko in "Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses"

Rebelgecko — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:22:33 +0000

Colloquially, no. But do I think there will be W-2 employees of Amazon.com, Inc (dba Amazon) delivering packages? Definitely not. It's not like Amazon owned the Prime Air plane that crashed yesterday, or employed the pilots

New comment by Rebelgecko in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

Rebelgecko — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:46:30 +0000

The semi-interactive walkthrough on the website is really cool, great way to show the UX.

I've always wanted to use a round display and an 18650 to plop a mini bike computer into my headset (replacing the cap). There was a Kickstarter years ago for a project doing that, but it seems to have fizzled out

New comment by Rebelgecko in "My Business Is Dying"

Rebelgecko — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:46:45 +0000

Some do, DOD is pushing grok

New comment by Rebelgecko in "Meta reaches $16.68B settlement over social media harms to children"

Rebelgecko — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:40:27 +0000

Would've been cool if they had actual improvements like the timeline only shows people posts from their friends

New comment by Rebelgecko in "A look under our trunk: what's in our compute"

Rebelgecko — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:55:06 +0000

Fwiw the accessibility options have a setting to avoid across the street dropoffs

New comment by Rebelgecko in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

Rebelgecko — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:29:21 +0000

They're selling shovels during a gold rush with a 5% markup

New comment by Rebelgecko in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

Rebelgecko — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:50:19 +0000

I've had good luck using AI to reverse-engineer Bluetooth comms for "smart" products with shitty apps.

New comment by Rebelgecko in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"

Rebelgecko — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:56:19 +0000

Do TPMSs have uuids? Although I suppose it would just be a matter of time until Flock tracks those too, if they don't already