Hacker News: slater

New comment by slater in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

slater — Sat, 23 May 2026 02:42:29 +0000

What's with the nonstop new accounts...?

New comment by slater in "Act News"

slater — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:20:15 +0000

Act News

New comment by slater in "Standard Chartered CEO walks back comment about 'lower-value human capital'"

slater — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:19:50 +0000

Because they live in a different world.

New comment by slater in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

slater — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:05:04 +0000

"rules for thee, not for me"

New comment by slater in "Old Reddit Is Down"

slater — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:36:40 +0000

this better not be.. the happening.

New comment by slater in "London Erupts Brits Want Their Country Back [video][24 Mins]"

slater — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:52:27 +0000

Let's not.

New comment by slater in "Nearly 50 Years Later, WKRP in Cincinnati Becomes a Real Radio Station"

slater — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:02:30 +0000

"crap" ...?

New comment by slater in "Dot-Coms That Deliver (2001)"

slater — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:45:09 +0000

wrong link?

New comment by slater in "New UFO files offer no answers–but something is happening in the skies"

slater — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:05:18 +0000

i, too, enjoy writing fiction every now and then.

New comment by slater in "MAME now emulates a Stasi numbers-station speech synthesizer"

slater — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:52:15 +0000

(2022, but still cool)

New comment by slater in "[dead]"

slater — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:00:25 +0000

One entire euro! The gall!

New comment by slater in "Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw"

slater — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:42:40 +0000

> I wonder what gives them that "high confidence", as opposed to this being just a traditional zero-day?

Excessive use of em-dashes, and emoji bullet points in the readme

New comment by slater in "I have an idea that could be worth billions, & I'm giving it away for free"

slater — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:03:34 +0000

so, IRC/Slack/Discord ...?

New comment by slater in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

slater — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:21:42 +0000

is there a reason for the space in "h ttps" ?

New comment by slater in "Internet Archive Switzerland"

slater — Sun, 10 May 2026 03:33:18 +0000

There's an entire ditch between the French-speaking and German-speaking parts of Switzerland, filled with Röschti to keep the two apart. True story!

New comment by slater in "Tesla owner won $10k in court for Tesla's FSD lies. Tesla is still fighting him"

slater — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:47:24 +0000

i bet the answer rhymes with "shmaxes"

New comment by slater in "LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions"

slater — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:33:41 +0000

How ever did people get jobs before recruiters? /s

New comment by slater in "Where the goblins came from"

slater — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:40:17 +0000

[ "which opinions" goose meme :D ]

New comment by slater in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"

slater — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:31:29 +0000

correlation, therefor causation! simple as.

New comment by slater in "I won a championship that doesn't exist"

slater — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:45:09 +0000

(it probably helps that your name & blog carry some weight, vs. some rando writing something on blogspot or wordpress ;) )