Hacker News: cal85

Russia 'intercepts Europe's key satellites'

cal85 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:30:27 +0000

Article URL: https://news.satnews.com/2026/02/04/russia-intercepts-europes-key-satellites-placing-nato-satellite-at-risk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46896785

Points: 64

# Comments: 28

New comment by cal85 in "1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys"

cal85 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:43:57 +0000

How do you know this? Not disagreeing, just curious.

New comment by cal85 in "It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)"

cal85 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:39:15 +0000

The problem is FUD. Some guy at a company gets told he has to wait for legal to approve some open source project or initiative that happens to use JS in the name, because his boss heard there’s a trademark issue, and the enthusiasm fades and the idea gets sidelined. There’s probably been thousands of tiny little instances of FUD like that, which we’d never hear about, and which have led to good things not happening.

One clear instance of FUD we do know about is the spec itself is not titled with the name of the language it specifies, which is then its own source of confusion for newcomers trying to learn the web platform, and makes it harder for old timers to explain things, and is generally annoying. Complexity. Confusion. Doubt. Inaction.

Removing legal FUD from the world is a good cause. I don’t mind if it also works as a good marketing play for Deno.

New comment by cal85 in "It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)"

cal85 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:14:20 +0000

They thought of that and called the spec ECMAScript instead.

New comment by cal85 in "SVG.js v3.2"

cal85 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:47:34 +0000

Because it’s written in vanilla JS.

New comment by cal85 in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

cal85 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:05:45 +0000

Camouflage in what sense?

New comment by cal85 in "Google Antigravity"

cal85 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:07:43 +0000

Had same issue until I disconnected from Tailscale, in case that helps anyone.

Color Palette Pro

cal85 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:32:33 +0000

Article URL: https://colorpalette.pro/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45969355

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by cal85 in "Say Hi to Kit"

cal85 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:33:16 +0000

They seem to be actively working on vertical tabs for Chromium right now: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/q/message:+vertical...

New comment by cal85 in "Some people can't see mental images"

cal85 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:08:13 +0000

> I think there really are people who can visualize that apple.

Based on what evidence?

New comment by cal85 in "OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly"

cal85 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:31:18 +0000

True. But it feels like a fairer comparison would be with a huge healthcare company that failed to vet one of its therapists properly, so a crazy pro-suicide therapist slipped through the net. Would we petition to shut down the whole company for this rare event? I suppose it would depend on whether the company could demonstrate what it is doing to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

New comment by cal85 in "Edge AI for Beginners"

cal85 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:56:05 +0000

It's not an em-dash, it's an en-dash, which is rare in LLM output. Also just stop being insufferable.

New comment by cal85 in "Does anyone remember websites?"

cal85 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:18:15 +0000

Or, when you do go looking, it doesn’t feel the same. Why?

New comment by cal85 in "Does anyone remember websites?"

cal85 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:03:38 +0000

The last sentence can’t be true. If you go looking for them, they’re easy to find. The problem is you don’t.

New comment by cal85 in "Daniel Kahneman opted for assisted suicide in Switzerland"

cal85 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 14:55:10 +0000

> That needs to be solved. Seems like an easy solve. Just don't do it.

I don’t do it, but I’m not sure how that solves the problem of other people doing it.

New comment by cal85 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

cal85 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:34:14 +0000

The post says why.

New comment by cal85 in "What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?"

cal85 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 23:10:38 +0000

The difference is that social media now exists. The fear of an embarrassing or compromising moment causing social embarrassment at an unlimited scale or affecting future employment prospects indefinitely is not based on nothing - we have all seen examples of this. Even an unlikely scenario is worth considering if the stakes are that high.

This situation compounded very gradually. In the late 90s, it was extremely common for young people to make each other laugh by doing dumb things in public (sometimes knowingly on camera) that they’d never expect to be seen by a wide audience. Then in the early 00s, the experience of going a little viral (just within your college Facebook community, before the word ‘viral’ was a thing) was actually pretty common and this started to make people just a little more guarded about being photographed. So those who got filmed doing something drunk/dumb would be more likely to go more viral, as it was now a rarer sight. And so on. It’s a recursive effect that made us all duller and more image-conscious and anxious in public. This process took a couple of decades to end up where we are now. It’s not just some new modern prissiness.

New comment by cal85 in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

cal85 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:03:26 +0000

7 gigabytes? With a “G”? That must take 10s of seconds, minutes even. And for what, a ‘good experience’? Humans make no sense to me either.

New comment by cal85 in "Oxford loses top 3 university ranking in the UK"

cal85 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 18:24:24 +0000

> I'm not saying it's wrong but people are reacting to this as if the Times university guide is some objective truth.

I can’t see a single example of anyone reacting to it that way.

New comment by cal85 in "Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces"

cal85 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:59:18 +0000

The equivalent tailwind is to just put h-8 (or whatever it is) on whichever form elements and buttons you want to be that height. Tailwind recommends you never use `@apply` - it’s basically an escape hatch for weird, niche interop requirements if you’re not all-in on Tailwind.

What is it about your example that the tailwind approach (h-8) doesn’t achieve?