Hacker News: nom

New comment by nom in "[dead]"

nom — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:01:54 +0000

good one

New comment by nom in "Asbestos, talc, and The Lancet's 1977 publication"

nom — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:04:19 +0000

Talcum powder is at high risk of being contaminated with asbestos, you basically should not use it on your body because you can't be sure.

It has been known since the 60s, but it took until 2023 (and 30k lawsuits) for J&J to finally come to the conclusion that killing people this way is now no longer lucrative.

New comment by nom in "Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter? (2024)"

nom — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:04:28 +0000

pfff, root, back in my day we hacked a vending machine with a lighter and got free coke.

No idea who discovered it, but the machine back at my school had an infrared interface for servicing, and you could trigger an interrupt with the flash of the flintstone of a lighter. Because it's just some 90s microcontroller, it would simply reset after failing to receive a valid command and forget what it was doing previously.

All you had to do was order a coke, and right when it drops out, before it subtracts the amount, you flash the lighter in front of the IR port like a magician, say the magic words and bam - free coke!

New comment by nom in "It's Their Mona Lisa"

nom — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:15:25 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

New comment by nom in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

nom — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:59:48 +0000

quad9

New comment by nom in "Chest Fridge (2009)"

nom — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:22:10 +0000

No.

Drawers.

New comment by nom in "Human Organ Atlas"

nom — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:19:59 +0000

Link to the actual thing this is about

https://human-organ-atlas.esrf.fr

New comment by nom in "Willingness to look stupid"

nom — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:41:58 +0000

Looks like he is still doing his thing here

https://www.instagram.com/letspainttv/

New comment by nom in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

nom — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:24:41 +0000

that's a feature

New comment by nom in "1.5 Million Users Leave ChatGPT"

nom — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:25:57 +0000

They made name and email optional. You just click a button on their page.

The endpoint was hit 2.5 Million times.

New comment by nom in "Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter"

nom — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:21:19 +0000

https://vanhunteradams.com/Pico/AM_Radio/AM.html

The Windows Interface Guidelines (1995) [pdf]

nom — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:12:47 +0000

Article URL: https://ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/Microsoft_WindowsGuidelines.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47210698

Points: 4

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New comment by nom in "Show HN: BananaOS, vibecoded operating system that boots on a 486 with ~11MB RAM"

nom — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:03:10 +0000

yeah but did it have wallpapers

New comment by nom in "We Will Not Be Divided"

nom — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:15:48 +0000

I miss those times :(

New comment by nom in "Is AI Making Us Dumb?"

nom — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:50:07 +0000

@grok is this true?

New comment by nom in "Windows93.net"

nom — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:00:41 +0000

It must be a coincidence that someone posted it here. No way these two things are related.

New comment by nom in "Reading the undocumented MEMS accelerometer on Apple Silicon MacBooks via iokit"

nom — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:15:59 +0000

No.

New comment by nom in "It's cheaper to buy a new printer every month"

nom — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:37:43 +0000

You put that in your inkjet printer?

New comment by nom in "Authorities intercept drone carrying crab legs, Old Bay, weed for prison inmates"

nom — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:09:26 +0000

I bet that's been happening in many prisons. You can fly high enough on a calm day and drop stuff silently.

New comment by nom in "User-Adjustable Leather Tool Organizers"

nom — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:48:33 +0000

Makes me want to try some leather work, seems simple enough to do with the right tools.