Hacker News: quinndexter

New comment by quinndexter in "Do_not_track"

quinndexter — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:44:00 +0000

Just here to say yeah, I've seen this more of this lately- "The do-not-track signal has been followed" or somesuch.

New comment by quinndexter in "Microsoft team creates data-storage system that lasts for millennia"

quinndexter — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:04:50 +0000

I'm a little bit old. When I ordered my first M.2 drive, I had never seen one IRL. I'd assumed about RAM-stick size. Nope! Thumb-sized! The future is amazing! So... give it enough time and eventually the mundane will scratch that itch, I guess?

New comment by quinndexter in "AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was"

quinndexter — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:24:02 +0000

Going straight to theft of, and therefore denial of, physical property as an analogy here suggests you do not actually understand the topic at hand.

New comment by quinndexter in "Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout"

quinndexter — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:01:41 +0000

The way deportations were calculated by the administration was changed to include certain types of border rejections, IIRC.

New comment by quinndexter in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

quinndexter — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:53:54 +0000

Five people are voting on what to have for dinner. Three people vote for pizza. Two people vote for "You three." Pizza has won, but there is still a massive problem in that room.

New comment by quinndexter in "'Bandersnatch': The Works That Inspired the 'Black Mirror' Interactive Feature (2019)"

quinndexter — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 08:58:41 +0000

Or maybe the AI could puke up some bland, middle-of-the-road trite pap while putting actual human talent out of work!

New comment by quinndexter in "Ukraine fakes commander's death to trick Russia into paying $500k bounty"

quinndexter — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:15:05 +0000

"The US wants peace"

You don't read the news much, huh?

New comment by quinndexter in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"

quinndexter — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:57 +0000

On mobile, there's a small menu to different site sections at the bottom of the screen. You'll never guess what that menu includes.

New comment by quinndexter in "Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN"

quinndexter — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 05:36:33 +0000

Okey doke. Still not wrong.

New comment by quinndexter in "Physicists drive antihydrogen breakthrough at CERN"

quinndexter — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 02:48:02 +0000

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New comment by quinndexter in "Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades"

quinndexter — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:56:13 +0000

I think "secret nuclear device" and "license renewal" are kind of conceptually incongruous, even if only at a surface level.

New comment by quinndexter in "Microsoft executive closes replies after Windows 11 "Agentic OS" backlash"

quinndexter — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:10:57 +0000

Your second comment describes the market as it currently is. Your original hypothetical posits a vastly different market.

New comment by quinndexter in "You won't believe the excuses lawyers have after getting busted for using AI"

quinndexter — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:42:39 +0000

Heh. “At this point, to be blunt, any lawyer unaware that using generative AI platforms to do legal research is playing with fire is living in a cloud”

New comment by quinndexter in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

quinndexter — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:20:16 +0000

It's not available in Home editions.

New comment by quinndexter in "Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds"

quinndexter — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:54:14 +0000

I would like to know more.

New comment by quinndexter in "'Dangerous design choices' trapped teens in Cybertruck crash, lawsuit claims"

quinndexter — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 10:38:18 +0000

No you can't always prevent stupidity. But you can lessen the chances of any given stupidity necessarily being fatal.

New comment by quinndexter in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

quinndexter — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:07:41 +0000

guys when you invent fictional alternate realities, you're allowed to leave people out of them completely. Anyone you like.

New comment by quinndexter in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

quinndexter — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:04:11 +0000

Or you could accept that sometimes fields contain terms-of-art that are non-intuitive to outsiders. Go ask an astromer what their working definition of a metal is.

New comment by quinndexter in "Sunlight-activated material turns PFAS in water into harmless fluoride"

quinndexter — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:06:11 +0000

Pre/post 47.

New comment by quinndexter in "The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says"

quinndexter — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 07:56:41 +0000

Great work. That's very good stuff, and yes there is.