Hacker News: waterproof

New comment by waterproof in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

waterproof — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:18:51 +0000

Great, now do storage!

People shouldn't have to pay $$$ for a 128GB upgrade when a 1TB microSDXC card is under $200. It feels like a trick to sell cloud storage and new phones.

New comment by waterproof in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

waterproof — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:50:11 +0000

Any day that I learn something new about color is a good day.

Here's my favorite color factoid: There is no such thing as monochromatic pink. You have to make it by combining the two ends of the visible spectrum: somethung reddish and something violet-ish. So that means there is no pink in a rainbow, strictly speaking.

New comment by waterproof in "Show HN: Free API and widget to look up US representatives"

waterproof — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:10:26 +0000

Data sources I'm using:

https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators

https://github.com/OpenSourceActivismTech/us-zipcodes-congre...

https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/

From my tests so far the territories and DC are pretty well covered.

Show HN: Free API and widget to look up US representatives

waterproof — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:45:21 +0000

Article URL: https://repscontact.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801309

Points: 3

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New comment by waterproof in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

waterproof — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:13:15 +0000

Happy to contribute to your lawyer fund. I want to see how this plays out.

New comment by waterproof in "Goodbye to Sora"

waterproof — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:41:08 +0000

> the things he does.

The things he does is convince investors to give him billions of dollars to build what he wants. Where exactly does that leave us?

New comment by waterproof in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

waterproof — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:00:54 +0000

Should be doable to implement GoL on an ortholinear RGB keyboard using QMK

New comment by waterproof in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

waterproof — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:55:58 +0000

Check out the video - you can draw on the game by pressing the switches.

New comment by waterproof in "Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw"

waterproof — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:05:06 +0000

Lots of folks use the Claude Max 20x $200/mo. tier, I think. Gets you waaay farther than $200 of API credits.

New comment by waterproof in "Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered"

waterproof — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:50:28 +0000

You have a point. They're not similar. OTOH, people do compare them. I think Apple realizes this and the Macbook Neo is a brilliant move.

It doesn't cost $1000 to get into the MacBook experience anymore, so drastically more people will be buying them for their kids and more families will have MacOS as their default.

New comment by waterproof in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

waterproof — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:42:41 +0000

You ask Gemini to make an Elsa and Anna Frozen-themed coloring book page. It says no, that would be copyright infringement. So you ask it to make something as close as possible but without infringing. It happily obliges.

New comment by waterproof in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

waterproof — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:42:53 +0000

Sam donated $1M to Trump's inaugural fund. Dario did not.

http://magamoney.fyi/executives/samuel-h-altman/

New comment by waterproof in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

waterproof — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:39:42 +0000

Hmm I know quite a few real people pushing QuitGPT and none of them work for Anthropic.

New comment by waterproof in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

waterproof — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:37:58 +0000

Reminder that at least in Washington state, all images from Flock cameras are public data and thus subject to public records requests.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/washington-court-rules...

New comment by waterproof in "Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts"

waterproof — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:12:56 +0000

In this case, I'd say only share news where you have some kind of structured regulatory stuff attached to it. Like sure, Trump started a war, that's noteworthy. Follow that up directly with a link out to structured tally of what reps have said, when was the last time a President did something similar, what are the relevant regulations, etc.

Rather than try to compete in the "current events" space you might have more success in more differentiated channels like having people subscribe to issues, subscribe to reps... News should be part of it but you should lead as much as possible with your differentiator. I bet you could sell enterprise level subscriptions for industry-relevant regulatory news.

New comment by waterproof in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

waterproof — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:20:18 +0000

How would you handle user switching? Would users have to go through a password screen to use anything?

New comment by waterproof in "Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts"

waterproof — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:13:03 +0000

Love the idea. Thoughts from a UI/UX point of view, on mobile:

* Focus on the policy stuff since that's your differentiator. Put it front and center, currently it's below the "trending news". Nobody needs another trending news feed. I'd cut it entirely.

* Make your differentiator hyper-obvious at a glance on the front page. Right now your above-the-fold is dominated by a wall of AI generated text. It should include a tagline for your site and visuals that people won't get elsewhere.

* Your UI screams "vibe coded" which does not build confidence. Look to other authoritative sites for visual cues - consider a serif for headlines, make your spacing more thoughtful and consistent, reduce or remove your border radius.

New comment by waterproof in "Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)"

waterproof — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:04:45 +0000

Nice work. I have two questions.

1. Do you see any downsides to storing your graph as markdown files on filesystem, rather than, say, a graph DB? I have little experience with either but I imagine there would be perf advatages to certain operations on a graph DB at least?

2. If you're using Obsidian-like .md files, why not use the Obsidian format? I bet some folks would love to have an AI coworker helping build and maintain their Obsidian vault.

New comment by waterproof in "New YC homepage"

waterproof — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:04:24 +0000

That also struck me as a pretty weird quote to highlight. Someone who "seems like they’ll get what they want" sounds more like a bully more than a persuader or value creator.

Isn't there something better to aspire to?

New comment by waterproof in "Provide agents with automated feedback"

waterproof — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 03:25:09 +0000

"Back pressure" is already a term widely used in computing for something entirely different: https://schmidscience.com/what-does-back-pressure-in-compute...