Hacker News: utternerd

New comment by utternerd in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

utternerd — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:45:19 +0000

Down detector is a self-reported platform, they use a baseline over 6 months from user reports to try to automatically "detect" if there is a real outage, or if its just a couple end-users. Ultimately, the outage is entirely based on users going to down detector and clicking on "Report a Problem".

https://downdetector.com.py/en/methodology/

New comment by utternerd in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"

utternerd — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:42:07 +0000

> Think of the children!

Very familiar; nothing of substance.

New comment by utternerd in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"

utternerd — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:39:21 +0000

> Everything I don't like should be banned.

Ah yes, so reasonable. You remind me of the alcohol and marijuana prohibitionists. Tell me, how are your bans implemented? Do jack-booted thugs enforce said laws and throw people in cages, or does it somehow magically just... happen?

New comment by utternerd in "AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T"

utternerd — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:50:20 +0000

this would be the real travesty

New comment by utternerd in "Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident"

utternerd — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:07:52 +0000

Details matter, and details like "he pulled out a gun" are not inconsequential.

New comment by utternerd in "Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident"

utternerd — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:57:13 +0000

I assumed everyone also read the article if they're commenting on it, but I fail to see what additional that context that adds; I can't imagine he was pulling it out because it was time to oil it. Police were responding to an active shooter call, and this guy pulled out a gun.

New comment by utternerd in "Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident"

utternerd — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:54:25 +0000

It is factually accurate that he pulled out a weapon when police were responding to an active shooter call.

New comment by utternerd in "Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident"

utternerd — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:53:29 +0000

Good to see HN has changed their tune on gun ownership and defense. Until we see bodycam footage we're all basing our opinions entirely on what his lawyer is saying. Video will come out with a FOIA, but everyone will have moved on.

New comment by utternerd in "Man seeks millions after being shot by police in game-related swatting incident"

utternerd — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:41:37 +0000

It explicitly said in the article that he pulled out a gun. He shouldn't have been swatted, obviously. That said, if you pull out a gun when police are responding to what they believe is an active shooter, the chances of you being shot are extremely high.

Additionally consider what would have happened if this had been an active shooting and they simply disregarded the phone call.

New comment by utternerd in "Africa Has a High-Speed Train; California Doesn't"

utternerd — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:26:29 +0000

And yet our state is still the fourth-largest economy in the world.

New comment by utternerd in "Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free"

utternerd — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:49:41 +0000

"Organic means better" is the embarrassing and misleading talking point here though, not being against having toxic chemicals in our food sold as "organic". I don't want added copper compounds and residue in my food, and copper sulfate used in organic farming empirically does that.

"The most frequently quantified [organic] pesticide was copper." https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2015/5570...

New comment by utternerd in "Organic foods are not healthier or pesticide free"

utternerd — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:18:36 +0000

This is untrue. For example, Copper Sulfate is a moderately toxic substance used in organic farming and is highly corrosive. It is approximately 5 to 10 times more toxic than Glyphosate (LD50 of ~300 to 790 mg/kg for Copper Sulfate vs. >4,320 mg/kg for Glyphosate.)

https://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/archive/cuso4tech.html https://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/archive/glyphotech.html

New comment by utternerd in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

utternerd — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:43:36 +0000

Unified Memory or VRAM, not just RAM.

New comment by utternerd in "Android will now warn you if a caller is impersonating someone you know"

utternerd — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:10:37 +0000

Ironic, I just had a phishing attempt yesterday from a phone number that showed up on my Pixel as from "Google".

New comment by utternerd in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

utternerd — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:13:19 +0000

I've been running an N100 for 3 years with a 5 bay external enclosure over USB 3.2 Gen 2 and ZFS, and have not had any issues. It is pretty phenomenal, pulls about the same power, and costs around the same as an RPi 5 but provides substantially more compute and throughput.

New comment by utternerd in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

utternerd — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:58:09 +0000

They were a fairly common occurrence in the late 90s. I worked at an OEM at the time and we would stockpile it during gluts for that reason, then make a killing ~6-9 months later.

New comment by utternerd in "Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems"

utternerd — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:45:28 +0000

It's a link from the sheriff's office, and I agree Sam is not a mean person. I've known him since childhood.

New comment by utternerd in "Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems"

utternerd — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:44:34 +0000

I hope you're right and the information I got was incorrect, we all want him back on the right path. He was found guilty previously for the same charge and did multiple years, so the reality is he did do this at one point, even if the latest charge was acquitted (I had not heard this yet, if it is true).

New comment by utternerd in "Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems"

utternerd — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:54:17 +0000

I didn't notice that but you're correct, and that does change the calculus. In that case: https://www.mctxsheriff.org/news_detail_T6_R1333.php

New comment by utternerd in "Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems"

utternerd — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:39:48 +0000

If I link to any articles about it, I dox him unfortunately and I'd prefer not to. I was friends with cmang from our pre-teen days, and we were both heavily involved in the ansi/ascii scene. I'm sure there's still some here who remember him from efnet, or other places.