Hacker News: brador

New comment by brador in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

brador — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:02:46 +0000

“It’s not the cloud. It’s just someone else’s computer.” - MM

New comment by brador in "An update on Wayback Machine access"

brador — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:54:06 +0000

The only solution is to make visitors do compute. Compressing files for the archive to access other files would be perfect for this.

Cross verify hashes to prevent cheating.

Ez.

New comment by brador in "Anthropic CEO says AI swarm could 'take over the Internet' in 6-12 months"

brador — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:01:10 +0000

His handler yanking that chain like it owes money.

Rents due Dario.

New comment by brador in "Apple iPod Engraver (2019)"

brador — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:00:02 +0000

Sad that it quickly became a dark pattern to reduce resale value, thus increasing future sales.

That’s the real reason it got added.

New comment by brador in "After Math"

brador — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:55:21 +0000

Math needs its own unique type of prompt engineers who can understand the output quickly.

That’s where the future of mathematicians lies.

New comment by brador in "Fuck it, make it anyway"

brador — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:15:32 +0000

Hobby stuff- I found slowing down works best. Just enjoy spending time in the evening picking the colors for my little project that will never ship. Genuinely relaxing, had some random boomer sitcom as background noise.

Work - max adhd no brakes cat stand dog stand satellites.

Honestly loving software engineering right now. The age of magic incantations and magic meat is over. I’m the wizard now. We all are.

And it’s awesome.

New comment by brador in "I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus"

brador — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:43:20 +0000

“I can’t do it so you can’t” is not a valid argument in the age of AI. That’s the point.

New comment by brador in "Iran says it captured US submarine drone in Strait of Hormuz"

brador — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:19:40 +0000

What did he say?

New comment by brador in "A Screensaver for LG's Spying Smart TVs"

brador — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:19:33 +0000

They boppin your data through the drivers. Don’t need direct internet access. 2026.

New comment by brador in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

brador — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:08:30 +0000

SKorean intelligence on China (and Japan). This will not be easily regulated. The intelligence value is huge.

New comment by brador in "Hackers have withdrawn ~4k BTC (~$320M) from the Liquid Federation wallet"

brador — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 01:43:45 +0000

Rug pull is a trap, which can include theft. (You pull the rug and the victim in the cartoon would fall into the spikes hole).

New comment by brador in "Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere"

brador — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:44:01 +0000

Found this: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I1vhRJo0Eik

New comment by brador in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

brador — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:31:03 +0000

Fresh install of windows, opened edge, searched Bing for “firefox” first result (paid ad) was malware masquerading as Firefox.

New comment by brador in "Mayor says 'large chunks' of Wellington council Deloitte report written by AI"

brador — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:12:54 +0000

Like here. No one fired, no refund, tax payers happily scammed again.

New comment by brador in "FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses"

brador — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:17:53 +0000

Storing personal data should require insurance that increases per data point.

New comment by brador in "Creepy Crawlies"

brador — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:04:07 +0000

Send an invoice or your tears are worthless.

New comment by brador in "SolarWindow launches 0.85 mm-thick, self-adhesive solar film"

brador — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:02:10 +0000

Park in an open space. Auto unfurl the 7 hex panel solar collecting roof array. Solar doesn’t have to be limited to the car roof footprint.

New comment by brador in "The EU has begun enforcing the AI Act: first RFIs to model providers"

brador — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:32:03 +0000

Time to collect facts and start thinking for yourself again.

The age of written expertise influence is over.

New comment by brador in "The "I don't know, Claude wrote this" pandemic"

brador — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:13:40 +0000

Still cost more than you paid for it eh.

26 years of startups and no one has made a way to pay $0.01 for an article.

New comment by brador in "Tell HN: Man, AI is killing my brain"

brador — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:49:22 +0000

It energises me. Finally my ADHD brain has something faster than it to play with endlessly.

Everything I make is now a glorious speedrun.