Hacker News: leetrout

New comment by leetrout in "The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week"

leetrout — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:16:31 +0000

He accidentally got caught.

New comment by leetrout in "Cartesian – AI 3D Modeling for Design"

leetrout — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:52:10 +0000

Is the site owners are here: that background and scroll effect is terrible.

New comment by leetrout in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

leetrout — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:39:23 +0000

Can we put "Automattic" I. The title? I had no idea who this was. (Yes it is comfortable under my rock)

New comment by leetrout in "Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time"

leetrout — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:12:30 +0000

> If they can do it in mining and construction, why can't transportation...

Because supply side. Can't have our oil barons losing out.

New comment by leetrout in "An overview of how our family is prepared"

leetrout — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:13:42 +0000

This is the way. And I have no shame when I warm up a can of ravioli in the microwave at coworking.

Even though the campbell's exec declared it "poor food" the jazzy jambalaya has replaced our instant pot recipe. We buy two cans of it, add a package of microwaveable ready rice and have decent (although very carb and sodium heavy) dinner in ~3 minutes.

It also cooks up great in a small pot on a pocket rocket and tastes great right of the can as far as it being suitable for emergency food.

New comment by leetrout in "I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again"

leetrout — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:06:34 +0000

Counter point: How many paid auth providers force you to create an entirely new deployment and then use a lambda to migrate within their own system? Especially for something as seemingly simple like adding another metadata field?

I think they allow export because they drew some interesting lines around their own mutability concerns.

I also would never use cognito again.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/co...

New comment by leetrout in "AWS billing bug causes 1000x increase in token prices"

leetrout — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:15:44 +0000

We got hit with this as well. Minor heart attack.

Second billing issue in the past couple weeks... wonder what is going on? AI code? Rapid product additions?

New comment by leetrout in "Starbase, LA"

leetrout — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:34:20 +0000

It's in the comments here tho.

New comment by leetrout in "Hister – A private, full content search index that you control"

leetrout — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 03:58:42 +0000

Promnesia was a prior attempt at this

https://beepb00p.xyz/promnesia.html

New comment by leetrout in "The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video]"

leetrout — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:53:58 +0000

Glad this one is getting the "second chance" bump back to the front page. It's great content and it's timely. It's a great video.

If you're not inclined to watch the video I'll save you a click to the youtube description and add a bit more detail than the earlier sibling for the devices shown:

Simulacra

"Simulacra continuously fabricates a churning crowd of plausible-but-fake wireless devices around you — drowning your real devices in noise so that passive trackers, ALPR add-ons, and co-travel correlators can't reliably pick your signal out of the crowd — while passively watching for the trackers that follow you."

https://github.com/Em3ritus/simulacra

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Biscuit Ultra

"Wardriving Platform: A Full WiFi & BLE Security Toolkit. A headless wireless security research platform controlled entirely from your phone via Bluetooth. The platform supports dual-band WiFi (2.4GHz + 5GHz), Bluetooth Low Energy scanning and attacks, wardriving with GPS mapping, packet capture, and much more"

https://biscuitshop.us/products/biscuit-ultra

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Rayhunter

"Rayhunter is a project for detecting IMSI catchers, also known as cell-site simulators or stingrays. It was first designed to run on a cheap mobile hotspot called the Orbic RC400L, but thanks to community efforts, it can support some other devices as well."

https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter

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OUI Spy

"ESP32-S3 multi-mode surveillance-detection board"

• Foxhunter — single-target RSSI-proximity tracker for radio direction finding

• Detector — multi-target BLE scanner with OUI filtering + web config portal

• PCAP — raw 2.4GHz Wi-Fi packet capture, Wireshark-ready (dev branch)

• BLE Sniff — raw Bluetooth LE advertising capture, Wireshark-ready (dev branch)

• Flock-You — Flock cam detection with GPS wardriving, JSON/CSV/KML export

https://colonelpanic.tech/

https://github.com/colonelpanichacks/oui-spy

New comment by leetrout in "Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation"

leetrout — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:57:05 +0000

maybe they are easy but "everyone has to have them" doesn't change the amount of time and money invested in getting them. The real compensation under that is stagnating with inflation. NC is particularly bad because state law forbids collective bargaining and they are at the whim of the legislature (which stalled a budget for 1000 days).

The signal of supply and demand the cost (and debt) of an advanced degree is not reflected in the marginal salary bump over bachelors degree given the rising costs of tuition. From same site you used 46.7% of public university masters degree completions used debt so basically half.

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d23/tables/dt23_332.45.a...

New comment by leetrout in "Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma"

leetrout — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:23:45 +0000

My dad died 30 years ago after it spread to his liver. He was in the study at duke for what is today the standard treatment line for immunotherapy. I hope he was able to help. He died 9 months after his diagnosis.

Enjoy the time you have with him now and be grateful for all the years you've had. Nothing is going to make the loss of a parent "OK" and it will hurt no matter if you see it coming like you are or it's a surprise.

Remember to breathe.

New comment by leetrout in "How Kubernetes Probes Work"

leetrout — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:40:17 +0000

many times i have said a company could be built to just make better google documentation.

New comment by leetrout in "Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation"

leetrout — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:25:10 +0000

Sure, $62.5k for a 10 month contract is $75k over 12 (62.5/10 == 75/12) but my point about purchasing power remains.

As the other commenter called out it's low considering to get to this salary at 15 years of experience you also have to have a master's degree. Master degree holders have a median salary $95k in the US so this is off the mark by a considerable amount.

New comment by leetrout in "Activation Energy is a good model for a lot of things"

leetrout — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:46:51 +0000

https://paulgraham.com/greatwork.html

> When I'm reluctant to start work in the morning, I often trick myself by saying "I'll just read over what I've got so far." Five minutes later I've found something that seems mistaken or incomplete, and I'm off.

New comment by leetrout in "Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation"

leetrout — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:04:18 +0000

NC teacher salaries are terrible on their own but they are also outpaced by inflation.

The new budget just got approved. Last year a teacher with 15 years of experience made $58,270 and this year they will make $62,500 so right around an 8% bump but the prior two years was only a ~$1000 bump each.

So 2023 -> 2026 $56,250 -> $62,500 was roughly 12% increase in pay but adjusted for inflation $62500 in 2026 is ~$57,220 in 2023 so not even an actual raise of $1000 in buying power.

New comment by leetrout in "Seven books I keep close because I love them"

leetrout — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:36:07 +0000

I use the New Living Translation (NLT) for casual reading and was unaware of the LSB. I'll have to get a copy, thanks.

Here's a brief comparison (Titus 1)

LSB: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Titus%201&versi...

NLT: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=titus%201&versi...

New comment by leetrout in "Dear people who work at the airport"

leetrout — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:58:48 +0000

One of the best investments I ever made was the original Patagonia MLC wheelie. It stands for Maximum Legal Carry-on. They have a black hole version now which I am not familiar with but I assume is the same quality / usefulness. I had a few jobs where I commuted regularly on CRJ 200's and this bag fits in the overhead with no issue. The ability to pop out the straps and wear it like a backpack makes the gate agents much less concerned about the size.

New comment by leetrout in "Crown 0.64 – Native and cross-platform game engine"

leetrout — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:28:06 +0000

There's a neat list of custom game engines on GitHub that I enjoy checking in on every now and then:

https://github.com/raysan5/custom_game_engines

New comment by leetrout in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

leetrout — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:45:13 +0000

Over 12 years of popular usage at this point. I still think it's inappropriate for ~90% of the companies using it.