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New comment by brunoTbear in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

brunoTbear — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:12:08 +0000

Chalk it up to far too many hours in the Sci Li but I quite like this.

New comment by brunoTbear in "Waymo Safety Impact"

brunoTbear — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:21:34 +0000

They make the data available on that page for you to do your own research.

New comment by brunoTbear in "The true story behind the Toronto mystery tunnel (2015)"

brunoTbear — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:11:56 +0000

Mentioned in passing in a recent Practical Engineering video on tunnels. https://youtu.be/Ssw5bdx1HKw?si=DfOLWszK4erDPe3n

New comment by brunoTbear in "Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix"

brunoTbear — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:33:29 +0000

https://waymo.com/blog/2025/05/waymo-making-streets-safer-fo...

New comment by brunoTbear in "F5 says hackers stole undisclosed BIG-IP flaws, source code"

brunoTbear — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:26:27 +0000

I wonder if there's a bet to be made on future 8K disclosures following quietly updated signing keys. A bet against F5 placed this morning would've only made 3.6%.

New comment by brunoTbear in "Rocketships and Slingshots"

brunoTbear — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 23:42:35 +0000

I think Shape Security qualifies for this list. They raised $100M before having a customer, seemed to die, quietly got adopted by a large pool of F50 companies, and exited to F5 for a $1B valuation. That’s a big chunk of change for a security play, especially back in 2019.

Their moat ended up being two fold. One, they were the only tech stack that could handle the scale needed back then. Two, they had a crazy culture of never letting adversaries win and would push daily updates to keep attackers off their customers. Both took a long time to iterate and build towards and nobody thought it was cool while they worked through it.

New comment by brunoTbear in "Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks"

brunoTbear — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:28:41 +0000

Same! Big shoutout to Dr Thuillier at UCSF. Really changed my life.

New comment by brunoTbear in "E190 Crashes on Christmas Day"

brunoTbear — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:38:10 +0000

Rumor mill explanations range from flock of birds to Russian air defense systems. Pilots appeared to be trying very hard to safe it.

E190 Crashes on Christmas Day

brunoTbear — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 20:38:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/25/world/europe/kazakhstan-plane-crash.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42511009

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by brunoTbear in "Synthetic diamonds are now purer, more beautiful, and cheaper than mined"

brunoTbear — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:28:35 +0000

If you’re in San Francisco stop in at Derco. They’re underneath the Airbnb building.

New comment by brunoTbear in "Gilead shot prevents all HIV cases in trial"

brunoTbear — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:00:29 +0000

Some of us prefer to enjoy sex as a beautiful act of human connection and condoms detract from being in the moment of joy.

This is like saying to someone killed in a motorcycle accident why didn’t you use a car. It’s a reductive, unempathetic and frankly unproductive take. Please think before asking this again.

New comment by brunoTbear in "Your last name contains invalid characters (2010)"

brunoTbear — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 05:27:55 +0000

It would be rather silly to assume all bears have the same last name "bear"! It's not as if people all walk around saying "Oh hi I'm Timothy Human" "Nice to meet you, I'm Rachel Human, are we related?"

Which, come to think of it, is kind of a funny notion, and a nice reminder that despite our differences we really are all related!

New comment by brunoTbear in "Your last name contains invalid characters (2010)"

brunoTbear — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 08:44:35 +0000

I was concerned that the author might have been running into the Scunthorpe Problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem).

My last name contains a naughty substring. I feel for the author and their hyphen!

New comment by brunoTbear in "AI and Mass Spying"

brunoTbear — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:49:39 +0000

Schneier is wrong that "hey google" is always listening. Google does on-device processing with dedicated hardware for the wake-words and only then forwards audio upstream. Believe it or not, the privacy people at Google really do try to do the right things. They don't always succeed, but they did with our hardware and wake-word listening.

Am Google employee, not in hardware.

New comment by brunoTbear in "How to make a synthetic diamond (2009)"

brunoTbear — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 11:38:36 +0000

Having recently purchased an engagement ring, I am amazed by how inexpensive synthetic diamonds have become. Back in 2015 I paid for a natural stone. Prices then were nuts. You can get so much more weight, color, and clarity now. I really hope the extraction of natural diamonds becomes a historical shame soon.

I do not understand people who want a natural stone. My buddy is marrying a woman who insisted on a natural rock. It’s one of many things wrong with her, and fits the pattern I’ve seen with her to a T.

New comment by brunoTbear in "[dead]"

brunoTbear — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:55:49 +0000

CEO of Tenable publishing an open letter pushing Microsoft to disclose and patch a cross-customer data access vulnerability in their service.

In my opinion, this is the kind of issue that could undermine trust not just in Azure, but potentially in other Clouds as well. It feels to me that MSFT is being a poor ecosystem steward if they are allowing this kind of vulnerability to fester and not provide complete transparency to their customers.

On the heels of their O365 breach targeting US Gov customers, it is remarkably bad timing for them to leave themselves vulnerable to these charges in the court of public opinion. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/12/1187208383/china-hack-us-gove...

New comment by brunoTbear in "This Exoplanet’s Weird Orbit Defies the Rules of Physics"

brunoTbear — Tue, 09 May 2023 23:18:09 +0000

There's a name given in the article for the mechanism by which the planet's orbit became weird, and the same mechanism has been active in our own solar system. I am not convinced that "defies the rules of physics" is an appropriate title for this article.

Perhaps "This Exoplanet's Orbit Has Been Significantly Shifted Relative to Most Orbits" and while that isn't as interesting, it is significantly more accurate.

New comment by brunoTbear in "City Council to install 20 cameras as automated license-plate recognition system"

brunoTbear — Mon, 01 May 2023 22:52:05 +0000

One opportunity with this kind of technology is to identify when a plate is mismatched with the car. If you assume that stolen plates and stolen cars are a problem, which I think is a good assumption, you can make the adversary's life harder by forcing them to match plate to car make/model/color/year by deploying an ALPR that alerts on mismatches.

There's a good story here about flipping the current economics for criminals--it's trivially cheap to steal plates and cars--towards a world where they have the harder problem of matching plate to car.

New comment by brunoTbear in "Show HN: Random Aerial Airport Views"

brunoTbear — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 05:46:45 +0000

How fun: the first one that loaded for me is an airport I flew out of last week! What a fun coincidence to get Samui airport!

New comment by brunoTbear in "Spermaceti"

brunoTbear — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:41:08 +0000

> Squeeze! squeeze! squeeze! all the morning long; I squeezed that sperm till I myself almost melted into it; I squeezed that sperm till a strange sort of insanity came over me; and I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers’ hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules. Such an abounding, affectionate, friendly, loving feeling did this avocation beget; that at last I was continually squeezing their hands, and looking up into their eyes sentimentally; as much as to say,- Oh! my dear fellow beings, why should we longer cherish any social acerbities, or know the slightest ill-humor or envy! Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

Chapter 94, A Squeeze of the Hand, Moby Dick. https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/42/moby-dick/775/chapter-94-a-squ....

Unforgettable passage about the hand processing of this substance.