<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: aiiotnoodle</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aiiotnoodle</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 16:18:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=aiiotnoodle" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aiiotnoodle in "FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A little while ago when I had a free weekend. I decided I would pre-compute some musings of an LLM trapped in a computer, I had a raspberry pi 1 (or maybe b) lieing around that I had a framebuffer screen for. I think it was a non-standard TFT_ILI9325 from Aliexpress.<p>The idea is it would display some helplessness comment on the screen like "Help I'm trapped in a computer" etc etc.<p>Eventually I got the thing booted with it's original OS image and it was running a custom kernel and had the hardware still attached and worked, but it was very outdated so I decided backup and update it, more of a technical challenge than something practical.<p>I gave it a few tries but eventually the screen would stop working, not helped by the thing being quite slow. Updating in place was probably harder than a brand new OS. Eventually I determined that I'd need to build a custom kernel image using a newer version, something I've never done before and for me it was quite difficult and a little before AI had agents and such to help you along.<p>I managed to build a custom kernel but the driver for it had been patched out and moved to an optional thing that I had to enable, I was able to build the custom kernel but for some reason the screen wouldn't display anything like it did on the original OS.<p>I spent a further few weekends on it working really hard to get this thing to work. Eventually I calmly picked up the screen and intentionally pushed down hard with my thumb breaking the screen irreparably.<p>It was destructive yes but the joy I feel even now being free of this frustration is immense.<p>I said I would order a newer screen but have yet to do so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:04:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805499</link><dc:creator>aiiotnoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aiiotnoodle in "California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There already is some intelligence fed back to the police somewhere in the 3d printed guns supply chain.<p>You see it a lot on crime investigation shows. Pretty sure I've seen it on 24 hours in police custody and at least one other show or documentary.<p>edit: police acting on a source, a lead or some other un-named entity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:45:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47080759</link><dc:creator>aiiotnoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47080759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47080759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aiiotnoodle in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've noticed using antigravity and vscode, Gemini 3 pro often comes back with model too busy or something like that and basically 500s.<p>Seems like capacity because it works a lot better late at night.<p>I don't see the same with the claude models in antigravity.</p>
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<p>How does this compare to LENS? <a href="https://lenshq.io/" rel="nofollow">https://lenshq.io/</a><p>Always used the free and paid version and never heard of headlamp. Having a look its basically the same but for free.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:34:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680952</link><dc:creator>aiiotnoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680952</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46680952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aiiotnoodle in "Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All the cross tenant inconsistency really needs to be ironed out, I'm not sure if it's just my org but half the features of calls are randomly disabled or enabled based on who originated it.<p>My favorite was when I entered VR during our standup on our otherwise quite locked down and very corporate environment.</p>
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<p>While I think this is true now, SEO will adapt. I hope AI companies are keeping their scraped pre AI data sources in their databases as a sort of low-background steel source to use when this happens, although I suppose they are the ones selling shovels.</p>
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<p>Practically, verified boot is hard to not have a "this phone has been tampered with" message on boot, the backups generated often have encrypted user data that is usually wiped on boot-loader unlock, you'd also need to unlock the phone or have the user give the pin over and most of the apps that implement root checking SDKs would prevent them from working.<p>I'm not saying its impossible but it is hard to do at present in a way where if I came and picked up my phone again, I'd not know something happened to it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:32:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556437</link><dc:creator>aiiotnoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556437</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aiiotnoodle in "Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just to add to this, the "clean" exported car's VINs were bought off snapchat for ~4k per car. (for high end cars.)</p>
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<p>Yes and no. In a video I watched on YouTube the people fencing the car had scratched off VINs in the bonnet, door and windscreen, painted and re-etched the exported car's VIN and gone out of their way to find a reasonable fake V5 certificate (UK equivalent of a DMV cert I think) with similar specification as the stolen car (or found the docs first).<p>The car was sold on, eventually went to Copart with a blown engine and then the YouTuber found out through his videos that the car he owned was stolen and the original had been exported because the interior color was not the same as the decoded VIN. Only when he took the engine out of the car and compared the engine number with the one in BMW's database and the reported VIN in the infotainment was he confident that the car was stolen, same for Copart (who wouldn't entertain the car was stolen).<p>I think if it wasn't a famous YouTuber who bought the car, it's highly possible that the stolen car would go nu-noticed throughout its lifetime as stolen, even if taken to a main dealer. If I recall correctly the car reports he used (maybe car-vertical) also didn't pick up any discrepancy.<p>For the criminals its good business, you find a 30k plus car, pay for a clean VIN from cypress or somewhere and then do the damage to the car to re-new it as a different car, even if it costs 10k to do, its a lucrative 20k "profit" and thats on the high end, seems like cars can be stolen overnight, especially ones the criminals specialize in.<p>edit: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4S2LT_ntE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4S2LT_ntE</a></p>
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<p>On your pricing page it is not clear what integrations Plaid has or if my banks are supported.</p>
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<p>This was not my lived experience. I wanted to use the most common banks and most would not let me use it.<p>Chip contacted me at one point via their live assistant randomly without my doing and told me to stop using the app because they would soon be enforcing that rooted devices would no longer work. I continued to use the app rooted and nothing came of it.<p>Barclaycard, Nationwide and others don't let you use the app or require some circumvention of their detection to allow access.<p>Sure there are plenty of other apps, but those apps and banks have a worse product I found.</p>
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<p>Having been trapped on a 2 day flight to Madeira via Madrid, Porto and Porto Santo, eventually your powerbanks and headphones run out of charge.<p>EU621 comp was denied because the aircraft could not land due to wind.<p>I did spend about 12 hours in a fancy all inclusive on ryanair's dime (a bus arrived at the airport un-announced to the airport staff or us customers) while some slept in airbnbs and on the floor.</p>
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<p>Really cool. I like the flashing red.</p>
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<p>This is because the metadata in OSM doesn't include the tags that Deflock looks for:<p>You can see the requirements here <a href="https://deflock.me/report/id" rel="nofollow">https://deflock.me/report/id</a> but the two you're looking for are.<p>manufacturer
operator<p>I think they should add Siemens Sicore cameras to their known camera database, but they do show up on Deflock despite not being mentioned explicitly on the website. Here is an example in one of my contributions via OSM. <a href="https://deflock.me/map#map=18/53.786783/-1.551438" rel="nofollow">https://deflock.me/map#map=18/53.786783/-1.551438</a></p>
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<p>Sometimes my 'You are here' top part reads,<p><pre><code>  Host                             ASN     Network                 Region
  123-456-789-101.static.kc.net.uk AS19905 UltraDDoS Protect       Global
</code></pre>
And other times it reads,<p><pre><code>  Host                             ASN     Network                 Region
  123-456-789-101.static.kc.net.uk AS12390 Kingston Communications Europe
</code></pre>
What's going on here? I found the provider but what's with the 50/50 swap? It seems to randomly alternate between the two.</p>
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<p>Maybe they're hallucinations</p>
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<p>I see a new industry trend! VIBES coding</p>
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<p>Sorry what is IA?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 19:12:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139091</link><dc:creator>aiiotnoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44139091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by aiiotnoodle in "Turn a Tesla into a mapping vehicle with Mapillary"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here are some images of what this looks like in the ID editor (the front-end) for Open Street Map and Mapillary.<p>I don't own a tesla or use this project so the results will be different for this project.<p><a href="https://imgur.com/Vjyktcz" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/Vjyktcz</a>
<a href="https://imgur.com/85kYHZL" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/85kYHZL</a></p>
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<p>It is done for cartographers in OpenStreetMap to map where they have been (or where others have been).<p>I use it to add metadata to my local area, things like business names, postboxes, benches, etc.<p>Mapillary is not a private cloud for your own personal Google Street Map. It's a public Google Street Map with appropriate licencing (open) for mappers to add data to OSM, using Google Street Map would be in violation of its licence.</p>
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