Hacker News: fergbrain

New comment by fergbrain in "Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery"

fergbrain — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:19:23 +0000

This looks amazing! How long did it take to get to this state?

New comment by fergbrain in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

fergbrain — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 03:21:35 +0000

Blessed Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ

New comment by fergbrain in "They Travel the World–and Cheat Death–For License Plates"

fergbrain — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:25:29 +0000

https://archive.ph/kuVCe

New comment by fergbrain in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

fergbrain — Sun, 11 May 2025 04:01:58 +0000

> “their other services widely available for free”

None of their services are free. You just pay for them in other ways, even if you don’t realize it.

New comment by fergbrain in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

fergbrain — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 19:13:24 +0000

The issue is that there’s nothing that requires prosecution, just allows it.

This is the doubled edged nature of prosecutorial discretion.

New comment by fergbrain in "All CDC data is no longer visible to comply with executive orders"

fergbrain — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 01:30:29 +0000

Is this malicious compliance or is the data all really in violation of the EO?

New comment by fergbrain in "Show HN: New search engine and free-FOIA-by-fax-via-web for US veteran records"

fergbrain — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 13:10:07 +0000

Thanks for your efforts in liberating this data so that Ancestry.com isn’t the only ones with it!

Reminds me a bit muckrock.com as well.

New comment by fergbrain in "Lyft launches a rider verification pilot program"

fergbrain — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:02:16 +0000

Traditional taxi services haven’t needed this feature, why does Lyft?

Is there a way I can opt out, short of deleting my account?

New comment by fergbrain in "Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules"

fergbrain — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 16:46:26 +0000

I wonder if this ruling could also force the courts to start addressing unconstitutional civil forfeiture

New comment by fergbrain in "Vulnerable transistors threaten to upend Europa Clipper mission"

fergbrain — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 22:55:15 +0000

Did Infineon not issue a GIDEP Notice for these parts?

If not, does that mean that maybe NASA is using them outside of their designed spec?

Nebula is assembling a crew for a heist

fergbrain — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:55:01 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.nebula.tv/facts-fiction/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39759630

Points: 2

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New comment by fergbrain in "Building a DIY CT/CAT scanner for $200 [video]"

fergbrain — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 06:31:29 +0000

Ben from Applied Science did this 11 years ago too: https://youtu.be/hF3V-GHiJ78?si=I6xH7WrrqVaDK-Hv

New comment by fergbrain in "How big is YouTube?"

fergbrain — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 04:07:35 +0000

Isn’t this just a variation of the Monte Carlo method?

New comment by fergbrain in "Synology MFA Fails if Internet is down"

fergbrain — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 20:34:44 +0000

Barclays calls it a PINsentry card reader

New comment by fergbrain in "Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out"

fergbrain — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 15:33:32 +0000

This! 100%

The people who sign up to help (such as myself) want to help. Honestly, my frustration is that I don’t get asked enough.

New comment by fergbrain in "Apple’s failure to build a key part for its new iPhones"

fergbrain — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 03:44:00 +0000

NB: News+ only comes with the Premier level of Apple One, not with the Individual or Family tiers.

New comment by fergbrain in "How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home?"

fergbrain — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 14:41:36 +0000

I have separate accounts for work and home.

I have my work account as a member of the family group, and that seems to work well.

New comment by fergbrain in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

fergbrain — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 02:01:23 +0000

https://AndrewFerguson.net - used to be more of a diary way back when, but now more of a place to share non-work related technical stuff I’ve been doing

New comment by fergbrain in "Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way"

fergbrain — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 22:23:06 +0000

The door can still be designed to open outward and also able to be unlatched from the inside: those aren’t mutually exclusive properties.

New comment by fergbrain in "Track HN: Survival Rate of Show HN Stories"

fergbrain — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 13:27:18 +0000

What about low ranking Show HN that did survive?