<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: VTimofeenko</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=VTimofeenko</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:02:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=VTimofeenko" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VTimofeenko in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can totally see Internet availabilit correlating with the rise of unwanted stuff in the install. Believe it started with 3rd party games being part of the OS at first. I don't recall the yes/maybe later dialog "options" in win8 though, at least not in the beginning.<p>I actually really liked the win8 start menu change and the live tiles, even wrote some tiny homegrown apps with them. My logic was always "if I am opening the start menu, I will want to interact with that menu and only it until it's closed", so having it fullscreen made sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:15:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539136</link><dc:creator>VTimofeenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539136</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VTimofeenko in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Moving 15 years back puts you into glory Win7 days. IIRC, the spam started with win8 which was released ~13 years ago and was very mild at first</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:29:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538281</link><dc:creator>VTimofeenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538281</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VTimofeenko in "Unified Controllable and Faithful Text-to-CAD Generation with LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same, I had reasonable success with LLM-generated OpenSCAD files fed into prusa slicer. Just needs a few manual tweaks for spatial transforms from time to time.</p>
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<p>How would one know though by just looking at the device? I have chassis that came with Intel 11th gen, but the brainboxery, keyboard, battery, touchpad -- all have been swapped over time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 17:14:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326192</link><dc:creator>VTimofeenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VTimofeenko in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe the thought process is that leak would effectively be pressure normalizing over a larger area and more gradually than creating a tiny hole, so whatever I said about jet ignition would not be applicable</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 18:16:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259692</link><dc:creator>VTimofeenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VTimofeenko in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shooting holes in pressurized vessels with explosive stuff is probably a very bad idea, as outlined in my comment[1]. Slowly loosening a valve is a better idea.<p>That being said, in no way, shape or form am I an authority on the subject.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254381">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254381</a></p>
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<p>Quick googling sez that liquid nitrogen might solidify the MMA inside, turning it into even more of a pressure cooker</p>
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<p>IIUC, the stuff inside is polymerizing, turning into goop that gummed everything up. It was probably not goop when used for the original purpose</p>
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<p>Inb4: I don't work in the industry, my knowledge is limited to a faint memory of a college course on fluid dynamics.<p>If I recall correctly, high pressure ignitable stuff can spontaneously turn !!FUN!! in absence of heat if it is suddenly  relieved through a pinhole. Basically jet is followed by a ring-like zone where the stuff mixes with oxygen. Jet creates tiny zones of very high temp, thus igniting the mixture ring that follows.</p>
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<p>Drill = spark = boom = nasty stuff all over surrounding area</p>
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<p>Modern cars sometimes have telematic units running off dedicated lithium ion batteries, so killing main battery might not do anything</p>
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<p>> Give us your laptop<p>There's no way to read this without hearing Scottish accent. It's like a sleeper agent activation phrase.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKfAjlW6E30" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKfAjlW6E30</a></p>
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<p>There is US exported media that just randomly becomes popular in a specific demographic. Case in point: Adventures of Ford Fairlane, a flick with Andrew Dice Clay that got a razzie the year it came out. IIRC it got a cult following in Norway because the voice over was done by a popular radio DJ.</p>
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<p>A tiny "By entering the area you consent to being recorded" sign oughta cover that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:07:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448969</link><dc:creator>VTimofeenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448969</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VTimofeenko in "Show HN: Thermal Receipt Printers – Markdown and Web UI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got an Epson TM-T88IIIP for about 40 bucks used. The whole line seems to have decent Linux drivers</p>
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<p>WHOIS sez it was just registered, registrar is NameCheap. Uses Cloudflare DNS. .bot domain hosted on Vercel. There is a link to .ai domain with similar info.<p>Certificate transparency logs list everything  as brand new.<p>Cursory glance at other Nvidia domains shows Safenames ltd as their registrar of choice.<p>Seems a bit sketchy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:28:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343958</link><dc:creator>VTimofeenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343958</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VTimofeenko in "Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I usually use English to talk to Gemini, but the other day I wanted to try and find out the original band of a Siberian punk song that I have carried around in my music collection since time immemorial. Problem is the tags are all over the place in this genre and there are situations where "Foo-Bar" and "Foobar" are two completely different bands. Gemini was clearly trained on some genre forums from late 90s which are... shall I say non-PC by any stretch of the term.<p>In the middle of the conversation it randomly switched from English to Russian and clearly struggled to maintain the tone imposed by the built-in prompt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:21:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081218</link><dc:creator>VTimofeenko</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081218</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47081218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VTimofeenko in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Inb4: not remotely in the marine field, so a genuine question. Would it really make an impact?<p>Robotaxis market is much broader than the submersibles one, so the effect of consumers' irrationality would be much bigger there. I'd expect an average customer of the submarines market to do quite a bit more research on what they're getting into.</p>
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<p>Printers prey specifically on fear. When talking to them, gotta be polite but firm. No more than three threats during the conversation, and the threats have to be credible.</p>
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<p>Check out whichkey and/or command line completion to find those commands easier</p>
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