Hacker News: pilingual

New comment by pilingual in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

pilingual — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:06:44 +0000

Namecheap has been owned by a private equity firm for several months now.

It would be nice to have a nonprofit registrar so jumping every few years isn't necessary.

Waymo reports teen riders for bad behavior and delivers them to the police

pilingual — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:23:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-07-07/waymo-reports-teen-riders-for-bad-behavior-delivers-them-to-police

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824010

Points: 60

# Comments: 31

San Francisco bar patron refused service after use of face-scanning tech

pilingual — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:18:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/castro-bars-tech-pride-22322425.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700897

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Framingham won't renew Flock Safety contract after months of resident opposition

pilingual — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:26:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/06/25/framingham-police-will-not-renew-flock-safety-contract-after-months-of-resident-opposition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48683464

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by pilingual in "Three of our worst VC stories"

pilingual — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:29:02 +0000

Could you ask the VC if you could name them in the story?

It's unfortunate that some VCs I respected turned out to repeatedly have their reputation tarnished by such negative stories. I'm not sure what compels founders and VCs to be polarizing and not diplomatic like the old days.

Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA

pilingual — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:04:10 +0000

Article URL: https://deflock.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347370

Points: 240

# Comments: 75

New comment by pilingual in "AI license plate cameras tore this town apart and led to a state of emergency"

pilingual — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:44:10 +0000

I had to navigate around Troy when visiting Vermont because of these cameras. It wasn't trivial due to the river crossing.

There's a very small number of people committing crimes worthy of these cameras, and there's also a small number of people not willing to do business with clients of camera purveyors.

In Japan, we don't see robots as a threat: just a form of presence in the world

pilingual — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:08:32 +0000

Article URL: https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2026-05-16/takeshi-yoro-anatomist-in-japan-we-dont-see-a-robot-as-a-threat-its-simply-another-form-of-presence-in-the-world.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48165974

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by pilingual in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

pilingual — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:38:07 +0000

Interesting that Apple is praised.

> that a link? Maybe!

When Apple transitioned from skeuomorphic to flat design this was a huge issue. It was difficult to determine what was a button on iOS and whether you tapped it (and the removal of loading gifs across platforms further aggravated problems like double submits).

Another absurdity with iOS is the number of ways you can gesture. It started simply, now it is complex to the point where the OS can confuse one gesture for another.

DoorDash unveils new reusable food container pilot program called DashLoop

pilingual — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:26:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/bay-area-doordash-containers-22160491.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627023

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Enable Real-Time Detection with Synthetic Lidar Data Generation

pilingual — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:27:20 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.savoirfairelinux.com/en-ca/2026/synthetic-lidar-data-generation-real-time-detection/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613534

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Real Artists Ship

pilingual — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:26:39 +0000

Article URL: https://dan.bulwinkle.net/blog/real-artists-ship/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608510

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pilingual in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

pilingual — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:59:19 +0000

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/san-francisco-judg...

There's no leadership to curtail asinine behavior. Instead of forces of nature to strengthen the status quo of freedom, we get lowly politicians. Judges end up having to do all the work.

New comment by pilingual in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

pilingual — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:28:46 +0000

I believe you hastily misinterpreted the point. It's merely a tool that wasn't possible before.

New comment by pilingual in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

pilingual — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:44:46 +0000

One idea behind the PoC Right to Privacy Act is having tests. A recurring theme with conservative Justices is clarity of legal text.

Testing may not exhaust all scenarios but it is useful to see where loopholes may exist or whether a bill that sneaks in while you aren't paying attention is unfavorable to your values.

https://github.com/righttoprivacyact/bill/blob/main/tests/te...