Hacker News: chews

New comment by chews in "Mathematical Patterns in African American HAIRSTYLEs"

chews — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:15:56 +0000

1. racial bias, 2. yeah, all the time.

New comment by chews in "The 52-Page Memo That Nearly Destroyed OpenAI: Ilya Sutskever's Deposition"

chews — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:20:59 +0000

I wish I lived in the timeline where Sam was fired and OpenAI merged with Anthropic. I think the world would have been A LOT better.

New comment by chews in "Hackers have breached tank readers at US gas stations"

chews — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:15:46 +0000

Truckers that refill stations use physical sticks to measure tanks, there is already a robust analog solution. This is a nothing burger sent by our hawkish US government looking to further villainize Iran.

New comment by chews in "Trump vows to blockade Strait of Hormuz after talks stumble"

chews — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:39:10 +0000

they could use the MARPOL Exemptions for likelihood of buried mines, clearing being the cure for the situation.

New comment by chews in "U.S. uses hundreds of Tomahawk missiles on Iran, alarming some at Pentagon"

chews — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:33:24 +0000

didn't know that Neal Degrasse Tyson was also on HN.

New comment by chews in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

chews — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:55:21 +0000

video does show it booting.

New comment by chews in "Project Panama – Anthropic's plan to scan and dispose of millions of books"

chews — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:20:41 +0000

why do all AI company executives read/sound like terrible villains of historical literature?

New comment by chews in "FBI's Washington Post Investigation Shows How Your Printer Can Snitch on You"

chews — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:09:34 +0000

https://archive.is/5giE6

New comment by chews in "Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir"

chews — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:26:22 +0000

TACO meets FAFO. Nice to see the Brit’s doing something about this.

New comment by chews in "South Korea seeks death penalty for ex-president Yoon over martial law bid"

chews — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:39:23 +0000

If the president has to directly address it, is it really baseless? It's not like they weren't under the spell of a cult leader... that is an acknowledged fact. No one should ever go full r-tard... or at least that's what tropic thunder taught us, it's hard to kinda walk back anything after you have. Believe what you want though... and ya it is sad that families suffered under a leader who had a cult leader as their lodestar. For Koreans it's tantamount to thinking the world is 115 years old.

New comment by chews in "Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected"

chews — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:40:11 +0000

I just subscribed to exe.dev and man is it a slick service… Shelly their ai is clever as all get out too

New comment by chews in "South Korea seeks death penalty for ex-president Yoon over martial law bid"

chews — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:53:16 +0000

Downvoted so I'll just leave these here -

"There are rumours that I am in a cult, or that there was a performance of a ritual in the Blue House, but this is not true at all.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/12/14/south-korea-parlia...

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/29/499864915...

New comment by chews in "South Korea seeks death penalty for ex-president Yoon over martial law bid"

chews — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:34:06 +0000

South Korea really loves their drama, the previous President was under the spell of a cult leader and 300 people (mostly children) were likely intentionally drowned in a ferry "accident".

New comment by chews in "Ask HN: ADHD – How do you manage the constant stream of thoughts and ideas?"

chews — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:31:10 +0000

weed and booze.

New comment by chews in "Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other"

chews — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:22:39 +0000

Grok knows that pocket Jacks are a fast way to go broke.

New comment by chews in "Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times"

chews — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:05:33 +0000

There should be no "Fairness to Flock" they're building the panopticon. Freethinking Americans should do what they can to dismantle this overreach, lobby their city leaders with their poor track record on security and thereby safety.

New comment by chews in "Mitsubishi Delica Is the Smallest Camper Van You'll See in 2026"

chews — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:52:30 +0000

I've been in New Zealand for the last few weeks (actually posting this from a beachside campground) and holy smokes is the Delica a cool vehicle (previous model years... there isn't a 2020's mini here) I will say there there are a TON of cool small campers from japanese automakers I've seen on this trip. Protectionist measures like the chickentax really make it obvious that the US is propping up a bunch of terrible auto manufacturers and if it really allowed capitalism (actual competition) the US automotive industry would be fully cooked.

New comment by chews in "Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS"

chews — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:41:33 +0000

they had over 2M in revenue in 2024... then AI happened and it likely dried up, they staffed up during the boomtime and now are rightsizing based on the change of landscape.

New comment by chews in "Revisiting the original Roomba and its simple architecture"

chews — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:03:56 +0000

It was remarkably easy to hack, the brilliant human Tod Kurt (todbot) did amazing work hacking them and documenting how to do it. Using his insights, I wrote a little bluetooth library/app for the Mac that would forward movement commands from a Wii remote to a hacked on bluetooth serial adapter connected to the Roomba... WSJ even did a piece on it. https://archive.ph/A6aTlI

The day after Christmas I was front-page of Digg, Gizmodo, and Slashdot at the same time :-)

New comment by chews in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

chews — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 01:40:00 +0000

Finding more modern ways to be lame and making it easier for folks to either pirate (use shady activation methods) or move to other platforms.