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New comment by geoffeg in "When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident"

geoffeg — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:20:40 +0000

I have to think that the litigation and maybe the legislation will end up deciding that the person in the vehicle is still responsible for any actions of the vehicle.

New comment by geoffeg in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

geoffeg — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:12:10 +0000

I'm back in the office (3 days a week) and there's some weird cultural thing on my team that I don't quite understand. Coworkers I sit next to will message me on Teams instead of just standing up and talking to me over the cube wall. No one eats lunch together or really converses outside of meetings. We have meetings on Teams even though everyone in the meeting is in the office sitting next to each other. I'll book rooms for the meetings and inform the team only to be the only one in the room.

I sometimes wonder if the change to the culture and ways of working from the covid-era WFH days became more pervasive than I realized.

New comment by geoffeg in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

geoffeg — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:32:21 +0000

Good point, buy an old CRT in addition to the DVD player!

New comment by geoffeg in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

geoffeg — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:36:26 +0000

There's an option which doesn't involve drinking any yucky fluids, just water. SuTab. You have two rounds of twelve pills that you drink with three cups of water at various intervals.

New comment by geoffeg in "iPhone 17e"

geoffeg — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:06:28 +0000

I doubt the target market for the 17e would notice... or care.

New comment by geoffeg in "Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate"

geoffeg — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:14:36 +0000

Original title was "Promoting The National Defense By Ensuring An Adequate Supply Of Elemental Phosphorus And Glyphosate-based Herbicides" but that was too long for HN.

Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate

geoffeg — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:13:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/02/promoting-the-national-defense-by-ensuring-an-adequate-supply-of-elemental-phosphorus-and-glyphosate-based-herbicides/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077810

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by geoffeg in "NetNewsWire Turns 23"

geoffeg — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:26:54 +0000

Is there some way to create this kind of experience without having to change RSS readers? Is there a service that allows you to easily create RSS feeds for websites without them? I'd rather go with a more unix "do one thing and do it well" philosophy for something like this.

New comment by geoffeg in "NetNewsWire Turns 23"

geoffeg — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:58:10 +0000

I started out with NNW and am back on it now. After Google killed Reader I went to Feedly, then tried a few self-hosted solutions and, in the end, NNW is just the easiest solution for me since I'm in the Apple ecosystem.

New comment by geoffeg in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

geoffeg — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:32:35 +0000

Maybe instead of housing life, civilizations develop Dyson's spheres to house data centers. Solar panels on the interior, thermal radiators on the exterior and the data centers make up the structure in between. Combine that Von Neumann probes and you've got a fun new Fermi paradox hypothesis!

New comment by geoffeg in "Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law"

geoffeg — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:21:39 +0000

To ride NYC's free busses, you must have a two minute conversation with a chat bot. (/s)

New comment by geoffeg in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

geoffeg — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:39:35 +0000

Lower than expected sales https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-sales-elon-mus...

New comment by geoffeg in "Dole Kemp 96 Web Site"

geoffeg — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:07:10 +0000

If you want to experience this, Firefox and Chrome support throttling network connections, check the "Network" tab of the Developer Tools.

A first look at Aperture by Tailscale (private alpha)

geoffeg — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:23:40 +0000

Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/aperture-private-alpha

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782091

Points: 108

# Comments: 39

New comment by geoffeg in "Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files"

geoffeg — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:49:10 +0000

I use sops and age, originally loosely based on this article: https://devops.datenkollektiv.de/using-sops-with-age-and-git...

I originally set up the git filters, but later disabled them.

New comment by geoffeg in "macOS 26's Cut Corners"

geoffeg — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:35:05 +0000

I see no real reason to upgrade, there's no new features that interest me. Combined with the UI issues, why would I upgrade?

New comment by geoffeg in "Runkit.com has been down for months"

geoffeg — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:29:27 +0000

Is there a good alternative? I used runkit as my scratchpad. The lightweight nature of it, not trying to be a full notebook/REPL, was nice.

New comment by geoffeg in "Please just try HTMX"

geoffeg — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:14:28 +0000

> After the user downloads 2MB of JavaScript, waits for it to parse, waits for it to execute, waits for it to hydrate, waits for it to fetch data, waits for it to render... yes, then subsequent navigations feel snappy. Congratulations.

In my experience, a lot of SPAs transfer more data than the front-end actually needs. One team I worked on was sending 4MB over the wire to render 14kb of actual HTML. (No, there wasn't some processing happening on the front-end that needed the extra data.) And that was using graphql, some dev just plunked all the fields in the graphql query instead of the ones actually needed. I've seen that pattern a lot, although in some cases it's been to my benefit, like finding more details on a tracking website than the UI presented.

New comment by geoffeg in "alpr.watch"

geoffeg — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:57:15 +0000

Could use projectors to display the feed directly onto the ground or a building wall, in some ways that may be more impactful. You'd have to stay with the projector and power source, but easier to move to the next location, and less of a chance of getting in trouble for defacing public property, etc.

New comment by geoffeg in "Nokia N900 Necromancy"

geoffeg — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:39:16 +0000

My N900 was one of my favorite computing devices that I've owned. The keyboard was good enough for my needs, I could open a terminal quickly, battery life was fine. If someone came out with a modern version that had a slide out keyboard and similar size, maybe running a raspberry-pi level CPU, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.