Hacker News: ides_dev

AI Homer Simpson 'Cover Songs' Have 'Poisoned' Soulseek

ides_dev — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:34:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/infinite-ai-homer-simpson-cover-songs-poisoned-soulseek/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137658

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ides_dev in "How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE"

ides_dev — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:27:46 +0000

It would be nice to see some sat-nav apps adding an 'Avoid Flock' option that uses the camera location data to route you around them. Although, I don't know how ubiquitous they are, so it may make routing through some big cities impossible!

New comment by ides_dev in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

ides_dev — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:03:52 +0000

Adam goes into depth on this in an episode of his podcast: https://adams-morning-walk.transistor.fm/episodes/we-had-six...

New comment by ides_dev in "Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com"

ides_dev — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:20:57 +0000

I didn't know about Imginn, so thanks!

New comment by ides_dev in "A Beginner's Two-Component Crystal-Style Wi-Fi Detector"

ides_dev — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:04:28 +0000

Hundreds? Really? I can see making two or three before giving up, but to build hundreds..

New comment by ides_dev in "The differences between an IndyCar and a F1 car"

ides_dev — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:40:57 +0000

The biggest difference that stood out to me was that the fuel compositions are almost exactly opposite; 85/15 ethanol/gasoline for Indy and 10/90 for F1.

I was able to find plenty of articles saying that next year F1 will move to a "100% sustainable fuel", but none that actually mentioned the composition. Is it likely to move closer to the make-up of the Indy fuel?

Not So Wonderful Things

ides_dev — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:55:00 +0000

Article URL: https://stage-write.ghost.io/not-so-wonderful-things/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924562

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The Burden of Responsibility

ides_dev — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 08:28:12 +0000

Article URL: https://ides.dev/notes/the-burden-of-responsibility/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45072950

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ides_dev in "What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics"

ides_dev — Tue, 20 May 2025 09:24:29 +0000

I thought the same thing. I also found it surprising that the number of people on a smoking break was quite a bit higher than either of those - I wonder how many transition from intimacy to smoke break :D

New comment by ides_dev in "What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics"

ides_dev — Tue, 20 May 2025 09:22:25 +0000

It would be interesting if it could fluctuate depending on birth rates at different times of day in different countries. That way, it could at least have a bit of dynamism if, for example, India had the highest global birthrate and most births there occured during daylight hours.

New comment by ides_dev in "Teslas monitor everything – including you [video] from WIRED"

ides_dev — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:13:59 +0000

Why even bother with one of those crusty old 3-letter agencies, when you can go straight to the top via your very own 4-letter (1 better!) agency: D.O.G.E.

New comment by ides_dev in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

ides_dev — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:55:24 +0000

Also a sure-fire way to get some irate drivers banging on your front door, given that it would be easy to work out which house the photo was taken from.

New comment by ides_dev in "Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO"

ides_dev — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:28:08 +0000

One very rich man is pushing hard to implement some.

New comment by ides_dev in "US Energy Department ending appliance efficiency standards"

ides_dev — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 08:02:47 +0000

I’ve never read a press release by a US government agency before, so it may be the standard, but the language in it strikes me as petty and childish, especially the last piece; “sprinkler nozzles that just don’t work well”.

“The people, not the government, should be choosing the home appliances and products they want at prices they can afford.” - you still get to choose which appliance you have in your home, but the government is there to help ensure that appliance is reliable and efficient.

New comment by ides_dev in "Judge ends man's 11-year quest to dig up landfill and recover $765M in Bitcoin"

ides_dev — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:42:54 +0000

I feel bad for the guy. Every few years he reappears in the news making another attempt. Clearly it’s something that’s going to weigh on him for the rest of his life.

New comment by ides_dev in "Relax while watching bouncing particles making connections when they get closer"

ides_dev — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:01:12 +0000

I like how some of the particles get thrown out of the cluster on wider elliptical orbits, they look like comets.

New comment by ides_dev in "Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone"

ides_dev — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:28:46 +0000

Absolutely agreed, it’s a really nice conversational tone. It is technical without being dry and entertaining without watering down the information. I strive to write like this.

Combatting Credit Card Fraud

ides_dev — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 09:31:36 +0000

Article URL: https://ides.dev/notes/combatting-credit-card-fraud/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41345888

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Blog Posts vs. Social Posts

ides_dev — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:19:33 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/blog-vs-social-posts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41289647

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ides_dev in "Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)"

ides_dev — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 15:55:29 +0000

This is precisely why I use Bear [0] (although Bear does hide the link URLs) and just cannot get on with Notion. The worse thing about editing in Notion (and other editors where the syntax is hidden) is trying to adjust `mono-space text`. It always seems to get confused about whether I'm inside the mono-space area or outside it and I end up making stuff mono-space that shouldn't be or vice versa.

[0] https://bear.app/