Hacker News: boatsie

New comment by boatsie in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

boatsie — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:07:24 +0000

I’m still surprised we haven’t seen these types of attacks on crypto exchanges, high value wallet owners, etc.

New comment by boatsie in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

boatsie — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:16:08 +0000

Where are the AI based ad blockers? Would happily pay a subscription that filtered all ads and captchas.

New comment by boatsie in "Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming"

boatsie — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:28:32 +0000

Moonlight does this if you are just looking for a solution.

New comment by boatsie in "Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes"

boatsie — Wed, 14 May 2025 17:15:11 +0000

Google already has the daily trip data on a huge percentage of people and could just create and recommend bus and transit routes and times based on people’s existing commutes. Sure privacy issues exist for allowing them to do this but people have given up more personal information for less benefit.

New comment by boatsie in "Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format"

boatsie — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:00:30 +0000

Pretty much all modern video/audio/image codecs are, look at HEIC for example.

New comment by boatsie in "Still no love for JPEG XL: Browser maker love-in snubs next-gen image format"

boatsie — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 04:50:15 +0000

This isn’t some conspiracy, it’s about money. JPEG XL is likely patent encumbered and this including it may require paying licensing fees. The companies involved can’t admit that because if they do, they’d be willfully infringing if they do end up including it at some point…

New comment by boatsie in "Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right"

boatsie — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:31:40 +0000

Another issue with this is that the part that fails often is poorly designed or not durable in the first place. So you spend money and time to replace it and then it will just fail again. Zero incentive to improve the part by the manufacturer. I think the solution is requiring manufacturers to sell warranties that cover full labor and materials or replacement. Then at least you could see if a manufacturer selling something cheaply has a very high “full warranty” price, it’s likely because it has a high failure rate. This would be the only way to incentivize fewer failures and repairs.

New comment by boatsie in "Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right"

boatsie — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:24:01 +0000

I think the best way to find repairable and long lived products is to buy commercial grade when possible or look at what gets used by contractors. The types of things that get used in commercial settings or pro use tend to be a lot more repairable and durable than the consumer equivalents. Definitely more expensive though.

New comment by boatsie in "EVs have more reliability problems than gas cars, says Consumer Reports"

boatsie — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:57:11 +0000

A charging EV can draw 30-50 amps @220V, much more than a kettle…

New comment by boatsie in "My experience taking Tesla to court about FSD"

boatsie — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 02:14:51 +0000

I think at least the ultrasonic parking sensors that are on pretty much every other car are pretty cheap.

New comment by boatsie in "Car showed pop-up while driving"

boatsie — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:24:26 +0000

on that note, is anyone ever voluntarily, knowingly clicking the “accept all” other than to dismiss these? Like why not just legislate that you can’t do the kind of tracking they are asking because I’m pretty sure literally nobody wants it…

New comment by boatsie in "Study: U.S. dietary recommendations for protein intake are too low"

boatsie — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:43:55 +0000

The USDA doesn’t have a recommendation for protein (yet does for added sugar is if some is “needed”), that’s a big part of the problem.

New comment by boatsie in "Study: U.S. dietary recommendations for protein intake are too low"

boatsie — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:42:00 +0000

I have a pet theory that one reason people overeat is because they are unconsciously trying to get more protein. So eating tons of donuts or chips etc doesn’t satiate and they eat until they hit the requisite protein and end up consuming way more carbs and fat in the process.

New comment by boatsie in "High-Tech Cars Might Be More Trouble Than They’re Worth"

boatsie — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 00:31:47 +0000

Things are worse when you get to the details. The cars try to stay at 20-80% charge, so off the bat you somewhat “lose” 40% of the actual full stated range. And charging takes hours, not minutes, and charging stations don’t want you to leave the car there for a long time so you then have charge anxiety that forces you to unplug and move the car after exactly say 3 or 4 hours. The whole process is a bit anxiety producing.

New comment by boatsie in "Reddit.com appears to be having an outage"

boatsie — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 15:29:40 +0000

What if Reddit took their site down as a counter protest?

New comment by boatsie in "Teens are spending less time than ever with friends"

boatsie — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 18:22:20 +0000

It would be interesting if libraries could be used for this purpose. Most close early so they could be used in the evenings for social gatherings, etc.

New comment by boatsie in "Coinbase sued by SEC, stock tumbles more than 15%"

boatsie — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 22:06:53 +0000

It’s unlikely the SEC wants to totally nuke Coinbase, given they allowed them to list on the stock exchange. Or else Investors would sue the SEC for securities fraud… probably have to put in some strong disclaimers about some of these shitcoins and pay a small fine.

New comment by boatsie in "Ask HN: What is a good gift for a mechanically oriented 8 year old"

boatsie — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 03:54:41 +0000

I was/am like this too. I’d say one of the most fun/challenging things to do was to take something broken and try to repair it. Requires you to understand how to disassemble carefully, understand how it works, understand what is going wrong, and then either replacing or coming up with a better solution, and finally reassembly. And of course if it doesn’t work then, try again—just like debugging. Taught me basically how to be a programmer because coding is exactly the same thing. Get an unknown code base, trace through, find and isolate the problem, then try to fix.

New comment by boatsie in "Experts warn yearly checkups carry risks and do not reduce mortality"

boatsie — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 02:15:48 +0000

Same experience here, though it was just regular intense exercise, not a return to exercise. Of course the doctor sort of chuckled and laughed when I theorized this as the cause of the elevated liver enzymes and said “no, exercise is good for you”.

New comment by boatsie in "U.S. stock market returns – a history from the 1870s to 2022"

boatsie — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:22:10 +0000

Wouldn’t it just be better for them to invest in more equities, like an investment bank?