Hacker News: ahonhn

New comment by ahonhn in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

ahonhn — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:38:06 +0000

Decades later I still have better muscle memory for the Beeb's typical ZX*? ( and ELITE's SX<> ) than I do for WASD or arrow keys.

Billionaire Andrew Forrest takes Meta to court over scam ads using his likeness

ahonhn — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:00:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-17/andrew-forrest-battles-meta-over-fake-ads/106574806

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802333

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ahonhn in "Drivers reeling after passengers caught out by AI-powered safety cameras"

ahonhn — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:43:00 +0000

A HN audience is so sure to parse "WA" as Washington state that leaving it in the title would be misleading with every second response along the lines of "I only clicked because I thought it was Washington".

Should it be expanded to "Aussie"? (since "West Australian", "Australian", "Sandgroper", or "Doubleyooalien drivers" doesn't fit the title field).

I reckon the location is secondary and the interesting part is about technology enabling universal and intrusive enforcement of easy to break rules that were previously difficult to enforce absolutely.

Such rules tend to have rather draconian 'example making' penalties attached to them because of that.

Is AI camera enforcement 'not a problem' in Honduras or Washington State because they don't use them there yet? Is seeing how it pans out somewhere else first of no interest to them?

Drivers reeling after passengers caught out by AI-powered safety cameras

ahonhn — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:01:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-27/seat-belt-cameras-catch-drivers-in-costly-mistake/106395672

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175374

Points: 15

# Comments: 14

Scammers fleeced pensioner out of $1,338. So he sued his bank for $379M

ahonhn — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:31:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-22/ian-williams-on-why-he-sued-nab-bank/106093720

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108180

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

High school students forced to fight false allegations of AI cheating

ahonhn — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:44:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-22/ai-detectors-incorrectly-brand-high-school-students-ai-cheats/106138394

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46351086

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ahonhn in "The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-Five Year Mistake"

ahonhn — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 07:41:28 +0000

This mention of verbs reminds me of Steve Yegge's blog post "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns" from 2006.

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...

New comment by ahonhn in "I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files"

ahonhn — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:56:10 +0000

I am happy to anthropomorphise a rock with googly eyes. It is when the rock with googly eyes starts to anthropomorphise itself that I get creeped out.

Australia is introducing age checks for search engines like Google

ahonhn — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:43:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-search-engines/105516256

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44528204

Points: 122

# Comments: 114

Murdoch University student fights accusation of illegal AI use in assignment

ahonhn — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 03:35:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/murdoch-university-student-fights-accusation-of-ai-use/105518732

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44528172

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by ahonhn in "WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices"

ahonhn — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 02:36:40 +0000

I often remember something I posted and wish nobody had ever seen it.

New comment by ahonhn in "Ask HN: Options for One-Handed Typing"

ahonhn — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 06:53:19 +0000

I stopped using a mouse when I moved from desktop to laptop computer because I found the touchpad is so much more convenient for keeping my hand near the keyboard. However, doing this for over 20 years means I'm now very stuck in my habit of needing touchpads with real buttons. All my attempts to get used to the awful buttonless modern touchpads have been an absolute nightmare so far :-(

New comment by ahonhn in "101 BASIC Computer Games"

ahonhn — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 08:38:15 +0000

Common practice was to increment line numbers by 10 instead of 1. Would give a bit of wiggle room to add more lines in later without having to renumber everything else.

New comment by ahonhn in "Iconography of the PuTTY tools"

ahonhn — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 03:06:29 +0000

WinAmp's yellow lightning icon is still sitting happily in my Windows icon tray right this very moment. Pageant is in there too with its cute little spy-hat :-)

New comment by ahonhn in "Amiga 2000 – Codename: Tesseract (2021)"

ahonhn — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 04:13:57 +0000

I had SAS/C which came on 5 or 6 floppies and my A2000 had no hard disk at the time so compiling meant lots and lots of disk swapping and I used the RAM Disk a lot. Later, for a princely sum I recall being over a grand, I got a SCSI controller card and a massive 40mb hard drive which made the process so much more pleasant.

New comment by ahonhn in "The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300"

ahonhn — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:03:08 +0000

I threw out a 17" Trinitron last year. It had outlived all of the flatscreens bought to replace it and was still working, but after ~23 years the plastic casing was dangerously brittle. It left a trail of little bits of broken plastic all the way to the dumpster.

New comment by ahonhn in "Good news against dengue"

ahonhn — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:14:29 +0000

Very. In simple terms there's just a lot more of Brazil to deal with.

Brazil is a massive 8,514,215 km2 while Singapore is just a tiny 734 km2 island which is very highly urbanised and developed and doesn't have a significant rural population (hence the description of "city-state").

Its small enough that you can monitor mozzie levels at the individual building level, and locate and deal with breeding spots at that level too. That might also be practical in urban areas in Brazil, but for rural areas I suspect is not feasible?

New comment by ahonhn in "Good news against dengue"

ahonhn — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 06:56:08 +0000

Had such inspections before whenever kena red zone here.

As well as checking all these things the agent will advise on what to look out for. For example our unused plastic buckets in the bathroom are upside down so they don't accumulate water, ah! but then also must check that little rim channel as it too can also accumulate enough water from nearby splashing to become a breeding spot!

SG also has Zika which transmits via Aedes mosquitos.

The common corridors in many blocks also have "Gravitraps" they use to monitor numbers by counting how many mozzies get trapped.

https://www.nea.gov.sg/dengue-zika

Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished

ahonhn — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:26:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479001

Points: 1723

# Comments: 564

Singapore Android users to be blocked from installing certain unverified apps

ahonhn — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:35:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/google-android-devices-malware-scam-unverified-apps-sideloading-4102991

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39285651

Points: 4

# Comments: 1