Hacker News: kQq9oHeAz6wLLS

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:02:01 +0000

> An agent will be shortly with you to assist in that endeavor.

In some parts of the world that's a death sentence for the target. In other parts, it's one for the agent.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:35:11 +0000

To be fair, this transpired last year, so they actually had one year and some months before losing extended support.

That said, they should have migrated it years ago.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:47:31 +0000

looks at ancient desktop rig still doing everything I ask of it

Huh.

I wonder if they're the same people who complain that they don't have enough money to live.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Getting arrested in Japan"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:42:08 +0000

It's quite rare.

Except at Waffle House.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:55:43 +0000

To quote a movie:

In the 1960's there was a young man graduated from the University of Michigan. Did some brilliant work in mathematics. Specifically bounded harmonic functions. Then he went on to Berkeley, was assistant professor, showed amazing potential, then he moved to Montana and he blew the competition away.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:32:17 +0000

Heck, these days the email is the HTML

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "The Disappearance of the Public Bench"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:59:07 +0000

Because sitting on benches quickly turns into living on benches. Then the drug dealers move in, because there's a ready customer base of drug users.

Then the productive members of society move out.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "The Disappearance of the Public Bench"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:56:59 +0000

> Them staying in the sidewalk is free.

Disagree. When the tax-paying public doesn't feel safe around the people living on the sidewalk, they move and take their tax money with them. That means less money for services, roads, education... everything taxes pay for.

That's the cost.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:23:01 +0000

Plausible deniability

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:20:20 +0000

I wonder if they're as "good" as the Chinese AE86 shells.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:16:39 +0000

Yeah, kinda boring in that respect.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:13:08 +0000

Sounds like the dude needs to learn how to fix exhaust leaks.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:10:26 +0000

> slip-slugs

That's a good one. I'm partial to David Frieberger's "mobility blobs".

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Colorado grandma keeps getting pulled over due to database error"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:47:17 +0000

That's what I was thinking. You can see in one photo on the article that the O is squared off, and the zero is rounded, but it still seems ripe for confusion.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:25:39 +0000

> Ignorance will no longer be suffered to exist, and elementary knowledge will be imparted to all.

Oh good, for a moment I didn't think reeducation camps were in our future.

> Architecture will be freed from ugliness

Uh, friend, I have some bad news...

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:15:47 +0000

I'm curious as to what prompted you to pursue this ability.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:32:55 +0000

Everything I learned about the Kardashians has been learned against my will.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:32:02 +0000

I think the point was two people can be the absolute closest of friends, and Facebook will still fail to show them relevant posts.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:25:44 +0000

Probably a parked domain with ads that people stumble across. We used to call these guys cybersquatters.

New comment by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS in "Math Is Hard – OpenBSD Stories"

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:01:45 +0000

The problem is if you lack backwards compatibility, you won't see people migrate to it. At best that means you need a big emulation layer; at worst your OS isn't different enough to be worth the switch.