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Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:32PM (#50319289)
Don't BadUSB attacks typically use HID to enter malicious keystroke sequences?
I love this. Suggestion: make locations linkable eg. https://edjefferson.com/localwiki?lat=xx&lon=yy

Then post on location specific subreddits. Folks will eat this up.

Re:Tesla Roadster on Saturday October 17, 2026 @07:46AM (#50130220)
I'm not an Elon fan, but the timeline here is interesting:

The Model 3 Standard was released in October 2025 priced starting at $37k.

The $7500 federal EV tax credit was scheduled to apply to that car but was killed early by the OBBBA, ending in September 2025. Had the tax credit still been in place as planned, presumably the sticker price would have made it under $30k.

It sure looks like Tesla worked hard to hit their $30k sticker price but then Congress pulled the 'ol switcheroo. Elon left the Trump administration in ~June 2025, just before the OBBBA was passed, calling the OBBBA a "disgusting abomination".

Re:Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet? on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @05:02AM (#49906243)
I find that I learn to "trust" a model to get certain things right, as I would trust a colleague. So, as `expectation` increases, my prompting and context management gets sloppier.

`percieved_performance = actual_perf/expectation`

`expectation` is an increasing function over time.

`actual_perf` is a stochastic function of the model's true ability, context, etc. -> a recipe for some bad sessions.

As for multiple bad sessions in a row, this is a studied phenomenon in gambling where players perceive "runs" because our brains love to find patterns.

Re:The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here on Saturday August 15, 2026 @01:46AM (#49307998)
It always seems like a missed opportunity that trackballs don't detect when you twist the ball. It would be so natural for spinning a model in CAD or zooming.

The easiest approach would probably be to add a second optical sensor and do some math to calculate the twist rate.

Re:Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open on Thursday August 06, 2026 @09:12PM (#49204748)
This is true, unfortunately. I've have had to walk away from a client because their software-illiterate lawyer didn't want me to build with copyleft dependencies.

It wasn't the only red flag in this case, but frustrating nonetheless.

Re:LLMs reward expertise on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @10:42AM (#49169689)
Rice stands for Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancements.

Race-inspired to look cool, but not actually functional. Picture putting one of those giant fake air intakes on the hood of your car.

Re:Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing? on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @05:27PM (#49013694)
I recently had the following conversation with Claude:

Me: how many P's are in the following text? [Pasted text]

Claude: There are 14 P's, all lowercase (no capital P's)

Me: how many in "strawberry"?

Claude: there are 3 R's in the word "strawberry".

You can also try asking Gemini to create art that is "as close as possible without infringing" - I've had success with that.
according to https://x.com/Mith_/status/2041911606213537971

> The industry standard for the recovery of lithium (remember there is a difference between recovery and extraction) is 90%, with some platforms now achieving 95%+ like those that use carbonation.

Re:Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @03:21PM (#48299171)
The QR code that you use to transfer TOTP secrets to a new phone, is static. It never changes (unless you add a new service) and it requires no verification.

Do with that information what you will.

This could also be a legitimate lifesaver in places like India where extreme heat is common but delivery and gig workers have to travel outdoors.
If Jujutsu had become popular a couple of years earlier, it might have had a chance to catch on. I worry that it missed the most critical training window for AI and we may be locked in on Git forever.
your current wallet lets you add labels or stickers to your cards.

classic Apple situation - look, this is super clean, intuitive software! but if you want a reasonable level of flexibility that you would expect elsewhere, you are SOL.

Re:Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024) on Sunday April 26, 2026 @10:52PM (#47917202)
In what cases do you need autoscaling on your home stuff?
Re:Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall) on Sunday April 26, 2026 @10:47PM (#47917183)
nice concept! Beads did not age all that well, and Claude doesn't really want to use it since the TodoList upgrade.

Do you have any tricks for getting Claude to use guardrails effectively alongside (or instead of) TodoList?

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.

Re:NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers on Sunday April 19, 2026 @12:50AM (#47821884)
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.

Happy to contribute to your lawyer fund. I want to see how this plays out.
Re:OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @01:41AM (#47513722)
> 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?

Re:Conway's Game of Life, in real life on Thursday March 19, 2026 @08:00AM (#47437873)
Should be doable to implement GoL on an ortholinear RGB keyboard using QMK
Re:Conway's Game of Life, in real life on Thursday March 19, 2026 @07:55AM (#47437835)
Check out the video - you can draw on the game by pressing the switches.
Re:Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @02:05AM (#47319555)
Lots of folks use the Claude Max 20x $200/mo. tier, I think. Gets you waaay farther than $200 of API credits.
Re:Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @01:50AM (#47319480)
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.

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

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

Hmm I know quite a few real people pushing QuitGPT and none of them work for Anthropic.
Re:An interactive map of Flock Cams on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @04:37PM (#47254268)
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...

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