Hacker News: summermusic

New comment by summermusic in "They See Your Photos"

summermusic — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:19:45 +0000

I uploaded a picture of a board game table from when I was playing with friends last week. Other than the obvious (they’re friends who like playing board games) it got literally everything wrong. It was in Asia and it guessed a western city. The ethnicity, sexuality, median income, and political views it prescribed to us were all hilariously inaccurate.

New comment by summermusic in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

summermusic — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:23:39 +0000

1) Fuck

2) Google

New comment by summermusic in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

summermusic — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:21:30 +0000

It’s frankly embarrassing that they have to come out and say that they are going to make Explorer “faster and more dependable.” It’s amazing how badly they fucked up the most basic function of managing a graphical operating system.

New comment by summermusic in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

summermusic — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:19:18 +0000

24 hour mandatory wait time to side load!? All apps I want to use on my phone are not in the Play Store. So I buy a new phone (or wipe a used phone) and then I can’t even use it for 24 hours?

New comment by summermusic in "Suburban school district uses license plate readers to verify student residency"

summermusic — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:05:46 +0000

> They already have all kinds of data on you

So? My employer has my SSN, address, work history, etc. but I don't want them to know about where I go on the weekends. It's a fallacy to say that just because an entity knows a lot about you that it's OK if they know everything about you.

New comment by summermusic in "Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV"

summermusic — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:23:43 +0000

It's amazing how cheap Hisense TVs are, but the two we got are developing really bad white spots just outside the warranty period. You get what you pay for I guess.

New comment by summermusic in "Payphone Go"

summermusic — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:34:10 +0000

Real world exploration games like this and Jet Lagged: The Game Hide and Seek are just so cool.

I’d play it if payphones from my state were included! I don’t know if they are licensed/registered here though.

New comment by summermusic in "I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus"

summermusic — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:36:41 +0000

Anecdotally, I have been dealing with a new wave of bots that have been trying to join a group I moderate. Three of them were named Marcus. Glancing at the top 20, several of their names show up there.

New comment by summermusic in "We installed a single turnstile to feel secure"

summermusic — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:57:29 +0000

If it isn't outright fake it's at least embellished. It even has the "and then everyone clapped" line!

New comment by summermusic in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

summermusic — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 08:20:24 +0000

> one of my goals for the year is to find at least 2 albums per month I want to buy.

Rate Your Music (RYM) has been invaluable for me in discovering loads of music, I'd highly recommend it

New comment by summermusic in "Clicks Communicator"

summermusic — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:05:40 +0000

I really hope the bootloader is unlocked and something line LineageOS could be adapted to work well with it.

New comment by summermusic in "Pebble Round 2"

summermusic — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:12:17 +0000

I had pre-ordered a Time 2, but I switched to the Round 2 because it's cheaper and I don't really care about the features it is missing (heart rate monitor and speaker) or the shape of the face. It's awesome that they let you switch without losing your place in line, very customer-focused of them.

New comment by summermusic in "Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]"

summermusic — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:03:59 +0000

Some of the ChatGPT chat logs shared in the filing are requests to take immediate action

New comment by summermusic in "Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]"

summermusic — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:58:35 +0000

Convincing someone to commit a crime is a crime. If a gun manufacturer made a gun that encourages its users to commit crimes, that would also be a crime. I think OpenAI created a product that encouraged Stein-Erik to commit a crime.

New comment by summermusic in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

summermusic — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:53:32 +0000

Is this satire?? AI is working for the ruling class and against us (99% of humanity).

New comment by summermusic in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

summermusic — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:04:36 +0000

> AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.

Literally 5 sentences later:

> [Firefox] will evolve into a modern AI browser…

New comment by summermusic in "Smartphone without a battery (2022)"

summermusic — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:47:37 +0000

We have a 64-bit Toshiba tablet mounted on the wall in our kitchen that works wonderfully as a control surface for HomeAssistant. The battery was easy to remove and it runs off of its own barrel plug connector.

We were thinking to reproduce this in our hallway, but all the spare touchscreen devices (tablets and phones that were our own and from family/friends) have these integrated batteries, and research seems to suggest that none of them will work without a battery anyways, so we are going to attempt to do something like this with an old iPhone or Android phone.

We have some PinePhones lying around that have removable batteries and run just fine without them, but alas they are so underpowered that they can't really run the bloated HomeAssistant web portal, and we don't want to write a custom frontend.

New comment by summermusic in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

summermusic — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:12:49 +0000

Maybe one day I can pirate an HDMI driver

New comment by summermusic in "We Need to Die"

summermusic — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 05:38:39 +0000

If you have an evening to burn, 17776 by Jon Bois[0] is a surprisingly captivating multimedia story/project about this topic. It speculates about a future Earth where people have been immortal for thousands of years and explores what happens through the lens of absurd football games. Previously discussed on HN in 2017[1].

[0] https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14714607

New comment by summermusic in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

summermusic — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:06:23 +0000

> I sort of would've preferred it was JUST a button

Exactly. The Pebble already has all the hardware to capture voice notes. There are at least a few third party Pebble apps that do this already. The problem that Eric has is limited to the activation of the feature, not the feature itself, but he overengineered a disposable standalone gadget instead of making an accessory for his already capable platform.