Hacker News: klausa

New comment by klausa in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

klausa — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:29:26 +0000

Because it's one more thing that I have to own and maintain; versus a built-in feature?

New comment by klausa in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

klausa — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:28:59 +0000

It is precisely so I _don't_ have to touch the actual TV remote ever.

New comment by klausa in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

klausa — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 03:46:36 +0000

So I can turn it on/off using Home Assistant and my phone.

New comment by klausa in "Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)"

klausa — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 07:19:07 +0000

The whole business of airliners engines is fascinating in its own.

AIUI when you're buying a plane from Airbus, it's possible/frequent to own the _airframe_; but not the engines — the engines are often _leased_ (sometimes directly from RR/GE); I've even heard of cases where each engine will be owned by a different entity!

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/12528/jet-engin...

New comment by klausa in "FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses"

klausa — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:14:26 +0000

I'm now very curious how does a UV/IR scan of an ID card looks like!

New comment by klausa in "Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card"

klausa — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:01:20 +0000

I imagine there are only maybe three people as stupid as me to try this, but just in case: it works fine when the battery runs out; but it does _not_ work during the OS update process.

New comment by klausa in "Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card"

klausa — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:46:20 +0000

I've tried it once and found it very inconvenient, compared to pulling out my phone out of my pocket, but glad to hear it works for you!

New comment by klausa in "Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card"

klausa — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:12:52 +0000

Only if you’re left handed, or wear your watch on your right hand for whatever reason.

Or you have a contortionist spirit in you, whatever works :)

New comment by klausa in "Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card"

klausa — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:05:32 +0000

Depends on where.

Many cities have their own cards, that are used for transit only (so no vending machines etc., and no interoperability between cities), increasingly many places just let you use your credit card in place of the special transit card, some places (Germany, some parts of Scandinavia) don’t have ticket gates at all.

New comment by klausa in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

klausa — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:56:50 +0000

> The talent is still there, so they could rebuild, or recruit the talent to work for Chinese mainland fabs instead?

Would you voluntarily work in a country that invaded and taken over yours?

Would you ask the same about Russia recruiting Ukrainians?

New comment by klausa in "We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon"

klausa — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:33:48 +0000

Wow, that's actually an impressive new failure mode; and it happens on Safari too.

New comment by klausa in "Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)"

klausa — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:09:11 +0000

...in what way?

New comment by klausa in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

klausa — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:40:32 +0000

I know you said "relatively", but it's been seven and a half years: https://github.blog/changelog/2019-01-08-pricing-changes/

New comment by klausa in "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI"

klausa — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:32:06 +0000

This only happens (should happen?) when you're moving, when stationary there is a keyboard that appears; which feels like a reasonable safety precaution for me.

New comment by klausa in "RIP Claude – Aggressively writer-hostile"

klausa — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:30:46 +0000

>What this means: if I ask Claude to critique a piece and I happen to cut and paste part of its reply into the text, then that could be marked.

...that seems correct to me? Why wouldn't it be marked? If you take the model's suggestions and apply them, those should absolutely be marked?

New comment by klausa in "My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”"

klausa — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:38:30 +0000

There is (used to be? I'm not sure anymore) a Maps office in Tokyo too.

New comment by klausa in "Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak"

klausa — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:59:52 +0000

AIUI it's owned by Chris, and Kenji is a fan, but doesn't have any ties other than that.

New comment by klausa in "IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay"

klausa — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:22:19 +0000

I desperately wish there was a "Turn off for five minutes, I'm dealing with dumb corpsec auth stuff" option.

New comment by klausa in "Apple is getting this wrong"

klausa — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:11:42 +0000

>Is it standard practice at both Apple and OpenAI for employees to use their personal icloud account for work?

Yes.

New comment by klausa in "More German than many Germans"

klausa — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:21:21 +0000

Perhaps the fact that we’re having this discussion on HN shows the kind of media I’m likely to consume, but I’ve never seen it used in the latter sense. TIL, I guess!