Hacker News: kurtoid

New comment by kurtoid in "1-day RCE vulnerability in vim"

kurtoid — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:26:05 +0000

Claimed to have been discovered with/by Claude: https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-vim-vs-emacs-vs-claude

New comment by kurtoid in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

kurtoid — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:11:08 +0000

Looks like my "waiting period" prediction was right

That's going to be really annoying when exporting tasker scripts as APKs for relatives

New comment by kurtoid in "Netdata is a seriously impressive server monitoring tool"

kurtoid — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:17:38 +0000

I used to love netdata, but right around dashboard v3 I switched to Prometheus+grafana

I still miss the no-fuss configuration and the anomaly detection was well done, but I just can't do the required cloud thing it does now

New comment by kurtoid in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

kurtoid — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:57:19 +0000

Lowe's has their own contract with Flock. I've seen them outside a couple of Targets too

New comment by kurtoid in "I’m joining OpenAI"

kurtoid — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:31:12 +0000

I think so

New comment by kurtoid in "MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience"

kurtoid — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:54:04 +0000

(my older) LIFX bulbs have an Espressif MAC address, and I think LIFX has stated they're ESP32-based in the past

New comment by kurtoid in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

kurtoid — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:10:49 +0000

My guess is the 'high-friction' part is some kind of mandatory waiting period of 1 to 3 days

New comment by kurtoid in "Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts"

kurtoid — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:29:27 +0000

This post appears directly above "So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?". The irony

New comment by kurtoid in "ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?"

kurtoid — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 02:27:46 +0000

I interpreted that line as tongue-in-cheek, but on a second reading, I think you're right

New comment by kurtoid in "Forever Object: The Staple-Less Oceanus Brass Stapler"

kurtoid — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:59:04 +0000

In my case, it looks like a memory issue - my ram and swap both filled up after opening the site

New comment by kurtoid in "NTSB Preliminary Report – UPS Boeing MD-11F Crash [pdf]"

kurtoid — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:29:46 +0000

Link doesn't seem to be available now:

> Page not found

> The page you're looking for doesn't exist.

New comment by kurtoid in "Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?"

kurtoid — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:24:35 +0000

I'm starting to maintain a COBOL codebase for my dad's small business. It uses MicroFocus's runtime so it runs fine on Windows 10/11 (but I'm trying to migrate it to OpenCOBOL). He helped write a good chunk of it, but doesn't make any major changes to it anymore. I'm not confident enough to make major changes to it, but I fix some bugs here and there. I ended up writing a python script to parse the database layout for a python-based fuzzy search tool, but I still stuck to a terminal UI for it.

New comment by kurtoid in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"

kurtoid — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:50:38 +0000

> 748 can run on Steam Assuming you mean on Linux?

New comment by kurtoid in "Front-Panel Booting an ATmega88 Microcontroller"

kurtoid — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:56:40 +0000

Looks down for me. https://web.archive.org/web/20251024110521/https://www.linus...

New comment by kurtoid in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"

kurtoid — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 23:39:33 +0000

Relax, I have no interest in testing any of this. I'm just shocked that there's so little room for interpretation

Sorry if I'm acting dense, it's not on purpose. What am I missing?

New comment by kurtoid in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"

kurtoid — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 03:30:02 +0000

It would have to go before a court. I think it wouldn't be too hard to convince a jury (or judge) that a head-in-a-basket AI art + description is expression (first amendment) and not a threat

Edit: your first link is a genuine threat. the second one is a picture of someone holding a photo-realistic, mangled head. The head-in-a-basket is neither

New comment by kurtoid in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"

kurtoid — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 22:02:24 +0000

I think a head-in-a-basket image is easily an artistic expression. I've seen worse

New comment by kurtoid in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"

kurtoid — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:17:15 +0000

They can visit all they like, but what else can they do?

New comment by kurtoid in "iPhone OLED supplier BOE to be banned in US for stealing Samsung trade secrets"

kurtoid — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:57:01 +0000

This sounds like bad news for Framework. The BOE display in my Framework 16 is pretty nice

New comment by kurtoid in "Framework Laptop 16"

kurtoid — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:45:57 +0000

Choice is good, IMO. I've had good experience w/ Nvidia cards with the new open drivers on wayland