Hacker News: TrickyRick

New comment by TrickyRick in "Show HN: Travel Hacking Toolkit – Points search and trip planning with AI"

TrickyRick — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:05:20 +0000

It most definitely isn't, but it takes significantly more effort than the bloggers want to make it seem like.

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

TrickyRick — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:44:00 +0000

Giving your retina scan to one of the main Slop Bros, what could possibly go wrong?

New comment by TrickyRick in "Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem"

TrickyRick — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:37:01 +0000

Source: Trust me, bro. A company selling an AI model telling others their AI model is so good that it's building itself. What could possibly motivate them to say that?

Remember a few years ago when Sam Altman said we had to pause AI development for 6 months because otherwise we would have the singularity and it would end the world? Yeah, about that...

New comment by TrickyRick in "Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud"

TrickyRick — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:58:26 +0000

SAP needs servers though, if they buy SAP hosted in AWS that kind of defeats the purpose.

New comment by TrickyRick in "Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to"

TrickyRick — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:47:06 +0000

Being able to link to a BBC article (Or whatever major news source you prefer) to a customer is the best type of outage. "Look, this is so big it made the news - this isn't our fault"

New comment by TrickyRick in "Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining"

TrickyRick — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 13:19:19 +0000

I had a similar experience, I tried with some photos from various European cities and while it pretty much always got the city correct it was hilariously confidently incorrect in the exact location within the city. They were plausible but nowhere near the level of accuracy the article describes. All the images had distinctly recognizable landmarks which a resident of said city would know and which also have images available online given one knows the name of the landmark so I'm not particularly impressed.

In fact some of the answers were completely geographically impossible where it said "The image is taken from location X showing location Y" when it's not possible to see location Y if one is standing at location X. Like saying "The photo is taken in Central Park looking north showing the Statue of Liberty".

New comment by TrickyRick in "Hetzner cuts traffic on US VPSs, raises prices"

TrickyRick — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:11:35 +0000

Contrary to the belief of a lot of Americans, just because it works in the US doesn't mean it works elsewhere. In the rest of the world a driver's license is used for proving your right to drive and we have a thing called passports for proving your identity. Hetzner isn't an American company so why should they accept American drivers licenses?

New comment by TrickyRick in "All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs"

TrickyRick — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:35:03 +0000

Definitely, but it's also a lot more complex to present credible looking false data than to simply reject a request.

New comment by TrickyRick in "Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages"

TrickyRick — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:00:53 +0000

Not to mention that this is paid by insurance in many countries which means there is little incentive for individuals to shop around.

New comment by TrickyRick in "Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days"

TrickyRick — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:51:08 +0000

Works great with an evening flight, you can work all day and leave for the airport after work.

New comment by TrickyRick in "Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days"

TrickyRick — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 09:48:43 +0000

The 24th of December is a weekend by law in Sweden (Semesterlag 3 a §)

"Lördag och söndag räknas inte som semesterdagar annat än i fall som avses i 9 § tredje stycket. Med söndag jämställs allmän helgdag samt midsommarafton, julafton och nyårsafton."

New comment by TrickyRick in "All the data can be yours: reverse engineering APIs"

TrickyRick — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:33:25 +0000

It's not exactly neither hard nor expensive to buy a residential IP proxy services to get around that.

Who are you, Matthew Stephenson?

TrickyRick — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:04:54 +0000

Article URL: https://forbetterscience.com/2024/05/29/who-are-you-matthew-stephenson/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41680694

Points: 1

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New comment by TrickyRick in "Why the U.S. can't build icebreaking ships"

TrickyRick — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 03:47:20 +0000

There's this Taylor girl who seems pretty popular but maybe you're right, the record concert sales probably implies nobody is listening to her.

New comment by TrickyRick in "Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people"

TrickyRick — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 01:25:08 +0000

That's like saying gambling companies aren't predatory because personally I only bet on sports every once in a while and never more than I can afford to lose.

New comment by TrickyRick in "New jet engine enables efficiency at every speed for cheaper orbital launches"

TrickyRick — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 08:49:04 +0000

https://nitter.poast.org/k2pilot/status/1763007610993991722

Seems to be the last one online

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

New comment by TrickyRick in "New jet engine enables efficiency at every speed for cheaper orbital launches"

TrickyRick — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 08:44:38 +0000

Until the new engine rules when it will be removed because it was deemed to expensive, complex and the technology didn't translate to road cars enough for them to justify the R&D.

New comment by TrickyRick in "TSMC to build second Japan chip factory"

TrickyRick — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 13:56:06 +0000

I mean it is?

"Cantonese (traditional Chinese: 廣東話; simplified Chinese: 广东话; Jyutping: Gwong2 dung1 waa2; Cantonese Yale: Gwóngdùng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese

New comment by TrickyRick in "How iTunes Is Changing on PC"

TrickyRick — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 13:48:40 +0000

To be fair iTunes wasn't that great either, it was mostly a necessity to use iPhone (Update etc). Personally I haven't used any of these apps since it became possible to perform backups and updates without a computer.

New comment by TrickyRick in "DEF CON 32 Was Canceled. We Un-Canceled it"

TrickyRick — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 13:12:47 +0000

Not really, no card counter goes unnoticed forever. It's about making sure you get enough time to play when the count is high that you manage to earn money. If you're curious about the life of card counters I can't recommend this YouTube channel enough: https://www.youtube.com/stevenbridges