Hacker News: rolph

Monkey selfie will protect you from AI slop

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:48:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260414-the-monkey-selfie-that-predicted-the-ai-age

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785737

Points: 1

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Hnterm

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:36:46 +0000

Article URL: https://terminaltrove.com/hnterm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785601

Points: 2

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Hacker News CLI

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:35:38 +0000

Article URL: https://pythonhosted.org/hackernews-cli/commands.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785582

Points: 30

# Comments: 11

New comment by rolph in "For the first time ever, Amazon is cutting old Kindles off from the Kindle Store"

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:49:53 +0000

bricking devices that have more features than newer devices, and are owned by someone that is not you, is not how you build loyalty.

bricking my hardware will not make me want to buy your hardware again.

New comment by rolph in "Behind fiery attack on OpenAI's Altman, a growing divide over AI"

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:32:38 +0000

“In no way should we be at the point where a man could have lost his life over differences of opinion.”

thats the problem, right there. stop trying to frame this as a difference of opinion. this is attempted disruption of a society.

Behind fiery attack on OpenAI's Altman, a growing divide over AI

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:29:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2026/04/14/behind-fiery-attack-on-openais-altman-a-growing-divide-over-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781432

Points: 1

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New comment by rolph in "Stop Flock"

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:08:00 +0000

because futanari is not extreme enough anymore?

New comment by rolph in "Ask HN: My ISP is telling my neighbors their slow internet is because of me"

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:30:57 +0000

and when you sniff right at the customers dropline, its hard to expect someone to believe its not the subscriber, its some imposter forging packets and spoofing your IP.

i really isnt good press to, lets say, accuse subscribers of Criminal involvment based on IP spoofs or hash collisions, so its a good idea to chase it all the way down to the drop line, and any pwnd boxes

New comment by rolph in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:06:37 +0000

black powder is cheap and easy to make, its also dirty, slow expanding, very smokey. but when there is no powder available, blackpowder is the most expedient thing.

its also low gas pressure so if you are manufacturing from tentative material, you really should load with black powder, and use enough that it wont squib.

there are a few videos still around, where people load with smokeless powder in a musket, or muzzle loader, instead of blackpowder.

this will blow your barrel open.

New comment by rolph in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:49:58 +0000

its a good thing too, it not very stable, and mercury is not nice.

but its not difficult to manufacture, if we are in the scenario of shortage or absconderance of products.

lead styphnate is common use, but not everyone is happy with lead either. i have a couple boxes of non lead primers, they smell different when they go off but i havnt encountered noticible difference compared to lead primers.

New comment by rolph in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:31:16 +0000

the crux of fear is that "the enemy" may enter the country, hunkerdown, and anonymously construct the chattels of an assault.

in that threat model, appearances on camera buying anything related to a "mission" are going to be avoided.

no one, not even an FFL will see your face, if its all made from scratch.

this fear of takeover by a "hostile aliens" is quite alive, despite the promises of the GunControlAct

New comment by rolph in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:50:58 +0000

im organic, and im older than dirt.

New comment by rolph in "Ask HN: My ISP is telling my neighbors their slow internet is because of me"

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:40:01 +0000

i would be kinda concerned, what else was done when the cable was disconnected, such as connect to a sniffer,and do some back n forth packet inspection as the client reconnects and starts torrenting again.

New comment by rolph in "Ask HN: My ISP is telling my neighbors their slow internet is because of me"

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:35:30 +0000

it looks a lot like what you would do to foist a compromised router on someone. if push comes to shove, factory reset the router x2 or 3, before you hand it off to anyone claiming to be mediacom.

having a badge ID is no surety. a badge can be manufactured, using a legitimate employees identity as an alias.

camera your place up, old school con men hate that, they like it when people id each other with general attributes instead of specifics.

if you are heavy torrenting, you could be compromised and serving an open relay w/o knowing, and ANYTHING could be moving through it.

if your doing anything criminal STOP ! i wouldnt be surprised if the logs on your router are what they really want, regardless of who they are. cops or crooks.

New comment by rolph in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

rolph — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:02:16 +0000

mangione didnt understand the requirements for suppressor on semi-auto pistol.

there was no nelson device, he would have been better off with an empty soda bottle.

New comment by rolph in "If it starts, a nuclear arms race will be unstoppable"

rolph — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:59:09 +0000

hurry gather all the data available, and code a nuclear science AI.

first thing we need are nuclear beam weapons, the omnidirectional thing is sloppy.

putative range: 100% neutralization @ 1000 miles

New comment by rolph in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

rolph — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:38:43 +0000

mechanical parts only move so fast, heat up and wear.

when you have a chain cannon rof 100 rnds per second, it gets intense.

a spark discharge solves a lot of kinetic issues with engineering the mechanism and its timing.

New comment by rolph in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

rolph — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:26:47 +0000

yes ive seen them they are called exotic by most people around me.

yes the very nature of a chain cannon, makes electronic priming,the easier way to go.

so far we can still go to the store with 20$ and come back with a 200pk of 209s, someday that might be not so easy, and electronic is the better/only way.

New comment by rolph in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

rolph — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:17:36 +0000

trophism is very much like manufacture.

you always have to pay to continue the process, and sometimes to put it on hold.

Transfer of Energy between Trophic Levels:

https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_and_Gene...

Ecological efficiency:

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

New comment by rolph in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

rolph — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:47:51 +0000

could it be a cockney thing ?