Hacker News: khaki54

New comment by khaki54 in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

khaki54 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:04:58 +0000

Yeah I had something like this for several years. Works really well for cars

New comment by khaki54 in "Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds"

khaki54 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:00:20 +0000

you can't downvote replies so it wasn't him

New comment by khaki54 in "Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years"

khaki54 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:54:58 +0000

I think xkcd should fund it, that would be comical.

New comment by khaki54 in "Pushing the smallest possible change to production"

khaki54 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:45:14 +0000

Similar to working with an open source tool. Fix all the errors you find in the documentation when you are getting it up and running. If the pull request gets handled well and quickly, future contributions will probably be painless and productive.

New comment by khaki54 in "Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected"

khaki54 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:06:06 +0000

How did you find $4 on Hetzner? I didn't see anything close!

New comment by khaki54 in "Open sourcing Dicer: Databricks's auto-sharder"

khaki54 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:01:56 +0000

Seems weird to call it sharding since it's not sharding indexed datasets or anything like that. Is this just a tool to mitigate Databricks’ internal service-scaling challenges?

New comment by khaki54 in "A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela"

khaki54 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:37:37 +0000

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

New comment by khaki54 in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

khaki54 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:22:22 +0000

It may seem like an attack on queer books, but as far as I can tell none of the straight books seem to be trying to explain how minors should get access to adult dating apps to meet older men, or showing obscene graphical depictions of sodomy involving children.

I think if librarians were buying "straight" books with the same explicit and adult content and putting them in elementary, middle, and high schools, the same parents would be complaining about those too.

New comment by khaki54 in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

khaki54 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:11:35 +0000

What? Mein Kampf and Anarchists Cookbook didn't even make the list at all? Something's fishy here

New comment by khaki54 in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

khaki54 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:27:17 +0000

The actual headline here is sort of misleading -- the 4x price increase is over the past 3 months!

New comment by khaki54 in "A vector graphics workstation from the 70s"

khaki54 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 02:37:02 +0000

Did he really need that crazy probe or was that a joke? Normal probes that come with Fluke 179 couldn't do it? I guess mine says 1000V so not rated for it. Do they even make 4000V handheld meters? How are you supposed to do the calibration?

New comment by khaki54 in "WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]"

khaki54 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:49:50 +0000

If you've ever looked at the admin panel of even a minor league, single page Wordpress site you'd probably recognize it as a major risk for any organization instantly. So many of the plugins look like spaghetti, with most you're trusting some random name to not be malicious. Unsurprisingly there are 60,000 CVE related to WP. I get that we all use a dozen node packages that we can't reasonably verify, but WP seems so much more wild west than that. I guess i's fine if you are a low value target, but a commercial CMS is not terribly expensive, and should be mandatory for any government org.

New comment by khaki54 in "China reaches energy milestone by "breeding" uranium from thorium"

khaki54 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 00:05:52 +0000

Interesting claim that the reactor doesn't need water and can be built away from the coast. I thought all reactors used steam to turn a turbine to produce electricity. Something special here?

New comment by khaki54 in "MySafeSpace – Whitehouse.gov"

khaki54 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 14:46:43 +0000

Can't even blame gen z staffer for this. What's the youngest you could reasonably be to get this one? 35? Also not having Tom in top 8 is a big miss

New comment by khaki54 in "Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware"

khaki54 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:30:07 +0000

Because to steal bitcoin by reverse engineering a private key from a public one you need to be able to factor a very large number. Currently the highest number they have factored using only quantum computing is 21.

New comment by khaki54 in "Show HN: Semantic search over the National Gallery of Art"

khaki54 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 02:02:52 +0000

Tried "Images of german shepherds" and not one on the page of 16

New comment by khaki54 in "Show HN: Semantic search over the National Gallery of Art"

khaki54 — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 01:59:36 +0000

Yale has an amazing one, worth looking at: https://lux.collections.yale.edu/

New comment by khaki54 in "Global Village Construction Set"

khaki54 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:53:39 +0000

This is exactly the type of information you want loaded on a HDD tucked away in case of calamity. You won't be able to find all the parts but the ideas would be invaluable.

New comment by khaki54 in "3M May Escape Toxic Chemical, PFAS Manufacturing Legacy"

khaki54 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:15:30 +0000

without Limited Liability Companies, a civil matter as simple as a copyright lawsuit could permenently bankrupt a small business and take the owners house and all their assets.

I don't agree with companies wantonly externalizing their costs onto the environment or the populace such as Dow or 3M poisoning the entire planet. Criminal liability never goes away for serious crimes, whether sole-proprietership, LLC, or Corp. We need to actually start jailing people though

New comment by khaki54 in "How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter"

khaki54 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:49:19 +0000

Well the fan in the Framework desktop is some kind of purpose built high performance Noctua fan that is significantly louder than usual. So they are suggesting to use the new grill with the fan that comes with it so you don't encounter throttling.