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New comment by duckmysick in "Security Disclosure"

duckmysick — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:40:07 +0000

I think they mean VPN as in WireGuard where each customer would have a separate private network to the service provider. This way the service wouldn't be exposed to the public Internet.

New comment by duckmysick in "How employment is changing at Anthropic"

duckmysick — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:32:29 +0000

What happens to that understanding when you're gone?

New comment by duckmysick in "Gemini 4 Argon"

duckmysick — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:07:07 +0000

I remember a submission a few years ago about a guy asking others to sketch bikes. Most of the time the drawn bikes wouldn't be rideable.

https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17699017

New comment by duckmysick in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

duckmysick — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:16:34 +0000

As an aside, I often wonder how would classics like Mythical Man-Month or Project Phoenix would be (re)written today.

New comment by duckmysick in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

duckmysick — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:40:25 +0000

Vibecoded apps will have to include MCP servers so the LLM agents can interact with them directly.

New comment by duckmysick in "Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop"

duckmysick — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:38:54 +0000

Not necessarily 6, but KDE Connect is such a seamless experience of integrating your phone with your computer out of the box. Sharing clipboard, files, notifications, controlling cursor and keyboard from your phone, controlling media - all of that just works really well, without online accounts, on your local network.

Sure, there's Apple Continuity, but looks like it was released 2014 (KDE Connect - 2013) and it's tightly locked to the Apple ecosystem. And yes, the 2013 version doesn't have the same feature parity or stability as the current one, but that's ok because we're not discussing bugfixes or polish.

It's innovative enough that GSConnect is the Gnome implementation of the KDE Connect.

New comment by duckmysick in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

duckmysick — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:14:31 +0000

I'm not familiar with MLB, only with NBA. But even their "ad-free" really isn't - there are still ad banners inside the arenas, on the court itself, and on the jerseys, the announcers often read ads ("this segment was brought to you by ..."), and if there is arena feed during the regular breaks, the in-arena events like a half-court shot are often sponsored as well. Plus there's standard service ads that announce next games.

Unless MLB blurs/bleeps all of these, it's not really ad-free.

New comment by duckmysick in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

duckmysick — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:12:27 +0000

There were lots of tumblr blogs (now defunct) that ridiculed Comic Sans used in signs and posters. Later on the same thing happened to the Lobster font.

Reasons were the same as now: low effort and overuse.

New comment by duckmysick in "I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant"

duckmysick — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:11:09 +0000

So did you have two rooms with the same objects in them but different temperature swings, over a long period of time, and then compared?

What's the baseline and what's the safe delta?

New comment by duckmysick in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

duckmysick — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:06:41 +0000

I actually used two things:

1 - the search function on the S&P Global site: https://www.spglobal.com/en/search#q=nike&rows=10&pagenum=1&...

For me, right now the latest result is from Feb 27, 2026

2 - Google search with this query: `site:spglobal.com Nike`

Even when I limited the search results to the last month, the only page that shows for me is https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en but I'm not sure why - it doesn't have anything to do with it.

I see now your link, thanks. I have no idea why it's not indexed in the site's own search or why it's skipped for me in Google. Interestingly, I just checked the same query on Bing and it's there, but not in the top.

Did you find a page that lists all the companies on S&P 100 in a simple table?

New comment by duckmysick in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

duckmysick — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:06:42 +0000

I wanted to check the primary source so I went to (what looks like) the official S&P website and their S&P 100 section at https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/equity/sp-100/

I can't find any press release about it. And the Constituents section lists only 10 of them, so I can't check who is there. I even checked the PDFs with methodology but couldn't find the list there.

I even tried to limit the search on Google to spglobal.com domain and I can see this in the result preview: "Constituents. Top 10 Constituents by Index Weight. Full Constituents List. Constituent. Symbol. Sector*. Sector Breakdown." But when I click it, Full Constituents List is nowhere on the page.

What's going on? Am I missing something obvious?

New comment by duckmysick in "I Added a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant"

duckmysick — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:30:04 +0000

In some countries there are devices supporting the OpenTherm protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTherm https://www.opentherm.eu/

New comment by duckmysick in "I Added a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant"

duckmysick — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:25:55 +0000

Isn't the thermal cycling greater outdoor than indoor because of the differences in the outdoor temperature between day and night? So most ordinary materials indoors should be fine with a delta of even 10 Kelvins/10 Celsius/18 F.

All of the material thermal failures I can think of come from localized and more extreme sources: electronics, lightbulbs, washing/drying clothes, washing dishes in a dishwasher. Water below freezing point too, but that's because the temperature fell below a threshold. None of these are from heating or cooling rooms directly with HVAC.

New comment by duckmysick in "Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 clipboard"

duckmysick — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:10:33 +0000

Let's assume I have control of my own computer. On this computer with Linux and X11, how do I restrict programs (such as Zoom client) from accessing the clipboard?

New comment by duckmysick in "Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

duckmysick — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:14:17 +0000

Would something like that be better? https://jsfiddle.net/hs03xbuo/

I deleted the stylesheet, removed the duplicate FAQ section, and reworded a few sentences.

New comment by duckmysick in "Nitter project received cease and desist"

duckmysick — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:17:19 +0000

Not anymore. Here's what shows on their page:

> On Monday 24th August at 8PM EST, we received at letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel. The service XCancel is stopped until further notice. We are seeking legal advice and won't share more details for now. Thank you for the trust you have put in these two years of XCancel.

New comment by duckmysick in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

duckmysick — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:33:52 +0000

So what's your technology stack? Which criteria did you use when choosing it instead?

New comment by duckmysick in "Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload"

duckmysick — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:44:05 +0000

10,000 requests times 0.05 cents (not dollars) = 500 cents = 5 dollars.

New comment by duckmysick in "Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief"

duckmysick — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:37:02 +0000

The industry/consulting term is "digital twin". Nothing off the shelf, since every plant is different. Even for a single process it gets complicated really fast. You probably want to track the environment itself too like temperature, humidity, leaks, etc. All the machinery and if they don't have necessary sensors, gotta retrofit them. Oh and human workers too. Stuff like "John Doe pressed a manual override button at 9:25 AM" or "it takes 12 minutes for a forklift operator to move a pallet from zone A to C".

I was involved in a project that made such a twin for a warehouse. It was simpler in theory because there was no manufacturing process. Just moving objects from one place to another. It was still expensive and took a long time. We tracked traffic heatmap but also collected data on and modelled luminosity for safety. On top of that there was a standard warehouse space optimization.

You're going to run into similar problems as with testing and documenting code. Eventually something will change - a process, a machine, a sensor. You have to stay on top of things and update your model too. Otherwise they will drift apart and not be as useful.

New comment by duckmysick in "I won't read LLM authored fiction"

duckmysick — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:14:14 +0000

For fun, I pasted a few Matt Levine's newsletters into the AI Vetter on the above page. Since it can't fetch the Bloomberg's paged directly, I had to copy the content into Github gists.

4 out of 5 were marked as suspicious, mostly citing short punching sentences, negative parallelism, and content duplication.