Hacker News: exhilaration

New comment by exhilaration in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

exhilaration — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:40:31 +0000

When the authorities do that it's called parallel construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

New comment by exhilaration in "WeatherNext 3"

exhilaration — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:50:49 +0000

The Google daily and hourly forecasts aren't great, but the weather map forecast is excellent. Where does that come from? What's generating the predicted movement of the storm clouds?

New comment by exhilaration in "Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader"

exhilaration — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:07:21 +0000

The comment below yours has a custom fonts section: https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader#custo...

New comment by exhilaration in "Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds"

exhilaration — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 22:53:57 +0000

Great read, other than Europa I wasn't aware of these other candidate ocean moons.

New comment by exhilaration in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

exhilaration — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:31:09 +0000

How do I fix search on OSX? I can never find anything, even when I do the name contains search.

New comment by exhilaration in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"

exhilaration — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:31:13 +0000

FYI I don't see YouTube ads on Android + Firefox mobile + uBlock Origin

New comment by exhilaration in "A Small Telescope That Surprised Me"

exhilaration — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:39:12 +0000

So like others in this thread, I bought a used telescope, a 8" Dobsonian in my case, and it's absolutely massive, like 5 feet tall. Totally different than this SeeStar. And I don't see things like the photos in this article through my telescope. Those nebulas? No way.

So I have to ask - am I getting a more "genuine" viewing experiencing? Are stacking and perhaps AI enhancements reflecting the real night sky? Or is SeeStar/iPhone/Pixel output drifting more towards generative art?

New comment by exhilaration in "Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones"

exhilaration — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:29:21 +0000

Check this out: https://github.com/sammwyy/bleeding

BLEeding is a tool that allows you to jam Bluetooth (BR/EDR) and BLE devices. It can be used to spam DeAuth requests or L2CAP ping requests. It supports Linux, macOS, Windows and Raspberry PI.

New comment by exhilaration in "Risk of transmission of amyloid β pathology via transfused blood products"

exhilaration — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:02:26 +0000

Agreed, this is just dumb and really really hard. Much easier to genetically modify animals like pigs or cows to make compatible blood.

New comment by exhilaration in "Pressed Penny Machine Map"

exhilaration — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:35:09 +0000

No, a lot of the newer machines don't even ask you to put in a penny, they'll provide you one. I bet enough will be stockpiled to last indefinitely.

New comment by exhilaration in "Online clinics and influencers are promoting Cialis as a longevity drug"

exhilaration — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:14:03 +0000

Very interesting. Since you've spent some time thinking about it, what's your hypothesis of the connection between high blood pressure and dementia? Any interesting links you could share?

Maybe high blood pressure causing more pressure in the blood vessels of the brain, leading to a lifetime or decades of cumulative damage?

New comment by exhilaration in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

exhilaration — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:07:34 +0000

For a lot of people, the alternative to GLP-1's is dying of a heart attack in their 50s, or taking decades off their lives by developing type 2 diabetes, or any number of complications from weight-related diseases.

Duress passcode leads to U.S. prosecution of traveler

exhilaration — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:43:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thetravel.com/us-customs-and-border-protection-faces-first-ever-type-incident-after-travelers-phone-search-goes-wrong-due-to-passcode-hack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077773

Points: 8

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New comment by exhilaration in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

exhilaration — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:00:57 +0000

I'm confused, I work at a big giant Fortune 500, we all get GitHub Copilot subscriptionsn - we can switch between OpenAI and Anthropic models with just a click in Visual Studio. There's no stickiness at all. They just made us go through a training after the price hikes about how to choose between models for the best cost/benefit ratio.

New comment by exhilaration in "Organic Maps"

exhilaration — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:55:25 +0000

Google doesn't just scrape websites for store hours, they actually call to confirm them: https://support.google.com/business/answer/7690269?hl=en

New comment by exhilaration in "As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers"

exhilaration — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:23:06 +0000

There was a great episode of the Planet Money podcast a few weeks back that talked about boarding houses https://www.npr.org/2026/06/10/nx-s1-5851902/housing-afforda... they're apparently illegal in most places

New comment by exhilaration in "Immich 3.0"

exhilaration — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:03:44 +0000

Oh wow, it recreates the Google Photos albums? That's the first time I've heard of a tool doing that. I've spent a ton of time organizing my Google Photos albums, that's a big reason I stay with it.

New comment by exhilaration in "GitHub Is Down"

exhilaration — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:29:30 +0000

Our Big Giant Enterprise wants to move all our repos from ADO to GitHub for all the nifty AI features, but I'm told the frequent downtime is a major issue so we're slow-walking the migration.

New comment by exhilaration in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

exhilaration — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:29:51 +0000

FYI my local library in suburban Pennsylvania has a 3D printer for public use. Check yours.

New comment by exhilaration in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

exhilaration — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:57:23 +0000

Prices from OpenAI and Anthropic have really jumped in the past month. I work for a big giant company and our Github co-pilot costs increased as of today, June 1st. Our internal estimates are that our bill will double or triple. How much are we willing to pay? I don't know, but nobody wants to be "left behind".

I think there's actually a big market opportunity here. Somebody, like Dell or HP, should start selling turnkey on-prem LLM servers.