Hacker News: garyfirestorm

New comment by garyfirestorm in "US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system"

garyfirestorm — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:17:33 +0000

I don’t think courts care about technicality here. They’re going to simply ask “why didn’t it unlock like a normal phone does” -> aka you’re deliberately hiding evidence from us.

I’m sure this case will be dropped because it will open bigger can of worms and may jeopardize the current practice of warrantless invasive searches at the entry points. Secretly I hope this goes to Supreme Court and once and for all they clarify on “constitution doesn’t apply at the border” piece of thinking

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

garyfirestorm — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:19:01 +0000

if you wear red glasses...

New comment by garyfirestorm in "DOJ Closing Abbott Labs Case Spurs Wider Corporate Crime Retreat"

garyfirestorm — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:51:14 +0000

Parents could file a class action? RICO? How is this any different from organized crime?

New comment by garyfirestorm in "My favorite keyboards"

garyfirestorm — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:33:04 +0000

What are those trackpads/touchpads between the left and right boards? What cables are those that are attached to both the keyboard and trackpad. Looks almost like an Ethernet cable but must be a usbC. Does anyone know the type/brand of the cable.

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle"

garyfirestorm — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:57:43 +0000

Just implant the AirTag on my body and share it with everyone ffs

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

garyfirestorm — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:34:28 +0000

jurisdiction is not dependent just on the person. it is a geographical encapsulation. all people within this boundary are subject to the jurisdiction.

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo"

garyfirestorm — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:37:27 +0000

lol public roads are mapped on Google Maps

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo"

garyfirestorm — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:05:31 +0000

Corruption and transparency are polar opposites

New comment by garyfirestorm in "The Nationwide Backlash Against Cameras Watching Your Car"

garyfirestorm — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:53:06 +0000

I can assure you Stellantis/Ford/GM stack is so bad that it’s nearly useless

New comment by garyfirestorm in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"

garyfirestorm — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:55:27 +0000

It depends. Mediocre doctor in a remote area with right tooling assistance as opposed to no one being available for someone who urgently needs one? Yeah this should be a thing. Should a software bro in NY perform it in dark alley despite having best doctors few blocks away? Maybe not…

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

garyfirestorm — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:04:51 +0000

Let me get this straight. We have a memory shortage due to AI slop which is not really efficient and to solve that problem we need to stop the AI slop and hand write the code.

New comment by garyfirestorm in "ACLU: Do Automatic License Plate Readers violate privacy under the 4th Amendment"

garyfirestorm — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:02:30 +0000

Isn’t tracking part of “search”? wouldn’t you need a warrant or court order to request my cellphone gps data? How is this tracking/search not contradictory to unreasonable search portion of the 4th amendment. The action of tracking and touching flock itself is violation of 4th amendment.

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Big Banana Car"

garyfirestorm — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:19:21 +0000

Wow you waited from 2012 to crack this joke with that username

New comment by garyfirestorm in "ACLU: Do Automatic License Plate Readers violate privacy under the 4th Amendment"

garyfirestorm — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:02:45 +0000

A lower resolution tracking is still tracking though. Spatial resolution is low/fixed doesn’t change the fact that I was tagged using the personally identifiable plate and my movements were tracked across the town. A banal traffic monitoring system watching for cars is different than systematically monitoring each individual’s movement even though it’s not very very precise.

If this were an app - Location sharing by default has been set to 25 miles, I’d prefer it to be OFF.

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]"

garyfirestorm — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:18:19 +0000

Most of large engineering orgs use niche software built for windows. CAD, CAE, many don’t have Linux or Mac versions. See - solidworks, Siemens simcenter, ansys… to name a few. Engineering orgs have to build infrastructure around this and are forced to choose Microslop

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

garyfirestorm — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:05:11 +0000

prompt -> LLM -> flying car should be just around the corner guys!

New comment by garyfirestorm in "OpenAI's June 2026 Report on Malicious Uses of AI [pdf]"

garyfirestorm — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:53:23 +0000

Being very bullish on AI, I am not quite sure why this section is in this report. I have read decent amount of articles/news reports from reputed sources on real impact of AI data centers on electricity prices. For eg. https://youtu.be/iVGTGpKpykM?is=Hr2s386Hxn4yThlt

> The accounts we banned sought to influence two groups of audiences. They primarily targeted US audiences and generated English-language short comments and images claiming that data centers and AI applications were increasing electricity demand and causing higher costs for ordinary Americans…

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

garyfirestorm — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:28:07 +0000

Do they ship internationally

New comment by garyfirestorm in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

garyfirestorm — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:44:10 +0000

Isn’t this already a requirement? Can you really buy a burner phone/sim without providing identifying information?

New comment by garyfirestorm in "Flock license plate reader wrongly linked a San Diego man to a violent crime"

garyfirestorm — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:54:02 +0000

Schrodinger's flock - the 'hit' helped us catch the criminals and the hit is wrong. but we are going ahead with prosecution nonetheless.