Hacker News: echelon_musk

New comment by echelon_musk in "'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth"

echelon_musk — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:17:05 +0000

I wonder where else the oldest land animal could be, if not on Earth?

New comment by echelon_musk in "macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess"

echelon_musk — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:14:52 +0000

macOS 15 is the last usable release.

I switched from Linux to macOS but the lack of QA is going to force me back to Linux once security updates stop for Sequoia.

New comment by echelon_musk in "500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive"

echelon_musk — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:54:06 +0000

> foul swoop

It's "fell swoop".

New comment by echelon_musk in "I am done with this shit"

echelon_musk — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:51:37 +0000

Nice. A Claude bot summarises the comments of people complaining about Claude so you don't have to read them!

New comment by echelon_musk in "There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027"

echelon_musk — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:52:55 +0000

Sadly there are no more iPhone SE models so this strategy won't work forever. Eventually iOS 18 will stop getting security updates and you'll have to use the increasingly worse newer versions of iOS.

New comment by echelon_musk in "DJ Shadow looks back at "Entroducing" and other early work"

echelon_musk — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:37:31 +0000

For production, I believe only as far as Psyence Fiction. He was signed to James Lavelle's Mo Wax label.

New comment by echelon_musk in "Vibe Coding is the new Internet Dating?"

echelon_musk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:51:54 +0000

> all human-written code in the future will be 100% human written

New comment by echelon_musk in "Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough"

echelon_musk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:40:05 +0000

Terrifying.

New comment by echelon_musk in "Part-human part-mouse brain developed in science breakthrough"

echelon_musk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:39:32 +0000

The mice can walk, it's not like they're vegetables.

New comment by echelon_musk in "UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)"

echelon_musk — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:36:19 +0000

Afghanistan.

New comment by echelon_musk in "9th Circuit sides with states in Kalshi gambling fight"

echelon_musk — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:29:31 +0000

Seems like something there could be a prediction market for on Kalshi.

New comment by echelon_musk in "Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights"

echelon_musk — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:33:48 +0000

Nit pick; cutting (adulterating) cocaine doesn't produce crack cocaine.

New comment by echelon_musk in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

echelon_musk — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:30:18 +0000

With no third party apps you can set an iPhone to wipe itself after 10 failed passcode attempts.

New comment by echelon_musk in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

echelon_musk — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:24:14 +0000

> ...making an encrypted image of the phone on said drive... refuse to unlock the drive

How is this any different than refusing to unlock the phone? It just seems you've added unnecessary extra steps.

New comment by echelon_musk in "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)"

echelon_musk — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:40:46 +0000

> A genuine mystic revelation would mean, in my opinion, something that cannot be explained by the laws of physics

Exactly this can happen, whilst also being labelled schizophrenia.

New comment by echelon_musk in "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)"

echelon_musk — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:39:49 +0000

The insight is not into either state but toward the relation of the states.

New comment by echelon_musk in "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick by R. Crumb (1986)"

echelon_musk — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:18:38 +0000

> it's weird how many stories of mental hallucinations are tied to the music of the Beatles

I think Lennon once made the claim that he had taken acid 1000 times. So it lines up.

New comment by echelon_musk in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

echelon_musk — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:09:36 +0000

OP please submit the filter to an upstream uBlock filter list.

New comment by echelon_musk in "Every exterior shot in The Taking of Pelham 123"

echelon_musk — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:18:17 +0000

> The guy who's talking's got a heavy English accent. He could be a fruitcake

Always amuses me. Great film.

New comment by echelon_musk in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

echelon_musk — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:57:51 +0000

> anonymous travel... died when they made bank cards and contactless the primary way to get through the barriers.

You can buy an Oyster card with cash and top it up with cash from machines at almost every station.

It's still possible to travel somewhat anonymously this way.

You can still use paper tickets if you're worried about your Oyster card being de-anonymised. But as you say, that is not the primary way of travel anymore.

Edit: Points already stated by windowliker: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256399