Hacker News: crimsoneer

New comment by crimsoneer in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

crimsoneer — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:08:26 +0000

Is that comic sans or am I having a moment

New comment by crimsoneer in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

crimsoneer — Sat, 16 May 2026 04:30:17 +0000

It's worth recognising that unlike oyster cards, LFR in it's currently form doesn't store any data. It looks at faces, compares them to currently wanted offenders, and if it matches, alerts the officers operating that camera "live". Nothing is stored or processed beyond that

New comment by crimsoneer in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

crimsoneer — Sat, 16 May 2026 04:27:04 +0000

This is very naive.

1. The odds of the actual bike itself being covered by CCTV during the theft is pretty slim. Nearby? Sure, but probably not recording the offence. Then unless you're got a precise time window/know where the thief went, you're stuck watching hours of footage hoping to spot the right bike.

2. Even if you do get a clear, high quality facial picture of the thief, you have no magic way of figuring out who that is. You essentially email it to all the local cops and hope someone's recognises them.

The result is your bike theft turns into quite a big investigate, with a sub 5% likelihood of a position outcome.

New comment by crimsoneer in "European Money Pours into Palantir"

crimsoneer — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:37:20 +0000

You do realise saying this about a publicly traded company without any evidence is just full on qanon level conspiracy theory right?

New comment by crimsoneer in "CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”"

crimsoneer — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:29:44 +0000

As a man who always desperately wanted a Sony AIBO (and is now only put off by the bonkers $300 a year AI subscription), I am unduly excited.

New comment by crimsoneer in "Agent Skills"

crimsoneer — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:58:59 +0000

Not only "has a high chance of working", but you can pay more to make it more reliable. It really is striking trying to run a harness openClaw thing on a smaller or quantised model, really makes you realise how much we take for granted from SOTA models that was totally impossible just a year ago, in terms of complex, generally reliable tool use.

New comment by crimsoneer in "OpenTrafficMap"

crimsoneer — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:16:47 +0000

What is the OS alternative? OSM?

Show HN: Search and explore open-source government repos

crimsoneer — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:34:58 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/spaces/AndreasThinks/govtech-dashboard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947462

Points: 1

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New comment by crimsoneer in "Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag"

crimsoneer — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:23:11 +0000

This seems silly. Signal is great, let's not all start spinning up our own dedicated, not interoperable national messenger applications.

New comment by crimsoneer in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

crimsoneer — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:22:03 +0000

Do you not think Western democratic culture isn't superior to, say, fundamentalist Islam, Soviet style communism, or even totalitarianism in the current Chinese mold?

New comment by crimsoneer in "UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500k people offered for sale on Alibaba"

crimsoneer — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:18:42 +0000

Well, one is a thing that has happened, and one is a thing that hasn't happened.

New comment by crimsoneer in "DeepSeek v4"

crimsoneer — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:06:20 +0000

The word you're looking for is dictatorship, and it is not new.

New comment by crimsoneer in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

crimsoneer — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:26:33 +0000

I suspect the difference is working in continental Europe...?

New comment by crimsoneer in "Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it"

crimsoneer — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:05:41 +0000

... isn't this how most bars/pubs work?

New comment by crimsoneer in "Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it"

crimsoneer — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:05:07 +0000

As a society, we broadly agree shops should check ID before selling kids alcohol. It is not that crazy to extend that online.

New comment by crimsoneer in "Introduction to Obsidian"

crimsoneer — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:01:59 +0000

As everyone has learnt the hard way, when you have a long to-do list, you will be tempted to suddenly spring clean your room, and it will make you temporarily feel productive... but it will not, in fact, shrink your to-do list.

Making an elaborate Obsidian setup is very much the same instinct.

New comment by crimsoneer in "Happy Map"

crimsoneer — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:41:24 +0000

Pudding continue to be awesome. I'm so glad they exist.

New comment by crimsoneer in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

crimsoneer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:05:54 +0000

Quite, given Claude is down this morning...

New comment by crimsoneer in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

crimsoneer — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:04:32 +0000

You get a single call a month. Use it wisely.

New comment by crimsoneer in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

crimsoneer — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:43:38 +0000

... are we saying government should never use any corporate to deliver services? Not Outlook? No Google Workspace? No AWS? I am so confused.