Hacker News: mmmlinux

New comment by mmmlinux in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

mmmlinux — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:41:01 +0000

Is it different than telling your therapist something in confidence and then finding police waiting for you in the lobby.

New comment by mmmlinux in "Argentina court recognizes two goldfish as sentient beings with rights"

mmmlinux — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:47:11 +0000

so are cops going to be following people who buy every beta fish ever out of the parking lot to write a ticket?

New comment by mmmlinux in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

mmmlinux — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:37:48 +0000

What prevents another group from installing a sign directly in front of a flock camera.

New comment by mmmlinux in "Designing and assembling my first PCB"

mmmlinux — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:14:16 +0000

This feels like you asked claude how to make a PCB.

New comment by mmmlinux in "Guy took Jupiter photo with Game Boy Camera, giant telescope, publishes tutorial"

mmmlinux — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:23:25 +0000

Yeah, surprising all this effort and no clean copy of the picture to be easily found. Pretty easy to get them off the GB camera now days.

New comment by mmmlinux in "Firefox new Wrexham shirt sponsor"

mmmlinux — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:27:10 +0000

Its not built by a company that would really prefer you not have an ad blocker.

New comment by mmmlinux in "Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI"

mmmlinux — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:24:52 +0000

Have at it.

New comment by mmmlinux in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

mmmlinux — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:06:36 +0000

It wouldn't be surprising if they did have a better tech stack. also judging from the state of things, it wouldn't be that hard either.

New comment by mmmlinux in "Tell HN: Who wants to be hired" posts outpace "Who's hiring" 2 to 1"

mmmlinux — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:29:49 +0000

Nothing to do with the bar for wanting a job being WAY lower than the bar for being able to even potentially hire someone they found on an internet forum.

New comment by mmmlinux in "Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k"

mmmlinux — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:40:58 +0000

Oh and its filled with asbestos, so you're gonna be on the hook for that too.

New comment by mmmlinux in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

mmmlinux — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:00:35 +0000

If by hand writing recognition you mean force you to learn their "graffiti" system, and write one letter at a time sure. Lets not even pretend newton did any better.

New comment by mmmlinux in "What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?"

mmmlinux — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:57:46 +0000

Too bad, I remember when kindles came with a free 3g connection and web browser.

New comment by mmmlinux in "Flock Defense "No Expectation of Privacy in Public" Is Wrong"

mmmlinux — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:40:53 +0000

Never forget, There are people here who are very proud of the system they built.

New comment by mmmlinux in "US home battery installations hit record high on rising electricity costs"

mmmlinux — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:50:28 +0000

How long till you start getting taxed on how much electrical storage capacity you have at your house?

New comment by mmmlinux in "Ray Tracer in SQL"

mmmlinux — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:10:45 +0000

I love all the "But Why?!?" and "It's LLM so it doesn't count" comments.

New comment by mmmlinux in "Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter"

mmmlinux — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:18:37 +0000

Tangentially related. Does any one remember a book on databases for kids from the early 90s? It came with a 5.25" floppy in the back with the database software for DOS. Ive been trying to remember what this book from my childhood was but I've been unsuccessful.

New comment by mmmlinux in "White House app auto-downloads to government phones, can't be uninstalled"

mmmlinux — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:40:51 +0000

People are only now concerned because they see the control that was always there, Now being exerted over their government work issued phones.

New comment by mmmlinux in "Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball"

mmmlinux — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:59:21 +0000

vibe coded project people like = omg so amazing, you did so great. wow the ai art is so amazing!

vibe coded project people dont like = llm vibe coded slop, waste of the internet, why did you even try. cant believe you didnt pay hundreds of dollars to a human artist.

New comment by mmmlinux in "Capital Factory CEO Joshua Baer killed in plane crash near Laredo, TX"

mmmlinux — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:53:01 +0000

Is it just some kind of confirmation bias or something, or are there actually a lot of plane crashes in the past few weeks.

New comment by mmmlinux in "Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes"

mmmlinux — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:04:28 +0000

I'm surprised there was no mention of Fernico or Dumet metal. they were designed for this application.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernico