Hacker News: notRobot

New comment by notRobot in "The Orange Pi 6 Plus"

notRobot — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:07:14 +0000

Have you taken a look at armbian? If so, what was your experience?

https://www.armbian.com/boards?vendor=xunlong

New comment by notRobot in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

notRobot — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:33:16 +0000

There was a single traffic controller handling the entire airport. This was bound to happen and will keep happening unless things change. It's absurd that the US hasn't been able to fix its ATC shortage in decades.

Currently over 41% of facilities are reliant on mandatory overtime, with controllers frequently working 60-hour weeks with only four days off per month.

Single ATC controller was managing LaGuardia Airport at time of Air Canada crash [video]

notRobot — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:07:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbm-QJAAzNY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47498217

Points: 33

# Comments: 0

New comment by notRobot in "Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents"

notRobot — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:42:09 +0000

We could even call it... Stack Overflow for... Teams.

New comment by notRobot in "In search of Banksy, Reuters found the artist took on a new identity"

notRobot — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:36:08 +0000

I don't really think it's "journalism" to be doxxing the identities of folks who clearly want to stay anonymous and have their work be detached from their irl personalities.

New comment by notRobot in "Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)"

notRobot — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:03:58 +0000

"Original research" isn't worth much unless replicated, which is the entire problem being discussed in this thread. Replicating studies are great though because they tell you if the original research actually stands and is valid.

> Replicating work is far more difficult than a lot of original work.

Only if the original work was BS. And what, just because it's harder, we shouldn't do it?

New comment by notRobot in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

notRobot — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:26:19 +0000

There are 15 interface admins as per these links

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Interface_administra...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers/interface-ad...

Metaphors Ubiquitous in Computer and Internet Terminologies [pdf]

notRobot — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:22:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theartsjournal.org/index.php/site/article/download/261/190/709

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214156

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Anthropic and Palantir Bring Claude to U.S. Intelligence and Defense (2024)

notRobot — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:44:20 +0000

Article URL: https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2024/Anthropic-and-Palantir-Partner-to-Bring-Claude-AI-Models-to-AWS-for-U.S.-Government-Intelligence-and-Defense-Operations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47203794

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by notRobot in "I think WebRTC is better than SSH-ing for connecting to Mac terminal from iPhone"

notRobot — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:38:27 +0000

Shell In A Box has been a thing for like two decades now, and gives you a simple web-based interface ssh interface you can use from any device. https://github.com/shellinabox/shellinabox

New comment by notRobot in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"

notRobot — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:56:53 +0000

Wikipedia is actually the secondary source when someone reads a page on it, and it requires primary sources (like factbooks) to cite to exist.

New comment by notRobot in "RCS for Business"

notRobot — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:40:28 +0000

> never going to be able to get App Attest/Play Integrity verification without relying on a jailbreak/vulnerability.

Even with jailbreak/rooting, hardware attestation is nearly impossible to spoof.

New comment by notRobot in "Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux"

notRobot — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:27:12 +0000

I use a Windows Metro inspired launcher on Android and it's the best phone UI experience I've ever had: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nfwebdev.l...

Tailwind lays of 75% of their team due to traffic drop to docs because of LLMs

notRobot — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:41:35 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ybhrdwj/status/2009132572794835201

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46539155

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by notRobot in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

notRobot — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:26:01 +0000

Custom ROMs fail device integrity, which means you cannot use banking, financial, government, payments and telcom apps, not to mention all the games that refuse to work.

Portableapps.com – Portable software for USB, portable, and cloud drives

notRobot — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:26:06 +0000

Article URL: https://portableapps.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45773111

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

List of predictions for autonomous Tesla vehicles by Elon Musk

notRobot — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:20:36 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autonomous_Tesla_vehicles_by_Elon_Musk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45692600

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by notRobot in "The scariest "user support" email I've received"

notRobot — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 21:47:26 +0000

Isn't analysing and writing bits of code one of the few things LLMs are actually good at and useful for (as opposed to creative writing or whatever).

Before LLMs if someone wasn't familiar with deobfuscation they would have no easy way to analyse the attack string as they were able to do here.

New comment by notRobot in "The Trinary Dream Endures"

notRobot — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 23:58:36 +0000

Genuine question: if we can go beyond two, why not go beyond three? What makes three appealing but not a larger number?

New comment by notRobot in "I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse"

notRobot — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:30:00 +0000

This has disadvantages though! Often the threads on sites like HN/reddit get "archived" or lose traction and you cannot join the discussion if you don't happen to discover the article in the first few days of it getting published.

In blogs people can come along anytime and use comments to add additional information/context/perspectives, point out misunderstandings or outdated information, share updates, pose questions and start interesting conversations that do not have an expiration date on them.

The discussion for the article can be found on the same webpage by readers, they don't have to go looking on external sites, most of which have terrible searchability and now require logins just to view content and can delete threads and valuable discussions arbitrarily.

I just realised while writing this comment how much I miss web comment culture from the 00s.