Hacker News: influx

New comment by influx in "Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters"

influx — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:02:47 +0000

More Europeans die from lack of air conditioning than people in the US die from guns.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/europe-heat-wave...

New comment by influx in "Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude"

influx — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:03:10 +0000

It would be shocking if they haven't been pulling on these threads for as long as they've had access to these models.

New comment by influx in "Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions"

influx — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:51:04 +0000

You get to go through the montage section, that's the best part!

New comment by influx in "Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?"

influx — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:25:49 +0000

Would you prefer the term Pelicangate?

A Universe from Three Sectors: Recovering TradeWars 2002's Map from Its RNG Seed

influx — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:02:48 +0000

Article URL: https://mattmichie.com/2026/07/14/a-universe-from-three-sectors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930556

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Using PowerShell over SSH, Twenty Years Later

influx — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:31:29 +0000

Article URL: https://mattmichie.com/2026/07/11/powershell-over-ssh-twenty-years-later/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876843

Points: 25

# Comments: 14

New comment by influx in "Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian"

influx — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:47:27 +0000

What are people using Vagrant for these days? The last time I encountered it was before Docker become widespread.

New comment by influx in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

influx — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:25:45 +0000

And that seems suboptimal for a Japanese company?

New comment by influx in "Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)"

influx — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:42:11 +0000

4:920/35 here :)

New comment by influx in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

influx — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:47:51 +0000

Anyone that doesn't agree with you politically is insane or stupid?

New comment by influx in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

influx — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:39:54 +0000

At what point do these companies stop releasing models and just use them to bootstrap AGI for themselves?

New comment by influx in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)"

influx — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:57:38 +0000

Most people who ran AdSense were extremely careful not to look at the ads on their own site, because Google might flag them for intentionally inflating clicks or views.

New comment by influx in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

influx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:54:15 +0000

You know the whole point of the space race was to prove that we could send ICBMs to the USSR right?

New comment by influx in "OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says"

influx — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:59:09 +0000

Do most SaaS actually delete or do they just store a tombstone in the database for your account?

New comment by influx in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

influx — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:54:28 +0000

Aren't they trying to do a Valve with their store?

New comment by influx in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

influx — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:05:24 +0000

You’d be surprised how many features the Python runtime adds each release. It’s not trivial for tooling to keep up with language changes.

New comment by influx in "Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL"

influx — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:45:21 +0000

I would have thought most of those would have been moved to async Python by now.

New comment by influx in "US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide"

influx — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:19:50 +0000

The capital class?

New comment by influx in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

influx — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:22:55 +0000

They could have, but it seems unlikely they targeted one or two repos and probably cloned thousands or more.

New comment by influx in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

influx — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:34:51 +0000

Imagine the outrage here, when a company credit card expires and the cloud provider terminates all their instances, deletes all your storage and blob backups?