Hacker News: hacknewslogin

New comment by hacknewslogin in "Show HN: The Chaos Machine – A public computer anyone can use simultaneously"

hacknewslogin — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:33:17 +0000

Interesting!

The scroll wheel on the mouse doesn't seem to be working. Opening cybercafe.space in a browser sends it into an infinite loop

New comment by hacknewslogin in "Robert Hooke's "Cyberpunk” Letter to Gottfried Leibniz"

hacknewslogin — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:30:24 +0000

William Gibson described it as "High tech, low life." It's also described as a Genre that explores the connection and impacts between technology and the human experience.

New comment by hacknewslogin in "How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM"

hacknewslogin — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:51:31 +0000

There's a site somewhere that has various ASCII art renditions of that code. It's on my project list to print some of those on some shirts :P

New comment by hacknewslogin in "Gold Prices Top $4k for First Time"

hacknewslogin — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:16:06 +0000

It might also have something to do with Project 2025. There's a plan to return the US to the gold standard.

New comment by hacknewslogin in "Open Source Blueprints for Civilization"

hacknewslogin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:18:13 +0000

I was very excited when this project first came about, but it has been pretty dead for a while. It seems like the creators made a TED talk about it, got some financing, and moved on. They're now focused on selling classes on building their version of an inexpensive house that they say will "change the world."

New comment by hacknewslogin in "Notesnook: Open-source, encrypted, local-first note taking app"

hacknewslogin — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:55:08 +0000

I've been using it most of this year, it's been really handy. I do wish there was a better way to manage attachments. Right now if you attach an image or document to a note, there's no easy way to download it, at least from the android app. You can select the image and get details, but no save/dl option.

I'd also love a way to see attachments on a note in a list, with download options. I have several notes with multiple docs attached, and I would like the option of downloading them all at once.

I also wish they took feedback directly. The last time I checked, they ha

New comment by hacknewslogin in "The "Debate Me Bro" Grift: How Trolls Weaponized the Marketplace of Ideas"

hacknewslogin — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:46:31 +0000

You might find Cambridge union to be refreshing.

https://www.youtube.com/@cambridgeunionsoc1815

New comment by hacknewslogin in "When the CIA got away with building a heart attack gun"

hacknewslogin — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:08:49 +0000

Wasn't this only possible because Trump enacted "Operation Warp Speed?"

New comment by hacknewslogin in "Iron Law of Oligarchy"

hacknewslogin — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:07:10 +0000

That sounds like it would lead to Corpo-feudalism, aka techno-feudalism. Some billionaires are working to accomplish this.

https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis

https://thenetworkstate.com/

New comment by hacknewslogin in "The Inchtuthil Nail Hoard"

hacknewslogin — Wed, 07 May 2025 13:41:23 +0000

They look great! Double-headed nails make great mini swords. I use them to show that I can make a sword in one heat. Smash it flat, file some small tapers and you're set. Plus, it fits in the hand of a lego person :P

New comment by hacknewslogin in "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us"

hacknewslogin — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:39:44 +0000

>The novel's protagonist is inspired by Warren Buffett. On August 14, 2011, Warren Buffett wrote an influential op-ed entitled, "Stop Coddling the Super-rich"

This wiki page implies that because Ralph Nader wrote the above article in 2011, he inspired the release of a book in 2009?

New comment by hacknewslogin in "I Made A Wearable Computer To Bypass The Law [video]"

hacknewslogin — Tue, 06 May 2025 18:35:22 +0000

Great video. It's pretty inspirational to see a kid pulling off some awesome hacker projects!

New comment by hacknewslogin in "Ask HN: What tech knowledge to back up?"

hacknewslogin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:04:27 +0000

How many computers nowadays can connect to a phone line?

Ask HN: What tech knowledge to back up?

hacknewslogin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:32:16 +0000

Everything going on in the US right now is really concerning, including a theory that the US will implement a "great firewall" similar to what's used by countries like China and Russia.

Information on how to use tech considered subversive may be hard to access in the future. Guides like how to get around firewalls, or how to access and use specific software or information hubs might be altered or restricted.

What tech knowledge do you think should be stored offline? What knowledge is likely to be restricted in the future?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42949910

Points: 4

# Comments: 6

New comment by hacknewslogin in "Show HN: PDF Knowledge Base Search:Quick search for your personal PDF library"

hacknewslogin — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:03:40 +0000

This sounds like an interesting project. Can it extract text from scanned books? In those types of pdfs, each page is stored as an image file. If you could pair this project with that capability, I could see this being insanely useful to many organizations.

New comment by hacknewslogin in "CADing and 3D printing like a software engineer"

hacknewslogin — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 19:26:25 +0000

Did you have those challenges after the 1.0 update? I heard that update fixed a lot of those issues.

New comment by hacknewslogin in "Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens"

hacknewslogin — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:00:42 +0000

This sounds like a task that could be taken care of by public libraries. That, and supporting Tor. I just don't see it happening anytime soon, at least in the US.

New comment by hacknewslogin in "Chicken Chicken Chicken [pdf]"

hacknewslogin — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:10:19 +0000

Chicken chicken chicken

Chicken Chicken Chicken [pdf]

hacknewslogin — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 14:10:19 +0000

Article URL: https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41869849

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by hacknewslogin in "Cyberpunk books that revolutionized the genre"

hacknewslogin — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 13:59:47 +0000

Ok I'm really glad you mentioned that. It didn't fully occur to me, and now I appreciate the book a lot more.

Except of course for the oversexualization of a 15 year old, and the authors poor attempts at "sexy writing."