Hacker News: eddyfromtheblok

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

eddyfromtheblok — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:37:29 +0000

Ronan Farrow, one of the journalists who worked on this article, talked to Katie Couric on her YouTube channel about this. They worked on this across ~18 months. I thought this interview was illuminating.

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Verizon outages reported across U.S."

eddyfromtheblok — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:38:26 +0000

feelin bitch-at, frfr

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing"

eddyfromtheblok — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:01:56 +0000

Yes, and on top of this, having MCP servers that can reference AWS docs and terraform provider docs has been a godsend

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device"

eddyfromtheblok — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 07:32:50 +0000

Probably referring to particulate matter. The AirGradient measures PM2.5. I happen to have an air purifier near my W/D and it catches a lot of lint in the prefilter.

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford"

eddyfromtheblok — Fri, 09 May 2025 01:47:39 +0000

probably java, i doubt decision makers want a rewrite unless they want to bring in hungry young developers and accept some hiccoughs

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Potatoes in the Mail"

eddyfromtheblok — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 17:21:21 +0000

whoa whoa whoa. you can't post multimillion startup ideas on here FOR FREE! somebody's probably registered pota.to already!

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Russia Is Using Bitcoin and Crypto for Its Oil Trades with China and India"

eddyfromtheblok — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:44:00 +0000

The author's surname is "Bitcoin". Sounds like a ringing endorsement

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "The Anti-Social Century"

eddyfromtheblok — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:18:26 +0000

since this article is US focused, 66% of households own pets. People would rather hang out with their pets. People bring their dogs to shop and people used to bring them to bars in the late 2010s.

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "A man keeping hope, and 70-year-old pinball machines, alive"

eddyfromtheblok — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:55:48 +0000

Nice to see, but this is a recurring motif specific to pinball and maybe other vintage tech, where a seasoned operator has years of experience that isn't written down. Memory fades, knowledge decays, even if you have an apprentice or someone from the next generation willing to buy your business, certainly some knowledge about some vintage of technology could be lost forever. You can pull parts out of the pinball junkyard but there are some electronic components for the early solid state era that just aren't made anymore, the proprietor of Great Plains Electronics could find updated parts from Mouser, for example, that match or exceeded the original spec, but he has retired. It's a challenging environment to keep a business like that going.

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Test"

eddyfromtheblok — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 21:15:49 +0000

Pronounced ass-fass-fass-tan. Their inhabitants are called asfasfastanians.

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "The Curse of Recursion: Training on generated data makes models forget (2023)"

eddyfromtheblok — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 16:08:39 +0000

Right. Google already has a solution https://deepmind.google/technologies/synthid/ Everyone insists on training theirs to look human generated so the horses have left the stable on this

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "NSA releases 1982 Grace Hopper lecture"

eddyfromtheblok — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:50:55 +0000

yes, this applies anywhere the land has changed hands. who knows what a farmer or rancher used the land for before they sold it to a housing developer? or did a previous homeowner use pesticides or herbicides that have since been banned?

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era Announced for 2025"

eddyfromtheblok — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 09:09:31 +0000

I played the first two on an Apple IIc clone. It came with map templates to encourage you to map dungeons and towns out with pencil and paper. Feels more immersive, in retrospect, to have to organize your own satchel of maps when you needed to revisit an area

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email"

eddyfromtheblok — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:32:22 +0000

I used to use mutt and bind a keyboard shortcut to pipe HTML messages to w3m.

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google"

eddyfromtheblok — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 06:20:07 +0000

Wasn’t the G+ push a response to Facebook’s popularity, that they feared losing out on ad revenue?

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Defcon stiffs badge HW vendor, drags FW author offstage during talk"

eddyfromtheblok — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 07:14:33 +0000

Sounds like a fiasco. Have to wonder why parts and subcontractors aren't getting paid

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright"

eddyfromtheblok — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 07:34:01 +0000

Crowdsource it with a browser extension

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Game Informer shutting down after 33 years"

eddyfromtheblok — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 08:54:22 +0000

30 years ago, there was usenet and the rec.games.* newsgroups. Some FAQ writers from that time are still highly regarded within the current scenes in those games

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "Telegram zero-day allowed sending malicious Android APKs as videos"

eddyfromtheblok — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 12:28:28 +0000

This actually is not that uncommon, as there has always has been a subset of tech savvy users who want to run APKs not approved in the android market. I forwarded this to a few of them based on your comment, so thank you..

New comment by eddyfromtheblok in "FedEx's Secretive Police Force Is Helping Cops Build a Car Surveillance Network"

eddyfromtheblok — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:41:11 +0000

https://archive.ph/kAqss