Hacker News: bragr

New comment by bragr in "Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract (2025)"

bragr — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:08:55 +0000

I do suspect they'll settle but I doubt it will result in a new contract. They've already made significant investments migrating off VMWare and none of those will snap back with a new contract. Tesco was also cut off from updates and support, and so had to purchase 3rd party support, so they have real damages.

New comment by bragr in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

bragr — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:58:38 +0000

Not to be downer, but recent studies have not corroborated those effects.

>One of the most celebrated claims about Yellowstone’s wolves is facing a major challenge. Scientists say the study behind the famous trophic cascade story relied on flawed methods that overstated the ecological impact of wolf recovery. Their reanalysis found no evidence for a dramatic, park-wide surge in willow growth. Instead, the effects appear smaller and vary from place to place.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260613215510.h...

New comment by bragr in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

bragr — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:54:38 +0000

Uruk-hai are GMO

New comment by bragr in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

bragr — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:00:25 +0000

This lacks perspective of the position of OP and people like him. For them, stringing together multiple full and part time minimum wage jobs is the norm. Not having health insurance is the norm. Extreme commutes, often not by car, is the norm. Are these kinds of consulting jobs great? No, probably not. Better compensation and hours than the alternative? Almost certainly.

Consider how he and his wife were surviving before he got back into tech. That's the norm for a lot of people.

New comment by bragr in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"

bragr — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:40:05 +0000

Thieves typically burn off the insulation so it's not likely to be easily reused.

New comment by bragr in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

bragr — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:37:27 +0000

How are the learning resources for Blender VSE? I've tried several open source editors (openshot: not fit for any serious purpose, shotcut: would be great if not bugged out) and ended up on Resolve for the combination of being free for my purposes and good community resources. I've looked at Blender for 3D before and found the good resources tend to be out of date. Is that still an issue?

edit: I may need to give the OpenShot 3.x a chance. The OpenShot release history [1] makes the claim that they have addressed many of my complaints

[1] https://www.openshot.org/blog/

New comment by bragr in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

bragr — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:21:03 +0000

Were you Chris.sherlock/Aussie Article Writer on Wikipedia? Sounds like pot calling the kettle black re: toxic. You had an interaction ban against her FFS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_no...

New comment by bragr in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

bragr — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:51:07 +0000

There is some nuance, but in real life the SWAT teams will just crash a bearcat through the wall and fly a cheap drone through the hole to scope out the situation if need be. And as for searching, they don't need a scan to know how to upend everything in a house. People aren't robots, once they're inside, they have their own situational awareness.

The real privacy nightmare with this data to me is marketers mining it for what you have or don't have in your home and hyper targeting you that you need to buy a new coffee table or whatever.

New comment by bragr in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

bragr — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:03:31 +0000

>There is plenty of money to be made selling home layouts to police.

The police basically already have this in the form of building records. Unless you live in a really old building or you've made unapproved modifications, they've got an accurate layout if they care to look.

New comment by bragr in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

bragr — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:17:54 +0000

To be fair, some cookie banners do automatically opt you out if you send DNT, but is not the standard for sure.

New comment by bragr in "AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn"

bragr — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:33:11 +0000

The original blog post this references is a better read: https://www.adventuresinoss.com/aws-four-years/

New comment by bragr in "Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It"

bragr — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:39:18 +0000

If I recall, proprietary clients usually shipped with their own bootstrap server. I think it may have even contributed to the legal cases, but it's been a long time.

New comment by bragr in "Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date""

bragr — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:06:08 +0000

Eh, basically all facts in this story are disputed by all sides. Aside from general gist that there was some meeting that didn't go well.

New comment by bragr in "NTSB pulls docket after AI recreates dead pilots' voices"

bragr — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:22:41 +0000

Basically they were just trying to track down weird noises on the recording. They also went and recorded audio on a similar UPS MD-11 to try to identify the source. According to the NTSB:

"This high pitch ringing sound, primarily noted at approximately 6.35 kHz, occurred at 17:13:05.5 EST, shortly after the aircraft rotated for takeoff, and continued with varying amplitude throughout the remainder of the recording. Additionally, a tone at about 2.1 kHz was present along with the ringing that could not be identified."

New comment by bragr in "Lost Images from the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test Restored"

bragr — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:13:02 +0000

Those units appear to be US Army PE-95 generators, not welders.

https://www.purplewave.com/auction/210310/item/IG9246/US_Arm...

New comment by bragr in "Michael Keating has died"

bragr — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:06:47 +0000

Yeah looks like Micheal Douglas was using that name professionally about decade before Michael Keaton started his career so union rules would require an alternate name.

New comment by bragr in "Starship's Twelfth Flight Test"

bragr — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:58:52 +0000

Kessler syndrome presumably?

New comment by bragr in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

bragr — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:51:33 +0000

Sure but they are still a finite resource. Once you've transferred those rights to a super tall luxury condo building, you can't readily transform that into affordable middle class and lower income housing.

New comment by bragr in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

bragr — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:49:57 +0000

>but it's not really good for your career

Can you define that with more specificity? I find that academics have a major blind spot where good career means "the path I took" to the exclusion of all other paths.

>Speaking as someone who has graduated over a dozen PhD students in computer science

And your CV says another 6 dropped out. What was good for their careers?

New comment by bragr in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

bragr — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:30:08 +0000

It was in the news when it went into effect at the beginning of the year.