Hacker News: nathancahill

New comment by nathancahill in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

nathancahill — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:53:55 +0000

AI was trained on Axios wrappers, so it's just going to be wrappers all the way down. Look inside any company "API Client" and it's just a branded wrapper around Axios.

New comment by nathancahill in "Flighty Airports"

nathancahill — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:29:56 +0000

MiseryMap: https://www.flightaware.com/miserymap/

New comment by nathancahill in "Is it a pint?"

nathancahill — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:09:49 +0000

Indeed. And coffee bags have gone from 16oz to 12oz to 10oz and I saw my first 8oz bag recently (while keeping the same form factor).

New comment by nathancahill in "The dead Internet is not a theory anymore"

nathancahill — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:01:58 +0000

I think this was the premise of Keybase?

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

nathancahill — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:27:50 +0000

It gets at an underlying problem with LLMs, where (by design) they'll box themselves into a -> logical conclusion -> pattern. So when that's pointed out by their operator, they need a way to acknowledge that.

New comment by nathancahill in "Anna's Archive Loses .LI Domain as Legal Pressure Mounts"

nathancahill — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:31:27 +0000

My money is on .ru

New comment by nathancahill in "I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978"

nathancahill — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:15:23 +0000

One of the things that got me in to "coding" when I was 9 years old was building tic tac toe in Excel, locking the window size to 3x3 cells and then implementing clicks as links to the next board state, with the "computer" having already played the next move. The whole sheet had every possible board state written out by hand.

New comment by nathancahill in "Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives"

nathancahill — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:27:48 +0000

The secret ingredient is.. crime.

New comment by nathancahill in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

nathancahill — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:38:30 +0000

It's so bad. I think it has to do with touch targets because the slide to type is great in my opinion.

New comment by nathancahill in "Show HN: Geo Racers – Race from London to Tokyo on a single bus pass"

nathancahill — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:02:34 +0000

Partner with Rome2Rio for in-game research module.

New comment by nathancahill in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

nathancahill — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:03:48 +0000

Fascinating, thanks for chiming in.

New comment by nathancahill in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

nathancahill — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:39:36 +0000

It's not theirs, internal Amazon stuff. Also, plug for Firefox and the Copy Clean Link function.

New comment by nathancahill in "Chromium Has Merged JpegXL"

nathancahill — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:00:47 +0000

I'm surprised there hasn't been a Z-Lib/Anna's like movement for spec documents. Given how tech savvy the default audience of those documents are.

New comment by nathancahill in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

nathancahill — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:58:40 +0000

Is there any difference in moving Photos Library.photoslibrary to an external HDD and then pointing Photos.app at that?

New comment by nathancahill in "A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote"

nathancahill — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:50:02 +0000

> He posted on HN.

The call is coming from inside the house.

New comment by nathancahill in "iRobot Is in Trouble, but Roomba Is Already Dead"

nathancahill — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:32:40 +0000

Q5 with Lidar only. The floor plan mapping is impressive.

New comment by nathancahill in "iRobot Is in Trouble, but Roomba Is Already Dead"

nathancahill — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:26:10 +0000

We have a recent model Roborock and it was hands-down the best unboxing and setup experience I've had of any tech product.

New comment by nathancahill in "Grammarly rebrands to 'Superhuman,' launches a new AI assistant"

nathancahill — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:14:59 +0000

Acquired 4 months ago, rebranding now.

New comment by nathancahill in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

nathancahill — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:49:39 +0000

On a global level it's completely pervasive.

New comment by nathancahill in "The Llama 4 herd"

nathancahill — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 19:51:56 +0000

Imagine