Hacker News: RockRobotRock

New comment by RockRobotRock in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

RockRobotRock — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:10:45 +0000

>There's no magical human verification technology coming to save us.

Except for the one Sam Altman is building.

New comment by RockRobotRock in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

RockRobotRock — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:06:34 +0000

I think it was pretty clear I was talking about the United States.

New comment by RockRobotRock in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

RockRobotRock — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:18:43 +0000

Four 9/11s worth of people die every year from drunk driving. If we can't even get that under control, I don't see why being able to modify your own car is a big deal.

New comment by RockRobotRock in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

RockRobotRock — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:09:09 +0000

>A hard to describe sense of "cheesiness"

This is the "Reddit" factor. I picked up on it being LLM written with this sentence:

"This is the treacherous, final-boss stage where repairability usually dies,"

New comment by RockRobotRock in "Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'"

RockRobotRock — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:59:02 +0000

This is sad. It appears to me to be psychosis. It's really telling in their reddit comment where they use words like raising an AI and anthropomorphizing his openclaw that he's got an unhealthy attachment. Not trying to play armchair psychologist here, but if you've ever been around someone going through a mental episode there's nothing funny about this.

New comment by RockRobotRock in "Never buy a .online domain"

RockRobotRock — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:19:22 +0000

That's like a business being dissolved because it got a bad rating from BBB. Absolutely insane.

New comment by RockRobotRock in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

RockRobotRock — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:19:04 +0000

suspiciously defensive??? you got me. Or maybe I just didn't understand their comment.

New comment by RockRobotRock in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

RockRobotRock — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:19:07 +0000

Oh, that's silly. I don't own a Tesla. I just wanna talk about LIDAR without people ragebaiting about Elon.

New comment by RockRobotRock in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

RockRobotRock — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:23:45 +0000

(Disclaimer: American perspective)

Why don't we have PKI built in to our birth certificates and drivers licenses? Why hasn't a group of engineers and experts formed a consortium to try and solve this problem in the least draconian and most privacy friendly way possible?

New comment by RockRobotRock in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

RockRobotRock — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:59:43 +0000

Here is an example of the problem with inference-based verification:

https://streamable.com/3tgc14

New comment by RockRobotRock in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

RockRobotRock — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:56:00 +0000

I don't know what that means

New comment by RockRobotRock in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

RockRobotRock — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:47:43 +0000

Can hatred of Musk not derail this entire thread please? I have a camera-only ADAS that I think works quite well, but having both would be better.

New comment by RockRobotRock in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

RockRobotRock — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:40:53 +0000

>Waymo benefits from Google's unparalleled geospatial data.

That's true, and they have a huge headstart, but I wonder if all these cubesat companies can bring the price down on data enough that others will be able to compete.

New comment by RockRobotRock in "Postgres Is Your Friend. ORM Is Not"

RockRobotRock — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:11:52 +0000

I sure loved delving into this blog post.

New comment by RockRobotRock in "BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs"

RockRobotRock — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:33:29 +0000

My mistake, sorry. HN has me feeling extra paranoid lately.

New comment by RockRobotRock in "BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs"

RockRobotRock — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:27:37 +0000

>No LLVM. No HIP translation layer. No "convert your CUDA to something else first." Just ......

Another obvious tell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...

New comment by RockRobotRock in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

RockRobotRock — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:44:22 +0000

The AI written blog posts will continue until morale improves.

New comment by RockRobotRock in "I fixed Windows native development"

RockRobotRock — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:23:03 +0000

"No Visual Studio installation. No GUI. No prayer. Just a script that does exactly what it says."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...

The shitty AI writing is so distracting I had to stop reading.

New comment by RockRobotRock in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

RockRobotRock — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:07:00 +0000

Didn't macOS apps get locked/took a ridiculous amount of time to open because Gatekeeper servers went down a few years ago?

https://www.engadget.com/macos-slow-apps-launching-221445977...

Not as bad as the bug described in OP, but still pretty bad.

New comment by RockRobotRock in "Stop Using Face ID"

RockRobotRock — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:56:43 +0000

>People use 6 digit passcodes to lock their entire digital life. That would be considered horrendously insecure for anything that isn’t an iPhone.

That's not really true, it's just the black box magic that is a TPM. Windows Hello for Business does the same thing.