Hacker News: vxxzy

New comment by vxxzy in "Show HN: I mapped every US golf course"

vxxzy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:18:13 +0000

It appears Four Sister’s golf course in allegany county md is missing.

New comment by vxxzy in "Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says"

vxxzy — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:07:41 +0000

One-dimensional. More people are using the software.

New comment by vxxzy in "AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]"

vxxzy — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:03:19 +0000

Had to read through all the cruft to get:

"If the network is properly secured—meaning it’s protected by a strong password that’s known only to authorized users—AirSnitch may not be of much value to an attacker."

Make and Ideal Man

vxxzy — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:12:53 +0000

Article URL: https://enombic.com/make-an-ideal-man

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47110731

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by vxxzy in "175K+ publicly-exposed Ollama AI instances discovered"

vxxzy — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 02:01:10 +0000

A feature! Not a bug! Bugs can be undisovered features.

Make an Ideal Man

vxxzy — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:55:06 +0000

Article URL: https://enombic.com/make-an-ideal-man

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739118

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by vxxzy in "Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)"

vxxzy — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:01:00 +0000

I am going to use this story in place of the "Pot Roast Principle" [0]

[0]: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/thinking-makes-it-so...

I read more than I write

vxxzy — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:07:44 +0000

Article URL: https://enombic.com/read-more-than-write

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46192360

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Little Rascals Go-Kart

vxxzy — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:55:57 +0000

Article URL: https://enombic.com/little-rascals-go-kart

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191681

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by vxxzy in "We can’t circumvent the work needed to train our minds"

vxxzy — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:08:25 +0000

i will now no longer press F3 or / instead i will read.

Remind HN: Today Is Mother's Day in US

vxxzy — Sun, 11 May 2025 18:30:00 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43955850

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by vxxzy in "Emergence of collective oscillations in human crowds"

vxxzy — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 15:05:33 +0000

I don’t recall where, but for some reason I remember learning that if people start to bump into you too many times, that’s a warning shot to get out. It was something like “bumps per second”.

New comment by vxxzy in "What did Steve Jobs mean by: Dropbox / storage being 'a feature, not a product.'"

vxxzy — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:21:35 +0000

he probably meant: syncing your files across devices should be a feature not a product. a feature of the os (icloud).

All Python Downloads from Python.org Return 403 Forbidden

vxxzy — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 22:07:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.13.0/Python-3.13.0.tar.xz

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42250589

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by vxxzy in "Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?"

vxxzy — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:18:50 +0000

Go out into more rural areas.

New comment by vxxzy in "Have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?"

vxxzy — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 15:07:13 +0000

Anyone wanting to get a feel for unintended uses of a product should go look at google map reviews of locations in India. It is fascinating and ingenious.

New comment by vxxzy in "Hawai'i-Issued Real IDs Can Be Added to Apple Wallet Beginning August 28"

vxxzy — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:05:50 +0000

Have this in Maryland. Local sheriff’s office won’t accept it. Bars and Restaurants won’t accept it either. Is this common in other states?

New comment by vxxzy in "Malware infiltrates Pidgin messenger's official plugin repository"

vxxzy — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:45:37 +0000

oh wow. I have become fond of pidgin over the years. There is a slack plugin that makes life a lot better. It seems for plugins, extensions, app stores, and general third-party repositories (pip, npm, crates, etc) risks are increasing. Centralization breeds certain risks that are tough to mitigate. So far, mitigating these risks involve trusting a central steward, cryptographic signing, and contributor reputation.I wonder if we can ever truly mitigate the contributor or steward aspects?

A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD

vxxzy — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 13:46:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ci.cumberland.md.us/1787/Choose-Cumberland-Relocation-Program

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41338285

Points: 107

# Comments: 176

New comment by vxxzy in "Logitech has an idea for a "forever mouse" that requires a subscription"

vxxzy — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 18:32:45 +0000

Maybe it will have FIDO2/U2F support? There is a use-case here maybe? I’ll stop giving ideas now…