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flippyhead

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Recovering from retirement after a successful exit. https://ptb.io
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flippyhead··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
But, why?
flippyhead··on The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London
Is drink driving where you are drinking something while driving? That seems fine. Drinking alcohol while driving is maybe bad though.
flippyhead··on "We Have to Assume That the Internet Will Go Offline in the Next Few Years"
You are right that they cannot be replaced TODAY. The bet people seem to be making is that the future will be very different and arrive a lot sooner then our intuition might suggest.
flippyhead··on Tim Curry has died
And don't forget Legend!
flippyhead··on Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents
I feel like there's not enough content on the landing page to help me understand why I need yet another notetaking app. The burden of proof is high given how many of these there are.
flippyhead··on Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules
I swear, every few years something like this or exactly this seems to come up on HN
flippyhead··on How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues
I heard once that if the Roman civilization had continued, the state of current technology would be something like 500 years more advanced. I don't know if I ever believed it, but sometimes I do.
flippyhead··on Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
Must be a british thing?
flippyhead··on Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone
I found it such a hassle to keep locked down I gave up. Like, he'd be so aware that he'd find ways to watch me enter the PIN code when adjusting the settings. I'd have to be ever-vigilant and I got tired of it.
flippyhead··on No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026
I feel like we can all just jump at the same time. I mean, we only need a second or two, right?
flippyhead··on We are currently investigating this issue
I am genuinely currious. With such terrible uptime... is it really just a series of "oops, we need to fix that" or is it that they just keep hitting a capacity wall and have to drop service until they add capacity or reduce usage?
flippyhead··on Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min
Or, the tracking won't change much, it'll be the big-brothering that will dramatically accelerate
flippyhead··on Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests
wth man I was told mh Model Y that I bought around 2021 was going to do all this but it's now too old or something?
flippyhead··on New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming
I wonder if you have, but that normally what dreams provide is often just delivered subconsciously. You might be regarding a lot of great ideas as having occured when you were awake even though maybe some would never have come had you not slept/dreamt on them.
flippyhead··on The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination
Makes me wonder if there's some consortium of effects that just causes our very active face recognition system to start perceiving faces.
flippyhead··on Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do
I hear you. I've been slowly building up my own tool (linked above) and keep feeling like someone is going to soon release something that a lot of people will agree should be an independent standard. I'm reluctant to host it with someone else so it needs to be opensource. But then again what I've got is working well for me.
flippyhead··on Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do
I really want to try this approach. I'm curious because this has not been my experience at all. I created https://github.com/flippyhead/ai-brain mostly just for myself and a few friends use it. But so far, telling the AI (via CLAUDE.md) to look for relevant memories and to think about when and how to save them has worked very well. It can create structures based on decided priorities, notes for the future, that feel like they'd be very different if it was just trying to summarize everything.
flippyhead··on Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware
I'd be curious to see a blog post or something with the details.
flippyhead··on Sauna effect on heart rate
Thank you for this. This is like finding a book where someone has written down what I've been thinking, but better than I ever could.
flippyhead··on Sauna effect on heart rate
I feel like we need an acronym for this kind of comment. I am pretty sure approximately 100% of HN posts now include at least one comment where someone, somehow, knows that an article is written by AI and resents it.

For Claude we have the ever present "you are absolutely right" and this is like it's human mirror.

Something like TLDR; but meaning "uhg, written by AI".

flippyhead··on €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
I'm sure it's me being an idiot, but once again I spent 20m trying to figure how to do a specific thing in google-land and still haven't figured it out. Even if I did set it somewhere, I see things like "Setting a budget does not cap resource or API consumption" with a link to a bunch of documentation I have to analyze.
flippyhead··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
I thought my claude.md file mostly did this.
flippyhead··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
https://github.com/flippyhead/radar

I can't keep up with how fast things are changing. I built this to scan my AI dev sessions chats, search various places I frequent, and recommend tooling, libraries and all kinds of other things I might want to incorporate into my development practices.

flippyhead··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
https://already.dev -- find out who's already doing your idea
flippyhead··on Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?
No
flippyhead··on Show HN: Baton – A desktop app for developing with AI agents
This looks great. How do you compare to cmux?
flippyhead··on VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS
Even if the cheaps are weak... is the code strong?
flippyhead··on Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc
Jemalloc and Jalad at Tanagra!
flippyhead··on AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human
I swear, I am starting to feel like these complaints about how "obviously" something is AI written are the human equivalent of "you are absolutely right" -- it's like some kind of automatic response now
flippyhead··on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
Have you tried https://github.com/pcvelz/superpowers ?
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