Hacker News: kevinpacheco

New comment by kevinpacheco in "How to Create a Tor Exit Node (2015)"

kevinpacheco — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:58:25 +0000

Then whoever did this experiment will likely shut down the node and reset their router to pull a new IP, which could be reassigned in short order, thereby causing trouble for an innocent neighbor.

New comment by kevinpacheco in "40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households"

kevinpacheco — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:40:43 +0000

If you own shares in e.g. Costco, a long-term sustained trend of shrinking household sizes might give you pause.

New comment by kevinpacheco in "Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything"

kevinpacheco — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:33:18 +0000

Another Claude bug: https://i.imgur.com/kXtAciU.png

New comment by kevinpacheco in "Should We Respect LLMs? A Study on Influence of Prompt Politeness on Performance"

kevinpacheco — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:15:54 +0000

It seems like by default, the LLMs I've used tend to come across as eager to ask follow-up questions along the lines of "what do you think, x or y?" or "how else can I help you with this?" I'm going to have to start including instructions not to do that to avoid getting into a ghosting habit that might affect my behavior with real people.

New comment by kevinpacheco in "Windows 2000 Server named peak Microsoft"

kevinpacheco — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 18:27:59 +0000

If you intend to stick with Windows for the long haul, you will have to upgrade eventually. I hung on to 7 for a while, but several apps stopped getting updates: iTunes, the Spotify desktop client, Google Chrome, and even Firefox dropped support. I was using iTunes to download podcasts, which after a while became impossible with some feeds because I would get an SSL error each time on that old version. For 10, the ESU period ends one year after 10/14/25 for consumers and three years for organizations. It's possible that apps will continue to receive updates during that time.

New comment by kevinpacheco in "MacBooks account for 86% of total Mac sales; Mac desktops just 14%"

kevinpacheco — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:59:32 +0000

Similar to hospitals, I have seen SFF and AIO PCs all over outpatient medical offices.

New comment by kevinpacheco in "“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”"

kevinpacheco — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:16:57 +0000

The NYC subway fare is $2.90. I was using PCalc on iOS to step through remaining MetroCard values per swipe and discovered that AC, 8.7, m+, 2.9, m-, m-, m- evaluates to -8.881784197E-16 instead of zero. This doesn't happen when using Apple's calculator. I wrote to the developer and he replied, "Apple has now got their own private maths library which isn't available to developers, which they're using in their own calculator. What I need to do is replace the Apple libraries with something else - that's on my list!"

New comment by kevinpacheco in "All text in Brooklyn"

kevinpacheco — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 03:59:30 +0000

There is much that isn't indexed here. "718" yields less than 4,000 hits, which seems very low. There are many old buildings in Brooklyn that still sport "fallout shelter" signs, but ATiB returns only 13 results for that term, with many duplicate images. Here's an example of a missing result, probably one of thousands: https://maps.app.goo.gl/AdsYFzf7MAZoo4Vc8

New comment by kevinpacheco in "Washboard: Quarters for laundry delivered monthly"

kevinpacheco — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 01:45:29 +0000

Are there any statistics about this? In my southern Brooklyn neighborhood, which is on the cutting edge of approximately nothing, the laundry rooms in all three apartment buildings I've lived in converted from coin payments to stored-value cards in the mid-2000s.

New comment by kevinpacheco in "Hacker news for data scientists"

kevinpacheco — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:06:43 +0000

There's no link to it at the bottom of the homepage, but they do have a feed: http://www.datatau.com/rss

New comment by kevinpacheco in "Vancouver’s ban on the doorknob"

kevinpacheco — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:07:46 +0000

Click on the first photo or the "Photos" link above it to see additional pictures.

New comment by kevinpacheco in "[dead]"

kevinpacheco — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 15:58:00 +0000

Duplicate submission. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6637480

New comment by kevinpacheco in "Groklaw shutting down, because email privacy 'is impossible'"

kevinpacheco — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:46:47 +0000

What about DeadDrop? The New Yorker's Strongbox seems to be working out just fine for them.

Hackers Breach 53 Universities and Dump Thousands of Personal Records Online

kevinpacheco — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 02:54:34 +0000

Article URL: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/hackers-breach-53-universities-dump-thousands-of-personal-records-online/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4610681

Points: 40

# Comments: 14

Salman Khan to talk about his dream for education reform

kevinpacheco — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 05:05:40 +0000

Article URL: http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/10/02/khan-academy-google-hangout-preview/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4600677

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kevinpacheco in "Google's "Bacon number" search"

kevinpacheco — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:48:30 +0000

It's flawed. Google claims a Bacon number of > 1 for Johnny Carson, Rosie O'Donnell and Jay Leno, but he sat for interviews on their talk shows. Also, the results for some musicians include recorded-footage appearances in movies where they had no interaction with the cast.

Fred Wilson says venture capital funds have gotten too big

kevinpacheco — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:39:26 +0000

Article URL: http://www.technologyreview.com/qa/428869/fred-wilson/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4421714

Points: 38

# Comments: 27

New comment by kevinpacheco in " Predict 2012 US Presidential Election, share shortURL - feedback pls"

kevinpacheco — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:42:34 +0000

The historical maps don't take reapportionment into account. For example, if you select "2008: Obama vs McCain," it shows Texas with 38 electoral votes, but it had only 34 back then. Also, Reagan's name is misspelled.

Uber cleared to continue operations in Boston

kevinpacheco — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:06:45 +0000

Article URL: http://thenextweb.com/us/2012/08/16/uber-cleared-continue-operations-boston/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4388830

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

TrapWire Antiterrorist Software Leaks Set Off Web Furor

kevinpacheco — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 03:34:38 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/us/trapwire-antiterrorist-software-leaks-set-off-web-furor.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379263

Points: 1

# Comments: 0