Hacker News: vhcr

New comment by vhcr in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"

vhcr — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:09:49 +0000

Isn't this already happening with ADHD drugs?

New comment by vhcr in "Why Addresses Have Numbers"

vhcr — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:56:13 +0000

There was a study a decade or so ago, where they found Costa Rica loses around $720M annually due to productivity loses due to their address system.

https://archive.is/qvgOI

New comment by vhcr in "Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years"

vhcr — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:59:56 +0000

The kid dying is sad, but it could have probably been prevented if the batteries were coated with a bitter agent such as denatonium.

New comment by vhcr in "DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously"

vhcr — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:23:07 +0000

The new thing is data centers in the ocean.

https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs#compute-at-sea

New comment by vhcr in "Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack"

vhcr — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:34:57 +0000

Yes, it gets boring that each time one of these supply chain attack article appears everybody starts talking about cooldowns, 2FA, MFA, etc. Just don't give Node the permissions to your complete filesystem / network.

New comment by vhcr in "Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack"

vhcr — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:04:27 +0000

A compromised device still can't access the secure enclave.

New comment by vhcr in "GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims"

vhcr — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:37:46 +0000

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...

New comment by vhcr in "Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history"

vhcr — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:44:01 +0000

Maybe just use an incognito window?

New comment by vhcr in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

vhcr — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:20:26 +0000

When, not where.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0elNU0iOMY

New comment by vhcr in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

vhcr — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:49:09 +0000

Instagram is the worst offender, I only want to receive message notifications, but I got notifications about inane random stuff I've tried to disable but it won't work. I ended up having to disable notifications altogether.

New comment by vhcr in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

vhcr — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:46:55 +0000

They technically allow you to, but make it really annoying to. Uber for example:

Account > Settings > Accessibility > Communication Settings

New comment by vhcr in "Auto Polo"

vhcr — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:30:26 +0000

There's also e-wheel polo

New comment by vhcr in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

vhcr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:54:04 +0000

My theory is that they rate limit that URL aggressively due to AI scrapers. At this point it's faster to just clone the repo and do your searching locally.

New comment by vhcr in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

vhcr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:14:43 +0000

It's just awkward, I've held the knife with my dominant hand all my life.

New comment by vhcr in "Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines"

vhcr — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 20:45:20 +0000

The idea would be to use autonomous drones, so they wouldn't need to communicate, the problem would be that the GPS signal is jammed.

New comment by vhcr in "FracturedJson"

vhcr — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:03:51 +0000

I don't know, but you can always use <() process substitution to create a temp file.

New comment by vhcr in "Our new SAM audio model transforms audio editing"

vhcr — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:37:38 +0000

This new SAM model actually competes against SOTA models.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1pp9w31/ama_wit...

New comment by vhcr in "This is not the future"

vhcr — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:59:31 +0000

Have you seen YouTube's front-page? It's pretty much 20-40min videos full of fluff.

New comment by vhcr in "UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16"

vhcr — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:02:48 +0000

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/07/uk-palestine...

New comment by vhcr in "Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know"

vhcr — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:48:33 +0000

What privacy? Whoever is watching your traffic can see you accessed their website with HTTPS, they can guess with high accuracy which article you are reading based on the response size.