Hacker News: plasma_beam

New comment by plasma_beam in "Splash-free urinals (2025)"

plasma_beam — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:19:48 +0000

The secret to splash free male urination is..sitting down.

New comment by plasma_beam in "Netherlands pulls gold out of the US for fears of 'geopolitical unrest'"

plasma_beam — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:27:11 +0000

East coast:

Oh hey that’s not fair, we have equal amounts of beaches, the water is just a different color. You are going down with us..

New comment by plasma_beam in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

plasma_beam — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:52:08 +0000

Fellow pool owner who has always drawn the line at “only pros do the pvc cutting”. I’d love to hear more.

New comment by plasma_beam in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

plasma_beam — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:41:18 +0000

Presumably Fable 5 won't be made available on GovCloud Bedrock, right now it's not [1].

However what I'm not seeing discussed anywhere are government agencies that are on commercial AWS, have ATOs in place to use Bedrock, and are now being surprised with this new sharing of data with Anthropic and will have to scramble to disable(?) or institute policies banning Fable 5 usage in Bedrock. Throw in there all your sensitive industries, healthcare, insurance, etc.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/latest/UserGuide/gov...

Edit: Fable 5 is not FedRAMPed, but it's not clear to me whether or not AWS permits access to it via GovCloud's model request process.

New comment by plasma_beam in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

plasma_beam — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:54:21 +0000

I have multiple login.gov accounts. They don’t let you change your primary email, so if you’re using corporate account and switch jobs the normal thing is to create new accounts. I’m sure this is padding their numbers.

New comment by plasma_beam in "New album from Boards of Canada after 13 years"

plasma_beam — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:26:40 +0000

Giving it the first full listen now. Loving it so far. Such an evolution of sound, but still clearly BoC. It will take its place amongst all the other BoC greats. Pretty emotional listening to this..

New comment by plasma_beam in "Schlitz Is Gone, but First It's Getting One Last Hurrah"

plasma_beam — Mon, 25 May 2026 01:04:31 +0000

We drank plenty of Schlitz malt liquor 40s in the late 90s. They were pretty gross..

New comment by plasma_beam in "Googlebook"

plasma_beam — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:53:30 +0000

Big issue that also seems to unfortunately be more and more common is variations in sizing within the same brand and article of clothing! Different batches with minor variations of the same exact size, or sizes changing over time.

Love the idea but difficult problem to fix.

New comment by plasma_beam in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

plasma_beam — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:44:30 +0000

Our public school system here in Maryland got hit, ransom screen.

New comment by plasma_beam in "Y'all want the new Boards of Canada so bad you crashed Warp's server"

plasma_beam — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:44:16 +0000

Appears to have recovered, as has bleep.com. Their bandcamp page never failed though. Just wait if they post audio previews! Although I think I'd rather wait until May 29 to hear it. 13 years!

New comment by plasma_beam in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

plasma_beam — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:56:44 +0000

Because if you’re a vscode user up until a couple days ago you could hammer Opus 4.6 all day every day and pay nowhere close to the Claude Max plan. Many people exploited this and the subsidy is closing.

New comment by plasma_beam in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

plasma_beam — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:47:13 +0000

Similarly, laptop purist for the past 25 years. I so much prefer the focus of one thing on my screen at a time, and toggling between apps without having to shift eyes on a large monitor. I also like to pick up and work from starbucks or wherever. I feel like we are in the minority overall but I do know some like us.

New comment by plasma_beam in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"

plasma_beam — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:38:42 +0000

I see everyone talking about Hyperion, so I will play up The Terror as one of my favorites. The TV series did NOT do it justice.

New comment by plasma_beam in "DOGE Track"

plasma_beam — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:13:26 +0000

I like the layout of this site. However I feel it should be stated more prominently that the primary source of data are online news articles.

New comment by plasma_beam in "uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts"

plasma_beam — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:30:29 +0000

I only use YouTube with my watch history set to off. So there is no feed, and I only see updates from channels I actually subscribed to. If I want to see some random crap I go search for it but it’s a clean slate next time I open the app. I have found this method of using YouTube to be extremely useful.

New comment by plasma_beam in "Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)"

plasma_beam — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:20:52 +0000

This generation will never experience the joy of flipping on network tv on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon, seeing Shawshank on, sitting down and just watching it, even though you’ve seen it countless times and it’s the tv-edited commercial filled version.

New comment by plasma_beam in "A spider web unlike any seen before"

plasma_beam — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:33:21 +0000

I feel like a lot of the pro-spider replies have never accidentally disturbed or stepped on a momma wolf spider carrying her babies on back and witnessed the pure terror that ensues as hundreds of babies swarm out across your floor.

New comment by plasma_beam in "All New Java Language Features Since Java 21"

plasma_beam — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:42:31 +0000

I view this largely as a symptom of the widescale “success” of the bloated J2EE app servers in the early 2000s to mid 2010s. Your Java version and dependencies were locked in and upgrading was a massive effort. A large group of developers stagnated on Java 1.4.2 and 5 and seemingly never updated their use of the language, even when moving to Java 8 and beyond. The legacy stuff keeps ticking along.

New comment by plasma_beam in "Japan's Creepiest Station"

plasma_beam — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:23:54 +0000

I'm going to guess the person suffers from vertigo, as have I to a small degree - particularly on the metro escalator in Rosslyn, VA (across the river from DC). The sensation occurs going down or up very tall escalators in a tunnel. When it hits, you feel like you are traveling horizontally with some weird tunnel vision. This is terrifying and can cause you to feel like you're falling - even when you know you are going down or up, your eyes are telling you you're traveling horizontally.

I've also gotten this driving a car through long tunnels as well, going down or up (Baltimore 895 harbor tunnel can do this).

New comment by plasma_beam in "Shallow water is dangerous too"

plasma_beam — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 05:51:55 +0000

Got it, thanks for replying. Sorry this happened and glad she’s ok.