Hacker News: bcraven

New comment by bcraven in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

bcraven — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:31:01 +0000

"Prevent this software having unfettered access to your machine by giving some other software unfettered access to your machine"

New comment by bcraven in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

bcraven — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:29:44 +0000

This is one of those typical HN replies that adds absolutely nothing to the discussion.

New comment by bcraven in "Lego building instructions through time"

bcraven — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:22:19 +0000

Both of your projects would benefit (as is so often to case) from screenshots.

New comment by bcraven in "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"

bcraven — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:00:18 +0000

"I did not expect much, and because the bottlenecks were the HDD and CPU I did not feel any noticeable performance improvement."

Sounds like it started on XP running poorly, and ended on Arch... running poorly.

New comment by bcraven in "Camera Chase Vehicle"

bcraven — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:01:52 +0000

That's, like, your opinion man.

I think this piece of tech looks fabulous!

New comment by bcraven in "EU officials peeved after Anthropic sends junior staffer to testify about safety"

bcraven — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:00:18 +0000

_"Greenberg fired back: "I should take that as a compliment since we're very proud of Claude.""_

New comment by bcraven in "French parliament approves landmark assisted-dying bill"

bcraven — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:57:35 +0000

https://features.dignityindying.org.uk/true-cost-dignitas/

Average £10k from UK

New comment by bcraven in "Dupes took over the world"

bcraven — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:30:37 +0000

With decreasing quality of branded products, there's less to distinguish them from dupes.

https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/

New comment by bcraven in "How to build a circular LCD clock"

bcraven — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:48:40 +0000

I know of some smaller ones:

https://repebble.com/watch

New comment by bcraven in "Show HN: I built a one-prompt hackathon platform, free entry, sponsored prizes"

bcraven — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:10:10 +0000

On mobile when the "The newest models, like [...]" text has a longer name the whole page jumps down a line to accommodate it.

I'm sure it looks very fancy on desktop, but I am unable to read any more than this.

New comment by bcraven in "Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip"

bcraven — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:59:13 +0000

Austin Powers hung a lampshade on that very effectively:

Dr. Evil: Mr. President, after I destroy Washington D.C. I will destroy another major city every hour on the hour. That is, unless, of course, you pay me

[emphasis]

Dr. Evil: one hundred billion dollars.

The President: [bursts with laughter] Dr. Evil, this is 1969! That amount of money doesn't even exist.

[laughing]

The President: That's like saying, [with changed voice]

The President: "I want a kajillion bajillion dollars."

New comment by bcraven in "What Does a 13-Year-Old See on Snapchat in a Normal Week?"

bcraven — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:28:13 +0000

Yes I think when the social media bans (e.g. Australia, UK) are mentioned _this_ is the context that the conversation is missing.

New comment by bcraven in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

bcraven — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:24:34 +0000

"Acquired by Trainline in 2023, Signalbox works with organisations across the rail ecosystem to improve customer information and operational awareness."

https://www.signalbox.io/news/southeastern-launches-track-my...

New comment by bcraven in "A sociotechnical threat model for AI-driven smart home devices"

bcraven — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:09:10 +0000

I'm not sure that's a particularly difficult insight.

New comment by bcraven in "The Vespa at 80"

bcraven — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:57:21 +0000

UK law says if you hit someone, it's your fault.

If you're going fast enough in an area where someone could step out, and someone does step out, if you hit them then you were clearly going too fast.

New comment by bcraven in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

bcraven — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:55:09 +0000

I'm astonished I had to wade through so many other replies to find this one. I had never considered I might be doing things abnormally when I turned my machine off at the end of the day.

If nothing else, think of the power usage!

New comment by bcraven in "Free the Icons"

bcraven — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:37:52 +0000

Your last paragraph is why I no longer have my lenses thinned. It's cheaper too!

New comment by bcraven in "Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses"

bcraven — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:34:39 +0000

"Damn, this is creepy level though & generally I’m all for ads knowing everything about me. Putting my wife’s profile pic in an ad is too much"

Presumably this reply is a joke?

New comment by bcraven in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

bcraven — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:43:17 +0000

I think that's part of the charm.

New comment by bcraven in "I built an offline tool to stabilize TV audio because nothing else worked"

bcraven — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:41:36 +0000

I'm interested as to why you have targeted Windows for this. Do you sit in your living room with a laptop open whilst watching television?