Hacker News: arlattimore

New comment by arlattimore in "IFTTT Is Now IFTTT.ai"

arlattimore — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:24:45 +0000

Seems like this must still be in progress, their home page redirects to the new .ai domain but there are still a lot of pages that load on their existing .com domain.

New comment by arlattimore in "Amazon to buy satellite firm Globalstar in $11.57B deal"

arlattimore — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:34:29 +0000

I imagine it won't be long before we'll see the next gen from Starlink:

Starlink Standard (fixed) Starlink Mini (portable) Starlink Pocket (ultra-portable)

New comment by arlattimore in "US agency approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar"

arlattimore — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:18:24 +0000

Starlink have over 11,000 satellites in orbit.

Globalstar have 24 satellites in orbit (at least according to Google).

How does this acquisition by Amazon meaningfully expand Leo to compete against Starlink?

Ruby RegEx could lead to RCE

arlattimore — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:55:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2026/10/23/regexp-fixes-for-gitlab-cves/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50211066

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by arlattimore in "Show HN: One click flight booking in Claude"

arlattimore — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:50:25 +0000

Who processes the booking & payment, an aggregator like Expedia or the airlines direct?

New comment by arlattimore in "A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting"

arlattimore — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:27:44 +0000

Good call!

It looks like HR8799 that the animation is based on is about 1.5x the radius of the sun.

That being said, my silly point still holds - there are stars that are truly massive. Stephenson 2-18 is approximately the size I mentioned, which is genuinely impossible to comprehend.

New comment by arlattimore in "A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting"

arlattimore — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:06:10 +0000

Space and the enormity of it breaks your mind when you start thinking about it.

The star in the middle of the animation, is approximately 20AU (Astronomical Units) in size looking at the scale line. 20AU is approximately 1.8b miles/3b kilometres or approximately the distance from the Sun to Uranus.

If Google's correct, if everyone on Earth lived on that star - each and every one of us could have a backyard larger than the surface area of Earth ;p

New comment by arlattimore in "NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart"

arlattimore — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:26:08 +0000

It'd be incredible to have an SR-71 flying again, just simply __because__!

New comment by arlattimore in "The 'Colossal Headache' of Building a Made-in-America Monopoly Game"

arlattimore — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:49:30 +0000

Check out Smarter Every Day YouTube for the Smarter Scrubber series about building a BBQ grill scrubber exclusively in the USA. It’s a great series, but it shouldn’t be that hard.

https://youtu.be/3ZTGwcHQfLY?is=hWkgI4ka_FaSudo6

New comment by arlattimore in "OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says"

arlattimore — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:27:04 +0000

Then the government should sue that company as well.

My point isn't that they are targeting OpenAI, they should pursue Anthropic, Alibaba, DeepSeek, or any other company that has poor infrastructure and allows their systems to hack anything. It is a crime, it should be treated accordingly and not brushed over or diminished because it is AI.

New comment by arlattimore in "OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says"

arlattimore — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:43:31 +0000

The Australian Government needs to sue OpenAI to make a point.

At this point, it feels like it is out of control and it is just a matter of time before something much more significant happens. Imagine they hack into FAA to disrupt air travel, utility companies for water/gas, a nuclear power station (ala Stuxnet), financial/banking systems, stock exchanges, etc?

New comment by arlattimore in "A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos"

arlattimore — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:17:14 +0000

How companies pay such low bounties for such a find is mind blowing to me.

New comment by arlattimore in "Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust"

arlattimore — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:35:02 +0000

The Berm Peak YouTube channel did a similar reverse engineering of a retro Tron style e-bike. It didn't require going to new firmware but it is a good video as well about how he could accomplish it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPrtVGimBYs.

New comment by arlattimore in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

arlattimore — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:10:45 +0000

It's a thing for sure, maybe just not screamed about. If you run in a shoe that is 10mm+ and then go to a 0mm like an Altra - it is wild how different it feels.

New comment by arlattimore in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

arlattimore — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:08:26 +0000

The comments in the article about 'performance' are very real. When Nike was still in retail stores, 9/10 shoes were fashion sneakers and had nothing to do with athletics/running/performance.

By comparison, Hoka is positioned as a runners shoe. They have a variety of models based on the type of running you need (daily, long run, race), provide road/trail variants (their Speedgoat is amazing trail shoe), have large toe boxes to give your forefoot/toes the space needed to spread out on impact, also room to grow from swelling.

I'm sure Nike don't want to walk back from their fashionista offerings, but there are lessons in here for sure - maybe they need sub-branding like Nike Road, Nike Trail, Nike Casual or Nike Performance and Nike Casual.

New comment by arlattimore in "NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami"

arlattimore — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:07:25 +0000

Captain Steeeve’s latest video on this tragedy is shocking, complete disregard for the aviation rules. I think he cited 11 separate instances of __mandatory__ go around, the first of which was before they were anywhere near the runway at 1000ft elevation.

New comment by arlattimore in "There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis"

arlattimore — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:59:33 +0000

The sitemap being hosted at /images/sitemaps/index.xml is a problem. Technically, that sitemap can only include URLs beginning with /images/sitemaps/. They should move that file to the root, like /sitemap_index.xml and reference /sitemap-1.xml, /sitemap-2.xml etc.

New comment by arlattimore in "Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)"

arlattimore — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:58:37 +0000

Veritasium put out a video recently about the incredible engineering in modern turbo fan jet engines, recommended watch if this thread has your interest :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxVdC7pBQM

New comment by arlattimore in "Show HN: Skatanica – Browse and share skate clips by location"

arlattimore — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:09:47 +0000

This is wicked. Reminds me of All Trails for hiking, Trailforks for MTB or Strava/Garmin activity map.

New comment by arlattimore in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

arlattimore — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:51:39 +0000

For reference, Semrush shows some statistics on these domains & how much traffic they are estimated to be receiving from organic search:

- wifitalents.com, peaked 15 July with 18k visits & declining

- worldmetrics.org, peaked 27 Jul with 8k visits & declining

- gitnux.org, peaked 20 Aug with 8k visits & declining