Hacker News: ra

New comment by ra in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

ra — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:45:40 +0000

wow - I was looking at moving from Tesla to Skoda for our next EV. Last month it was interceptor missiles for Israel and now this.

New comment by ra in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

ra — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:11:55 +0000

I've not tried one. What are the drawbacks? eye strain? discomfort?

New comment by ra in "Soft launch of open-source code platform for government"

ra — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:43:41 +0000

Maybe governments should be in charge of their own critical infra; I'm happy with as much non-government controlled software as possible.

New comment by ra in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

ra — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:07:33 +0000

I want to live in that world.

New comment by ra in "Codex for almost everything"

ra — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:02:16 +0000

Anthropic don't seem to know how to look after and keep customers.

New comment by ra in "Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library"

ra — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:31:43 +0000

Brings back memories if when b-list was on the front page of HN all the time.

Another approach to preserve the fully functional api is decorators.

New comment by ra in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

ra — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:44:08 +0000

Yes agree, I imagine that's why NVIDIA and OpenAI jumped at them.

I wouldn't touch that vibe-coded mess with a ten foot pole.

New comment by ra in "GAIA – Open-source framework for building AI agents that run on local hardware"

ra — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:44:57 +0000

I agree, and think AMD and Nvidia philosophy diverged way before Cuda.

I can't count how many times over the last 30 years I've had AMD drivers crash the OS (Linux and Windows). Nvidia have been mostly rock solid.

The thing is, the die isn't much use without a stable driver (and AI stack).

New comment by ra in "N-Day-Bench – Can LLMs find real vulnerabilities in real codebases?"

ra — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:32:57 +0000

Nice. I've been thinking of doing something similar in our local jurisdiction (Australia).

Are you able to share (or point me toward) any high-level details: (key hardware, hosting stack, high-level economics, key challenges)?

I'd love to offer to buy you a coffee but I won't be in Switzerland any time soon.

New comment by ra in "Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'"

ra — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:05:30 +0000

Surprises me to.

I thought A16Z were a top-tier VC wanting to create long-term value. I didn't see black-hat social media bot farms in their focus areas.

It might be a bit facetious, but if I had 10m invested with them I'd be asking questions about their investment thesis.

New comment by ra in "Open source security at Astral"

ra — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:25:18 +0000

Not sure if you're fully over the context that openAI bought Astral - who "own" uv.

New comment by ra in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

ra — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:47:03 +0000

Who are these actual terrorists you speak of?

New comment by ra in "FBI and DOJ Announce Operation Masquerade"

ra — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:54:15 +0000

This is especially concerning as TP-Link (a Cisco brand) are woeful at maintaining the software on their products. They should be compelled to maintain a security programme or at very least open source their firmware at EOL.

https://community.tp-link.com/en/home/forum/topic/855534?rep...

Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones

ra — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:50:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.skoda-storyboard.com/en/skoda-world/skoda-duobell-a-bicycle-bell-that-outsmarts-even-smart-headphones/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687248

Points: 618

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New comment by ra in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

ra — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:33:34 +0000

It's times like these when most people recognise that parents in all corners of the world worry about their kids just the same.

War should never break out. But it does. We had international rules to prevent war, but they're gone. We had international rules to prevent governments deliberately killing innocent people under the guise of war, but they're gone too.

It took two world wars and roughly 80 million killed to create those rules.

You could argue about when they got destroyed. In Ukraine, in Gaza, Iran - but it's clear now that they don't exist any more.

New comment by ra in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

ra — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:26:22 +0000

If it wasn't for Israel's dogged expansionism, Hezballah would never have been created, Hamas would never have been created and Palestine would still be a liberal democracy.

New comment by ra in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

ra — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:23:06 +0000

Have Israel ever respected a ceasefire?

New comment by ra in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

ra — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:19:43 +0000

Nice. I wonder what the costs of reparations would be if the ceasefire were to end the war?

New comment by ra in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

ra — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:18:27 +0000

Geography and missiles? Iran have everything to lose and have been put in a position where they literally have to fight for their existence.

Militarily Iran is a giant and Saudi Arabia is a minnow.

New comment by ra in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

ra — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:10:27 +0000

I still use GLM 4.7 for well defined coding tasks. I never got 5.0 to work satisfactorily, it felt like a hosting problem (z.ai) where it would work for a while then, for whatever reason, it couldn't respond to the context any more - but that's just a hunch.

I had no such trouble with 4.7 and find it fast and productive. Haven't tried 5.1; am using openAI models for coding most of the time.