Hacker News: foobarian

New comment by foobarian in "I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic"

foobarian — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:52:13 +0000

Makes one want to build a parallel web based on web of trust.

New comment by foobarian in "New Apple TV 4K"

foobarian — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:58:58 +0000

I would love to have something that can have a snappy UI. I don't even care about resolution, I'd happily keep everything at 720p as long as the UI didn't take seconds to react.

New comment by foobarian in "CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades"

foobarian — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:21:42 +0000

Half the congress would be in jail for insider trading if this was taken seriously.

New comment by foobarian in "Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X"

foobarian — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:57:15 +0000

I hope you are right. I've been waiting for GPU prices to ease off ever since ASIC mining took off.

New comment by foobarian in "Theranos.world"

foobarian — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:26:09 +0000

At the very least I would love a driving simulation based on that data. That way I can practice driving in weird neighborhoods without the stress

New comment by foobarian in "Theranos.world"

foobarian — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:24:27 +0000

Wow. Do execs really talk/communicate like this in normal companies???

New comment by foobarian in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

foobarian — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:45:06 +0000

It could be incompetent malice.

New comment by foobarian in "Forever junior: Skills AI can't develop for you"

foobarian — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:04:23 +0000

If I could have a dollar for every casual strcpy in my DIY libraries I would be a rich man. And would never dare to put them in the line of fire of unwashed Internet :-)

New comment by foobarian in "Forever junior: Skills AI can't develop for you"

foobarian — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:02:50 +0000

Terry Tao has a term for this I liked quite a bit, "productive struggle"

New comment by foobarian in "PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace"

foobarian — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:25:34 +0000

Many multiplayer games are worth playing on PS5 because there is less cheating. Due to stronger software integrity protections. Oh...

New comment by foobarian in "House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k"

foobarian — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:18:08 +0000

That is still an impressive water table. I wish ours was that low :-)

New comment by foobarian in "Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services"

foobarian — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:22:13 +0000

How much does a /24 go for these days anyway...

New comment by foobarian in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

foobarian — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:11:21 +0000

The vibe I get is like when the Meta VR app store product launched, and there was huge promises and optimism about all the amazing apps and experiences, but when you bought it and actually tried, it was a few juiced up flagship things and a bunch of shovelware.

New comment by foobarian in "Direct retinal projection display for smart glasses using a meta-optic mirror"

foobarian — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:20:18 +0000

OK sooo... is there a way to get investors to cover the legal costs?

Or just outright sell the patents to a competing big company and let them duke it out. Now at least you end up with some money.

New comment by foobarian in "Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics"

foobarian — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:24:29 +0000

How the heck do you even climb this. I don't see any places to grab hold? There are gaps between the cubes I guess but those seem awfully smooth and slippery...

New comment by foobarian in "Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?"

foobarian — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:32:28 +0000

Really wonder if corporal punishment wasn't such a bad idea after all

New comment by foobarian in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

foobarian — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:20:30 +0000

This almost reminds me of the Ancien regime mess with a million different taxes and fees on everything

New comment by foobarian in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

foobarian — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:16:16 +0000

Could be zero orders too if they are fulfilling a back order

New comment by foobarian in "The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy"

foobarian — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:03:07 +0000

As Arturo Salazar said, "Addicts? They treat themselves... they overdose, and there is one less to worry about." Dark movie

New comment by foobarian in "Attention is all you have"

foobarian — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 21:45:07 +0000

I did this for a couple of years but after my mileage didn't budge regardless of summer/winter/car age/mechanical work I got bored and stopped recording :-)