Hacker News: natebc

New comment by natebc in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

natebc — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:43:54 +0000

> If 50 billion in revenue is from other companies debt spending… then You have a problem.

we may have a problem then.

New comment by natebc in "Show HN: A self-running space economy SIM in Rust and Bevy"

natebc — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:24:53 +0000

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4382310/Warp_to_Sector_On...

I came across this recently ... hints of Tradewars from the good old days.

New comment by natebc in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

natebc — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:34:00 +0000

No. Not the demos in this article.

New comment by natebc in "The death and rebirth of my home server"

natebc — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:34:54 +0000

... and the default instructions guide you to install the Raspberry Pi Imager which will format and configure an SD card for your hardware.

The recommended OS during this process is .... "Raspberry Pi OS" i.e. Raspbian.

New comment by natebc in "Bluesky Trademarks ATProto"

natebc — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:58:04 +0000

In this case? Social Network protocol scene but generally the open source world (and every other niche interest in existence) has it's own bouts with scene drama.

New comment by natebc in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

natebc — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:19:54 +0000

... because of the evidence all around us?

But really, nobody said "only" it's just that the gems are drowning alongside us in a sea of bullshit and the tide is still on the way up I'm afraid.

New comment by natebc in "Bluesky Trademarks ATProto"

natebc — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:30:16 +0000

Never underestimate the siren song of scene drama.

New comment by natebc in "The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence"

natebc — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:58:01 +0000

I didn't know that they (the reverse ATMs) were being outlawed until i saw a Kitboga + AARP interview on youtube the other day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A4uKSvFU40

Kitboga is a dang hero.

New comment by natebc in "The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence"

natebc — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:50:47 +0000

> (I'd worry less about crypto though as it's pretty hard for grandma to reliably setup)

These scumbags send grandma to a Bitcoin ATM.

New comment by natebc in "Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)"

natebc — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:21:16 +0000

I estimated about 6 quid. We left £3300 behind because 3300 1-lb bags of sugar only costs £1800.

;) I like these easy breezy Late Friday threads!

New comment by natebc in "Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)"

natebc — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:39:34 +0000

Well that's what ... 300 or so pints?

New comment by natebc in "Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)"

natebc — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:56:03 +0000

Megagrams?? I like it.

New comment by natebc in "Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)"

natebc — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:53:56 +0000

well that's just £3300 then, yeah?

New comment by natebc in "Why American ambulance rides are so expensive"

natebc — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:52:36 +0000

Only the rightists do and among them really only the loud redfaced ones.

New comment by natebc in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

natebc — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:10:28 +0000

Didn't Steve Bannon do a tour in Europe recently to dispense some of his strategy?

This smells like him, honestly.

New comment by natebc in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

natebc — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:43:18 +0000

Oh i've worked with plenty. Maybe they knew more than they let on but they were (and are) convinced that every little belch is a full on attack.

I know their day to day is just as mundane as the rest of ours it's their "Step 1" approach that i've seen to be entirely different. I assume it's probably a software bug, they assume it's an exploit.

New comment by natebc in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

natebc — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:17:22 +0000

It's because you (like me) aren't quite as paranoid as security people are. Personally I couldn't sleep at night if I was security people.

It's really a matter of context. Security people tend to only be involved when things are already nefarious where as boring old normal people like us see get to see the mundane everyday mistakes so not just the nefarious bits.

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

natebc — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:21:46 +0000

It claims to be backed by (and require) apple/containers(1) which "consumes and produces OCI-compatible container images" so if all that is true .... yes!

1) https://github.com/apple/container

New comment by natebc in "How Kalshi Infects the News"

natebc — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:46:16 +0000

Really it's the only way to win at gambling.

New comment by natebc in "Whimsy and the Literacy Crisis [video]"

natebc — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:40:16 +0000

"... moving truth from the realm of objectivity to the realm of subjectivity."

Admittedly this is not typical HN faire but Ash talks about the impact of "the algorithm" and impact on the parlance of truth.

Plus she's very entertaining.