Hacker News: creaturemachine

New comment by creaturemachine in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

creaturemachine — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:02:24 +0000

The world can't support the number of bodies on it already, and you're proposing adding mindless meatbags that still need feeding and their waste managed? Are you going to accept an amazon package that's had giraffe poop sprayed on it while picking, or change your meat-robot's diaper? I didn't think so.

New comment by creaturemachine in "First Robotic Satellite Servicer Launched"

creaturemachine — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:51:36 +0000

The average person not interested in space won't know the difference between leo and geo in the first place.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

creaturemachine — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:04:26 +0000

Unless it's from the library. I've had to keep an eraser handy to undo some rando's bizarre markups.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Understanding the AI Economy"

creaturemachine — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:48:20 +0000

> real, normal big global company.

Compu-Global-Hyper-Mega-Net?

New comment by creaturemachine in "Understanding the AI Economy"

creaturemachine — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:38:42 +0000

This person seems to be intentionally making themselves dumb by choosing not to think.

New comment by creaturemachine in "European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS"

creaturemachine — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:55:21 +0000

Predators have been using roblox since its inception, but I don't think they are doing age verification because of that. They're looking to expand into more adult experiences and, of all horrible ideas, dating.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Just Let Me Write Digits"

creaturemachine — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:53:43 +0000

If you're living the passphrase life then spaces make them easier to type.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Just Let Me Write Digits"

creaturemachine — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:51:28 +0000

Not having the space looks and feels wrong, and I think the post office would agree. I have a feeling the trend toward space omission was due to fields formatted for US zips.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

creaturemachine — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:08:43 +0000

Maybe it should've been an app after all.

New comment by creaturemachine in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

creaturemachine — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:31:27 +0000

So you bought a car for a good price full of features, good for you. Now where are you going to drive the thing? Can you build your own road wherever you want to go? No, only the state can build roads? How could we allow such a monopoly over our lives.

Now you say there are rules to follow on these roads, with enforcement, meaning someone has power over you the entire time? Yikes.

New comment by creaturemachine in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

creaturemachine — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:58:40 +0000

Driving has been subsidized and "made better" for so long that it feels natural. Forcing your private steel box through public spaces should be the most impractical and expensive thing to do, yet it's not.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance"

creaturemachine — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:18:46 +0000

The only thing insecure was the market position of the domestic competition.

New comment by creaturemachine in "QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall"

creaturemachine — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:01:31 +0000

If you count recon and droppers that can use distance to avoid jamming, sure. One-way applications are increasingly fibre.

New comment by creaturemachine in "QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall"

creaturemachine — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:58:15 +0000

Most light vehicles are jamming, and infantry at least have detection capability, which is why fibre is now the standard for close range.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

creaturemachine — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:14:26 +0000

What Bash blog would be complete without some Windows trash-talk?

New comment by creaturemachine in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

creaturemachine — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:42:51 +0000

National Socialism in a nutshell.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour"

creaturemachine — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:27:41 +0000

I thought surely this isn't just blade servers, that those compute shelves were full of GPUs or something novel, but no just blades reincarnated. I used to support HP's baby version of this, the c3000.

New comment by creaturemachine in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

creaturemachine — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:29:38 +0000

You should leave the continent and gain some context. Every summer the whole of Europe is full of campers towed by humble family sedans and wagons. Not just cheesy tent pop-ups, full-on campers with a family's worth of bikes hanging off the back. But the ads on TV said you'd be a lesser man without a truck, so I guess we can't blame you.

New comment by creaturemachine in "How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart"

creaturemachine — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:10:26 +0000

Its leadership sure doesn't see things that way.

New comment by creaturemachine in "Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time"

creaturemachine — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:26:51 +0000

If my time playing Pokémon Go is any help, I can just bounce around and dodge the balls the drone lobs at me as it tries to swipe its screen just right, until it inevitably runs out of balls. If a ball sucks me in, I can just wiggle around once or twice and break free, causing the drone to waste more resources on subsequent attempts.

I think we'll be ok.