Hacker News: taneq

New comment by taneq in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

taneq — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:46:45 +0000

I’m now wondering how difficult it would be to polish one to a mirror finish.

New comment by taneq in "VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion"

taneq — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:45:52 +0000

But wouldn't using this for eg. removing a support wire result in it making Superman fall down?

New comment by taneq in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

taneq — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:12:36 +0000

Think before talk better though

New comment by taneq in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

taneq — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:11:47 +0000

More concise is dumber. Got it.

New comment by taneq in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

taneq — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:33:55 +0000

The commons? Tragic.

New comment by taneq in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"

taneq — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:42:21 +0000

The breaking point with me that caused me to de-google myself was finding out that Google was buying Mastercard records in order to cross-reference them with Android phone data. That shit is not okay.

New comment by taneq in "LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer"

taneq — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:40:07 +0000

Ah yes, I should have said I was describing the official line, not the behaviour. In all fairness the “can compel them to give it up” doesn’t seem to be optional but otherwise, yeah. Agreed.

New comment by taneq in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"

taneq — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:20:42 +0000

Google cares deeply about privacy. Google defines privacy as them not giving your private data that they have collected to anyone else unless you ask them to.

New comment by taneq in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

taneq — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:19:53 +0000

Agreed, but also, permission prompts are way overused and often meaningless to anyone at all, even fellow software engineers. “This program [program.exe] wants to do stuff, yes/no?” How should I know what’s safe to say yes to?

I think Android’s ‘permissions’ early on (maybe it’s improved?) and Microsoft’s blanket ‘this program wants to do things’ authorisation pop up have set a standard here that we shouldn’t still be following.

New comment by taneq in "LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer"

taneq — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:06:39 +0000

This is just the next iteration of the issues with Linux file permissions, where the original threat model was “the computer is used by many users who need protection from each other”, and which no longer makes much sense in a world of “the computer is used by one or more users who need protection from each other and also from the huge amounts of potentially malicious remote code they constantly execute”.

New comment by taneq in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

taneq — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:43:34 +0000

I still had a Timmy the Monkey sticker on the lid of my kitchen bin up until a couple of years ago.

New comment by taneq in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

taneq — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:42:14 +0000

Each bigger one has in fact solved more of physics, after being built precisely because there was a good theoretical case for a higher energy collider being helpful.

New comment by taneq in "TinyLoRA – Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters"

taneq — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:39:27 +0000

In all fairness most of the unique stuff I can do is probably an artifact of my training process, so it seems unfair to deny an LLM the same accomodation.

New comment by taneq in "The road to electric in charts and data"

taneq — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:26:09 +0000

Nobody does that unless they’re travelling. Charging off grid power at 8-30c/kWh is where it’s at.

New comment by taneq in "The road to electric in charts and data"

taneq — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:50:31 +0000

Nah. EVs are the fastest street drivable vehicles you can get. Rich people want the best.

New comment by taneq in "When Do We Become Adults, Really?"

taneq — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:40:15 +0000

We become adults when we accept ultimate responsibility for everything.

New comment by taneq in "LibreOffice and the art of overreacting"

taneq — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:06:30 +0000

Consider the situation where someone who’s geriatric and potentially losing their mental faculties is getting hit with messages like that. Catch them at the wrong moment and they could well change their will, despite it not being what they would have wanted.

New comment by taneq in "LibreOffice and the art of overreacting"

taneq — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:02:37 +0000

Ugh. The persistent nagging fundraising drives are probably the main reason I haven’t donated to Wikipedia even though I feel like I should.

One time I donated to a Red Cross appeal and over the next decade I’m certain they spent more than my original donation on spamming me with physical junk mail trying to extract more money from me. Never again.

New comment by taneq in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

taneq — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:24:16 +0000

Stationary exercise bike, large hobby BLDC motor (or random PMAC motor from some AC appliance) plus some diodes (fullbridgerectifier meme goes here) to rectify the generated voltage. :)

New comment by taneq in "Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution"

taneq — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:04:15 +0000

Yeah, I was aiming for irony but I should probably have added /s at the end there. It's definitely in the mid-late chapters in any "how to install a fascist regime" handbook.