Hacker News: empressplay

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

empressplay — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:58:49 +0000

The Supreme court disagrees with you.

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

empressplay — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:57:36 +0000

The Supreme Court has long recognized a border-search exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. In United States v. Flores-Montano, the Court looked to the nation’s sovereign “interest in protecting . . . its territorial integrity” to justify such searches.3 In United States v. Montoya de Hernandez, the Court stated, somewhat more narrowly, that Congress is the source of the executive’s power. It explained that “[s]ince the founding of our Republic . . . [Congress has] granted the Executive plenary authority to conduct routine searches and seizures at the border, without probable cause or a warrant.” The Commerce Clause permits Congress to authorize the seizure of goods at the border.

https://yalelawjournal.org/forum/customs-immigration-and-rig...

Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it?

empressplay — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:32:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-hard-bread-history-shortage-9.7299276

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49235530

Points: 43

# Comments: 56

New comment by empressplay in "Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak"

empressplay — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:20:52 +0000

About five years ago I flash-fried a frozen steak.

Now I only eat steaks grilled from frozen. Get the grill nice and hot (450F at least) and throw the frozen steak on the grill. 5-10 minutes each side usually gets it nice and crispy on the outside while rare and tender in the middle.

Seriously, try it.

New comment by empressplay in "Join Me in Jamverse"

empressplay — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:35:58 +0000

Half the fun of writing science fiction can be coming up with novel concepts or 'rules', what happens when everything of consequence in the 'Jamverse' has been built out? Will they start a new one?

New comment by empressplay in "Universities would prefer no AI"

empressplay — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:40:08 +0000

The issue is more one of current passive, abstract forms of assessment. This is laziness on the part of instructors. They will simply have to move to more complex, project-based assessments and accompanying interviews, which is more time consuming but will be far more accurate than the more traditional system of assessment was anyway. On sum it will be better for everyone.

World Cup photographer used a 96-year-old camera

empressplay — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:19:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/world-cup-photos-camera-9.7272702

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48958404

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by empressplay in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

empressplay — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:57:59 +0000

Great! Thanks so much, I'll let you know how it goes integrating it :)

New comment by empressplay in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

empressplay — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:52:52 +0000

This is great, and my users (turtlespaces.org) could absolutely use this (we use three and react), but you haven't specified any license?

CNN Lite

empressplay — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:34:12 +0000

Article URL: https://lite.cnn.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794592

Points: 33

# Comments: 3

New comment by empressplay in "British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres"

empressplay — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:58:12 +0000

Don't worry, WA, OR and CA probably aren't far behind.

New comment by empressplay in "British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres"

empressplay — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:57:06 +0000

If we did that the sun would be coming up at 4am right now in Revelstoke. What's the point of the sun being up at 4am?

On the other hand, I don't like it getting dark at 3:30 in the afternoon in Vancouver around Christmas. I know it means it will be darker later in the morning but you wake up in the dark that time of year already anyways.

New comment by empressplay in "Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia"

empressplay — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:15:33 +0000

https://www.gricer.com/tmrc/dictionary1959.html

---The words defined in this dictionary are the property of the Tech

   Model Railroad Club of M. I. T. and all rights to use and define

   these words are strictly reserved.---

ZORCH: to attack with an inverse heat sink.

Another of David Sawyer's sound effects, which I reinterpreted as a colorful variant of "scorch."

BBC cancels Doctor Who Christmas special and Russell T Davies announces exit

empressplay — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:04:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c621ln7vx7qo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476487

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by empressplay in "The Causes of Long Covid"

empressplay — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:58:22 +0000

no you only consume water

New comment by empressplay in "Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering"

empressplay — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:39:19 +0000

I think this should be titled 'YOLO one-shotting is not engineering' which is a far more accurate description of the article.

New comment by empressplay in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

empressplay — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:52:46 +0000

Me too, but I wasn't on AOL or anything long-distance, instead I called local chat systems / BBSes. And because they were local we met up physically as a group at least weekly (almost daily in the summertime).

The summer I was 16 I spent more time away from the computer, hanging out with other teenagers I met on the computer, than I would have otherwise.

New comment by empressplay in "Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web"

empressplay — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:01:17 +0000

Logic Pro allows you to revert to previous saves / auto-saves.

New comment by empressplay in "Childhood Computing"

empressplay — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:32:03 +0000

I was lucky enough to be an autistic kid in the 1980s with access to a steady stream of new and novel computers: Apple II, Sinclair, Commodore, Atari, TI, Macintosh... kept me engaged and off the 'short bus'. If I had been born ten years earlier I'm certain my life would have been dramatically different (in a very bad way).

New comment by empressplay in "An Apple (II) for Teacher"

empressplay — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:47:01 +0000

Related: Steve Wozniak Talks Disk ][ https://paleotronic.com/2018/05/19/steve-wozniak-talks-disk/