Hacker News: hughes

New comment by hughes in "How to turn anything into a router"

hughes — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:55:53 +0000

I wonder if consumer routers will end up being built in a trivially-not-a-router configuration - something akin to a pull-tab or turn of the screw that closes a circuit, transforming the device from legally something else into a router after it's purchased.

What a dumb timeline.

New comment by hughes in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

hughes — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:40:37 +0000

I would love to see this integrated into Flighty.

Postmortem for *.bazel.build SSL certificate expiry

hughes — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:06:06 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.bazel.build/2026/01/16/ssl-cert-expiry.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46692524

Points: 1

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New comment by hughes in "Claude Code CLI was broken"

hughes — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:15:56 +0000

Genuinely curious how a date in the subheader of a changelog could have broken the CLI

edit: it seems changelog.md is assumed to be structured data and parsed at startup, and there are no tests to enforce the changelog structure: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16671

New comment by hughes in "LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted"

hughes — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:38:02 +0000

Why anyone would allow their TV to connect to the internet is beyond me.

New comment by hughes in "An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions"

hughes — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:22:12 +0000

Even the title "Orbital House of Cards" is unnecessarily editorializing.

New comment by hughes in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

hughes — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:55:20 +0000

I have to agree. I tried using it for a few months and it left me convinced I'll be paying for iCloud photos for the rest of my life.

New comment by hughes in "Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files"

hughes — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:36:11 +0000

While the FileVine service is indeed a Legal AI tool, I don't see the connection between this particular blunder and AI itself. It sure seems like any company with an inexperienced development team and thoughtless security posture could build a system with the same issues.

Specifically, it does not appear that AI is invoked in any way at the search endpoint - it is clearly piping results from some Box API.

New comment by hughes in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

hughes — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:12:41 +0000

Can confirm, my Model 3 had its lights angled too high from the factory. Only realized after a few people flashed their high beams at me during my first week driving.

Thankfully it was easy to adjust.

New comment by hughes in "Contributing to open-source should be required, like jury duty"

hughes — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:57:45 +0000

Should it be mandatory also for the maintainers to accept these contributions? Every project would degrade into pure entropy.

New comment by hughes in "RegEx Crossword"

hughes — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 02:47:34 +0000

519 seems to have at least 3 solutions... feels a little underconstrained!

New comment by hughes in "Affinity Studio now free"

hughes — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:15:20 +0000

Did your email offer you the chance to pay yearly for $11/mo? Mine did, but I don't think the option to pay yearly exists.

It was a weather balloon, not space debris, that struck a United Airlines plane

hughes — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:24:26 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/the-mystery-object-that-struck-a-plane-in-flight-it-was-probably-a-weather-balloon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45652120

Points: 13

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New comment by hughes in "United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet"

hughes — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:57:23 +0000

There should be small pieces of whatever they hit embedded in the body & glass of the aircraft. As long as they are analyzed, the cause of this won't remain a mystery forever.

New comment by hughes in "One to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day"

hughes — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:37:22 +0000

Why do you believe the inter-satellite links are not working?

New comment by hughes in "I only use Google Sheets"

hughes — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:14:59 +0000

I'm still heartbroken about Grooveshark all these years later.

New comment by hughes in "Kagi News"

hughes — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:02:52 +0000

I don't understand how this is 100% free, no subscriptions, no purchase, apparently no ads or tracking and yet I'm also the "customer" and not the product. What's the catch?

New comment by hughes in "This map is not upside down"

hughes — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:22:53 +0000

That seems to be due to the pseudocylindrical projection, not the rotation of the map.

New comment by hughes in "Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware"

hughes — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 00:22:28 +0000

Is this a joke because the site isn't loading at all?

New comment by hughes in "SpaceX Gets Billions from the Government, Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes"

hughes — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 15:36:13 +0000

Is the author arguing that corporations should not be able to carry forward net operating losses? Or that this one specific company shouldn't be allowed to?