Hacker News: brokenodo

New comment by brokenodo in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

brokenodo — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:20:16 +0000

Well, as a 2 week tenured and very happy Railway customer until now, I am now a Render customer. Somehow DNS cut over within 1 min(!) and live after about 30 minutes of work. Not bad!

New comment by brokenodo in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

brokenodo — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:51:36 +0000

I’m a new customer and have been falling in love with Railway over the last 2 weeks, but this is quite the wake up call.

New comment by brokenodo in "Google Cloud has blocked our account, making some Railway services unavailable"

brokenodo — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:50:12 +0000

As a new customer of about 2 weeks, it was a lovely run with Railway until this afternoon!

New comment by brokenodo in "Why lawyers buy so many billboards"

brokenodo — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:06:38 +0000

I am a personal injury lawyer, and am therefore biased. But I submit that they are decidedly not undifferentiated - the problem is that there is no real way for you to differentiate them.

If I were seriously injured, there are about 10 personal injury lawyers in my small state that I would consider. There are no obvious external signals such as billboards, websites, or marketing that convey their superior strategic skill and they just have it qualities before a jury. But if you know them, you know.

If you need a lawyer, call another lawyer (preferably someone involved in the special interest bar association for that field) and ask them who you should call.

New comment by brokenodo in "Ask HN: What are some impressive vibe coding projects?"

brokenodo — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:06:28 +0000

Only a handful! I am a terrible marketer and have no idea how to promote things.

New comment by brokenodo in "Ask HN: What are some impressive vibe coding projects?"

brokenodo — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:10:58 +0000

Claude and I (mostly Claude) built a web app for lawyers that uses Gemini to extract (and calculate, where necessary) court dates and deadlines from a PDF scheduling order and output them in a structured format. The user can then select which ones they want to add to their calendar and generate an ICS file to add all case dates/deadlines at once.

https://www.courtsynccalendar.com/

New comment by brokenodo in "There is 'I am AI researcher' vibecoding psychosis in social media"

brokenodo — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:08:57 +0000

For some reason, most of the AI-focused subreddits, like r/OpenAI, r/Anthropic, etc., seem to convey a sense of mass mental illness or delusion. For example, r/OpenAI is 95% focused on how OpenAI is horrible for taking away their virtual girlfriend/therapist model, 4o. r/Anthropic is 95% either rambling about usage limits in Claude Code or “showing off” by presenting a giant wall of AI generated text describing the stack for their latest zero utility vibe-coded project. I personally find value in vibecoding, but the signal to noise ratio in these spaces is insanely poor compared to generally anywhere else on Reddit, and I’m not sure what that says.

New comment by brokenodo in "Denmark card payment outage last night – Nets terminals down nationwide"

brokenodo — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 08:43:34 +0000

I am in Copenhagen for the first time and was wondering why there were 20+ people waiting in line at various ATMs last night. I think this explains it!

New comment by brokenodo in "Black boxes from Jeju Air 2216 stopped recording four minutes before crash"

brokenodo — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:02:44 +0000

It’s a fair question and I find your comment to be an interesting example of resorting to a conspiracy theory because you don’t understand something that’s easily explainable.

The Boeing 737-800 has batteries that power certain things in the event of a dual engine failure, including cabin lighting.

Those same batteries, on 737s manufactured more than about 15 years ago, do not provide backup power to the flight data recorder or cockpit voice recorder.

New comment by brokenodo in "Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]"

brokenodo — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 04:36:10 +0000

It would be unsurprising if someone who named a company after themselves turned out to be a narcissist who couldn’t help themselves.

https://ma.tt/2003/04/hit-diggity/

New comment by brokenodo in "Epic vs. Google: Google Loses"

brokenodo — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 01:58:57 +0000

The Court technically can if Google asked for JMOL prior the case going to the jury.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_50

New comment by brokenodo in "Gabe Newell forced to testify in person in Steam antitrust case [pdf]"

brokenodo — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 01:00:55 +0000

1. If filed by a lawyer, no. The clerk will just issue a summons.

2. In order to compel a person to appear a proceeding, the court must have personal jurisdiction over the person as a defendant, or if the person is a witness and not a defendant, they must be within the subpoena power of the court.

3. The order explains the court’s reasoning on this.

New comment by brokenodo in "Sodium batteries offer an alternative to tricky lithium"

brokenodo — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 03:15:40 +0000

I think what you’re looking for is an older used Nissan leaf

New comment by brokenodo in "Hackers claim it only took a 10-minute phone call to shut down MGM Resorts"

brokenodo — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:58:50 +0000

I love seeing your spelling of his name! It took me years to realize that his first name is Jack, not Jackery. It’s Jack Rhysider.

New comment by brokenodo in "Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus"

brokenodo — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:43:46 +0000

Apple has sued them. So has Meta, and the Supreme Court recently declined an NSO appeal, which means the lawsuits can proceed.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-lets-metas-wh...

New comment by brokenodo in "Apollo will close down on June 30th"

brokenodo — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 12:27:08 +0000

I’m a lawyer and listening to this call was absolutely painful. I like to think I’m a pretty decent negotiator, and agree that there was likely a few million here were this handled competently.

Don’t be afraid to bring people in when something is outside your area of expertise.

New comment by brokenodo in "Eight things to know about large language models [pdf]"

brokenodo — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 04:38:04 +0000

Man, I have a totally opposite view about LLMs expressing creator’s values. Not only do they express them, they don’t STOP expressing them to the point of utter annoyance. Any remotely PG topic ends with a safety caveat, e.g., “however, it’s important to consider . . . .”

New comment by brokenodo in "ChatGPT works seamlessly with photos and files, enabling numerous new use cases"

brokenodo — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 02:27:24 +0000

Observational hypothesis based on 5 minutes with the app (and asking it to repeat the prompt it was given):

This does not use any OpenAI service to analyze the image. Rather, it’s using some other image, recognition model to generate a description of the image, feeding that description into chatGPT, and having chatGPT hallucinate other likely details based on that description.

New comment by brokenodo in "Living alone in the wild Siberian forest"

brokenodo — Sun, 29 Jan 2023 23:09:30 +0000

Beautiful photography and I love the simplicity of the site design. Nice work on both counts!

New comment by brokenodo in "An AI lawyer was set to argue in court – real lawyers shut it down"

brokenodo — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 13:05:11 +0000

Aside from the question of whether this plan was legal, DoNotPay seems like a terrible product. The results it generates seem laughably bad, and it’s questionable whether “AI” is actually involved when it takes them literal days to generate a document for certain types of requests. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/24/the-worlds-first-robot-l...