Hacker News: nla

New comment by nla in "Distributed Ray Tracer"

nla — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 21:57:11 +0000

Some much needed innovation! Well done, old boy.

New comment by nla in "The Real Kevin Bacon"

nla — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:33:44 +0000

It's called "Back to Bacon" and Howard is the one who popularized it.

New comment by nla in "Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026"

nla — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:55:03 +0000

Stopped using them after years. Tried to get a 8TB download and never got any of it back. False sense of security. Was very disappointing.

New comment by nla in "Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models"

nla — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:54:55 +0000

https://avc.xyz/an-updated-dentist-office-software-story

New comment by nla in "I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots"

nla — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:05:35 +0000

That should be an RPZ feed!

New comment by nla in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

nla — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:20:18 +0000

It's actually pretty trivial to block all FB ads -- but a browser plug-in alone won't cut it. FB does a bunch of really annoying break the internet patterns like rotating your session and VIP every 30 seconds -- or less.

New comment by nla in "NYC may require landlords and realtors to disclose the use of AI in listings"

nla — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:39:09 +0000

Freezes rents but not taxes. Landlords take inventory offline. Studios at $5500. 1 beds at $7500. Yea, he's a real genius of his own mind.

New comment by nla in "Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists against facial recognition"

nla — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:27:47 +0000

In NYC, you can trespass anyone from a private business at any time and for no reason at all.

NY Penal Law § 140.00 says a person in premises open to the public is there with license/privilege unless they defy a lawful order not to enter or remain, personally communicated by the owner or another authorized person.

So, in plain English:

“You have to leave. You are not allowed back.”

The owner does not need to say: “You have to leave because…”

There was a ton of hoopla around this when Radio City and MSG trespassed lawyers that were suing the company and venues.

Everyone was up in arms and nothing happened.

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.