Hacker News: dabeeeenster

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Amazon.com Services, LLC vs. Perplexity AI, INC., No. 26-1444 (9th Cir. 2026)"

dabeeeenster — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:16:03 +0000

The summary at the top is 3 paragraphs and not legalese at all.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

dabeeeenster — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:49:35 +0000

The state of parental controls on apple devices is absolutely appalling.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

dabeeeenster — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:39:47 +0000

"Nearby sounds or speech occurring at the same time as a user's command may sometimes appear in speech-recognition results."

"Do not continuously record or transmit"

Soooo....

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE"

dabeeeenster — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:06:02 +0000

Your note is really important! Thanks for adding it. None of us are perfect.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London"

dabeeeenster — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:29:04 +0000

"The following day, he appeared at Marlborough Street Police Court, where he admitted that he had consumed “two or three glasses of beer”."

19th Century version of a few small beers.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

dabeeeenster — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:40:23 +0000

I don't understand how the agents found the urls originally? Did they have some sort of shared context/memory? If they did, why bother with the wiki edits at all? If they didn't, how did they discover the wikis?

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

dabeeeenster — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:00:19 +0000

Qwen3.8

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future"

dabeeeenster — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:56:40 +0000

They really are the grift that keeps on giving.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons"

dabeeeenster — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:50:32 +0000

I used to write that software - the answer is that most of it can be vibe coded in a day now.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Ente – Opening Our Books"

dabeeeenster — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:50:47 +0000

This is great - would love to see more data tho! I guess they are shy to post EBITDA, infra costs?

New comment by dabeeeenster in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

dabeeeenster — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:44:47 +0000

Yes, because government run institutions like the Army and the NHS don't work, do they?

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Britain's prime minister to step down, Burnham puts himself forward as successor"

dabeeeenster — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:16:24 +0000

Rejoin the EU, single market, customs union, drop sterling and take the Euro. This would almost certainly start a civil war in the UK (I am not being dramatic) but its what is needed.

Brexit was -8% GDP, according to Bank of England.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Training our own AI models"

dabeeeenster — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:42:47 +0000

"Training won't start until June 29, so there's plenty of time to decide"

...except, we have made the decision for all the US customers already. Nice.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

dabeeeenster — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:13:14 +0000

Love my x4! I saw 1.3 allows you to bring in your own fonts - any suggestions?

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions so far"

dabeeeenster — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:54:15 +0000

Have you tried using Browserless/similar to scrape around tricky hosts?

New comment by dabeeeenster in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win $34,000 Polymarket bet"

dabeeeenster — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:51:56 +0000

The ingredient you are missing is fraud

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com"

dabeeeenster — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:01:16 +0000

How curious. Are they trying to throw security shade on running open source? Very odd.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

dabeeeenster — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:15:16 +0000

I don't see where they are going to draw the line. If I run 4 sessions in tmux, all connected to claude code, is that OK?

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

dabeeeenster — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:58:44 +0000

I'm on a similar tariff in the UK and just had a 10kwh battery installed which is just amazing for shaving off all the load between 4-7pm. Whole system installed was ~6k GBP and I think my payback time is going to be < 5 years which I'm super pleased with.

New comment by dabeeeenster in "Celebrating Interesting Flickr Technologies"

dabeeeenster — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:19:43 +0000

They didn’t mention feature flags! Their blog post on feature flags was seminal.