Hacker News: snsr

New comment by snsr in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

snsr — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:23:57 +0000

Maybe you're also in favor of some light reading https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-4/

New comment by snsr in "xAI and Pentagon reach deal to use Grok in classified systems"

snsr — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:50:37 +0000

Yeah successful transition to a nazi bar

New comment by snsr in "Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep"

snsr — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:35:25 +0000

Notably, the drug Ambien disrupts the norepinephrine oscillation that is part of this process.

New comment by snsr in "U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules"

snsr — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:53:11 +0000

The obvious bias of the US Judiciary has resulted in low public confidence - not sure where you've been?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/03/opinion/scotus-ethics...

New comment by snsr in "Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules"

snsr — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 10:45:07 +0000

Not sure that would matter; the Roberts court has shown it only respects precedent when it suits the personal perspectives of the justices.

New comment by snsr in "Noam Chomsky has passed away"

snsr — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:39:31 +0000

Obituary - https://jacobin.com/2024/06/noam-chomsky-obituary-media-theo...

New comment by snsr in "Desperately Trying to Fathom the Coffeepocalypse Argument"

snsr — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:11:08 +0000

"Not sure why people are so sentimental about preserving human intelligence specifically"

Aside from this being our most base instinct; in your proposed nightmare who would be left to behold the wonders

New comment by snsr in "Can Xerox's PARC find new life with SRI?"

snsr — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 19:38:34 +0000

Gift link w/o paywall:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/26/business/sili...

New comment by snsr in "YouTube More Likely to Direct Election-Fraud Videos to Users Already Skeptical"

snsr — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 19:57:13 +0000

Except there is? Mass consumption of this particular flavor of garbage has real consequences.

New comment by snsr in "Gov’t Contractor Copies Open Source 3D Printing Concept and Patents It"

snsr — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:21:47 +0000

That sounds facetious. I would try reaching out to the thieves themselves to discuss the prior art, or possibly the EFF:

https://torbjornludvigsen.com/blog/hangprinter-is-prior-art/

https://www.eff.org/issues/patent-busting-project

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New comment by snsr in "The Tunitcha mountains of Arizona may be related to the word “Khan”"

snsr — Wed, 25 May 2022 14:12:30 +0000

Lots of interesting reading down this path!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dené–Yeniseian_languages

New comment by snsr in "Hetzner subsea fibre cut outage"

snsr — Tue, 24 May 2022 17:20:52 +0000

Best guess this is the cable based on Hetzner investment and landings:

https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/c-lion1

New comment by snsr in "Bored Ape virtual land sale breaks Ethereum"

snsr — Tue, 03 May 2022 01:32:37 +0000

No conversation about BAYC is complete without this context imo http://gordongoner.com/

New comment by snsr in "Ten Years of ThinkPadding"

snsr — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:47:35 +0000

I thought this was sarcasm but it’s true! Amazing design and not in a good way.

New comment by snsr in "Ask HN: What is your home networking setup?"

snsr — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 12:32:16 +0000

> Arris DOCSIS 3.1

> TekLager i5 w/ Untangle NG firewall

> UniFi managed switches

> UniFi POE APs

Looking to replace the Unifi gear time permitting.

New comment by snsr in "Maine voters reject Quebec hydropower transmission line"

snsr — Wed, 03 Nov 2021 22:38:13 +0000

I guess Quebec hasn't heard, they are now allowed to advertise a position on US ballot initiatives.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/02/foreign-m...

New comment by snsr in "Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist"

snsr — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 11:47:52 +0000

The web page doesn’t scroll.

New comment by snsr in "Insurrectionists’ social media presence gives feds an easy way to ID them"

snsr — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 13:45:09 +0000

I won’t stop until they lose their freedom.

New comment by snsr in "How Normal Am I?"

snsr — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:29:24 +0000

Gross.

New comment by snsr in "'You're Not Allowed to Film': The Fight to Control Who Reports from Portland"

snsr — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 13:25:11 +0000

Calling anyone from the Daily Caller a “reporter” is charitable at best.