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New comment by andrewxdiamond in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

andrewxdiamond — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:46:34 +0000

you can use a company that is self hosted like Unifi and have complete control over your data, still have remote access, and not pay a subscription. “self hosted” scares people off but its literally a box you plug in and forget about. Pretty trivial.

I dont understand why anyone chooses Ring when the costs of Unifi are so much better.

The ring app also sucks imo and all their hardware is quite slow.

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go"

andrewxdiamond — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:10:00 +0000

It does it quicker if you already have this tool installed. nmap is everywhere.

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut"

andrewxdiamond — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:14:55 +0000

We use nanosecond precision driven by GPS clocks. That timestamp in conjunction with star tracker systems gives us reliable positioning information for orbital entities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_tracker

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "You can see a working Quantum Computer in IBM's London office"

andrewxdiamond — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:30:16 +0000

They also have one displayed at the Cleveland Clinic main campus _cafeteria_

Imo focusing in “showing off” instead of “providing value” is a bit of a product-smell. Maybe thats just the point tho, IBM seems to prioritize impressing C-suites over actually accomplishing anything

A tool for dealing with GPS time in Ns

andrewxdiamond — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:20:51 +0000

Article URL: https://andrew.diamonds/gpsnanos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46040598

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "New Glenn Update"

andrewxdiamond — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:53:13 +0000

and also by ‘some countries’ they mean about 4% of the earth’s population, or 1 in 25 people.

Amazon Leo

andrewxdiamond — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:14:15 +0000

Article URL: https://leo.amazon.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45917488

Points: 3

# Comments: 7

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition"

andrewxdiamond — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 03:27:05 +0000

I would throw Rimworld into that list as well. A fine game by itself, if a bit simplistic. But the mods make the game massively customizable and lets the player do basically whatever they want

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol"

andrewxdiamond — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:39:38 +0000

motivated to show you results that get sales, not that are the best solution to the problem

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "Target suffers 10th consecutive week of foot traffic decline since caving on DEI"

andrewxdiamond — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:38:08 +0000

Target had been pandering to the LGBTQ community for a long time, they released many shirts and ads that tried to present itself as inclusive and forward thinking.

But the very second things change on the top, they flip.

Yes quite a few people are upset at this. They concretely damaged their brand, ruined trust, and pissed off a bunch of their target market. There is an intentional boycott now and it is clearly affecting their stock

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted"

andrewxdiamond — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:04:01 +0000

Well no, because they are employees / contractors of the film studio, who presumably claim all copyright of what they captured.

However, the camera operators likely do own the pictures they take with their own cameras on-set, provided the contract they are working under allows for such ownership

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "Lego says it wants to start to bring video game development in-house"

andrewxdiamond — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 01:50:51 +0000

You’re basically describing Roblox.

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome"

andrewxdiamond — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 19:56:14 +0000

Another perspective is Google is stifling American innovation by its megalithic presence in markets. Suppressing local growth in exchange for short term profitability.

Separately, why is having tech giants a pure advantage? These companies got big by innovating, but the innovation slows down when they are big. Sounds to me that we should be regularly clearing old growth to let new ideas break through

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "Put a data center on the moon?"

andrewxdiamond — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 03:47:24 +0000

Well an un-hardened flash drive would probably stop working within minutes of being exposed to all those rads, but I’m just being pedantic :p

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "DOGE Takeover of USDS Allows Them to Surveil the US Government from the Inside"

andrewxdiamond — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:02:33 +0000

> access to unclassified data in every government agency.

Is this even meaningful? We have the FoIA, can’t any company acquire unclassified data any time they want?

I suppose it’s an ease-of-access thing, but for a large corp it seems you would be constantly data mining the government with FoIA requests.

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "Forced to upgrade"

andrewxdiamond — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 20:00:22 +0000

If I want to produce a device, am I required to put work in to maintaining it forever? An iPhone 8 is really old by this point, honestly I’m impressed it still works.

What timeline would you recommend that is fair to both consumers and producers?

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "The death and life of prediction markets at Google"

andrewxdiamond — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:15:11 +0000

Ironically the _lack_ of dogfooding GCP products at google is often quoted as one of the reasons AWS beat GCP to defining the Cloud market. Amazon builds AWS on AWS as much as possible, Google has only somewhat recently pushed for this

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "Tell HN: Robots.txt pitfalls – what I learned the hard way"

andrewxdiamond — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 03:00:49 +0000

> won't try to fetch the default path until after the section of the page loads for HTML content

That's a really interesting optimization. How did you discover this? Reading source?

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "H5N1 virus isolated from infected dairy worker is 100% lethal in ferrets"

andrewxdiamond — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:08:24 +0000

In my understanding, a high rate of lethality is very counter-productive for viruses. If you kill the host, it can’t really spread.

New comment by andrewxdiamond in "Microsoft didn't sandbox Windows Defender, so I did (2017)"

andrewxdiamond — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 21:30:59 +0000

I have to ask what motivates that. Defender has been extremely unproblematic and pretty good as far as MS software goes, for my experience at least.