<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: themoonisachees</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=themoonisachees</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:48:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=themoonisachees" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i've found a genuinely useful application of this that isn't just "talk secretively":
I'm part of a community that has a chatroom on both discord and another platform. we have developped a bot that can make the bridge between the two, but it needs to maintain a table in a database of all the bridged messages, so that people use the "reply" feature on either platform, the reply is also performed on the other platform. With this, each platform's bridged message can contain hidden data that points to the other's platform ID, without the need to store it ourselves, and without it being visible to users.<p>obviously we won't be tearing down the infra already in place anytime soon, so we won't actually be doing that, but that's definitely a useful application for when you don't want to be hosting a database and just wish you could attach additional data to a restrictive format.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:30:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43048075</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43048075</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43048075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Niantic plans a “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Famously for a long time, the best way to get a point of interest into PGO was to play ingress and request it's addition there</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 07:55:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202086</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202086</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Niantic plans a “Large Geospatial Model” trained on Pokémon Go player data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills here and on Lemmy, the whole point of ingress was that it was made to sell Google mapping data and point of interest data, that's why the game didn't have monetizing practices for so long (of course it started having them once all the data was sold but hey)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 07:50:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202060</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know the specific mechanism used in the OP, but android has several mechanisms that can be used to start an app on reboot. Take a look around a Google search, I'm sure you'll find what you need</p>
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<p>Things do not require to be useful or to increase revenue in order for them to be enjoyable. If the only reason you ever do something is because you get material wealth out of it, are you even making choices or are you a perfect rational actor as described in textbooks?<p>Things are allowed to exist and be enjoyed on the sole basis that they are enjoyable</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:11:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42123616</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42123616</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42123616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Show HN: I built an app to use a QR code as my doorbell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The user interface for a doorbell (smart or dumb) is a a single button that you press, with your finger. Compare that to take out my phone, find a way to scan a qr code, scan it, install an app (?!?!), press a single button with my finger, on the app.<p>This is even supposing that I want to do that to begin with (I know for sure delivery drivers are never doing it).<p>Good job on the project, I really mean it. It doesn't matter what you do, it matters that you've achieved it and for that, congrats. But as a practical semi-object, this has to be one of the worst ways possible to solve the problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:40:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41982290</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41982290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41982290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Opera will always help you block ads natively"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It used to be a good browser, but nowadays it's just another chromium wrapper.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:57:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41958697</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41958697</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41958697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Boeing 787s must be reset every 51 days or 'misleading data' is shown (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some of these planes are constantly flying as long as they're not in maintenance. A plane not in the air is a plane the company bought that's not currently generating profit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:06:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41939786</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41939786</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41939786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Syncthing Android App Discontinued"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do give KDE connect a try. It's great</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:05:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41896814</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41896814</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41896814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Draw a Crocodile Without a Tail"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not really surprising. Vector embeddings are really not that great at conveying arbitrary "without"s. The words the model sees are "alligator", "tail", and "without", but without means nothing. If something is in the prompt, it should be drawn, so it's going to make extra sure there is a tail in the image.<p>The exception is when it's common to refer to something that has an element removed, for example, a french king without a head.<p>There are some prompting software that allows you to negatively specify certain words, which is useful for example if you want a picture of a mustang, the horse. You can specify negative: car, and the model will avoid diffusing into anything looking like a car, but you can't get that level of control from chatgpt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:00:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41896221</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41896221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41896221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "WASM Is the New CGI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is not my intention to be contrarian, but honestly this might be the most incorrect comment I've ever read on hacker news, in several different ways. Sure, some of these might be subjective, but for example chromeOS is Linux with a shiny coat in top, how could it be any better than, well, Linux, let alone miles ahead?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:41:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41798718</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41798718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41798718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Rust is rolling off the Volvo assembly line"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Give this is already rolling off the production line, the toolchain they use must be certified iso 26262. More than actual engineering (though there still is some), the hard part is getting that certification at all, or you can't put it in a car.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:10:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41778196</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41778196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41778196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Show HN: I built a Iridium/LTE satellite GPS tracker and took it to the Arctic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think now this is correct due to European laws, but not that long ago, if you were not in your home country and someone called you, you could be billed for the international part of the call. Nowadays the agreements telcos were forced to put in place means this is largely solved in the EU, and quite cheap outside of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:55:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41778021</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41778021</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41778021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Can you get root with only a cigarette lighter?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This specifically is trivially defeated by ECC, though it wouldn't be that much harder to instead flip 3 bits and ECC would be unable to help. ECC has very poor penetration outside the server world though, so we're still safe. For now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 22:09:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41771598</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41771598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41771598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "It is hard to recommend Google Cloud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most people paying for GCP are in need of much more than a VPS and also are quite probably not the decision makers</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:26:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41616073</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41616073</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41616073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In my previous jobs we didn't have any business in china and banning all IP ranges was a cheap an easy strategy to remove 50% of unsuccessful login attempts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 22:05:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41586068</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41586068</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41586068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Show HN: Electrico – Electron Without Node and Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Aren't these just IPCs disguised as normal function calls though? IIRC only the main node process does anything node, renderers can call "node functions" that really happen in the main process.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:36:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41568774</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41568774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41568774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like the idea but you can't ensure the battery supports the load and it's a matter of time before someone puts the shittiest of 18650s inside it and it explodes</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 19:08:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41524377</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41524377</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41524377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The pinecil is $25.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2024 19:04:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41524339</link><dc:creator>themoonisachees</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41524339</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41524339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themoonisachees in "Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suspect the usb-PD standard doesn't allow for raising the voltage any more than they already do</p>
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