Hacker News: tnorthcutt

New comment by tnorthcutt in "Spectre I prevents smart devices and AI recorders from picking up your voice"

tnorthcutt — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:27:16 +0000

This seems pretty neat, but also like something that would be doable on a raspberry pi for a lot less than the $1,199 price tag. But maybe that's a "why do you need this, just use rsync" argument.

Spectre I prevents smart devices and AI recorders from picking up your voice

tnorthcutt — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:26:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.deveillance.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47235673

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by tnorthcutt in "Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives"

tnorthcutt — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:38:15 +0000

My first donation to Watsi was on July the 6th, 2013. I continue to be impressed with the work your team does. Bravo.

New comment by tnorthcutt in "Historical Tech Tree"

tnorthcutt — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 22:21:57 +0000

Making sure you've seen this youtube channel, which is excellent: https://www.youtube.com/@machinethinking

A Vaccine for Anthropomorphism of AI

tnorthcutt — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:05:21 +0000

Article URL: https://commoncog.com/vaccine-anthropomorphism-of-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44735189

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by tnorthcutt in "Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong"

tnorthcutt — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:22:32 +0000

I think Alton Brown covered this on his show Good Eats quite a few years ago as well.

New comment by tnorthcutt in "Someone at YouTube needs glasses"

tnorthcutt — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:09:03 +0000

> DF Tube extension

This extension is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions.

Rise Is Shutting Down

tnorthcutt — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 15:50:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.risecalendar.com/blog/sunsetting-rise

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42842367

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by tnorthcutt in "A new book shows how the power of companies is destabilizing governance"

tnorthcutt — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 03:27:47 +0000

I wasn’t aware that taxpayers funded drug development.

Can you share examples? I am genuinely asking.

Tossed Salads and Scrumbled Eggs

tnorthcutt — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:41:52 +0000

Article URL: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/tossed-salads-and-scrumbled-eggs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41895308

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by tnorthcutt in "Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite"

tnorthcutt — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:41:32 +0000

This was a really good, and entertaining, read. Obviously (as the author notes multiple times) the takeaways probably don't generalize, but I suspect there are lots of other places where something similar could be used to improve performance a lot.

New comment by tnorthcutt in "Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website"

tnorthcutt — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:08:54 +0000

Thanks for the reply! I think I disagree with you, mostly because it seems like this particular bug could have been company-destroying because of the potential reputation hit if it was exploited on a wide scale.

But regardless, I appreciate your perspective and it gives me some stuff to consider I hadn't previously.

New comment by tnorthcutt in "Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website"

tnorthcutt — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:38:13 +0000

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-browser-company/...

> Total Funding Amount $68M

the browser company normally does not do bug bounties, but for this catastrophic of a vuln, they decided to award me with $2,000 USD

I'm struggling to put into words how disappointing I find this.

Danger on the Divide

tnorthcutt — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 22:20:40 +0000

Article URL: https://longreads.com/2024/08/15/danger-mountain-biking-maggie-slepian/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41270905

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Change Blindness

tnorthcutt — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 21:41:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/change-blindness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41229643

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tnorthcutt in "It's getting harder to die"

tnorthcutt — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:36:46 +0000

I think that's why they said "most people":

> Most people your age can still exceed any physical accomplishment they've had in their lifetime if they really want to. E.g. they can play sports better than they ever had and they can achieve personal bests in any physical ability.

So not people who were at the peak of their ability/potential in their 20s – most people, however, do not perform at their limits in their 20s, simply because that isn't their priority, they don't train for it, etc.

Manna – Two Views of Humanity's Future

tnorthcutt — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 19:37:41 +0000

Article URL: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40814228

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Manna – Two Views of Humanity's Future

tnorthcutt — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:59:58 +0000

Article URL: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40780701

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by tnorthcutt in "Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial"

tnorthcutt — Thu, 09 May 2024 22:12:42 +0000

I strongly endorse both of the mentioned movies. They're both excellent.

New comment by tnorthcutt in "Show HN: LangCSS – An AI Assistant for Tailwind"

tnorthcutt — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:40:33 +0000

FWIW your demo images are pretty unreadable to me. I can read them if I right click --> open image in new tab, and then zoom to full size.