Hacker News: sixothree

New comment by sixothree in "Gen X will outnumber Baby Boomers in US Congress"

sixothree — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 20:30:41 +0000

Gen X was dealt a bad hand in so many ways. They coined the term "latch key kid" because their parents needed to work more, or they came from broken homes at a new rate. Their young childhood was in the economic doldrums of the 70's and their childhood and formative years during the 80's enjoyed the particular economic circumstances of the 80's. Life was dangerous too. Childhood deaths were some 3x what they are today, especially from accidents.

New comment by sixothree in "I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you"

sixothree — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:36:29 +0000

Wait did they claim to not use screenshots during ACR generation? Or did they claim they don't _store_ screenshots.

I think they're using "collect" to mean something specific and "store" to mean something specific, neither of which fit our definition of collect and store.

New comment by sixothree in "I asked every TV manufacturer 17 questions about how they spy on you"

sixothree — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:32:16 +0000

I don't think they're denying anything. I think they're muddying the technologies. They're saying "we don't need the screenshot to know what's displayed on your screen". With ACR, you don't need screenshots because you know what the content is. My understanding is that ACR is basically a fingerprint of the screenshot.

Am I misinterpreting their answer?

New comment by sixothree in "Goodbye Claude, hello Pi"

sixothree — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 03:35:37 +0000

Apparently humans don't merge PRs.

New comment by sixothree in "Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot"

sixothree — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:57:46 +0000

This is actually what I like about my roomba - it forces me to clean up objects from the floor. So yes, I'm doing manual labor. But I'm not hating myself every day for not vacuuming.

New comment by sixothree in "Anthropic's internal AI use, at retail prices, now exceeds its employee pay"

sixothree — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:27:28 +0000

My fist reaction to this post was "why so little?". I very much expected the number to be higher.

New comment by sixothree in "Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet"

sixothree — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:35:09 +0000

I used to believe it was an ideal way to curb waste from consumerism via reuse. But the high prices force people into a decision that often ends with them just purchasing a new item, the exact discussion happening here.

New comment by sixothree in "Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet"

sixothree — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:55:32 +0000

We know about the yellow tracking dots.

New comment by sixothree in "Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet"

sixothree — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:48:07 +0000

1980: TRON is used as a keyword in Microsoft Basic

New comment by sixothree in "Hackers expose the identities of more than 40k DHS employees"

sixothree — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:04:48 +0000

Speaking of which, I feel like ICE's next move is to start arresting people for not turning in their friends, neighbors, and coworkers. We know they're planning for it at least.

New comment by sixothree in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

sixothree — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:55:48 +0000

The #1 reason sighted by 2nd amendment loyalists for needing such liberal gun rights is to protect us all from government overreach. I assume that's what he means.

New comment by sixothree in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

sixothree — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:49:55 +0000

And definitely not religious preferences.

New comment by sixothree in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

sixothree — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:04:54 +0000

I'm sure their dau decline and actually blocking most usage (non-logged in users) has helped a lot.

New comment by sixothree in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

sixothree — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:56:07 +0000

> it's just a job

Considering what you're responding to, it sounds like you're suggesting people over 55 don't deserve to be respected or have a good position in life.

New comment by sixothree in "Root shell on Samsung TV"

sixothree — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:43:09 +0000

The thing about the facebook is listening to you rumors is that the reality is so much worse than them actually surreptitiously listening to you. Their knowing who you're interacting with and what you're likely to talk about is more alarming. Dismissing facebook listening to your conversations is shortsighted in a way I find fairly repulsive.

New comment by sixothree in "Root shell on Samsung TV"

sixothree — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 21:27:48 +0000

The comment seems to imply to me that they are too gullible to understand what the LLM tells them and are being gaslit into believing things that smarter researchers would know without needing an LLM. Honestly, the comment seems dismissive of the current reality in general.

New comment by sixothree in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

sixothree — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:00:44 +0000

I'm not sure why you are participating in this thread then.

New comment by sixothree in "OpenCode has a security breach last that impacted 1.4% of console users"

sixothree — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:54:42 +0000

I'm pretty sure their timeline of the breach is also not correct. I think information about my account was exposed over a month ago.

New comment by sixothree in "OpenCode and OpenAI issue refunds after security breach of OpenCode console"

sixothree — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:51:30 +0000

I'm pretty sure their timeline for the intrusion is not quite honest. I started getting strange phone calls about a month or so ago trying to recover an account and the leaked two pieces of information to me in that attempt. These pretty much tie it to opencode.

New comment by sixothree in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

sixothree — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:22:59 +0000

Very similar here. For internal projects the test is - if it works, unit and integration tests were created, and it follows our architecture correctly.