Hacker News: ericpruitt

New comment by ericpruitt in "U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels"

ericpruitt — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:45:58 +0000

Funnily enough, I've run into long time eBay sellers that don't seem to realize this, either (assuming they're not just lying). I've given neutral feedback to people that complained about how I was jeopardizing their shop by ruining their 100% positive feedback rating, and I have to explicitly point out that their rating was unchanged.

New comment by ericpruitt in "U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels"

ericpruitt — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:43:11 +0000

> Note that they’ve sold so much that even 1k neutral ratings are barely registering - they have “100% positive feedback”

I'm pretty sure eBay's neutral ratings never impact the positive feedback rate regardless of how many you get.

New comment by ericpruitt in "I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot"

ericpruitt — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:18:13 +0000

It's the digital equivalent of Morty speaking with the death crystal: https://youtu.be/YjepJlvkdKs?t=51. The crystal shows him how he will die, so he iteratively determines his speech based on whether he sees himself dying with the life he wants.

New comment by ericpruitt in "Brood War Bench"

ericpruitt — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 21:27:54 +0000

Link to the video for the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vsTqNwHquE . I would note the bot is not APM limited, and comments suggest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vsTqNwHquE&lc=UgxBrY4CkuZx7... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vsTqNwHquE&lc=UgyZ0XVFDqzJT...) it's likely using map hacks, both of which make the bot significantly less impressive.

New comment by ericpruitt in "T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees"

ericpruitt — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:35:44 +0000

A lot of monitoring software defaults to displaying hardware temperatures in Celsius regardless of the locale, and I've gotten so accustomed to knowing what a reasonable temperature is for different components that I personally never change the display units.

New comment by ericpruitt in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

ericpruitt — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:19:09 +0000

That would be a legal nightmare. They don't necessarily know what customers' data residency requirements are.

New comment by ericpruitt in "Factoring RSA 260"

ericpruitt — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:44:35 +0000

Yes. Most cloud provider bill based on wall clock time rather than core time, so you don't get a discount for the machines being idle.

New comment by ericpruitt in "A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found"

ericpruitt — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:35:41 +0000

I have uBlock installed, and I got an overlay wanting me to enter my email address to read the article.

New comment by ericpruitt in "Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes"

ericpruitt — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:29:56 +0000

Because you become responsible for feeding and taking said care of horse and dealing with any technical debt associated with it. If someone submits code to a project that I maintain that's going to make my life difficult in the future, I'm not going to accept it.

New comment by ericpruitt in "OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool"

ericpruitt — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:53:04 +0000

Just because something isn't perfect doesn't mean it's not useful. I've already seen posts online that were able to be proven as falsified because someone ran the images through Google for SynthID checks.

> How old is photoshop and why is it exempt?

For one, it's not developed by Google or OpenAI. The barrier to entry to making realistic but deceptive images with Photoshop is far higher than with AI, and there are already techniques that can, imperfectly, be used to detect the use of traditional image editing.

New comment by ericpruitt in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

ericpruitt — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:49:02 +0000

Amusingly, this post violates Zig's own code of conduct: https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct

> Examples of behavior that contribute to creating a positive environment include:

> - Using welcoming and inclusive language.

> - Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences.

> - Showing empathy towards others.

> - Showing appreciation for others’ work.

New comment by ericpruitt in "Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta"

ericpruitt — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 05:38:33 +0000

Just a warning that some of the search header images are NSFW. After seeing that they were randomized, I starting going through them and got a dildo for one.

EDIT: They've got them listed under an open index on https://4get.ca/banner/ if you want to see them all.

New comment by ericpruitt in "Show HN: Moon Phase Algorithms for C, Lua, Awk, JavaScript, etc."

ericpruitt — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 03:32:58 +0000

I adapted the same moonphase logic for the status line program I use with dwm. Did you run into any discrepancies with using January 0 vs December 31st? Some of the translations of Walker's as noted in my comment at https://github.com/ericpruitt/emus/blob/ea059239845ee6d57614... seem to produce differing results.

New comment by ericpruitt in "When your last name is Null, nothing works"

ericpruitt — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 08:58:32 +0000

It's also a dangerous one. For example, are a number of variants of "a" that are different characters in Unicode but are often indistinguishable in most fonts and/or at small font sizes: https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/confusables.jsp?a=abcde....

New comment by ericpruitt in "Coral USB Accelerator with Google's Edge TPU"

ericpruitt — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:24:21 +0000

AMA? How about, why do you have a fake moon in your backyard?

New comment by ericpruitt in "RISC-V HiFive Premier P550 Development Boards with Ubuntu Now Available"

ericpruitt — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:26:30 +0000

SiFive sent out an email on about the 32GB boards:

> The Grinch struck a little early this year. While the 16GB HIFive Premier P550 boards are in stock at Arrow.com and available now we were so excited to tell you the news we pushed the send button too soon. If you tried to order a 32GB board after yesterday's announcement our distributor is not quite ready. Our sincerest apologies to any of you who experienced difficulties and for multiple emails. We expect this problem to be solved in the next few days and we will send an update as soon as the 32GB boards are available. Thank you for your patience.

New comment by ericpruitt in "Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C"

ericpruitt — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:32:02 +0000

I'm getting the same error. This appears to be the article in question: https://github.com/Jorenar/blog/blob/gh-pages/_posts/2023-02...

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

ericpruitt — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 20:48:15 +0000

If anything, I feel it's the other way around for Mutt. I've been using Mutt for at least 10 years using local mail storage almost exclusively that entire time, and I've never found it to be cumbersome. I tried IMAP at one point, and I was not a fan.

New comment by ericpruitt in "US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements"

ericpruitt — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 05:56:56 +0000

> I can see maybe 1 year or 2 years working for a direct competitor, but 10!

But even that can easily be unreasonable on its own. For example, think of people working at places like Google, Unilever or some other large entity with its hands it every industry you can imagine because just about everyone is their direct competitor in some industry or another.

New comment by ericpruitt in "Google Pixel 9 Pro"

ericpruitt — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 17:50:05 +0000

Do you have a link with more information on the pending changes?