Hacker News: reaperducer

New comment by reaperducer in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

reaperducer — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:39:12 +0000

Further, once you have hundreds or thousands of devices, “just call someone to turn it up/down/off” doesn’t scale.

And yet, somehow it did scale just fine for a hundred years before we hooked everything up to the internet.

New comment by reaperducer in "A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't"

reaperducer — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:57:33 +0000

Seems like a good idea, since smacks of jellyfish have been known to shut down power plants.

Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website

reaperducer — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:42:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/technology/anthropic-rogue-ai-agents.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029330

Points: 35

# Comments: 8

AI system submits false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

reaperducer — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:24:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/10/09/ai-system-submits-false-homicide-tip-philadelphia-police/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50027823

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by reaperducer in "I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it"

reaperducer — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:01:03 +0000

Maybe he is not that gregarious? Not every hobby needs to be social activity.

He posted it on Reddit. That's pretty much the definition of both gregariousness and social activity.

U.N. Warns Against Technology Used to Read Citizens' Minds

reaperducer — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 02:51:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/world/europe/united-nations-technology-warning.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015414

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by reaperducer in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

reaperducer — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:38:47 +0000

It's in the Terms of Service you agreed to when you looked at the box it came in at the store.

New comment by reaperducer in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

reaperducer — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:23:37 +0000

Is Microsoft in particular a "foe" or have they done something particularly against the administration?

It's not an administration thing. Vance is positioning himself for a presidential run in 2028.

Literally hours later, the head of the same administration gave the head of Microsoft an award.

New comment by reaperducer in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

reaperducer — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:21:36 +0000

From the New York Times:

"Hours after the [Microsoft H-1B] announcement, President Trump awarded Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s chief executive, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation at a summit in Washington where Mr. Musk and other tech executives also were honored.

Mr. Nadella came to the United States for graduate school and joined Microsoft in 1992. Two years later, he wrote in his memoir, he turned in his permanent residency for an H-1B visa so that his wife could immediately join him in the United States."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/microsoft-vis...

New comment by reaperducer in "Beauty in DVD Menus"

reaperducer — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:53:24 +0000

Just buy them and rip them. This is Hacker News, after all.

New comment by reaperducer in "Teams in Vienna and Beijing have built the first thorium nuclear clocks"

reaperducer — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:47:05 +0000

since NYT didn't bother linking to it

The solution to your complaint is right at the end of the article:

"We acknowledge mistakes in our reporting with corrections. If you spot an error, please let us know at corrections@nytimes.com."

That's one of the big differences between journalism and mere blogging.

Photo Is an A.I. Fake. Can You Tell?

reaperducer — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:29:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/10/08/technology/ai-generated-image-look-close.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006270

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by reaperducer in "Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits"

reaperducer — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:15:33 +0000

But i gotta say, living off grid is fundamentally solipsist. Abandoning society rather than attempting to live well within society will always be a dead end.

You should watch the old British sitcom "The Good Life" to discover how wrong you are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Life_(1975_TV_series)

New comment by reaperducer in "ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains"

reaperducer — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:45:27 +0000

The pharmaceutical company Hisamitsu uses its TLD:

https://us.hisamitsu

New comment by reaperducer in "A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps"

reaperducer — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:07:38 +0000

Plus one for having all the keys in the correct locations!

There's nothing correct about a "WIN" key.

New comment by reaperducer in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

reaperducer — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:03:53 +0000

My mind drifted closer to steganography.

New comment by reaperducer in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

reaperducer — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:43:25 +0000

JXL supports extra channels for multispectral images.

The bees and reindeer visiting my web site will be very happy to see UV images.

New comment by reaperducer in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

reaperducer — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:40:14 +0000

James Brown recorded his music to sound good over an AM radio. It still sounds good on good equipment.

Dean Martin recorded his records to sound good on low-end tween girl 1960's record players. My wife has one, and his stuff sounds great on it.

My wife also has two very high-end modern record players. Dean's old records sound like crap on that.

Master the media for the method.

New comment by reaperducer in "Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages"

reaperducer — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:41:08 +0000

How does one learn to write like this?

Read books. Actual books. The kind made from dead trees.

The more you read, the better you write. That's why our teachers drilled the importance of reading into us at such an early age.

New comment by reaperducer in "OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects"

reaperducer — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:44:01 +0000

At this point we'd need to stop frontier labs to give law enforcement a chance to even begin to understand what they're looking at

So what? Are you positing that tech companies should be above the law?

Non-trillion-dollar tech companies get cease-and-desist orders from the legal system every day. Just because you're a tech company doesn't mean you get a pass.