Hacker News: vesrah

New comment by vesrah in "SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud"

vesrah — Sat, 16 May 2026 05:38:13 +0000

I had this happen once - I flew to a city about 8 hours of driving time away to buy a motorcycle and landed late in the evening. My card was declined when I got gas a little after midnight and I had no cash or other card with me so I called the 24 hour support line. I had a quick conversation with a support agent explaining that I was traveling and the card needed to be reactivated right away. Within five minutes the card was working and I was back to working my way down a long chain of mistakes.

New comment by vesrah in "Claude Opus 4.7"

vesrah — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:57:54 +0000

On the most current version (v2.1.110) of claude:

> /model claude-opus-4.7

  ⎿  Model 'claude-opus-4.7' not found

New comment by vesrah in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

vesrah — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:32:52 +0000

Search for anything mechanically car related and the results are terrible or wrong.

New comment by vesrah in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

vesrah — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:30:51 +0000

This is going to sound nuts, but I've noticed comments lately with multiple misspellings that seem intentional - it's almost like they're trying to signal that they're human, rather than LLM written. I've started to think it makes them even more likely to be LLM written than not.

New comment by vesrah in "Most of the US economy is in a recession"

vesrah — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:45:00 +0000

I found this video pretty interesting, it talks about why Iran is going after its neighbors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIS2eB-rGv0

New comment by vesrah in "MacBook Neo"

vesrah — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:06:46 +0000

Single core is close to M4, even.

New comment by vesrah in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

vesrah — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:39:37 +0000

This is one of those shows I've had in the rolling background rewatch queue for years, I love it and I try to recommend it to as many people as possible. Flawed, yes, but still special.

New comment by vesrah in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

vesrah — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:46:58 +0000

Holding option while hovering gives you more placement / sizing options too. If you click and drag a top bar to the right or left it'll snap to the right or left half of the screen. Dragging it to the top or double clicking will snap it to full size. Dragging to corners will snap to quarter.

New comment by vesrah in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

vesrah — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:51:43 +0000

The GPUs going into data centers aren't the kind that can just be reused by putting them into a consumer PC and playing some video games, most don't even have video output ports and put out FPS similar to cheap integrated GPUs.

New comment by vesrah in "Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D"

vesrah — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:08:20 +0000

I agree, this was a great read.

New comment by vesrah in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

vesrah — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:14:34 +0000

New speedbumps were installed in a school zone near my housing complex recently, we're a heavy Waymo area and I watched one of them launch itself over one without slowing down.

New comment by vesrah in "Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support"

vesrah — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:40:37 +0000

They're going in alphabetical order: A - Alchemist B - Battlemage C - Celestial (Future gen) D - Druid (Future gen)

New comment by vesrah in "How good are American roads?"

vesrah — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:56:18 +0000

Yeah, the 93 between Kingman and Nevada is absolutely terrible. Last time I was through there (9 months ago) they were doing a small bit of paving but it wasn't in one of the rougher areas.

New comment by vesrah in "New iMac with M4"

vesrah — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:43:10 +0000

The unfortunate part is that these aren't for sale yet and we don't know how they actually compare to the existing LG 5k or Apple Studio display. It is nice to see more options coming to market.

New comment by vesrah in "X and Starlink face $1M in daily fines for alleged ban evasion in Brazil"

vesrah — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 01:48:03 +0000

I saw that, but I was curious once X decides to pull the money from the accounts (assuming they can, which I guess is a big assumption at this point).

New comment by vesrah in "X and Starlink face $1M in daily fines for alleged ban evasion in Brazil"

vesrah — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 01:44:24 +0000

How do they plan on collecting on that if the money is moved out of Brazilian accounts?

New comment by vesrah in "Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors"

vesrah — Wed, 29 May 2024 21:33:27 +0000

A long time ago I knew a guy that uploaded a Counter-Strike patch to his ISP personal hosting and ended up on the official mirror list. Ended up taking down the ISP iirc.

New comment by vesrah in "Google significantly reduces recaptcha free tier, introduces new pricing models"

vesrah — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 20:22:42 +0000

Is there an official source for this yet?

New comment by vesrah in "Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working drivers for Linux?"

vesrah — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 17:57:15 +0000

What do you mean? This is what Universal Clipboard does.

New comment by vesrah in "Lunik: The CIA’s plot to steal a Soviet satellite (2021)"

vesrah — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 21:31:07 +0000

I thought this happened because the claw was pretty heavily damaged during deployment, only a small bit of it was actually able to grip.