Hacker News: bobsmooth

New comment by bobsmooth in "I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)"

bobsmooth — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:24:17 +0000

KiCAD is pretty good.

New comment by bobsmooth in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

bobsmooth — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:42:28 +0000

HN used to be even more libertarian than it currently is.

New comment by bobsmooth in "A nicer voltmeter clock"

bobsmooth — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:34:15 +0000

I love these analogue devices are being driven by a digital output. Using PWM is clever.

New comment by bobsmooth in "SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites"

bobsmooth — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:56:09 +0000

Is there one organization you trust to run the space internet for everyone on earth?

New comment by bobsmooth in "Getting arrested in Japan"

bobsmooth — Sun, 10 May 2026 02:56:12 +0000

Torturing prisoners not even convicted of a crime is something we don't do in America.

New comment by bobsmooth in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

bobsmooth — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:01:27 +0000

The Onion covered this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMChO0qNbkY

The gay jailbreak technique (2025)

bobsmooth — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:59:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977134

Points: 684

# Comments: 257

New comment by bobsmooth in "Fidelity Won't Let Fund Holders Donate to Southern Poverty Law Center"

bobsmooth — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:49:10 +0000

I guess Fidelity doesn't want to help fund hate groups. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-grand-jury-charges-so...

New comment by bobsmooth in "The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it"

bobsmooth — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:13:44 +0000

>Do you think you can even get that just taxing these companies?

If we go back to a 60% corporate tax rate, for sure.

New comment by bobsmooth in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

bobsmooth — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:03:39 +0000

>Says who?

The EU, just now.

New comment by bobsmooth in "I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months"

bobsmooth — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:14:10 +0000

Yeah no that's definitely copyright infringement.

New comment by bobsmooth in "I built a 3D printing business and ran it for 8 months"

bobsmooth — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:52:04 +0000

You were using SVG versions of the logos you were printing right? Just when you say designing it makes me think you were recreating the logos in CAD.

New comment by bobsmooth in "Every GPU That Mattered"

bobsmooth — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:13:15 +0000

I was so sad when I retired my 1060 6GB. That thing served me well for almost a decade.

New comment by bobsmooth in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

bobsmooth — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:02:07 +0000

One of the largest populations, and by extension, GDPs.

New comment by bobsmooth in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

bobsmooth — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:58:09 +0000

"Gmail blocks over 10 crore phishing attempts every day."

New comment by bobsmooth in "Show HN: Twitch Roulette – Find live streamers who need views the most"

bobsmooth — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:54:42 +0000

>What does having a family have to do with anything?

Presumably that at least one of their family members would be pity watching.

New comment by bobsmooth in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

bobsmooth — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:51:20 +0000

My Samsung can disable amber alerts.

New comment by bobsmooth in "Discontinuation and reinitiation of dual-labeled GLP-1 receptor agonists"

bobsmooth — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:35:00 +0000

How long have you been on Phentermine? For me it stopped working after only a couple weeks.

New comment by bobsmooth in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

bobsmooth — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:28:01 +0000

Where's the money for this VPN going to come from? The ads they insert into my home page or the CEO's inflated compensation?

New comment by bobsmooth in "How the Eon Team Produced a Virtual Embodied Fly"

bobsmooth — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:43:18 +0000

So how close are we to Cyberpunk-style braindances?