Hacker News: martyvis

New comment by martyvis in "Show HN: Vertumnus – printable posters of farmers' market produce seasonality"

martyvis — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:33:48 +0000

Per the small text at the bottom of the poster I would say they are based on shipment volumes -so how much is available. The lighter colour probably indicates variation depending on how good the growing season is

People who paint pylons (1997)

martyvis — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:49:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0DEVjwUAZE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585592

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by martyvis in "Findings Report on the July 8th Telstra Outage [pdf]"

martyvis — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:37:42 +0000

>This chassis was located in Melbourne and it was part of the mobile core timing architecture and was designed to provide stratum 2 and stratum 3 NTP services. When this server went back on line (at 2:50am), the GPS card in the chassis had reset during the change and began sending the incorrect date from 2006 into the network. The GPS card was actively used in that chassis and was missing a critical firmware update that was required to prevent this shift in time due to a known GPS rollover that was published in bulletins by the supplier. While the planned change of the NTP server chassis was the trigger point to begin the Outage, the steps leading to that point go back many years, as far back as 2020.

The core issue however was accumulation of technical debt (architectural changes in how timing systems were managed were not being tracked) and not recognising NTP as a sovereign system that needed to be properly managed.

Findings Report on the July 8th Telstra Outage [pdf]

martyvis — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 06:36:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.telstra.com.au/content/dam/tcom/dynamic-media-projects/luke-campbell/TAP-Findings-for-Telstra-Outage.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532522

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Fair Work Commission condemns 'plain wrong' AI legal advice

martyvis — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:20:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-29/fair-work-commission-condemns-ai-legal-advice/107089766

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49497357

Points: 60

# Comments: 31

New comment by martyvis in "Shares in humanoid robot firm Unitree surge 600% on Chinese stock market debut"

martyvis — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:26:25 +0000

>analysts projecting that sales could rise from around $2bn in 2025 to $300bn by 2035.

That's a pretty bold claim.

Shares in humanoid robot firm Unitree surge 600% on Chinese stock market debut

martyvis — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:24:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/19/unitree-shares-surge-humanoid-robot-firm-chinese-stock-market-debut

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359060

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by martyvis in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

martyvis — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:27:31 +0000

We're expecting a dry and hot spring and summer this year in Australia (and our winter has been milder than average to boot). https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/nsw-el-nino-weather-e...

New comment by martyvis in "Anthropic just wrote a statement just to confirm all concerns about watermarking"

martyvis — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:02:28 +0000

can't get past captcha

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

martyvis — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:51:31 +0000

I think the point is that they have zero empathy

Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated

martyvis — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:55:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297595

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Wooden wind turbine blade fatigue less than fiberglass and can be recycled

martyvis — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:41:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ecoportal.net/en/wind-turbine-blades-usually-end-lives/31840/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284023

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by martyvis in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

martyvis — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:38:48 +0000

TIL about Certificate Transparency (they didn't teach that in security school)

New comment by martyvis in "AI designs a novel E. coli killer (first publicly announced AI-designed virus)"

martyvis — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:55:14 +0000

Australian news reporting on this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-07/ai-models-design-viru...

New comment by martyvis in "Wiki Radio: The thrilling sound of random Wikipedia"

martyvis — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:25:10 +0000

It's a reference to the Beatles song Revolution Number 9 which includes a lot of clips like that. It does get old pretty quickly here.

New comment by martyvis in "Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic"

martyvis — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:52:23 +0000

Josh Wardle sold Wordle to the New York Times for at least a million. https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/31/22911274/wordle-new-york-...

New comment by martyvis in "Boris Spassky: 1937–2025"

martyvis — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:44:17 +0000

See the board here on Lichess https://lichess.org/study/facg4YUQ/jnXlZXWo

New comment by martyvis in "Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain"

martyvis — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:25:23 +0000

FYI 2600 and 2.6k use the same number of characters.

New comment by martyvis in "Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025"

martyvis — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:44:15 +0000

And Elon says they have run out of training data ...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/09/elon-musk...

New comment by martyvis in "Show HN: Atlas of Space"

martyvis — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:33:04 +0000

It doesn't seem it is showing the tilt for Earth correct. When I zoom in for around now, the North Pole is in full sun rather than mid Winter. (I'm in Australia so I don't know if it is somehow using my local timezone wrongly)