Hacker News: lgats

New comment by lgats in "ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

lgats — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:13:03 +0000

the line is being blurred as the need for tellers goes down many banks have the tellers performing personal banking adjacent tasks, like selling products, accounts or other upsells to existing customers

New comment by lgats in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

lgats — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:25:16 +0000

i think you're thinking of flair like on reddit, flag is more of a 'report spam' type feature

New comment by lgats in "We are building data breach machines and nobody cares"

lgats — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:47:52 +0000

very human

New comment by lgats in "Show HN: SentryRF – A private, local-first Android app to detect hidden trackers"

lgats — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:19:06 +0000

kinda shady to just have a bunch of "reviews" all made up.

New comment by lgats in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

lgats — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:15:56 +0000

the link https://news.ycombinator.com/noobcomments

New comment by lgats in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

lgats — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 02:48:57 +0000

https://github.com/lrehmann/gps360-viewer

cool result from this otherwise defunct hardware!

New comment by lgats in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

lgats — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:18:44 +0000

very neat, setting codex on the task of building a mac-compatible app for my Pharos Microsoft GPS-360 Receiver... we'll see how it goes!

New comment by lgats in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

lgats — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:41:36 +0000

GPS isn't a wireless signal sent by the phone, it is RX only.

New comment by lgats in "Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent"

lgats — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:00:14 +0000

webtorrent!

New comment by lgats in "County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security"

lgats — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:31:49 +0000

$600k for 6 years of legal battle and facing felony charges? no bueno

New comment by lgats in "Level S4 solar radiation event"

lgats — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:41:49 +0000

https://www.ieso.ca/Sector-Participants/RSS-Feeds/Day-0-Advi...

https://www.misoenergy.org/markets-and-operations/notificati...

https://www.ercot.com/services/comm/mkt_notices/notices

https://emergencyprocedures.pjm.com/ep/pages/dashboard.jsf

New comment by lgats in "S4 (Severe) Solar Radiation Storm in Progress"

lgats — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:11:54 +0000

https://www.ieso.ca/Sector-Participants/RSS-Feeds/Day-0-Advi...

https://www.misoenergy.org/markets-and-operations/notificati...

https://www.ercot.com/services/comm/mkt_notices/notices

https://emergencyprocedures.pjm.com/ep/pages/dashboard.jsf

New comment by lgats in "TSMC Arizona outage saw fab halt, Apple wafers scrapped"

lgats — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 07:57:53 +0000

Silane, with the chemical formula $SiH_{4}$, is a highly flammable and toxic inorganic gas used in industries like semiconductors, construction, and dentistry. It serves as a crucial precursor for creating high-purity silicon and is a versatile coupling agent that enhances adhesion between materials like glass and polymers. Its reactivity also allows it to be used in coatings, sealants, and various chemical syntheses.

Chemical Formula: $SiH_{4}$ Appearance: A colorless gas with a repulsive odor Flammability: Highly flammable and pyrophoric, meaning it can ignite spontaneously in air Toxicity: Very toxic by inhalation and a strong irritant to the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes

New comment by lgats in "Maestro Technology Sells Used SSD Drives as New"

lgats — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:14:46 +0000

does amazon still do inventory co-mingling ?

New comment by lgats in "Widespread distribution of bacteria containing PETases across global oceans"

lgats — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:28:03 +0000

Heat doesn't impact radioactive decay, though the sci-fi fungi could have some internal neutron reflectors that may make something interesting happen

YaCy Instances

lgats — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:51:11 +0000

Article URL: https://yacy.space/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698935

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by lgats in "Solar energy is going to power the world much sooner than you think"

lgats — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:36:42 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20251023135556/https://www.newsc...

https://archive.is/wip/3OULX

New comment by lgats in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

lgats — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:06:04 +0000

"Based on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1."

it seems they found your comment

New comment by lgats in "Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?"

lgats — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 22:57:42 +0000

update: thanks for all the suggestions

I decided to do some testing with redirecting to a small vps that just keeps the connections open and sends a byte every 10-30 seconds. This worked and the traffic substantially dropped off. After doing some more digging though, I got concerned this may be in itself an abuse of my VPS providers ToS. The risk did not outweigh the benefit. Gzip bombs fell under a similar category of concern.

New comment by lgats in "Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month?"

lgats — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:48:49 +0000

I've tried localhost redirects, doesn't impact the speed of their requests, all ports are closed on the suspect machines