Hacker News: amethyst

New comment by amethyst in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

amethyst — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:58:59 +0000

3) recipient stores decrypted content in plain text and backs that up in well-known cloud storage systems

New comment by amethyst in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

amethyst — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:05:40 +0000

Is it really holding them "accountable" when the settlements are for laughably small amounts, like <1% of a single day's profit?

New comment by amethyst in "We installed a single turnstile to feel secure"

amethyst — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:40:51 +0000

If it's anything like Facebook, the side entrances (which always had guards sitting by them anyways) were all converted to alarmed fire exits. So the fire marshal would still be happy, but it was far less convenient for employees.

New comment by amethyst in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

amethyst — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:14:10 +0000

It works pretty well for Apple

New comment by amethyst in "Announcing the Beta release of ty"

amethyst — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:02:49 +0000

tools like dataclasses and pydantic would like to have a word...

New comment by amethyst in "Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP"

amethyst — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:08:08 +0000

Google Fiber isn't rolled out to most of the bay area. Monkeybrains is wireless with speeds significantly slower than what Comcast offers me. I've checked just about every wired ISP possible, and Comcast is the only option that services my neighborhood.

And FWIW, I own my house in the east bay — I am the landlady ;)

New comment by amethyst in "Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP"

amethyst — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:39:14 +0000

*parts of the Bay Area. I'd say the majority of areas are still monopolized by Comcast, including my neighborhood of course.

New comment by amethyst in "Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP"

amethyst — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:33:23 +0000

In markets where Comcast has actual real competition, they "include" the unlimited data (aka no cap) with no extra charge when you sign up for their gigabit plans.

New comment by amethyst in "Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price"

amethyst — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:57:40 +0000

And yet it's the default when formatting a device on macOS.

New comment by amethyst in "Sapling: Source control that's user-friendly and scalable (2022)"

amethyst — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 18:58:56 +0000

And yet, as someone working on core language infra, we apply exactly that sort of ideal when making changes. If a diff doesn't break any tests, then it's "safe" to land, and if something does indeed break afterwards, then it's the broken team's responsibility to fix forward or otherwise provide proof that it's a big enough problem to roll back. If we end up in SEV review for a change, and there were no broken tests on the diff, then there are going to be some hard questions for the team that didn't write tests.

Ie, tests aren't mandatory, but if you aren't writing tests, it's your responsibility when someone else's change breaks your project.

New comment by amethyst in "Ball: A ball that lives in your dock"

amethyst — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 02:00:19 +0000

That's the one I had. I got it from my friend in sixth grade, and who knows where he got it from!

New comment by amethyst in "Ball: A ball that lives in your dock"

amethyst — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:45:05 +0000

I still miss my desktop sheep every once in a while: https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet?tab=readme-ov-fil...

Edit: the best part was running it a couple dozen times to get an entire flock walking, falling, and rolling all over your desktop, and watching everything grind to halt under CPU strain!

New comment by amethyst in "Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative"

amethyst — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:18:09 +0000

You might prefer Eternal Terminal as a TCP mosh alternative:

https://eternalterminal.dev/

New comment by amethyst in "Ford Mustang Mach-E using BlueCruise at time of crash: NTSB"

amethyst — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 02:16:39 +0000

My 2017 Golf R would intentionally turn off the dashboard backlights at night if the lights weren't on, providing me excellent feedback that they weren't on. Either head lights should always be on auto by default, or more cars need proper feedback to the driver when they aren't.

New comment by amethyst in "FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Should Serve 40 to 50 Years in Prison, Prosecutors Say"

amethyst — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:05:54 +0000

Justice runs on a log scale, and the base is left for individual jurisdictions or judges to decide.

New comment by amethyst in "Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate"

amethyst — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 21:29:24 +0000

Or it's a simulation and someone keeps pushing changes to production.

New comment by amethyst in "gh-116167: Allow disabling the GIL"

amethyst — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 19:44:35 +0000

> Python makes it incredibly tough.

I disagree, Python makes it incredibly easy to work with threads in many different ways. It just doesn't make threads faster.

New comment by amethyst in "Don't fuck with paste"

amethyst — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 01:37:08 +0000

I wish I could selectively disable only the "paste" events, because it's extremely useful to have "click to copy this value" type of buttons in our various work tools, and I miss the ability to do that every time I try turning off clipboard events to deal with bad actors.

New comment by amethyst in "Why it's so challenging to land upright on the moon"

amethyst — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 02:00:09 +0000

Imagine being on STS-1, piloting a shuttle that had literally never been to space before in any form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-1

New comment by amethyst in "US achieves first moon landing in half century with private spacecraft"

amethyst — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 05:24:29 +0000

Grumman wasn’t operating their own Mission Control — NASA did. But NASA isn’t operating this mission, similar to how they don’t operate SpaceX missions even if they are funding them.