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New comment by itintheory in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

itintheory — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:05:06 +0000

My interpretation would be that cars are necessary to live in places where urban design assumes that we'll use cars to get around. Many cities are designed this way.

Similarly, phones are required now for some activities, like online banking. First it was an option, then it became the norm.

New comment by itintheory in "Super ZSNES – GPU Powered SNES Emulator"

itintheory — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:17:19 +0000

> Currently implemented with support for 7 popular games.

The enhancement engine sounds great, but it'd be nice to know which games it's for...

New comment by itintheory in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

itintheory — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:24:39 +0000

This definitely happens. Last time Dead & Company came to town, it was simulcast in the local movie theater. Tickets to the show were only available on a raffle basis since the venue didn't hold nearly enough people.

Then again, the Dead were also pioneers of permitting and encouraging the bootleg scene.

New comment by itintheory in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

itintheory — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:44:47 +0000

Anyone have suggestions for backing up Google Drive + local files? I keep reading the horror stories about people getting locked out of cloud services, and worry about my 20 years of history stored in Drive. Less worried about local files which are sync'd to an external disk, but it'd be nice to have something in place for everything.

New comment by itintheory in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

itintheory — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:02:42 +0000

I saw an entire physical switch configured for bridging VLANs. It was even labeled as such. 802.1q is hard and confusing if you don't know what you're doing.

New comment by itintheory in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

itintheory — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:23:26 +0000

Where are you finding cheap WiiUs? I've wanted to pick one up for a while and find them to be exorbitantly expensive, especially the controllers.

New comment by itintheory in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"

itintheory — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:25:55 +0000

> https://magicshifter.net/

I get a cert mismatch on that site, and when clicking the shop link I end up at https://hackerspaceshop.com/ which is advertising an online fax service.

New comment by itintheory in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

itintheory — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:18:53 +0000

It's 2026, and these PLCs etc. are directly connected to the internet? I think that's the most surprising aspect here.

New comment by itintheory in "Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone"

itintheory — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:55:25 +0000

> But it doesn't extend to even other people's kids!

I think it's a question of exposure and tolerance, otherwise it'd be much harder for daycare workers, for instance.

New comment by itintheory in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

itintheory — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:11:47 +0000

Every response to the original post calls it out as being factually incorrect...

New comment by itintheory in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

itintheory — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:01:04 +0000

This threat actor is also using Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) "Canisters" to deliver payloads. I'm not too familiar with the project, but I'm not sure blocking domains in DNS would help there.

New comment by itintheory in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

itintheory — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:44:52 +0000

Thanks for putting this together. I've been seeing the name TeamPCP pop up all over, but hadn't seen everything in one place.

New comment by itintheory in "The future of version control"

itintheory — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:21:45 +0000

That's between you and git.

New comment by itintheory in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

itintheory — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:31:40 +0000

Why does it have to have AI? Ugh.

New comment by itintheory in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

itintheory — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:22:11 +0000

The other problem, in the US at least, is that cash is very low value (inflation), and dollar coins never caught on. I'm not trying to carry around $6 in quarters to park for 2 hours. And that's a pretty inexpensive parking spot.

New comment by itintheory in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

itintheory — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:42:07 +0000

In the US there is a federal law related to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_Act

New comment by itintheory in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

itintheory — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:40:09 +0000

I suspect they'll be harder (impossible?) to block, but that will probably deter the casual user.

New comment by itintheory in "Launching the Claude Partner Network"

itintheory — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:51:01 +0000

Appears to be where the actual link, http://partnerportal.anthropic.com/s/partner-registration, redirects. Site.com is some Salesforce related domain.

New comment by itintheory in "Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)"

itintheory — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:32:07 +0000

What do you think it is about machine learning that makes it hard to replicate? I'm an outsider to academic research, but it seems like computer based science would be uniquely easy - publish the code, publish the data, and let other people run it. Unless it's a matter of scale, or access to specific hardware.

New comment by itintheory in "Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year"

itintheory — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:49:17 +0000

> stenography

I think you mean steganography[0]. Stenography is shorthand, used for transcription.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography