<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: aaron695</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaron695</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:24:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=aaron695" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aaron695 in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a lot from Ians site alone -  <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=fieggen.com">https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=fieggen.com</a><p>The fact it's a regular and popular for 18 years is the best throwaway.<p>Personally the greatest thing I ever bought is boots with a zipper. They also have shoelaces for ~legal/OH&S reasons, but you only have to do them once.</p>
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<p>A guess would be it got a story flag -4 points.<p>Then something happened that overrode the show score, which is not the same as the real score for stories.<p>Like you did a edit? (after it got one flag, which would not be seen)<p>(Random guess)<p>[Edit] Up votes wouldn't change it until it got back to zero since -3 is not valid.<p>The external -10 might be too many  comments with a low score is not good</p>
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<p>No it's not.<p>It's drowning in low quality human NPC comments.<p>Maybe that's because all resources are tied up fighting AI, but it's been going on for a long time now.<p>This post is a great example of low quality. No evidence, no solution. Just NPC bitching.<p>Unless it's AI, then well played.</p>
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<p>Here's what robotic mowers blades look like to understand how they work - <a href="https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/676d76e61268a410caaecfcb/1737216881609-4MH44TMJXKLK1W6QWQYE/feature-sunseeker-floating-cut-deck.png?format=750w" rel="nofollow">https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/676d76e61268a4...</a><p>We just got a Sunseeker X7 to do ~4 acres of grassed area but probably ~2 acres will be garden beds and roads etc<p>The hardware is there, it's all software now.<p>People talk about updates and the robot improved amazingly, comments like - "these scuffs are from pre-update"<p>These are Elon's updateable cars, they will get better with time. (Sunseeker is also camera not yet LiDAR)<p>Robotic mowers are better than humans, there are a few if's and buts, grass nerds compare the cuts on a grass blade on YouTube for instance.<p>With a robot you can set blade lengths for areas and be seasonal/weather orientated. The constant cuttings mean the nutrients get shredded back in.<p>The Chinese seem to be the best... but that might have been my price bracket.<p>Obviously since you can run them at night at 3am you quickly see other uses like security/wildlife auditing. Exciting times to live in.</p>
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<p>There is court testimony it was drug testing - <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/business/britney-spears-hooked-on-drugs-in-2007-former-confidante-testifies-idUSL1E8LNHI7/#:~:text=Spears%20told%20him%20she%20infamously,battle%20against%20Federline%2C%20Lutfi%20testified." rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/article/business/britney-spears-hook...</a><p>Can you link your source?<p>I'd say it was part of some sort of manic/meltdown episode with multiple things going on with some logic. She was under a conservatorship for good reason, it's not some Deep State conspiracy.<p>I'd like to hear her explanation in her words.<p>[edit] - From her book<p><pre><code>  I went into a hair salon, and I took the clippers, and I shaved off all my hair.

  Everyone thought it was hilarious. Look how crazy she is! Even my parents acted embarrassed by me. But nobody seemed to understand that I was simply out of my mind with grief. My children had been taken away from me.

  With my head shaved, everyone was scared of me, even my mom. No one would talk to me anymore because I was too ugly.

  My long hair was a big part of what people liked—I knew that. I knew a lot of guys thought long hair was hot.

  Shaving my head was a way of saying to the world: Fuck you. You want me to be pretty for you? Fuck you. You want me to be good for you? Fuck you. You want me to be your dream girl? Fuck you. I’d been the good girl for years. I’d smiled politely while TV show hosts leered at my breasts, while American parents said I was destroying their children by wearing a crop top, while executives patted my hand condescendingly and second-guessed my career choices even though I’d sold millions of records, while my family acted like I was evil. And I was tired of it.

  At the end of the day, I didn’t care. All I wanted to do was see my boys. It made me sick thinking about the hours, the days, the weeks I missed with them. My most special moments in life were taking naps with my children. That’s the closest I’ve ever felt to God—taking naps with my precious babies, smelling their hair, holding their tiny hands.</code></pre></p>
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<p>If anyone wants a break from bad takes on bad takes on AI/politics/GW....<p>I liked this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNwHDWlA7gE where Alex compares it to the revolution of reciprocating saws (<i>amazing</i> days we are in)<p>Previous HN discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43442107 I see why in commercial baking you might go with water jet, but I'm interesting in thoughts on ultrasonic knives and how people are using them and the possibilities.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44882770">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44882770</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
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<p>> at least from my perspective.<p>If you are afraid of salt I guess. That's an old idea and somewhat a religion formed off a misdirect marketing campaign.<p>Any Who even with salt is evil not much difference at McDonalds -<p>McPlant <a href="https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/mcplant.html#accordion-c921f9207b-item-842cb18782" rel="nofollow">https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/mcplant.html#acco...</a> (510 Cal.)<p>Quarter Pounder with Cheese <a href="https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/quarter-pounder-with-cheese.html#accordion-c921f9207b-item-842cb18782" rel="nofollow">https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/quarter-pounder-w...</a> (520 Cal.)<p>I don't see Beyond Meat as a replacement to steak, it's very unhealthy compared to that.<p>Reducing livestock is the most 2nd most pressing environmental issue in the world, to fixing fishing. I can't think of anything else that matters more than those two. We need to farm the oceans (70%) and leave land (30%) for hunters.<p>I love pictures of Chinese diamond factories - <a href="https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=chinese+diamond+factories&udm=2" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=chinese+diamond+fact...</a></p>
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<p>> Aren't there plenty of places out of reach for Europol and the FBI, etc.?<p>There are a few problems with this question, but lets start with<p>Where is "out of reach for Europol and the FBI"?</p>
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<p>List of teams trying for reference -<p>"10 teams are racing to build a pivotal tracker replacement" -<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378925">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378925</a></p>
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<p>> it does not align with my anecdotal experience<p>Given I'll often see the same fraudulent ad repeated I think anecdotal experience is there are not many of them.<p>I can even talk to friends about the most boring fraudulent ads and they know them. i.e. Elon doubling your bitcoin scams.<p>For normal ads unless they are viral, there are millions out there that are never repeated or not even seen.<p>Because fraud ads have short lifetimes pulled out of 'production traffic' you can collect many for the training data<p>I assume 'clickbait' is the safety word for 'fraud'</p>
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<p>Alternate theory, MOOCs got lectures put onto YouTube.<p>And this is what the early success really was.<p>It'd be interesting to see if what they "up-skilled" on is now common knowledge in Data Science.</p>
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<p>Wheel wells are heated from equipment inside, some measurements say ~ +20° C vs exterior.<p>Could the air pressure be higher?<p>When planes get holes does the inside pressure equal the outside.</p>
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<p>Fuck Cucumber.<p>Buried in the mess there are a couple of good concepts like it moves away for the 'busy-work' of atomic tests.<p>But shit like "living documentation" makes me want to vomit.<p>Are people dying quicker than we can teach this is bullshit? Or are people dying stupid?<p>The idea non-coders might ever be involved with Cucumber is also fucking retarded.<p>Last I used it, it was a mess, maybe it's better now. Part of that was those arrogant Selenium motherfuckers.<p>All this shit is why LLMs are talking over. Fucking retards with their stupid as fuck theory's about auto documentation and Selenium refusing to implement X (i forgot) on some BS 'principal'.<p>LLMs just get the job done, they might fuck shit up, but they are not arrogant autists about it, and LLMs don't care when they are called useless arrogant autists and double down.</p>
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<p>This is a mess.<p>The 1992 talk wasn't at all about AI and since then our phones have given us "ubiquitous computing" en masse.<p>The original talk required no 'artificial intelligence' for relevance which makes it strange to apply to todays artificial intelligence.<p>The original talk made good points for instance "voice recognition" has been solved forever at a reasonable level, yet people kept claiming if it was 'better' a 'magic experience' would pop out as if voice was different to typing. Idiots have been around for a long time.<p>Don't get what OP is trying to say.<p>'AI HUD metaphors'  are very hard, that's why they are not ubiquitous, they require constant input. Spellcheck runs every character typed. Agents are because of less $.<p>'Hallucinations' also make 'AI HUD metaphors' problematic, for spellcheck squiggly red lines would be blinking  on off all over the page as a LLM keeps coming back with different results.</p>
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<p>> It's not ironic. [OP edited out]<p>Either use the criminal justice system.<p>Or form a lynch mob and stand behind your lynching.<p>But don't cry when you have chosen the route of self organized violence with zero checks and balances, clear examples of lynching the wrong people, then running and hiding back behind "civilized society" when your inept violence backfires.<p>You are no different to Kiwi Farms, I suggest you look to their site for tips on how to protect yourself while being violent on others.<p>Kiwi Farms also has a list of sexual abusers they have helped stop, some really horrific people.... but like "Tea" that's not the full story.<p>Until then it is "ironic"</p>
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<p>4chan thread with details of the hack - <a href="https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/511317913" rel="nofollow">https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/511317913</a><p>They have geo-mapped all the users - <a href="https://imgur.com/bRAJ2nU" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/bRAJ2nU</a><p>Some of the users photo's are AI, which is interesting.<p>They got all the chat logs - <a href="https://x.com/NEElimit/status/1948766332503130562" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/NEElimit/status/1948766332503130562</a><p>60 Gig torrent said to be out with all the data - <a href="https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1948787086493901097" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1948787086493901097</a> data structure - <a href="https://files.catbox.moe/c6ej81.json" rel="nofollow">https://files.catbox.moe/c6ej81.json</a><p>For those who wish for the old days - "Vibe Coding" - shonky websites with shonky security, doxxing on all sides, 4chan pops back into relevance. You get your early internet redo.<p>HN 'Tea' thread discussing the ethics of the doxxing app - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44682914">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44682914</a></p>
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<p>[edit] link to the HN hacking discussion - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44684373">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44684373</a><p>On topic: how this doxed person got their details removed - <a href="https://x.com/JacobJohnson494/status/1948222924235624870" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/JacobJohnson494/status/1948222924235624870</a><p>------------<p>4chan thread with details of the hack - <a href="https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/511317913" rel="nofollow">https://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/511317913</a><p>A 60 Gig torrent exists of the data - <a href="https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1948787086493901097" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1948787086493901097</a></p>
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<p>Where I am it's $90,000  - $240,000 to subdivide land from one to two.<p>Not including costs post-subdividing like selling the empty lot and tax's.<p>Obviously the new buyer has building costs, but you might have to demolish the existing house to divide, good chance it was in the middle.<p>On top of all this is the years to divide the property.<p>On top of all this you can't then build what you want on the new property.<p>On top of all this is the years to build on the empty lots.<p>These all have a $$$ cost.<p>$240,000 to quickly divide and rebuild high density, no one would care about that cost, that's ~$0.<p>So the houses you can end up with can't be tight practical buildings, it's $$$$$ for permits and land and time. So this robot will help build mega mansions for single families.</p>
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<p>The flocking is interesting.<p>This is how Vantablack (OMG evil) and the funny cunts like Black 4.0 who fought back works... in my head. They are carbon nano-tubes.<p>I bought Musou Black from Japan online, it wasn't a crazy price. They do get damaged if touched and do have some hazards .<p>Any who, cool video, I sent it to my telescope nerd friends. It's nice to be iteratively improving things. It's a great way to save money and understand the tech before you might buy a more expensive model.</p>
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<p>> I have found the source<p>Nice work.</p>
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