Hacker News: venusenvy47

New comment by venusenvy47 in "Chipotlai Max"

venusenvy47 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:45:06 +0000

I tried the site and can't find any information about what it is. What is it?

New comment by venusenvy47 in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

venusenvy47 — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:38:40 +0000

Which search engines does it use? I couldn't find info, and I'm just curious.

New comment by venusenvy47 in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

venusenvy47 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:10:02 +0000

You need a VPS, correct? Are there any concerns about hardening your VPS from attackers? I worry about my ability to harden a public - facing service that is handling something so critical for myself.

New comment by venusenvy47 in "Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)"

venusenvy47 — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:15:32 +0000

At my inlaws house, they and all the neighbors have Comcast, with routers that don't allow configuration of the channels. And since Comcast doesn't know how to configure their routers properly, all neighbors are sharing the same channels on both 2.4 and 5. It's fine if you are in the room near your own router, but it works poorly on the other side of the house, where I pick up neighbor signals at the same level as the desired one.

New comment by venusenvy47 in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

venusenvy47 — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:04:01 +0000

I think we also all assume that it is probably not a healthy feature of capitalism.

New comment by venusenvy47 in "The USB Situation"

venusenvy47 — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:46:00 +0000

I'm mostly concerned about USB-C repeating what I consider the mistake they had with micro-USB: having a thin post/tab inside the socket of the phone. It puts the most fragile part of the interface on the most expensive side (the phone). It would make so much more sense to put that breakable inner tab on the cable side, so you only need to replace the cable. Lightning doesn't have that inner tab on either side, so I find it much more durable.

New comment by venusenvy47 in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

venusenvy47 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:19:13 +0000

Actually, it looks like they fixed this problem. I just checked all the messages with the LinkedIn label and I don't see it popping that "hotspot" anymore. The only thing that pops up in the subject line is now "Unsubscribe", so that is really good.

New comment by venusenvy47 in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

venusenvy47 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:17:56 +0000

I don't think so. At least not from the inbox, where it happens. I'm not in the message - I'm just dragging on the subject lines to scroll, and these "hotspots" light up on the right portion of the subject.

New comment by venusenvy47 in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

venusenvy47 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:21:27 +0000

Regarding Google and LinkedIn, I keep complaining to them about a stupid feature of Gmail. If I get an invitation from someone, Gmail puts "accept" as a button in the subject of the email - so if you aren't careful you can accept while you are scrolling through the subject lines. That is just the worst feature to put in their subject line.

New comment by venusenvy47 in "Every plane you see in the sky – you can now follow it from the cockpit in 3D"

venusenvy47 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:21:27 +0000

It's really cool. I'm a little unsure if the website is overloaded or my browser is not rendering it properly. If I zoom in on an area and try to click on a plane in flight, sometimes I can select a plane, but sometimes I can't. Even for a plane that I was able to select a few seconds before, if I click away and try to click again, it won't select.

New comment by venusenvy47 in "Show HN: GovAuctions lets you browse government auctions at once"

venusenvy47 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:04:58 +0000

Pretty cool. But a lot of it doesn't really work once you click into a particular state. For example, from this page, if you click on "All auctions in Georgia", it lists all auctions in the country. Or if you click on "electronics", it doesn't show just electronics in Georgia.

https://www.govauctions.app/auctions/georgia

New comment by venusenvy47 in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

venusenvy47 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:54:14 +0000

His article specifically mentions that the threat is with the public key exchange, not the encryption that happens after the key exchange.

New comment by venusenvy47 in "A forecast of the fair market value of SpaceX's businesses"

venusenvy47 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:53:48 +0000

The booster is definitely looking good, just like the Falcon 9 booster is very reliable. The big question for me is the upper stage, and whether they will be able to reuse anywhere near as often as they claim. It is so much more complex than the Falcon upper stages, which aren't reusable very quickly. It seems they have a lot to learn about upper stage reusability.

New comment by venusenvy47 in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

venusenvy47 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:40:02 +0000

The article talks about the normal blackout window of 40 minutes on the far side. I'm confused about how they will get real time footage from that side. Is there a lunar relay satellite that wasn't mentioned?

New comment by venusenvy47 in "SpaceX files to go public"

venusenvy47 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:15:55 +0000

Short list: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/elon-musk...

longer list: https://elonmusk.today/

New comment by venusenvy47 in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

venusenvy47 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:53:01 +0000

Can I use Google Voice as the VOIP provider? I read that article and couldn't tell if Voice is used in addition to another VOIP service, like Ooma.

New comment by venusenvy47 in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

venusenvy47 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:40:50 +0000

My kids are grown up, but my mom is worried about her AT&T service switching to VOIP. She didn't understand my description of Ooma, which I've been using for many years, but now I'm thinking that I should just bring over all the needed hardware and just call it a landline.

New comment by venusenvy47 in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

venusenvy47 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:56:30 +0000

How can we possibly find an example, if the names of the betters aren't public? There are public bets on activities from the IS government that can easily be used by people that control the outcome.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwz8051y0lo

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2gn93292do

New comment by venusenvy47 in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

venusenvy47 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:36:24 +0000

Why would we want insiders to profit on a public decision like war? If some general has money on Iran's leader being taken out by March 1, he might not be acting in the best interest of the country.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjwz8051y0lo

New comment by venusenvy47 in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

venusenvy47 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:01:06 +0000

Also Motorola, make this phone available in the US: https://m.gsmarena.com/motorola_edge_50_neo-13224.php

It's the smallest phone available with a real telephoto lens. I think it was only available in India, but I got one on eBay because it has those two features (not huge with telephoto) I was looking for. I moved to it from a Pixel 6a because I refuse to go any bigger in physical size.