Hacker News: fluidcruft

New comment by fluidcruft in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

fluidcruft — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:21:00 +0000

Seems like they could have had a warrant in that case.

New comment by fluidcruft in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

fluidcruft — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:42:29 +0000

Destroyed evidence of what?

New comment by fluidcruft in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

fluidcruft — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:51:07 +0000

I'm more on the clinical physics side building tools for scanner/equipment QA and data handling/workflow automation/de-identification and anonymization but I also build random little tools to help optimize acquisition parameters.

New comment by fluidcruft in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

fluidcruft — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:42:13 +0000

I haven't had a chance to try Opus 5 yet but Fable currently refuses to do anything in my field (radiology image analysis). It didn't used to be that way but that has been the reality the last two weeks or so. Fable has been useless they might as well drop it as far as I am concerned.

New comment by fluidcruft in "OSS-SEC: 432 Linux kernel CVEs (in less than 32 hours)"

fluidcruft — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:21:35 +0000

Is anyone at Debian paid to keep up with this spigot of CVEs?

New comment by fluidcruft in "The US grocery slowdown is real"

fluidcruft — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:43:02 +0000

There's also a screwworm outbreak going on.

New comment by fluidcruft in "The US grocery slowdown is real"

fluidcruft — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:21:38 +0000

Yeah it's real rocket science at work here. Grocery bill keeps going up and less and lower quality food comes home. It's a real mystery.

New comment by fluidcruft in "GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps"

fluidcruft — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:29:00 +0000

For the same reasons you replied to my comment

New comment by fluidcruft in "GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps"

fluidcruft — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:59:40 +0000

It is just horrible writing style. It doesn't particularly matter that AI wrote it.

New comment by fluidcruft in "GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps"

fluidcruft — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:58:41 +0000

Yeah, I can't figure out where this "voice" comes from and it is so impossible to get rid of. It is so grating.

New comment by fluidcruft in "We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps"

fluidcruft — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:10:42 +0000

And why not Sonnet?

New comment by fluidcruft in "Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches"

fluidcruft — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:45:59 +0000

Any Apple kit for your kids is completely useless if you yourself don't use Apple crap.

New comment by fluidcruft in "America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report"

fluidcruft — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:30:33 +0000

You can buy the same food here.

New comment by fluidcruft in "America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report"

fluidcruft — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:10:06 +0000

What food does Europe have that the US does not?

New comment by fluidcruft in "America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report"

fluidcruft — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:00:41 +0000

The Mississippi river. Few understand what an advantage that river is.

New comment by fluidcruft in "CarPlay Is Additive"

fluidcruft — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:30:13 +0000

I use Android Auto a lot when traveling in rental cars. The alternative is annoying. With Android Auto, I at least know how to navigate and play audio with minimal effort. Otherwise I just use my phone and in a rental I typically don't have a mount so it's annoying because my phone discovers new and unexpected places to hide. First world problems, I know.

New comment by fluidcruft in "CarPlay Is Additive"

fluidcruft — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 05:24:13 +0000

Is Siri this horrible? I do most of picking music with Gemini. How are you not distracted from driving while scrolling through things?

New comment by fluidcruft in "Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself"

fluidcruft — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:14:00 +0000

That's among the reasons why I said I will wait for a kit.

New comment by fluidcruft in "Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself"

fluidcruft — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:45:38 +0000

When they get to the point of shipping a kit, why would I care? It's open source, just fix things. It's not rocket science, I'm just no good at working out the baseline machine that has parts to do the things. So I can't help at this point.

I don't expect a finished product. The value to me is the customizability and figuring out how to make it do what I want it to do. I'm sure that's not for everyone but like I have fingers. I can type. I can fix things. Slop is perfectly fine as a first draft because I'm envisioning a community of builders not a bunch of entitled twats who should just buy a Roomba.

New comment by fluidcruft in "Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself"

fluidcruft — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:30:47 +0000

Agreed. I can code so I don't care whether it's vibecoded or whatever to bootstrap. Them working on designing hardware is what matters to me. I'll definitely keep an eye out for the kit, I don't have a lot of patience for hunting parts but would love to play with this.