Hacker News: ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ada1981Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 28 May 2026 02:41:01 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"]]>Incorrect.

]]>Mon, 25 May 2026 19:50:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270875ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270875https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270875<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"]]>How does this differ from LoopMessage?

What is the cost?

]]>Mon, 25 May 2026 19:49:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270860ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270860https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270860<![CDATA[AOHell]]>Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91356468/how-aohell-presaged-the-age-of-computer-insecurity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115130

Points: 2

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]]>Tue, 12 May 2026 21:55:32 +0000https://www.fastcompany.com/91356468/how-aohell-presaged-the-age-of-computer-insecurityada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115130https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115130<![CDATA[Show HN: Lookout – AI Screen Assistant for macOS]]>If you’ve ever had to talk a parent or co-worker through how to do something on a computer, I made you something.

Vibecoded a free app that lets you just ask your laptop how to do whatever it is you want to do.

Lookout can see your screen and uses Claude to guide you and help trouble shoot any issue.

Give it to them, or use it yourself. Totally free.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764651

Points: 1

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]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:19:08 +0000https://github.com/AnthonyDavidAdams/Lookoutada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764651https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764651<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"]]>How much money are you willing to pay? If sufficient I won't commission one and have it sent to your house. @AnthonyDavidAdams on venmo!

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:12:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682021ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682021https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682021<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"]]>Terrence McKenna said something similar…

“The truth doesn’t require your participation, only bullshit does.”

]]>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:52:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629060ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629060https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629060<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"]]>Wait till these guys hear about the US healthcare system…

]]>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:36:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622929ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622929https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622929<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"]]>over / under it's just some kid broadcasting an encrypted Phish Prague 7/6/98 GHOST on repeat?

https://youtu.be/Q6cR7PEyzW4

]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:35:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603974ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603974https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603974<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"]]>IMSIRIUS.com

]]>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:30:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570109ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570109https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570109<![CDATA[Show HN: Headcount Zero: How to Build an AI-Run Company with Paperclip]]>I vibe wrote this book and the draft is on github. It's a primer on zero employee businesses using open source tool Paperclip.

I'd love feedback, edits, blurbs, reviews, etc. Accepting pull requests for edits!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404291

Points: 1

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]]>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:16:16 +0000https://github.com/AnthonyDavidAdams/zero-employee-company-book/ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404291https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404291<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "AI Poisoning for Fun and Profit"]]>Can you give a couple practical examples of how someone might use this?

]]>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:22:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350932ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350932https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47350932<![CDATA[AI Poisoning for Fun and Profit]]>Article URL: https://www.amazon.com/AI-Poisoning-Fun-Profit-Corrupting/dp/B0GRR29HJK/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346989

Points: 1

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]]>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:51:14 +0000https://www.amazon.com/AI-Poisoning-Fun-Profit-Corrupting/dp/B0GRR29HJK/ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346989https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346989<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "Amazon Books Are Down"]]>This could be the FO portion of the program.

]]>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:45:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269768ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269768https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269768<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "Amazon Books Are Down"]]>$3.2MM/hour of downtime in lost revenue in books & ebooks.

]]>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:44:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269763ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269763https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269763<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "Amazon Books Are Down"]]>All Amazon book & ebook detail pages are currently returning an error page.

Was checking on my publicaton > The Kevin Mitnick Files: Declassified FBI Documents

and thought it was shadow banned along with all my other titles but my EA discovered all books are down.

]]>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:52:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266425ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266425https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266425<![CDATA[Amazon Books Are Down]]>Article URL: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ666HCL

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266424

Points: 6

# Comments: 6

]]>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:52:45 +0000https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZ666HCLada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266424https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266424<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "[dead]"]]>I feel like you can use wifi at home, etc. if you are on the road, 10GB a month seems like it gets burned up very quickly no?

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:10:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223413ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223413https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223413<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"]]>Curious about the downvotes here, it's 100% relevant to the conversation and is personal experience. I imagine it's tone policing to ensure we don't criticize the techo-facist edgelord take over?

]]>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:50:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872530ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872530https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872530<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"]]>I was so confused last time I traveled as I watched this brown skinned family getting shaken down for ID by TSA and they literally just waived me past and said didn't need ID. Mind you I've never not been asked to show ID to TSA before this.

]]>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:29:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866511ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866511https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866511<![CDATA[New comment by ada1981 in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"]]>Would be cool / horrific to do this, but then have AI influencer bots that teach you the things in influencer style click bait style videos.

]]>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:13:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856909ada1981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856909https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856909