Hacker News: whalesalad

New comment by whalesalad in "Fox to buy Roku"

whalesalad — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:54:14 +0000

As of 10am est their stock is down nearly 20%.

New comment by whalesalad in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

whalesalad — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:09:52 +0000

case in point. https://x.com/PeteHegseth/status/2065897156226015690

New comment by whalesalad in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

whalesalad — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:40:10 +0000

This is such an insidey job corrupt Trump admin situation.

As an Anthropic partner and a massive web infra provider themselves, the reasonable move here would have been to go directly to Anthropic to report this jailbreak. The same way any other sort of software security vulnerability is reported and dealt with. "Hey buddy, uhh, we need to show you something" and they fix it, and you continue to work together and collaborate and get a fat check in the meantime.

MAGA is mad that Anthropic won't kiss the ring and they're either helping AMZN with this request because it is convenient for both of them.

New comment by whalesalad in "I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab"

whalesalad — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:42:27 +0000

Ok now do malware analysis on them =)

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/re...

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/researchers-disclos...

New comment by whalesalad in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

whalesalad — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:19:14 +0000

I feel like every time I hear something about Ladybird its literally anything but a working browser to actually play around with.

New comment by whalesalad in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

whalesalad — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:42:03 +0000

some kind of scroll hijack going on for sure, feels terrible on firefox+macos

New comment by whalesalad in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

whalesalad — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:48:47 +0000

My first thought was "cash, grass, or ass" but this works as well.

New comment by whalesalad in "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots"

whalesalad — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:39:40 +0000

Three obnoxious takeovers to dismiss on that page: full screen takeover, 25% off summer sale. Cookie warning. 25% off first story sign up banner.

The internet sucks.

New comment by whalesalad in "Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT"

whalesalad — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:15:59 +0000

UniFi is too good. I’ve been running their gear for about a decade and it just works.

New comment by whalesalad in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

whalesalad — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:49:05 +0000

They're going to run out of letters pretty soon.

New comment by whalesalad in "Claude Opus 4.8"

whalesalad — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:43:59 +0000

That is part of the charm of working with Claude. Every time they release anything new - all your shit will break.

New comment by whalesalad in "Claude Opus 4.8"

whalesalad — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:43:17 +0000

Eventually the frontier model folks are going to pick up on your pelican on a bike test and bake-in flawless results for that particular request.

New comment by whalesalad in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

whalesalad — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:06:30 +0000

This is like setting the high idle in winter to get your air pressure up lol

New comment by whalesalad in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

whalesalad — Thu, 28 May 2026 01:22:36 +0000

When a segment is about a place or thing with a particular name and the pronunciation completely shifts from one to the next it’s a big annoyance.

New comment by whalesalad in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

whalesalad — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:17:41 +0000

Thank fuck. There is SO much garbage on YT lately which amounts to a powerpoint deck with ai audio overlaid.

New comment by whalesalad in "Last.fm is now independent"

whalesalad — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:44:50 +0000

same tbh

New comment by whalesalad in "Last.fm is now independent"

whalesalad — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:44:34 +0000

Music taste is probably the all time best indicator of compatibility tbh. You can go to shows together. You can jam out in the car together.

New comment by whalesalad in "Last.fm is now independent"

whalesalad — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:17:30 +0000

115,000 scrobbles: https://www.last.fm/user/whalesalad

I really only ever used it so that a girl I liked would be able to see what I was listening to. She commented on my page. We ended up getting together for a few years. I miss my youth.

New comment by whalesalad in "What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable? (2021)"

whalesalad — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:45:44 +0000

What if you want to access your NAS at 10g+ speed? You're focusing on WAN when there is also the LAN side.

New comment by whalesalad in "What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable"

whalesalad — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:02:05 +0000

I used to sneak cabling around the basement and pop it out of AC register vents when I was renting. I had one cable coming out the access panel to a bathtub which was conveniently in my office as I was next to the bathroom.

This vid comes to mind when you said bend insensitive fiber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2FbzCyiNr4