Hacker News: nla

New comment by nla in "The intracies of modern camera lens repair (2024)"

nla — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:49:15 +0000

One of the better teardowns I've seen in some time.

New comment by nla in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

nla — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:05:20 +0000

No problem, the money will rotate out of the mega corps that do almost nothing into the next generation that is in the process of changing the world!

New comment by nla in "The Future of Obsidian Plugins"

nla — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:22:39 +0000

Beautiful work. Reminds me of Twilight on IRIX.

New comment by nla in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

nla — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:52:05 +0000

Who is the worst actor when it comes to mass surveillance?

Government or big tech?

New comment by nla in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

nla — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:49:52 +0000

I left them years ago when they wouldn't package a download for restore. Total waste of money and false sense of security.

New comment by nla in "Building a CLI for All of Cloudflare"

nla — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:46:38 +0000

Excellente!

New comment by nla in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

nla — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:34:21 +0000

This is why you never connected a "smart TV" to the internet. If you disagree, do it and then run a Wireshark analysis. The best option I have found, after trying them all is Apple TV. Least about of telemetry, best picture quality, and very secure.

New comment by nla in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

nla — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:56:06 +0000

TDS factor 11.

New comment by nla in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

nla — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:53:31 +0000

Yea, that Sam only does this because, "he loves it." They're not in it for the money.

New comment by nla in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

nla — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:51:18 +0000

I truly do not understand why anyone thinks serious work can be done with their models, let alone government work. Their models do no hold a candle to Open AI.

New comment by nla in "FreeBSD"

nla — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:48:14 +0000

I'd love for someone to show us an OS (not just a kernel) that is more secure.

New comment by nla in "US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces"

nla — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:30:33 +0000

The Leahy Law requires the U.S. government to facilitate receipt of information about alleged abuses by U.S. supported forces.

The State Department confirms it no longer operates the HRG, but says it is still receiving reports through other direct channels.

I couldn't find any requirement in the law that requires a public website.

NGOs can still submit information through established contacts or by email.

I would think email is a lot easier than a webform.

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

nla — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:25:53 +0000

I still don't know why anyone would use AWS hosting.

New comment by nla in "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP"

nla — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:58:10 +0000

The Google enshitification continues unabated.

New comment by nla in "Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful"

nla — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 12:31:20 +0000

Good to see Kmart back in action.

New comment by nla in "[dead]"

nla — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 23:54:18 +0000

This will be an interesting case testing Federal supremacy.

New comment by nla in "Procedural Island Generation (III)"

nla — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:21:42 +0000

It's a completely different approach but checkout F. Kenton Musgrave's implementation of multi fractals for terrain generation.

"Texturing & Modeling: A Procedural Approach"

New comment by nla in "Claude Code Checkpoints"

nla — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 13:06:03 +0000

Git add doesn't work?

New comment by nla in "1910: The year the modern world lost its mind"

nla — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:33:06 +0000

I just read this to my wife and she spit out her coffee. You nailed it with the anxiety point.

New comment by nla in "Six months into congestion pricing, more cars are off the road"

nla — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:48:34 +0000

https://x.com/RezaC1/status/1828199918114140247