Hacker News: darkstar999

New comment by darkstar999 in "Claude for Legal"

darkstar999 — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:47:33 +0000

Yes, they are just text-based "skills" that you are free to change to your liking.

New comment by darkstar999 in "Regex Blaster"

darkstar999 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:14:49 +0000

What evidence do you have that this is vibe coded?

New comment by darkstar999 in "WFH is becoming a benefit again"

darkstar999 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:05:39 +0000

> Virtual meetings are significantly worse than in-person

The problem is that "in-person" meetings are still Zoom calls for those that didn't come in, so it's the worst of both worlds.

New comment by darkstar999 in "Digg is gone again"

darkstar999 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:17:11 +0000

I don't know if they used AI but there were two "lastly" sentences right next to each other so at the very least it wasn't well edited.

New comment by darkstar999 in "Show HN: Channel Surfer – Watch YouTube like it’s cable TV"

darkstar999 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:38:03 +0000

These are great! I wish I could use them on Roku or Android tv.

New comment by darkstar999 in "MacBook Neo"

darkstar999 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:17:25 +0000

How can 30k tabs even be useful? What are you doing? That is ridiculous.

New comment by darkstar999 in "Hegseth Announces Grok Access to Classified Pentagon Networks"

darkstar999 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:03:37 +0000

Jane Harman was a "conservative Blue Dog Democrat", with Blue Dogs already being on the conservative side of Democrats. How are you asserting that she was radical?

New comment by darkstar999 in "Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android"

darkstar999 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:09:22 +0000

A little dramatic? You can stop using it if it becomes something you don't like.

New comment by darkstar999 in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

darkstar999 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:32:10 +0000

They've jacked the base price up from ~21k to ~27k. Certainly not almost twice the price.

New comment by darkstar999 in "Gov Shutdown: US Army is advising its soldiers in Germany to go to food banks"

darkstar999 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:12:17 +0000

It's true.

https://home.army.mil/bavaria/about/shutdown-guidance#:~:tex...

edit: they have removed it in the minute since I posted this comment?

Archive.org still has it (see the section at the bottom "Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags"): https://web.archive.org/web/20251105103925/https://home.army...

New comment by darkstar999 in "I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack"

darkstar999 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:59:18 +0000

If you substitute just that one section with ripping CDs/vinyl you own it's still interesting.

New comment by darkstar999 in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

darkstar999 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:42:45 +0000

> Although an instrument of the U.S. government, the Federal Reserve System considers itself "an independent central bank because its monetary policy decisions do not have to be approved by the president or by anyone else in the executive or legislative branches of government, it does not receive funding appropriated by Congress, and the terms of the members of the board of governors span multiple presidential and congressional terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve

New comment by darkstar999 in "Show HN: Satoshi9000 analog BTC key generator (mechanical)"

darkstar999 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:33:37 +0000

The video says 128 cycles. Each cycle is 30 seconds, so it would take 64 minutes.

New comment by darkstar999 in "Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)"

darkstar999 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:52:09 +0000

The pay plan is "pre-order", the features don't exist yet.

New comment by darkstar999 in "I forked SteamOS for my living room PC"

darkstar999 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 18:47:29 +0000

No way steam deck users should be expected to boot a live distro to fix a botched upgrade. It needs to be seamless and behind the curtain.

New comment by darkstar999 in "The midwit home"

darkstar999 — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 23:26:38 +0000

I’m interested in this. Does this require a hardware zwave controller or does the lock talk directly to home assistant?

New comment by darkstar999 in "Hackers claim it only took a 10-minute phone call to shut down MGM Resorts"

darkstar999 — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 23:10:14 +0000

Well a lot of people go there on business.

New comment by darkstar999 in "Arduino raises $22M Series B round"

darkstar999 — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 14:22:53 +0000

How is that a nail in the coffin?

New comment by darkstar999 in "Experts fear crooks are cracking keys stolen in LastPass breach"

darkstar999 — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:42:14 +0000

Vendor lock-in.

New comment by darkstar999 in "Show HN: Extract an RSS feed from almost anything"

darkstar999 — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 19:49:20 +0000

I recently installed self-hosted FreshRSS, an rss reader which can _create_ rss feeds from sites that don't provide them using techniques like xpath selectors.

https://www.freshrss.org