Hacker News: echelon_musk

New comment by echelon_musk in "UK police officer under criminal investigation over alleged use of AI"

echelon_musk — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:12:45 +0000

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48520807

New comment by echelon_musk in "Making Claude a Chemist"

echelon_musk — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:15:01 +0000

Why wouldn't the US gov. outlaw the open source models?

New comment by echelon_musk in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

echelon_musk — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:23:26 +0000

I'd be surprised if you did it as a Debian user!

New comment by echelon_musk in "Using the Epson Perfection V39 II Scanner on Ubuntu"

echelon_musk — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:15:02 +0000

The product name is mildly amusing. After 39 iterations and 2 revisions, I wonder if every previous version bore the Perfect moniker.

New comment by echelon_musk in "Keygen.music"

echelon_musk — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:41:01 +0000

Simpler times.

New comment by echelon_musk in "Keygen.music"

echelon_musk — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:30:07 +0000

This is a nice collection from the ReclusiveLemming YouTube channel [0] . The video description contains download links to the original tracker modules and an MP3 mix.

I used to listen to these modules with Xmp Mod Player [1] from F-Droid on my commute to work with my Nexus 4.

Many of the modules contain "hidden" messages that the Android app made easy to read.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=GH7eUlri4yM

[1] https://f-droid.org/packages/org.helllabs.android.xmp/

New comment by echelon_musk in "All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)"

echelon_musk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:55:28 +0000

Stations, surely?!

New comment by echelon_musk in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

echelon_musk — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:53:27 +0000

There's no dialect of English in which this is correct.

New comment by echelon_musk in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

echelon_musk — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:45:31 +0000

Same. noTunes works perfectly. There's no need to reinvent the wheel.

New comment by echelon_musk in "Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements"

echelon_musk — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:40:13 +0000

At nearly £500 a year is an FT subscription worth it? Am I going to get invaluable stock tips that will cover the sub?!

New comment by echelon_musk in "UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases"

echelon_musk — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:28:58 +0000

> How the UK Security Services neutralised ‘The Guardian’ newspaper (2019) (dailymaverick.co.za)

> 3 points by indigodaddy on June 2, 2023 | past | 1 comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36170406

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-09-11-how-the-u...

New comment by echelon_musk in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

echelon_musk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:33:42 +0000

> I’m 59 now (but still feel as smart as a 21 year old)

Any tips?

New comment by echelon_musk in "Three Ways to Get Paid"

echelon_musk — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:49:21 +0000

Fruit picker.

New comment by echelon_musk in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

echelon_musk — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:41:52 +0000

If they're shouting at neighbours through a wall I'd be willing to bet that the dialogue is happening because of loud copyrighted music being played at the same time. They probably just did some automated music detection and cut the whole audio track in those sections.

Edit: I lost the bet and there's no notable music involved: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pu8-dxRkoTI

New comment by echelon_musk in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

echelon_musk — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:02:44 +0000

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the bosses ever done for us?

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

echelon_musk — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:40:22 +0000

On the road again

New comment by echelon_musk in "Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers"

echelon_musk — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:05:35 +0000

You're not the first.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45247396

New comment by echelon_musk in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

echelon_musk — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:22:10 +0000

New comment by echelon_musk in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

echelon_musk — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:23:35 +0000

Try shooting a tank with a 9mm.

New comment by echelon_musk in "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"

echelon_musk — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:21:40 +0000

If by OSX you mean macOS, yes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45928363