Hacker News: glitchcrab

New comment by glitchcrab in "Western Sahara"

glitchcrab — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:52:50 +0000

I had never heard of Western Sahara, nor did I know about Morocco's involvement even though I've visited Morocco several times. So I found this very interesting and I learnt something new. Seems to fit here quite well to me.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

glitchcrab — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:45:21 +0000

Single data point; no, I don't. I preferred the pre-AI world. It makes me sad that we'll never see it again.

New comment by glitchcrab in "SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?"

glitchcrab — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:04:27 +0000

Thanks!That's definitely getting added to my vocabulary.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea"

glitchcrab — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:52:53 +0000

> Nuclear submarines often operate without any escort.

Correct. That's where the GPs comment regarding stealth comes into play.

New comment by glitchcrab in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

glitchcrab — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:36:45 +0000

Same, I also live very close to Gatwick, the train is about 4 stops for me and puts me right at the terminal. Zero reason to drive.

New comment by glitchcrab in "My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page"

glitchcrab — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:09:32 +0000

Which is exactly why alll my cameras live in their own VLAN with no internet access, regardless of how trustworthy the company may be. Better safe than sorry and all that.

New comment by glitchcrab in "That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing"

glitchcrab — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:37:04 +0000

I highly doubt that the extra traffic is really the problem, it's merely the catalyst which caused this post to be written.

New comment by glitchcrab in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

glitchcrab — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:55:54 +0000

I think you're missing the wood for the trees. He's still insanely wealthy.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

glitchcrab — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:23:29 +0000

Oh for sure, but you can do a lot of things without ever touching the advanced coding section. It's definitely worth being cautious though - as you say you can definitely brick your car with it if you're just YOLOing your way through it. It does back up the module configuration prior to writing the update though so you do have a safety net.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

glitchcrab — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:13:51 +0000

Safer settings are exposed with decent labels, but you can also use the advanced mode which is much more low-level, akin to what you described.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

glitchcrab — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:46:32 +0000

Bimmercode lets you do coding (it's very powerful and you can easily mess up your car so you have to be very careful with it), and Bimmerlink lets you read fault codes etc.

New comment by glitchcrab in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

glitchcrab — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:20:02 +0000

The person presenting is also important. I may be interested in the topic but if I don't like the presenter or their delivery then I'm still not going to watch it. Text doesn't have this issue.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

glitchcrab — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:05:59 +0000

You're correct that the dongle only facilitates the connection, but you don't need dealer software. I have an ODB dongle and a £20 (I think) app on my phone which lets me change a _ton_ of settings on my BMW which aren't available in any in-car menus.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day"

glitchcrab — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:19:16 +0000

Thanks for the book suggestion, I’ll give it a read

New comment by glitchcrab in "Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day"

glitchcrab — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:06:48 +0000

As a father who is suffering from plantar fascitis (brought on by running), I would rather fix the problem by strengthening my arches than mask it by buying inner soles.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

glitchcrab — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:35:04 +0000

Why though? AI it's just a token predictor, it doesn't care that it is generating text bashing itself.

New comment by glitchcrab in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

glitchcrab — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:45:07 +0000

I was initially quite excited to play it until I read your comment. I'm in the same boat (hurr), been sailing for 30 years and teaching it for at least 20.

New comment by glitchcrab in "Car headlights don't have to be this blinding"

glitchcrab — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:06:01 +0000

How is this helping? We're not on the playground here.

New comment by glitchcrab in "The dead economy theory"

glitchcrab — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:46:07 +0000

Which ironically illustrates just how stupid the system really is.

New comment by glitchcrab in "The dead economy theory"

glitchcrab — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:33:11 +0000

When you start breaking capitalism down into small chunks like this, it _is_ insane.