Hacker News: rogerallen

New comment by rogerallen in "Zig's new bitCast semantics and LLVM back end improvements"

rogerallen — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:47:59 +0000

Same as it ever was.

New comment by rogerallen in "US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]"

rogerallen — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:03:06 +0000

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555642

New comment by rogerallen in "Be careful: chatting with AI about your case is discoverable"

rogerallen — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:45:45 +0000

In United States v. Heppner, Judge Rakoff of the Southern District of New York ruled that written exchanges between a criminal defendant and generative AI platform Claude were not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine.

Be careful: chatting with AI about your case is discoverable

rogerallen — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:45:45 +0000

Article URL: https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2026/03/united-states-v-heppner/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555642

Points: 34

# Comments: 13

New comment by rogerallen in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

rogerallen — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:31:03 +0000

I wonder if putting this choice on the user would be most appropriate?

People fearful about being scammed should buy a phone with a hardware lock to prevent it from ever accepting sideloads--no option to go to dev mode, ever. You could even charge more for the extra security.

People who want the freedom to sideload can choose to buy a phone without the extra hardware security feature.

New comment by rogerallen in "Sun Position Calculator"

rogerallen — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:48:41 +0000

This is really, really well done. I’m very impressed by all the features implemented here and I wish I could look over the source. I wonder how it is done.

New comment by rogerallen in "Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable"

rogerallen — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 02:39:52 +0000

This is the content I come here for.

New comment by rogerallen in "How bad can a $2.97 ADC be?"

rogerallen — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:23:38 +0000

Followup here: https://excamera.substack.com/p/the-great-ads1115-pricing-my...

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658163

New comment by rogerallen in "The great ADS1115 pricing mystery, part two"

rogerallen — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:57:35 +0000

James returns with a followup to his earlier article

https://excamera.substack.com/p/how-bad-can-a-297-adc-be

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582462

The great ADS1115 pricing mystery, part two

rogerallen — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:57:35 +0000

Article URL: https://excamera.substack.com/p/the-great-ads1115-pricing-mystery

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658163

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by rogerallen in "Show HN: Kent Dybvig's Scheme Machine in 400 Lines of C (Heap-Memory Model)"

rogerallen — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:00:41 +0000

Can someone give more info on the relevance of this particular code?

New comment by rogerallen in "Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop spying"

rogerallen — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:05:10 +0000

They could at least fall back to "context sensitive" ads like you suggest.

Also, don't try to make me feel guilty for having an "ad blocker". I don't specifically block ads, instead I have a "tracking me without my consent blocker".

New comment by rogerallen in "Exploring Trichromacy through Maxwell's Color Experiment (2023)"

rogerallen — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:23:49 +0000

Very nice article. I don’t think I was aware of these experiments, but maybe I’ve forgotten?

Apologies if I just missed this, but is there a link to Maxwell’s original findings?

New comment by rogerallen in "Marble Blast Gold – Webapp"

rogerallen — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 04:30:02 +0000

Wish it worked on mobile and used the xyz accelerator...

New comment by rogerallen in "Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died"

rogerallen — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:16:04 +0000

and only 1 link still works. 19 years is a long time to the internet.

New comment by rogerallen in "Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died"

rogerallen — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:14:32 +0000

My top post ever on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/6dwg/wired_unve...

New comment by rogerallen in "Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1 Lunar Landing"

rogerallen — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:30:43 +0000

They also post to Threads

https://www.threads.net/@fireflyaerospace

New comment by rogerallen in "Hy 1.0 – Lisp dialect for Python"

rogerallen — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:47:38 +0000

Is there a wisp frontend? Seems like it would be appropriate. :-) https://github.com/stereobooster/wisp

The Threads API is finally here

rogerallen — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:56:15 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2024/06/18/the-threads-api-is-finally-here/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720924

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by rogerallen in "Ask HN: Is it just me, or does the job market for IT seem bad today?"

rogerallen — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 14:39:14 +0000

Found this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633668