Hacker News: gaudystead

New comment by gaudystead in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE"

gaudystead — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:03:54 +0000

Might as well go for the limit and replace the comma with " &" (space ampersand)

New comment by gaudystead in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

gaudystead — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:29:36 +0000

From someone who likely played your work in my younger years, thank you for it!

New comment by gaudystead in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

gaudystead — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:01:12 +0000

I haven't trusted that disable switch for a while now... I'd always had it disabled, but there was one conversation in particular where it referenced a past conversation - despite memory being disabled - and when I asked it why it responded the way it did, it pretended I was mistaken and told me it has no memory of past conversations, even though I could scroll up and see it in the response.

Just because you flip a switch doesn't mean the switch is _actually_ flipped. Same thing goes for turning off wifi/Bluetooth on iOS.

If it's a software switch, it's closer to a promise than a guarantee.

New comment by gaudystead in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

gaudystead — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:07:03 +0000

It's not "_cease_ all motor functions"?

New comment by gaudystead in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

gaudystead — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:38:30 +0000

Every day feels like a day closer to, if not already at, a day where discerning customers are the minority.

New comment by gaudystead in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

gaudystead — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:39:28 +0000

Are you willing to elaborate on the _why_ or is this a challenge comment, similar to the reddit comment that spurred this project? ;)

New comment by gaudystead in "Fermented foods shaped human biology"

gaudystead — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:30:59 +0000

Interesting... I've never heard of vodka being used in fermentation, but also I'm unfamiliar with Chinese styles of fermentation.

Are there any resources you can recommend to help speed up the education of someone wanting to learn more about this?

New comment by gaudystead in "Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer"

gaudystead — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:52:20 +0000

I'm guessing they mean punctuation in general?

New comment by gaudystead in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

gaudystead — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:33:27 +0000

To add to this, I suspect the data broker industry also has an interest in increasing the legitimacy of the data they sell about anyone they can get their hands on.

New comment by gaudystead in "Show HN: Sowbot – Open-hardware agricultural robot (ROS2, RTK GPS)"

gaudystead — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:14:45 +0000

I'm not sure how much more work is currently being done on a project I'd heard about in the past, but you might be interested in seeing if you can collaborate/learn from Open Source Ecology:

https://www.opensourceecology.org/

New comment by gaudystead in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

gaudystead — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:34:45 +0000

I'm in a similar boat and am wondering... Is there much that can be done with these iPads beside turn them into e-waste?

New comment by gaudystead in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

gaudystead — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:29:22 +0000

I don't think it'd need Balatro playthroughs to be in text form though. Google owns YouTube and has been doing automatic transcriptions of vocalized content on most videos these days, so it'd make sense that they used those subtitles, at the very least, as training data.

New comment by gaudystead in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

gaudystead — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:28:28 +0000

I only recently discovered Reticulum, only to then learn that the developer has retired from working on it. Do you know if there's still any community members carrying the torch?

New comment by gaudystead in "Proof of Corn"

gaudystead — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 03:41:46 +0000

What I got from this comment is that John Deere could be a competitor with Tesla for FSD. (/s, but only slightly)

New comment by gaudystead in "Reticulum, a secure and anonymous mesh networking stack"

gaudystead — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:58:40 +0000

I just happened to recently learn about Reticulum from another part of the internet and find it fascinating. Am I correct in thinking that it can basically run on anything that can run arbitrary code and the ability to talk to another device? (seems like it'd even work over serial if one had the determination to make it work)

New comment by gaudystead in "Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)"

gaudystead — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:58:27 +0000

I literally JUST bought a Thumby out of a vending machine this past weekend, so this post feels a bit serendipitous for me. Thanks for sharing, and I'll have to check this out!

New comment by gaudystead in "Postal Arbitrage"

gaudystead — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:46:08 +0000

While I would love to agree with you, in America restaurants of all sizes (and personal transportation companies) seemingly often rely on tips from customers to supplement the wages of their workers instead of just paying them fairly.

New comment by gaudystead in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

gaudystead — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:33:24 +0000

This is really cool! I'd be curious if one could 3D print different resonance chambers to get different desired sounds from the speaker.

New comment by gaudystead in "Tell HN: HN was down"

gaudystead — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:47:02 +0000

I was today years old when I found out that dang's first name is Dan

New comment by gaudystead in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

gaudystead — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:59:27 +0000

I was wondering if anybody "ate the onion" from the other day...