Hacker News: project2501a

New comment by project2501a in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

project2501a — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:54:57 +0000

> If eVTOLs take off, it's way more realistic to site a helipad uptown than dig a new rail tunnel.

We will see what happens the first time one of them crashes.

New comment by project2501a in "I made a terminal pager"

project2501a — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:53:20 +0000

Oh, you will love all of charmbracelet

https://github.com/charmbracelet

New comment by project2501a in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

project2501a — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:06:54 +0000

> This article tries to build upon a lot of half-truths or incorrect facts, like this:

yeah i was wondering why my bullshit detector was going off. This feels as if someone who cooks for Ramsey's kitchen is trying to predict the end of the market hike.

New comment by project2501a in "Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency"

project2501a — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:54:33 +0000

can you put some kind of filter the screws the cameras up?

New comment by project2501a in "Layoffs at Block"

project2501a — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:50:53 +0000

Both do not own their means of production.

New comment by project2501a in "Layoffs at Block"

project2501a — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:48:19 +0000

Do the bosses live in the US?

If they do, then yes.

New comment by project2501a in "SSH Secret Menu"

project2501a — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:47:16 +0000

Interesting. I might have such a use case. Do you have anything about best practices on how to automate grabbing passwords from vaults? Cuz it seems to me that the vault needs to be kept open or keep the vault password somewhere on disk.

New comment by project2501a in "SSH Secret Menu"

project2501a — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:45:20 +0000

Much appreciated!

New comment by project2501a in "Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions"

project2501a — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:30:11 +0000

Sure, but does that mean we should accept Peter Theil's gospel in unquestioned?

New comment by project2501a in "SSH Secret Menu"

project2501a — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:24:42 +0000

Honest question, why is ProxyCommand `fun`? What do I get out of ProxyCommand that i do not get out of setting the correct order for ProxyJump and doing an ssh finalhost -- domy --bidding?

New comment by project2501a in "Layoffs at Block"

project2501a — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:24:57 +0000

UPS (and all of Europe) says otherwise.

New comment by project2501a in "Layoffs at Block"

project2501a — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:23:10 +0000

block the hiring.

New comment by project2501a in "Layoffs at Block"

project2501a — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:53:58 +0000

> but I'm not sure I know another path of life.

Unionize.

New comment by project2501a in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

project2501a — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:55:42 +0000

he is comparing the acquisition and utility of those two.

New comment by project2501a in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

project2501a — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:53:43 +0000

> The wonderful thing about markets that work is that you can swap things out without being under their boot.

This is an illusion. You literally describe Zizek's "Desert of the real": Billionaires own the illusion and you are telling me I get to pick from a selection of choices carefully curated and presented to me.

New comment by project2501a in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

project2501a — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:47:58 +0000

I know I am not supposed to be negative in HN, but lay off the koolaid, dear colleague.

New comment by project2501a in "I’m joining OpenAI"

project2501a — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:20:38 +0000

Totally agree. And the fact that the author says

> What I want is to change the world, not build a large company and teaming up with OpenAI is the fastest way to bring this to everyone.

do no not make me feel all warm and fuzzy: Yeah, changing the world with Tiel's money. Try joining a union instead.

New comment by project2501a in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

project2501a — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:55:19 +0000

> Nobody knows how LLMs work.

I'm sorry, come again?

New comment by project2501a in "Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt"

project2501a — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:44:54 +0000

nitpicking but why would someone type `sudo su` vs `sudo -i`

New comment by project2501a in "San Francisco Graffiti"

project2501a — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:52:12 +0000

no "fuck /u/spez". I'm disappoint.