<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: boredpudding</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=boredpudding</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:05:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=boredpudding" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google API keys have been used for ages on the frontend. For example on Google Maps embeds. Those are not possible without exposing a key to the frontend. They weren't secret, until Gemini arrived.<p><a href="https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secrets-but-then-gemini-changed-the-rules" rel="nofollow">https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secr...</a><p><a href="https://medium.com/@ahhyesic/your-google-maps-api-key-now-has-access-to-gemini-ai-and-you-were-never-told-c8800129757b" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@ahhyesic/your-google-maps-api-key-now-ha...</a><p><a href="https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/public-google-api-keys-can-be-used-to-expose-gemini-ai-data" rel="nofollow">https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/public-google...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:47:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792225</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Confirmation seems to be here: <a href="https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+copilot+coding+tasks%22&type=pullrequests" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/search?q=%22%E2%9A%A1+Quickly+spin+up+cop...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:17:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570995</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570995</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47570995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe even have multiple people in each pod, and on the set track, have common stops where people are likely to get on/off.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:25:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001132</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's automatic. So if you open Facebook, or any Meta site, it automatically puts it in it's own container.<p>Together with Privacy Badger, Meta has no clue what you're doing on the rest of the web.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:23:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871341</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46871341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What points to this being written by an LLM?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:38:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46125692</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46125692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46125692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure if the 1800kWh is correct here. I'm guessing it's one of these two:<p>- You're talking about what heat pumps use in electricity. However, the system would store heat. If a heat pump uses 1 kWh to get 3 kWh of heat into the house, a heat based storage system needs to store the 3 kWh.<p>- You're confusing gas & electricity. 1800 m3 in gas would be about correct. However, that's about 9,5 kwh per m3 in heat.<p>There are interesting heat storage methods though, there is a long term basalt heat storage system in 'Ecodorp Boekel' in The Netherlands. It uses solar to heat during the summer and heats the homes with that in winter.<p>Due to size though, it only really works in 'collective' communities. The bigger the size, the more heat it can store per size.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:05:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077919</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077919</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "Glasses-free 3D using webcam head tracking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's YouTube. This is super common, just worded in a weird way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:33:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679577</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's possible to store energy for full seasons, just not electricity.<p>It's been done with heat. Using cheap electricity in the summer to generate heat and store it in basalt. There's a small block of houses in The Netherlands that gets their heat that way: <a href="https://www.ecodorpboekel.nl/basaltaccu-is-opgebouwd-uit-duurzame-materialen/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ecodorpboekel.nl/basaltaccu-is-opgebouwd-uit-duu...</a><p>There's more systems like this around the world, although they use different storage methods.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storage" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_thermal_energy_storag...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:39:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45254630</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45254630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45254630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "I bought the cheapest EV, a used Nissan Leaf"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What range are you getting in winter at 85km/h?<p>Currently trying to get rid of our petrol car but knowing realistic range up front is rough. I'm fine with driving slower.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:43:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143364</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143364</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45143364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "UK's largest battery storage facility at Tilbury substation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does the UK not have an option for hourly-pricing? That's usually where as a consumer you can have the most gains. In the summer, with solar panels, my energy bill is negative (in The Netherlands)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:09:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45091681</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45091681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45091681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree it's not the equivalent, but the file could've contained things like Minecon attendees. That would still mean it's badly secured of course, but putting a huge community effort behind it and youtubers making 'Biggest Secret in Minecraft' videos about it would suddenly turn into very bad taste.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:14:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44984269</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44984269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44984269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The cracking basically started the moment youtubers presented it as 'a mystery'.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:12:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44984249</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44984249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44984249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "The Minecraft Code (2024) [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's solved, full write-up here: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MinecraftUnlimited/comments/1cvo5py/the_full_story_of_tominecon7z_and_its_conclusion/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/MinecraftUnlimited/comments/1cvo5py...</a><p>Tl:dr; It was a release file for their Minecon event. It was never meant to be public. Obsessing over a password protected in a company's S3 bucket is weird and crosses many limits.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:45:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44982249</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44982249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44982249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "The Factory Timezone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's turning locations into coordinates (ip geolocation). It's to be expected that the gps log only bases their logs on the coordinates from the GPS from the phone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:39:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888314</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888314</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's a very good one, but in my case it was a huge billboard that was advertising movies and stuff.<p>It had cubes in different colors so from further away it would look like an image.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:58:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789320</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789320</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44789320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "Show HN: I spent 6 years building a ridiculous wooden pixel display"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This used to exist! I remember a video about this large analog billboard in Amsterdam (?).<p>Unfortunately I can't find the video. Will edit if I do (or anybody else finds it first).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:29:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44788935</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44788935</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44788935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "The Fairphone (Gen. 6)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I experience this a lot. I have a Fairphone 5 and helping provide answers to questions in threads online is a minefield. You answer questions of someone, and somebody else comes along and starts shouting they want feature x.<p>People seem to flock to smaller phone companies and demand they fill in their one feature. Whether it's USB-OTG display functionality, headphone jack, slider to kill all connections, etc, everybody is convinced their one feature is holding this phone company back, just because they want this one feature.<p>It's just disappointing. I'm just happy with my long-lasting repairable phone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:34:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44377168</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44377168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44377168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "Show HN: A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's two types of built-in LLM's:<p>- The ones the user sees (like a sidepanel). These often use LLM API's like OpenAI.<p>- The browser API ones. These are indeed local, but are often very limited smaller models (for Chrome this is Gemini Nano). Results from these would be lower quality, and of course with large contexts, either impossible or slower than using an API.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2025 14:53:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44021829</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44021829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44021829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't understand the 'human verification' aspect.<p>Your docs show a simple image where the user can choose to keep a new object or not. [0] Afterwards it says: "The ones you chose to keep will be uploaded to OpenStreetMap using upload_osm.". This is uploading features automatically. The fact that it asks 'are you sure' is just silly. We all know if humans have to click yes 90% of the time, and no 10% of the time, they'll miss a lot of no's.<p>The image also proofs that:<p>- You don't see any polygons properly. You just see a an image of where the pool is. Already on the image I can see that if the polygons align to that image, it will be a total mess.<p>- You don't see any polygons further away from the object.<p>Both these points are in stereo's reply that the resulted data was a mess.<p>Please consider pulling the project. This will generate a lot of data that volunteers will have to check and revert.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/mozilla-ai/osm-ai-helper/blob/main/docs/step-by-step-guide.md#step-4-review-filter-and-upload-the-new-polygons-to-openstreetmap" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/mozilla-ai/osm-ai-helper/blob/main/docs/s...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:21:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43448740</link><dc:creator>boredpudding</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43448740</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43448740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boredpudding in "Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you link the (now reverted) changesets? I can't seem to find them.</p>
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