Hacker News: kotaKat

New comment by kotaKat in "US plans to automatically register young men for military draft"

kotaKat — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:59:40 +0000

Weird we have this technology but not the technology for automatic voter registration, or automatic tax filing...

New comment by kotaKat in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

kotaKat — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:29:47 +0000

I mean, they spun up a bullshit "Oversight Board" that they can fully 100% choose to ignore and decline to implement their demands when they're made.

New comment by kotaKat in "An AI robot in my home"

kotaKat — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:41:28 +0000

Oh hey, I've had one of those sitting on a shelf! Someone on eBay seems to have a metric fuckton of these things for $50 a whack. 17 left as of my comment.

https://ebay.us/ooX3bU

Unfortunately... yeah, they're all stuck in the useless Esper management still if you factory default them away from whatever weird factory test app they're in. Care to throw us a little bone? ;)

New comment by kotaKat in "Japan relaxes privacy laws to make itself the 'easiest country to develop AI'"

kotaKat — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:19:34 +0000

Now relax your xenophobic anti-immigration views and you'll be getting somewhere, Sana!

New comment by kotaKat in "NYC families need over $125k in income to live in any borough"

kotaKat — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:30:57 +0000

I'm outside of NYC, still in NY. As a single person, the 80% AGI limit is $49,000 here.

It's actually kind of painful to be barely above 100% AGI and not be able to get secure 'quality' housing up here. Everything that's being rehabilitated is focusing on low income (sub-80% AGI) limits, and everything else up here is... dire to rent. We have no real protections or anything in place up here, let alone an attempt to register rental properties that can go through without landlord revolt.

And tax credits - that was amazing when I filed my taxes through NY's direct file during the IRS pilot. I was given a "great news!" screen where it boasted that I qualified for exactly $0 for every single tax credit on offer because I couldn't own property or have a family.

New comment by kotaKat in "Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea"

kotaKat — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:56:48 +0000

If I want a dumb jackass nonsensical captcha, I’ll just use hCaptcha.

Studio Display XDR medical imaging feature gets FDA cleared, launching this week

kotaKat — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:33:39 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2026/04/06/studio-display-xdr-medical-imaging-feature-fda-clearance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664127

Points: 6

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New comment by kotaKat in "Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair"

kotaKat — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:01:43 +0000

Just like Gamestop!

New comment by kotaKat in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

kotaKat — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:11:29 +0000

Apparently To Catch a Predator ("TCAP") makes YouTube think I've got a Spanish eating disorder and shoves a full screen "you're not alone" screen at you to call some eating disorder helpline.

New comment by kotaKat in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

kotaKat — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:48:59 +0000

"Lottos help your school!" they said. Until you're in rural bumfuck nowhere, and your lotto win suddenly drags your community's average income from "dirt poor" to "middle class" by becoming Spiders Georg and you end up costing nearly half a mil in state aid to go up in smoke.

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2017/07/one_mans_huge_lottery_...

New comment by kotaKat in "The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE"

kotaKat — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:28:47 +0000

Not if you stay within 400 feet AGL of the mountain terrain. You can be over 400 feet MSL (mean-sea-level) but still be within 400 feet above-ground-level from where the drone's sitting in the sky.

New comment by kotaKat in "Kids groups say they didn't know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition"

kotaKat — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:41:37 +0000

Anyone else find it odd how OpenAI is grooming these groups? Seems a bit sick and perverse coming from Mr. SA.

New comment by kotaKat in "Build your own Dial-up ISP with a Raspberry Pi"

kotaKat — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:48:32 +0000

I feel like it would have been more fun to build your own line simulator with a 9 volt battery and some old phone line and just skip the dialtone altogether for a little magic... the $120 black-box telco simulator takes a lot of the fun out.

But then again, based on Pi pricing today, the $120 telco simulator goes nicely with a $300 Pi 5.

New comment by kotaKat in "I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone – Jonno.nz"

kotaKat — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:11:09 +0000

I feel like people can fly under the radar on individual small scale use in-house, but the second you're trying to run a full scale public facing service with hundreds of thousands of messages originating off one SIM card you'll get lit hard.

New comment by kotaKat in "I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone – Jonno.nz"

kotaKat — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:33:17 +0000

I can feel the 10DLC violations in the US already running through my blood. You will be eviscerated by the carriers for doing this for anything longer than a single day.

I hope your disaster recovery (or 'didn't realize') strategy includes a drawer full of additional burner Android phones and SIM cards.

New comment by kotaKat in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

kotaKat — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:47:26 +0000

Memories now of what we were given at the hospital long ago: our obstetrics ward was using Philips OBTraceVue software. The original FDA-approved system required Philips to package the OS and hardware all together, so we were given a bunch of generic Compaq desktops to run their fetal heartrate monitoring on.

The biggest annoying complaint was "we want to run our EHR software on it!" but because of the FDA requirements, we weren't allowed to install anything on the box. Yet somehow providing AV could be OK in some cases, and in other cases installing Citrix? And then we'd somehow find out someone managed to install the EHR client onto it anyways and it became a big old mess to have to have Philips come send a tech out of their own to reimage a PC we couldn't "legally" service.

It was a big messy pain for a while back in the day. Was happy when we finally got to upgrade to the newer IntelliSpace software on our own PCs in the ward. (Also got to meet a support engineer that came out rocking an Agilent badge, so that was super cool on its own right of history...)

New comment by kotaKat in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

kotaKat — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:17:17 +0000

Just like this, a Starlink gimbal being tested for future third party laser comms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpFfC9WY0qs

New comment by kotaKat in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

kotaKat — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:06:22 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41655299

This comment makes it feel a lot safer, when you think about it.

"Web browsers are historically known for crashing, but that's partly because they have to handle every page on the whole Internet. A static system with the same browser running a single website, heavily tested, may be reliable enough for our needs."

When you've also built up the metal that you're running that React on, it's a lot warmer and cozier than having to trust the whole fat Windows 11 codebase on Artemis...

New comment by kotaKat in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

kotaKat — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:34:59 +0000

I thought we gave up on AGI and turned into making sex chatbots and simulated porn instead. Wasn't that what Sam was pushing for all along when he went all in on Sora and the erotic modes?

New comment by kotaKat in "30 Years Ago, Robots Learned to Walk Without Falling"

kotaKat — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:52:30 +0000

The sad part though: What even has Honda done with their humanoid robotics research? I remember being starry-eyed, excited as a kid to see ASIMO and all the amazing things it was doing. Past a couple hardware revisions they basically just let the thing rot out to die and it hurts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X23jNzL3wuE

This commercial still holds a lot of spirit and heart to it. I really wish we could tap progress on the shoulder and ask for more forwards again...