Hacker News: sonorous_sub

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

sonorous_sub — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:19:51 +0000

Not that surprising.

New comment by sonorous_sub in "Crypto farm in Mexican mountains puts spotlight on cartel funding"

sonorous_sub — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:40:11 +0000

Reuters is paywalled now? Corruption, thy stench wafts ever further!

New comment by sonorous_sub in "Maxwell's Equations Were Discovered [video]"

sonorous_sub — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:09:25 +0000

Those godawful ads on youtube though. I pay goog to suspend them, but I forgot to login on my phone and now I’ll be haunted the rest of today by the snippet of a mouth-breathing honey vendor who popped up on screen before I could scroll away.

New comment by sonorous_sub in "Tobacco plant can produce five psychedelics, including psilocybin and DMT"

sonorous_sub — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:49:12 +0000

Big Tobacco: yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

New comment by sonorous_sub in "Rhode Island Files First-in-Nation Single-Room Occupancy Model Legislation"

sonorous_sub — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:40:15 +0000

crickets chirping

New comment by sonorous_sub in "ChatGPT wrote "Goodnight Moon" suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself"

sonorous_sub — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:10:34 +0000

The guy left a suicide note that ratted out ChatGPT for simply being a good buddy. No good deed goes unpunished, ai guess.

New comment by sonorous_sub in "Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels off the Dutch and German coast"

sonorous_sub — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:27:05 +0000

Thank you for your service.

New comment by sonorous_sub in "Dark Mode Sucks"

sonorous_sub — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:23:05 +0000

So does Youtube's new Theater Mode.

New comment by sonorous_sub in "Car has more than 1.2M km on it – and it's still going strong"

sonorous_sub — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 09:17:55 +0000

No man ever slides behind the wheel of the same Tercel twice.

New comment by sonorous_sub in "It's Known as 'The List'–and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses"

sonorous_sub — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 08:25:22 +0000

New comment by sonorous_sub in "Washington State Patrol to Find Speeding Hot Spots Using Harvested Phone Data"

sonorous_sub — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:53:26 +0000

Never buying Michelin tires again if I can help it.

New comment by sonorous_sub in "Marijuana doubles your risk of cardiovascular death, worrying new study shows"

sonorous_sub — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 07:12:26 +0000

Well, "addictive smoking" causes cancer, let's say.

New comment by sonorous_sub in "Show HN: I made an online Unicode Cuneiform digital clock"

sonorous_sub — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:03:56 +0000

The visual appeal is undeniable ;)

New comment by sonorous_sub in "Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?"

sonorous_sub — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 04:36:04 +0000

I use ChatGPT sometimes, but only after I've exhausted google's results for my search and not found the answer I was looking for, or when the query is so obscure that the enhanced problem solving ability of ChatGPT warrants going to it first. I like ChatGPT for solving mundane math problems because I can check its work, and getting the answers I need that way are quicker than doing it myself manually. I still don't trust ChatGPT for anything subjective, because I get spurious results from it anytime the answer to my question is not cut and dry. But what it can do, it does well.

I don't have a circle of friends, so I have no idea what other people are doing, outside of what I read online.

New comment by sonorous_sub in "iPhones Could Cost Up to $2,300 in the U.S. Due to Tariffs, Analyst Says"

sonorous_sub — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 10:54:50 +0000

The Precariat are sick of being required to maintain continuous connectivity and looking for an excuse to swap "smart" phones for dumb ones. This could be just the stimulus that nascent movement needs to get off the ground.

New comment by sonorous_sub in "Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes"

sonorous_sub — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 17:25:02 +0000

You have to make sure the machine is hypnotized correctly, or otherwise it can hallucinate on you.

New comment by sonorous_sub in "AI-designed chips are so weird that 'humans cannot understand them'"

sonorous_sub — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 16:41:37 +0000

tool assisted speedrun produces unreadable spaghetti code

ship it

New comment by sonorous_sub in "Vietnamese Graphic Design"

sonorous_sub — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 22:34:21 +0000

The anti-Nixon one, where his face is plastered on a falling bombshell and he's shooting lightning bolts out of his eyes at women and children, I think that's my favorite.

New comment by sonorous_sub in "A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors"

sonorous_sub — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 05:15:31 +0000

I wish I knew more about the "hide" function for tucking away threads. It used to be I could hide every single thread I had reviewed until I had a completely blank page, enabling me to dismiss every thread I had already reviewed. But within the past few months, only about 50% of the threads respond to a "hide" button press. I wonder if this issue is related to my browser (Mozilla).

New comment by sonorous_sub in "3D-printed "ghost gun" ring comes to my community–and leaves a man dead"

sonorous_sub — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 05:28:03 +0000

Never cross the streams.