Hacker News: blendo

New comment by blendo in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

blendo — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:41:51 +0000

Special forces training and force vetting seems astoundingly poor for such an "elite" outfit.

New comment by blendo in "San Diego rents declined following surge in supply"

blendo — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:07:35 +0000

"we've shown a pretty significant increase in the number of new housing permits each year, we’re closing in on the 10,000 mark for the last two years"

Does that mean the "surge in supply" is really a surge in permits?

New comment by blendo in "NASA Force"

blendo — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:25:54 +0000

Searching for more DOGE-boy wrecking balls?

New comment by blendo in "Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]"

blendo — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:48:50 +0000

I'm in SF where they advertise a lot, and the ads are incredibly niche and nerdy.

But a general sense of paranoia comes through quite strongly.

New comment by blendo in "Lessons from the PG&E outage"

blendo — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:36:07 +0000

5G C-V2X New Radio might be helpful.

https://www.telecomtrainer.com/lte-v2x-vs-nr-v2x-key-differe...

New comment by blendo in "Tektronix equipment has been used in many movies and shows"

blendo — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:46:48 +0000

Back in the 80s, the Tek 4115 (color, 1280x1024) was so much fun for a young programmer working at RADC/Hanscom AFB.

Mandelbrot sets and Towers of Hanoi were so exciting to write in Fortran (I think Fortran 77), running under, iirc, CP/M.

New comment by blendo in "Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board"

blendo — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:26:54 +0000

And the US never revolted against our domestic aristocracy, as they never revolted against our clergy.

Wonder how it would have turned out if the French revolution happened before the American Revolution? What could we have learned from them?

New comment by blendo in "Mullvad VPN present And Then? (Chat Control is back on the menu)"

blendo — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 01:12:19 +0000

For months, Mullvad has been papering San Francisco with smart and cheeky ads, like "Mass surveillance is made by machine men with machine hearts".

I admire that they're saying this, and wish other VPN companies would do similar public relations to highlight the risks of ad targeting.

Tbh, I'm a customer. Before Mullvad, I used PIA.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/advertising-that-targets-everyon...

New comment by blendo in "The Goon Squad"

blendo — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 19:10:05 +0000

"When I was a boy, there were still porn magazines; fathers hid them on high shelves. You stood on stools and gawked at them in a state of mortal terror."

Terror? If you're steeped in guilt, perhaps so.

New comment by blendo in "Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation"

blendo — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 16:42:44 +0000

The duck curve tells us prices are lower at noon due to tons of new solar, but what about the rate of price change?

Are electricity prices at noon climbing faster, or less fast, than prices at 6pm?

New comment by blendo in "Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness"

blendo — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 04:07:06 +0000

Yes. With $10 million in the bank, earning 4%, you'll see $400,000 a year, less taxes.

Whereas with $10 billion, you'll get $400 million a year, or about $7.5 million PER WEEK!

I think guys like Musk and Andreesen (&SBF) might have gone insane just trying to spend their money.

New comment by blendo in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

blendo — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 03:04:08 +0000

Yes, that's what I'm suggesting: over the counter. Like booze or a lottery ticket.

New comment by blendo in "The Bluesky Dictionary"

blendo — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:59:47 +0000

What are the table sizes?

And what ingress bandwidth do you have?

New comment by blendo in "Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption"

blendo — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 08:20:24 +0000

I think most parents are really uncomfortable with adolescents accesing smartphone porn, and also sexting.

Particularly highly religious parents, like those in Utah.

New comment by blendo in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

blendo — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:19:33 +0000

I need to prove my age to buy a lottery ticket or purchase alcohol. The merchant typically doesn't save my id info.

What if I could purchase a unique QR code, good for maybe a month, that I could use online to prove my age?

There'd still be problems in the US with 1st amendment issues, but I'd at least remain anonymous.

Exploring V2X in 5G networks: A comprehensive survey of location-based services

blendo — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:32:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214209625000051

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44503234

Points: 1

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New comment by blendo in "Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work"

blendo — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 23:00:55 +0000

He's quite religious:

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2011/07/geektheologian/

New comment by blendo in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

blendo — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 03:18:21 +0000

People like cars that can go 80-90 mph for hundreds and hundreds of miles while carrying 4 people. With crash protection.

Add electrics with thousand lbs of batteries, and you've got today's 4000-6000 lb SUVs, all costing an arm and a leg.

New comment by blendo in "Cell Towers Can Double as Cheap Radar Systems for Ports and Harbors (2014)"

blendo — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:45:17 +0000

I wouldn't go so far as to call this RF "pollution", but it is a reminder that the EM spectrum is getting a lot busier.

Me? I just want a car to be able to detect me so they don't run me over.

New comment by blendo in "As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI's economic fallout"

blendo — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:20:36 +0000

"If there is job loss, then we should convene a collective group of thinkers to talk about mitigation."