Hacker News: nothercastle

New comment by nothercastle in "FDA Admitted in Print That Nothing It Knows of Will Wash Cyclospora Off Lettuce"

nothercastle — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:26:13 +0000

FDA has failed. We’re going to need you start to look up Costco and Walmart or local organic cart body’s to regulate because the FDA can’t.

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

nothercastle — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:20:36 +0000

The app is a back door to your phone. It will vacuum all the data of it if allowed.

New comment by nothercastle in "Online Friends Are Real Friends"

nothercastle — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:45:37 +0000

It feels like this kind of gameplay has come and gone and new games lack that depth

New comment by nothercastle in "Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google"

nothercastle — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:43:49 +0000

I wish I could easily search Shopify stores And ignore Google I think I’d find more deals that way

New comment by nothercastle in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

nothercastle — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:37:51 +0000

Personal assistants in the Philippines and hope they don’t scam you themselves

New comment by nothercastle in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

nothercastle — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:36:40 +0000

Legitimate actors perusing poor security policies is actually the biggest threat vector.

New comment by nothercastle in "US Military asks troops for 'creative and unconventional' ideas to punish Iran"

nothercastle — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:40:49 +0000

Is it even legal to call that “chocolate adjacent product” chocolate in Europe.

New comment by nothercastle in "Vehicle Motion Cues"

nothercastle — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:42:53 +0000

I don’t think the 2 miles mattered. Once it exploded the engine was done

New comment by nothercastle in "Our position on open-weights models"

nothercastle — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:21:16 +0000

That makes sense, first the message was that uncontrollable Chinese ai will release AI covid in the world. Then suddenly open-ai does a warmup in actuality doing that. Like it sure feels like that hacking stunt was a false flag in retrospect

New comment by nothercastle in "NYC Apartment Aquaponics"

nothercastle — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:12:50 +0000

Battery backup pumps are cheap so that helps

New comment by nothercastle in "Ask HN: Share Your Eccentric Hobby"

nothercastle — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:28:14 +0000

Lots of videos of this on YouTube, I enjoy them. Total money pit but fun to watch

New comment by nothercastle in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

nothercastle — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:25:55 +0000

My forum mods loved the power they had as well seemed to work well. The real problem is money. Forums cost time and money to administer, Reddit is “free”. Those of us that ran the forums grew up and have better shit to do and spend money on

New comment by nothercastle in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

nothercastle — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:22:29 +0000

vBulletin Did a better job with security. PHPbb kept getting trashed by spammers but they were the primary tools at the time for self hosting. The ease of customization and the availability of skins made it a big selling point

New comment by nothercastle in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

nothercastle — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:20:30 +0000

They are dead the same way newsgroups are dead. Some local communities survive some might even thrive but in aggregate more are lost than created

New comment by nothercastle in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

nothercastle — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:52:04 +0000

Forms are sadly dead. They cost a lot to operate and maintain security updates for so without a critical mass of users they are dead

New comment by nothercastle in "Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa"

nothercastle — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:40:45 +0000

Not just invasive algae all sorts of bugs worms and bacteria too

New comment by nothercastle in "Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa"

nothercastle — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:00:03 +0000

Also pests aquariums have some of the toughest pests imaginable

New comment by nothercastle in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

nothercastle — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:25:01 +0000

Chinese ai is bad. It’s slowing down progress and it’s so bad we called out the c word and asked for more regulation. Basically advocating for more government assistance to openai

New comment by nothercastle in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

nothercastle — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:16:04 +0000

This guy is predicting AI covid escaping from a Chinese lab. I find that kind of silly

New comment by nothercastle in "The World Cup Could Not Be Americanized"

nothercastle — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:44:30 +0000

Poor kids in America play video game and watch tv