Hacker News: stormbeard

New comment by stormbeard in "AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields"

stormbeard — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:22:03 +0000

Demis Hassabis chimed in on that thread and called it what it is: clickbait.

New comment by stormbeard in "Many US states planning or have operating system age verification laws"

stormbeard — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:08:53 +0000

This reasoning never made sense to me. What the hell are these kids' parents doing and why is this something that needs to inconvenience everyone else? If lazy parents don't want to monitor their children while they spend all day on their ipads, that's their problem--it shouldn't be made mine.

New comment by stormbeard in "The Epstein files downloaded today is different compared to before"

stormbeard — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:05:31 +0000

Between the two zip files, these files have had their content changed:

VOL00001/IMAGES/0001/EFTA00000160.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0001/EFTA00000177.pdf

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VOL00001/IMAGES/0002/EFTA00001932.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0003/EFTA00002063.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0003/EFTA00002064.pdf

These are files that only exist in one of the zip bundles, but not the other:

VOL00001/IMAGES/0001/EFTA00000164.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0001/EFTA00000165.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0001/EFTA00000167.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0001/EFTA00000229.pdf

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VOL00001/IMAGES/0001/EFTA00000467.pdf

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VOL00001/IMAGES/0001/EFTA00000531.pdf

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VOL00001/IMAGES/0001/EFTA00000657.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0002/EFTA00001051.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0002/EFTA00001052.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0002/EFTA00001053.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0002/EFTA00001055.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0002/EFTA00001056.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0002/EFTA00001124.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0002/EFTA00001423.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0002/EFTA00001424.pdf

VOL00001/IMAGES/0002/EFTA00001931.pdf

I didn't look to see what the content was.

New comment by stormbeard in "Self-hosting a NAT Gateway"

stormbeard — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:51:32 +0000

I can't believe people are paying these crazy amounts for what is basically a fleet of firewalls. What is the difficulty in running VMs with nftables rules?

New comment by stormbeard in "Google pulls AI model after senator says it fabricated assault allegation"

stormbeard — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 04:05:36 +0000

Google sat on this technology for years and didn't release their early chatbots to the public for this reason. The problem is that OpenAI opened Pandora's box and recklessly leaned into it.

New comment by stormbeard in "SQLite concurrency and why you should care about it"

stormbeard — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:09:01 +0000

Jellyfin isn’t meant to be some highly available distributed system, so of course this happens when you try to operate it like one. The typical user is not someone trying to run it via K8s.

New comment by stormbeard in "NASA is sinking its flagship science center during the government shutdown"

stormbeard — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 03:25:21 +0000

Are you an actual bot? 4-month-old account, 0 karma, and that's not even what the article was about.

NASA Goddard is being illegally dismantled during the shutdown. The events/timeline is shown and the full emails sent to Goddard employees are provided. Don't dismiss this as people complaining about a WFH policy--the buildings are being demolished.

New comment by stormbeard in "FocusTube: A Chrome extension that hides YouTube Shorts"

stormbeard — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:47:03 +0000

This didn't work for me after importing.

New comment by stormbeard in "Why the open social web matters now"

stormbeard — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 03:42:04 +0000

I read this comment, went back to the article, and then came back to this comment. I have no idea what niche political agenda you're talking about- the message of the article is basically "solve problems your users are actually facing, not problems you think they have".

You can apply the concepts the author talks about to _literally_ any group that would make use of social media.

New comment by stormbeard in "MAGA declares war on the property tax"

stormbeard — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 21:48:20 +0000

So what? People drinking less alcohol is something we should strive for, but I don't see the problem with taxing it and using the income to fund schools. Yes, if people drink less alcohol that will be less money for schools, but that does not automatically mean it will be less money than they receive today.

New comment by stormbeard in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

stormbeard — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:56:56 +0000

I worked at Amazon in 2021 and rage-quit after 9 months. The sign-on bonus I received was paid out monthly, so I didn't have to pay anything back. If it's large enough, they pay it monthly because they know it's very likely you won't make it to the 2nd year.

New comment by stormbeard in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

stormbeard — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 20:55:35 +0000

IIRC they pay it out monthly if the bonus is large enough.

New comment by stormbeard in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"

stormbeard — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:08:11 +0000

I don't think anyone can assume that every comment on HN comes from a real human anymore. This law comes from the same nation that gave us Cambridge Analytica.

HN is a large enough forum that it would be included in any serious propaganda campaign.

New comment by stormbeard in "The Missing Protocol: Let Me Know"

stormbeard — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 21:14:18 +0000

Isn't this just RSS?

New comment by stormbeard in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

stormbeard — Sun, 11 May 2025 02:33:03 +0000

> Presumably, if that data is so useful, why dont all of these companies lining up to pay the users?

Because users are lining up to give away their data.

New comment by stormbeard in "Neutron Stars Hint at Another Dimension"

stormbeard — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 05:46:40 +0000

We don't know! But we also can't feasibly test for something like that.

New comment by stormbeard in "Ask HN: Why isn't an open source A/V receiver a thing?"

stormbeard — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:48:28 +0000

You can't make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no...

All CDC data is no longer visible to comply with executive orders

stormbeard — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 00:41:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cdc.gov/datainfo.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42894357

Points: 119

# Comments: 44

New comment by stormbeard in "Portspoof: Emulate a valid service on all 65535 TCP ports"

stormbeard — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 01:47:26 +0000

How is this better than configuring an iptables redirection?

New comment by stormbeard in "[dead]"

stormbeard — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 20:58:31 +0000

This is an advertisement and doesn't have much substance.