Hacker News: k1t

New comment by k1t in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

k1t — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:40:16 +0000

A tedious response highlighting that YC is a US investment group and that US-centric articles should be expected.

New comment by k1t in "Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?"

k1t — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:09:25 +0000

LOI - lunar orbit insertion

TEI - trans-earth injection

For ill-informed people like me.

New comment by k1t in "Statement from the Nobel Foundation"

k1t — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:40:24 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46669404

New comment by k1t in "Court rejects NVIDIAs attempt to seal email chain with Annas Archive [pdf]"

k1t — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:31:17 +0000

March 10 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O), whose chips power artificial intelligence, has been sued by three authors who said it used their copyrighted books without permission to train its Nemo AI platform.

Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O'Nan said their works were part of a dataset of about 196,640 books that helped train NeMo to simulate ordinary written language, before being taken down in October "due to reported copyright infringement."

They are seeking unspecified damages for people in the United States whose copyrighted works helped train NeMo's so-called large language models in the last three years.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-is-sued-by-authors...

New comment by k1t in "X-ray: a Python library for finding bad redactions in PDF documents"

k1t — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:29:07 +0000

Yes, in some cases, eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364121

New comment by k1t in "Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet"

k1t — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:15:37 +0000

I think they meant "viable" instead of "available"

New comment by k1t in "South Korea police say 120k home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage"

k1t — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:27:36 +0000

Installing cameras to control/monitor your spouse is definitely abusive behavior.

New comment by k1t in "Molly: An Improved Signal App"

k1t — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:31:33 +0000

It automatically unlinks the desktop app if you don't open it for 30 days.

There is now at least a reminder on the phone app that will prompt you a few days before one of your desktop apps is about to get unlinked.

New comment by k1t in "Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault"

k1t — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:32:09 +0000

The grand jury did not indict in this case.

New comment by k1t in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

k1t — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 06:48:37 +0000

Sure, there might be cases beyond their control - but in general if I pay them to provide a service and they fail to deliver, I think my annoyance is justified.

If they are busy counting their profits instead of focusing on providing a safe, reliable service, then I think it's reasonable to be angry with them.

New comment by k1t in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

k1t — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:28:16 +0000

I feel like the additional unstated context is that nothing has changed.

Power outages are still a common threat, it's just that now they are caused by the power companies under the guise of wildfire prevention.

I don't care if my power goes out because of lack of supply or because you didn't maintain the transmission lines properly - the result is the same - I'm angry.

New comment by k1t in "Show HN: bbcli – A TUI and CLI to browse BBC News like a hacker"

k1t — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:52:00 +0000

https://nmsceefax.co.uk/ for a live browser-based example.

New comment by k1t in "Show HN: Tiled Words, a daily word puzzle game"

k1t — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 01:05:01 +0000

Here's dang's explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

Moderators and a small number of reviewers go through old submissions looking for articles that are in the spirit of the site—gratifying intellectual curiosity—and which seem like they might interest the community. These get put into a hopper from which software randomly picks one every so often and lobs it randomly onto the lower part of the front page.

New comment by k1t in "Show HN: Tiled Words, a daily word puzzle game"

k1t — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:16:19 +0000

I'm surprised this didn't get more traction - hopefully it makes it into the 2nd chance queue

New comment by k1t in "The Wi-Fi Revolution (2003)"

k1t — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:46:16 +0000

She's not alone - here's an example (from today!) of an HN user using WiFi to mean cellular/mobile data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45620379

New comment by k1t in "Hacker News – The Good Parts"

k1t — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:07:47 +0000

The problem is that the user experience is not "oops, I accidentally flagged an article, I should go unflag it."

The experience is more like "I clicked on a link to an article, but instead of loading the article, the HN page just reloaded. Now I have to scroll down to find it again... Hmm.. Where is it? Maybe it's moved to a different page...? What was I even looking for again? Oh well"

New comment by k1t in "Biden Spared 37 Killers from Execution. Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment"

k1t — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:55:18 +0000

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/death-penalty-trump-convicts...

New comment by k1t in "Scientists debunk claims of seed oil health risks"

k1t — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 06:19:42 +0000

Probably related to RFK claims.

Eg https://www.npr.org/2025/06/19/nx-s1-5405595/claims-that-see...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others have said that seed oils are poisoning Americans. The medical community mostly rejects those claims, but they are causing problems for farmers.

New comment by k1t in "Ask HN: Local hostnames without root/admin"

k1t — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:33:33 +0000

  *.fbi.com

New comment by k1t in "RIP: Amazon Prime Benefits Sharing Ends on Oct 1, 2025"

k1t — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 03:20:55 +0000

Fairly misleading title.

You can still share with other members of your household. (one other adult and up to 4 children)