Hacker News: blantonl

New comment by blantonl in "Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI"

blantonl — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:04:46 +0000

Why was there a prize attached to this problem then? What does humanity get out of this being proved?

New comment by blantonl in "Warp is now open-source"

blantonl — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:35:06 +0000

Here I was thinking this was OS/2 Warp…

New comment by blantonl in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

blantonl — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:40:31 +0000

Exactly. Imagine if Claude Code was a PHP script. Some folks would lose their damn minds

New comment by blantonl in "StageConnect: Behringer protocol is open source"

blantonl — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:46:35 +0000

I use a Behringer X32 rack with a couple digital snakes to route audio between 20 or so radios, software defined receivers, online broadcasts and other audio sources, and it's one of the most powerful pieces of technology in my lab/office.

The quality however of the X32 leaves a little bit to be desired. The power supply died in it due to fault capacitors (I was able to replace them myself) and the rotary switches on the rack unit itself no longer work (I remote control the box anyway) but.. I've been able to look past all this because the sheer power of the tech is unbeatable for my use case. Running a single CAT-5 connection from my detached lab/rack to my office in the house with 32 channels of AES audio is amazing stuff for me.

New comment by blantonl in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

blantonl — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 02:14:49 +0000

I agree. If this was Oracle I might not have too difficult of a time believing this is all of the story. But I do think in this case there is more to the story.

New comment by blantonl in "Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack"

blantonl — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:48:06 +0000

Or, you need to spend a lot of resources to do the attack even if it's the case that you get that money back when you succeed.

There is a word for this. We call it risk.

New comment by blantonl in "Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives"

blantonl — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:32:36 +0000

Ask yourself why so many content hosting platforms utilize CLoudflare's services and then contrast that perspective with your posted one. Might enlighten you a bit to think about that for a second.

New comment by blantonl in "Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”"

blantonl — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:14:24 +0000

Between this and Hertz's new AI damage detection models, we're seeing the enshitification of business travel reaching a new level, and also doing a great job of really ticking off a group of customers (business travelers) who are already irritated enough.

Rest markets itself as a way to "unlock a new revenue stream"

Leave it to the bean counters to see this as an opportunity to generate new revenue streams from customers while simultaneously pissing them off.

New comment by blantonl in "DEWLine Museum – The Distant Early Warning Radar Line"

blantonl — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:33:43 +0000

BNSF railroad also has an extensive meteor scatter radio system across north america that is similar to SNOtel.

New comment by blantonl in "DEWLine Museum – The Distant Early Warning Radar Line"

blantonl — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:32:12 +0000

meteor scatter communications were even more crazy and impressive (still in use actually)

New comment by blantonl in "The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More"

blantonl — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 16:16:12 +0000

I've seen some specialist docs with extensive experience direct commission as an O5

New comment by blantonl in "The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More"

blantonl — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 16:14:30 +0000

CEOs are more like high ranking general officers, not O-6 level (Navy Captain, Army/Air force full bird colonel)

O-5 (Lt Col, Navy Commander) would be VP / GM level stuff, GS-13 through GS-14 in the federal government

O-6 equivalent in the civilian world equates to a GS-15 in the federal government, and a senior VP in the corporate world

O-7 (brigadier general) would be an EVP level position, C-level large org

O-8 (general) would be CEO

New comment by blantonl in "The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More"

blantonl — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 16:10:38 +0000

The pay scale isn't really equivalent. For military doctors and dentists the typical lure is they will pay off all your student loans for a specific time commitment to the military.

New comment by blantonl in "Detection of hidden cellular GPS vehicle trackers"

blantonl — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:09:34 +0000

RTL-SDRs have a typical usable bandwidth only about 2 MHz, so that is going to rule them out of any real usable LTE related decoding and detection

New comment by blantonl in "Rohde and Schwarz AMIQ Modulation Generator Teardown"

blantonl — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:02:40 +0000

Some of this obscure test equipment is very interesting and amazingly designed.

There are probably only a few electrical engineers in the entire world that actually use this stuff on a day to day basis.

New comment by blantonl in "I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)"

blantonl — Mon, 12 May 2025 17:26:33 +0000

Returning the OTP in the request API response is wild. Like why?

New comment by blantonl in "The Epochalypse Project"

blantonl — Sun, 11 May 2025 16:16:08 +0000

Eh, I've got 13 years to deal with this. No big deal.

The best thing about waiting until the last minute to fix something is it will only take a minute.

New comment by blantonl in "The April Fools joke that might have got me fired"

blantonl — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:10:35 +0000

Informix is the april fools joke.

Does anyone remember the Informix / Oracle wars? What a time to be alive that was.

New comment by blantonl in "Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride (2010)"

blantonl — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:24:04 +0000

This guy's writing style makes him a worldwide treasure, and probably inspired a few young chemists.

I'll always read and re-read his blog posts when they are posted here.

New comment by blantonl in "I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car"

blantonl — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:24:53 +0000

You can monitor and track these as well with: https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433