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New comment by bpoyner in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

bpoyner — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:39:26 +0000

somebody in the comments mentioned this is a point where the AI glitched out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puRg-4ZvNYs&t=150

New comment by bpoyner in "The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers"

bpoyner — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:38:41 +0000

They'll also need it to track down terrorists. And who determines who is a terrorist? Why, the department of justice does.

Pre-announcement of BIND 9 security issues scheduled for disclosure 20 May 2026

bpoyner — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:04:46 +0000

Article URL: https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/bind-announce/2026-May/001294.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180100

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New comment by bpoyner in "Leaving the Physical World"

bpoyner — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:29:34 +0000

He's describing my great grandmother's childhood in territorial Arizona, down to the riding a horse to a one-room school house. Her family were all tough ranchers living a lifestyle most of us can't really comprehend.

New comment by bpoyner in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

bpoyner — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:33:45 +0000

My mother and step-father were both state cops. They put in about 30 years each, but could have retired after 20 years in. They make more in retirement than my wife and I do. It pays quite well, but it comes with significant risks.

New comment by bpoyner in "Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal"

bpoyner — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:27:05 +0000

I imagine it would be a big lift. Asahi linux is managing through reverse engineering the hardware support, without any official documentation. Even with official documentation it would be a significant change from other aarch64 hardware.

New comment by bpoyner in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

bpoyner — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:34:52 +0000

That's _bananas_.

New comment by bpoyner in "Most people can't juggle one ball"

bpoyner — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:27:37 +0000

I taught myself to juggle in a weird way. I had 3 lightweight plastic cubes, laid down on the bed, and began tossing them directly over my head (my hands on either side of my head). I think it gave me a good sense of where each cube was at all times.Once I got good at juggling supine, I just transitioned to sitting up straight.

New comment by bpoyner in "Eniac, the First General-Purpose Digital Computer, Turns 80"

bpoyner — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:47:43 +0000

Reminds me of stumbling across the Harvard Mark I, which is about 1-2 years older, while wandering through the Harvard Science Center (as one does). By far the oldest computer I've seen in person. Seems they moved it since then to the Science and Engineering Complex.

New comment by bpoyner in "SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing (2025)"

bpoyner — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:55:04 +0000

This paper describes the front end of SETI@home and provides parameters for the primary data source, the Arecibo Observatory

Most of this data was recorded commensally at the Arecibo observatory over a 22 yr period

Interesting as Arecibo collapsed in December of 2020. It sounds like they have a lot of data to still churn through.

New comment by bpoyner in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

bpoyner — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:35:42 +0000

"We agreed on a 150-day disclosure window". Isn't that longer than Google Project Zero gives to release fixes?

New comment by bpoyner in "Booting from a vinyl record (2020)"

bpoyner — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:51:21 +0000

I remember getting floppy disks in magazines, I've used cassette tapes with a Commodore 64, I also remember flexidiscs for music, but I've never heard of the flexidisc as a software medium. Where was this?

I found a reference to a Thompson Twins game distributed by flexidisc in the UK.

New comment by bpoyner in "Handling secrets (somewhat) securely in shells"

bpoyner — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:27:00 +0000

Not directly related to this, but you can use systemd-creds to store secrets at rest. It can even work with a tpm2 chip or a key file to encrypt the secrets.

And then use these tips for when you want to interactively reference those stored secrets.

New comment by bpoyner in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

bpoyner — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:20:59 +0000

No half life 3 released?

New comment by bpoyner in "Installing and using HP-UX 9"

bpoyner — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 13:12:58 +0000

I agree that LVM in HP-UX was far ahead of Linux back in the day. To be fair some of those advanced features in HP-UX LVM required an additional license (eg: mirroring required Enterprise Operating Environment). I haven't touched HP-UX in like 10 years however.

New comment by bpoyner in "XSLT RIP"

bpoyner — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:49:50 +0000

Chuckling at the disclaimer 'No AI made by a human.' I doubt many web devs could tell you that because so many use AI now. I was speaking with a web dev this summer and he told me AI made him at least twice as productive. It's an arms race to the bottom imo.

New comment by bpoyner in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

bpoyner — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:08:34 +0000

Sad you have to come to the bottom of the comment section to find any criticism of DHH. I wouldn't do business with the guy, nor use his OS.

New comment by bpoyner in "1981 Sony Trinitron KV-3000R: The Most Luxurious Trinitron [video]"

bpoyner — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:51:00 +0000

To drive home how luxurious this was, 1981 was the start of a recession that lead to 10% unemployment, the highest since the end of World War II, and here are people buying a TV that would be $35,000 in today's money.

New comment by bpoyner in "US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas"

bpoyner — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:35:35 +0000

I hope everyone is reading through and noticing this is for F, M and J visas, which are all education related visas. Not that I love that either, but it doesn't apply to every visitor.

New comment by bpoyner in "US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas"

bpoyner — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 11:20:27 +0000

Bolivia also has a reciprocity visa charge of $160 for US citizens. Many years ago we were very close to the Bolivian border but the visa cost for a day trip just didn't make it worth it.