Hacker News: resist_futility

New comment by resist_futility in "US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City"

resist_futility — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:27:03 +0000

thousands of wooden piles to create a foundation with the first one even failing and the foundation being reconstructed

http://www.mexicomaxico.org/ParisMex/resumen.htm

New comment by resist_futility in "Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users"

resist_futility — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:39:54 +0000

nice list of vulnerabilities and source changes

https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-12-01

New comment by resist_futility in "Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96M bill for website redesign"

resist_futility — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 17:02:36 +0000

Did they get a new satellite too? /s

New comment by resist_futility in "Eleven Music"

resist_futility — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 01:15:56 +0000

Does it sound like something a human could play? You're not attacking how it sounds but what it's playing.

New comment by resist_futility in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

resist_futility — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 02:09:01 +0000

The switches on the lower panel that are switched, are the fuel cutoffs

New comment by resist_futility in "Preliminary report into Air India crash released"

resist_futility — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 01:52:35 +0000

In this YouTube short you can see the pilot switching both fuel cutoff to run

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bd4Bler36Nk

New comment by resist_futility in "She Got a Permit for Her Chickens. Now the City Is Fining Her $80k"

resist_futility — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 02:20:27 +0000

What do people have against chickens? Roosters should not be allowed but hens aren't loud or particularly smelly at all. Dogs can be a much bigger nuisance.

New comment by resist_futility in "U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams"

resist_futility — Fri, 30 May 2025 03:20:55 +0000

Evidence of active harm, if they were in the US they would have been raided. They get sanctioned and can sue instead.

New comment by resist_futility in "GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill"

resist_futility — Tue, 13 May 2025 18:09:08 +0000

Now you get a grey area when AI is being added to everything to use as an excuse to avoid state laws

New comment by resist_futility in "Show HN: Omiword – A daily, sector-based word puzzle"

resist_futility — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 04:36:41 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_fox

New comment by resist_futility in "FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies"

resist_futility — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 03:54:15 +0000

@dang Semi-related but why are posts about Trump firing FTC Commissioners being removed/dead

New comment by resist_futility in "DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards"

resist_futility — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:36:54 +0000

This is just adding to the bureaucracy, instead of approving all purchases on the card at once now they have to get approval for each and every purchase.

New comment by resist_futility in "Germany says its warships were sabotaged"

resist_futility — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 06:34:37 +0000

It's pretty even on both sides of dot and comma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Conventions_...

New comment by resist_futility in "Apple explores robotics in search of life beyond the iPhone"

resist_futility — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 17:18:05 +0000

What exactly are they ahead in? only thing that stood out was price

New comment by resist_futility in "Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO"

resist_futility — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 05:05:13 +0000

>Wiz’s founders previously built security startup Adallom, raised money from Sequoia and Index and sold the startup to Microsoft for $320 million in 2015.

Copy, Paste and ask for 70 times more?

New comment by resist_futility in "Google Mesop: Build web apps in Python"

resist_futility — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 01:24:59 +0000

https://google.github.io/mesop/getting_started/installing/

New comment by resist_futility in "Square Enix to record extraordinary loss of 22.1B yen"

resist_futility — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:45:00 +0000

So half of last years earnings?

https://companiesmarketcap.com/square-enix/earnings/

New comment by resist_futility in "Is it insider trading if I bought Boeing puts while inside the wrecked airplane?"

resist_futility — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 22:58:34 +0000

How would a random person know if that information was MNPI? How could you possibly prove that someone knew it was?

New comment by resist_futility in "UniFi U7 Pro"

resist_futility — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 23:32:37 +0000

XG 6 PoE, 4 ports for $600

https://store.ui.com/us/en/pro/category/all-switching/produc...

New comment by resist_futility in "Lasers deflected using air"

resist_futility — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 23:22:57 +0000

It's always amazing how things thought of in science fiction end up becoming reality. In this case bending lasers in air, now we just need a small moon capable of retaining it's atmosphere.