Hacker News: olyjohn

New comment by olyjohn in "Claude Is Down"

olyjohn — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 18:37:07 +0000

Microsoft Surface Tables!

New comment by olyjohn in "Global Microsoft Outage"

olyjohn — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 18:31:39 +0000

Whatever. People did this shit for years with little downtime. Even with Microsoft's own products.

New comment by olyjohn in "Global Microsoft Outage"

olyjohn — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 18:22:50 +0000

Maybe trying to do it at billion user scale isn't such a great idea after all.

New comment by olyjohn in "Service degradation on Microsoft 365"

olyjohn — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 02:00:01 +0000

If they rebooted it, and it started working again, would you just walk away? Or would you try to figure out why the fuck it needed to be rebooted in the first place?

New comment by olyjohn in "Scion is back and is going to sell a kei truck in America"

olyjohn — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 05:52:14 +0000

A basic manual transmission can also be rebuilt fairly easily at home with a few tools and a few pages out of the service manual.

New comment by olyjohn in "Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang"

olyjohn — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 05:17:30 +0000

Jesus, it's like nobody has ever watched a James Bond movie.

New comment by olyjohn in "Nvidia is preparing to oust Jensen Huang"

olyjohn — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 05:16:13 +0000

Yes I especially want that to apply to congress, judiciary, and police, even more so than corporate CEOs! People in positions of higher responsibility, should, you know... be more responsible. Police and people in power should break laws less often, and be more trustworthy, and less selfish than average. They are in a position that requires a higher standard.

New comment by olyjohn in "Anthropic says a key AI safety alarm has been triggered, days before its IPO"

olyjohn — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 22:52:08 +0000

This shit is just getting old.

New comment by olyjohn in "Starlink Mini 2"

olyjohn — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 22:48:40 +0000

Its already over capacity in my area. They just sent me an email saying that in order to manage capacity, they are raising my rates again. I only have to option to use Residential Max, I cant go down to the 200 or 100mbit plans. $156/mo. I don't know how sustainable a network it is when they're already maxed out at the traffic they can handle, and their only solution is to try to ditch customers, because they can't expand fast enough.

New comment by olyjohn in "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair"

olyjohn — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 23:44:53 +0000

All he had to do was say no and keep his dick in his pants. Use some judgement, think about your wife and kids (oh yeah and all that national security bullshit). The man with all his money and power can't say no, that's what's absurd.

New comment by olyjohn in "Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue"

olyjohn — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 02:55:26 +0000

eBay is also selling obvious counterfeit items. Especially expensive car parts. I can't sell my shit anymore because there are so many fakes, and because of the flood of junk nobody can even find the genuine items.

New comment by olyjohn in "Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time"

olyjohn — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:02:51 +0000

So you're saying accelerating faster in snowy conditions makes the car safer? How does that work?

New comment by olyjohn in "Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time"

olyjohn — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:01:36 +0000

Meh. FWD solves this. AWD is good for getting going when you're stopped, but other than that it doesn't help much.

New comment by olyjohn in "Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time"

olyjohn — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:58:29 +0000

But then the base model with only one clock would need a clock that reads the can bus, and something putting the time on the CAN bus. Instead they just put a cheap ass standalone clock in the base model. And this clock trickles up to the models with more features.

New comment by olyjohn in "Why are car keys so expensive to replace?"

olyjohn — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 02:54:37 +0000

Yes and so many of them you could just pull the key out of the ignition while it was running. Or when they got got really worn out, you could just turn the ignition on without any key at all.

Or the Hondas and Nissans up to the early 2000s, you could use pretty much any key from any other car of the same make if you just jiggled the key.

New comment by olyjohn in "Why are car keys so expensive to replace?"

olyjohn — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 02:48:19 +0000

This is what I did in high school to prank my friend. We borrowed his truck, made a copy of the key, then had some papers blow out of the bed when he pulled away from school. When he got out to pick them up, he took the key knowing we would mess with him. Then we put the copy in the ignition and drove off while he was picking up the papers. This was of course before chip keys even.

New comment by olyjohn in "Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal"

olyjohn — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 01:08:01 +0000

Speaking of getting into Microsoft events, some buddies and I registered with Microsoft as OEM system builders when we were in high school. We would drive to Redmond and attend these events talking about various new hardware and software and would leave with bags full of swag and they had awesome Raffles giving away some expensive shiny new hardware, which we would win quite often shockingly.

We had finally heard about the Microsoft store on campus, and had heard about the super discounted software. Turned out you had to be an employee. We were crushed because retail copies of Win2k were expensive for high schoolers. So we sat out in front of the store with signs "will work for cheap Microsoft software." Finally this girl came by and asked what we were doing, she was an intern or a new hire or something like that not much older than us, still in college. She went into to store and came out with boxed copies of Win2k Workstation for $20 a pop for us. We were stoked and tried to give he some cash, but she was just happy to help us out.

Those were some good times. I wonder if stuff like that still happens today.

New comment by olyjohn in "Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout"

olyjohn — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:52:07 +0000

Yeah? My shop at home has two 4kw electric heaters in it. That's not even a big deal to wire up to your main panel.

New comment by olyjohn in "When electric cars were for women"

olyjohn — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:21:00 +0000

Sure, this can be true also. There are a lot of factors that go into what makes a car fun.

New comment by olyjohn in "Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack"

olyjohn — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:02:32 +0000

Easy, you don't connect the control systems to the monitoring systems.