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runjakeon A native graphical shell for SSH

It's purportedly cross-platform. The documentation leaves a lot to be desired, but it is described more here:

https://outerframe.org/ and https://outerloop.sh/native-apps/

runjakeon Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base

These do not fall under DoD or SECDEF and are not military.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformed_services_of_the_Unit...

runjakeon Military branches restore flu shot requirement after virus swept through base

No, because trench foot is something not treatable by vaccines.

However, we did receive a lot of training in how to avoid and treat it, along with better equipment. Does that count as a “vaccine”?

runjakeon Tell HN: I never bought anything from clicking on a paid ad

I've clicked on good paid ads and bought more times than I can count. No regrets.

If they didn't work, people wouldn't run ads.

runjakeon Why Windows 95 Was Tech's Last True Revolution

Windows 95 was a shell on top of DOS. That didn’t change until Windows 2000 Desktop.

runjakeon Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see

Almost all of the apps you mentioned sync data to, or access data from iCloud in the vast majority of use cases. I mention iCloud here because this submission is about iOS.

That said, I'd love to have a new "Internet access" permission for apps, so users had the choice. Perhaps even separate "Allow iCloud" and "Allow Internet" but that's probably too granular for Apple's taste.

runjakeon Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS

This is why I think someone should market a cheap SIGINT tool that collects BT/BTLE/Wi-Fi data from nearby devices.

I've got this setup running on a Raspberry Pi near my front door and it collects all sorts of useful data, even from people walking by on the sidewalk, 30 feet and two walls away.

At some point, I'd love to explore vehicle emissions more, too.

runjakeon US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says

By using low-observable ("stealth") cruise missiles that fly at extremely low altitudes using terrain avoidance radar.

runjakeon US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says

You are correct. Typically, if the pilots run into a critical emergency and have the chance, they'll try to pitch the aircraft upwards to give the navs a chance of survival after ejection, but it's pretty rare that's feasible.

I don't know how it is anymore, but it apparently used to be an unspoken rule that if the downstairs crew couldn't eject and survive, the upstairs crew wouldn't either.

As to why the ejection system is like this? Because the B-52 was originally designed as a high-altitude bomber.

runjakeon US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says

Plot twist: some of the best precision cruise missiles are air-launched.

runjakeon US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says

Cost-effective is the best description. It doesn't have to be a totality. For total operation costs (training/missions/acquisition/maintenance/capabilites), the B-52 is cheaper by orders of magnitude.

The B-2 does have its place and is better suited for certain jobs, albeit at too high a cost. The B-21 is purported to lower that. We'll see.

Edit: Looks like current B-2 operational/maintenance costs are now down to only about 2x that of the B-52, which is an impressive reduction (no sarcasm).

runjakeon US Air Force B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff, Edwards Air Force Base says

I worked on B-52s and other aircraft. Their systems (bomb/nav/comm/etc) were refreshed many times and the airframes inspected and improved regularly.

The reason B-52s are still around is because they are combat-effective and cost-effective relative to other aircraft, such as the B-1 and B-2 (both of which I also worked on). Whatever replaces the B-52 will have to be something new and something cost-effective. I don't think that currently exists.

The B-1 has only been combat/cost effective in more recent years after an extended rough patch spanning decades -- actually, I'm not even sure it's cost-effective. The B-2 has always been combat-effective, but was never cost-effective to operate or maintain.

runjakeon Honda Civics and the Evil Valet

You could, but if this unit is anything like it is in my CR-V, and its most likely the same, it's an ancient slow OMAP processor and 4GB of RAM (IIRC).

Edit: Looks like a Tegra 3 in this one, but my bet is meager RAM.

runjakeon Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0

For those who don't know what broxit is talking about, they're referring to something like --minimum-release-age/minimumReleaseAge in many pieces of software and package managers to reduce vulnerability to supply chain attacks. Often times, such attacks are detected within a few days of compromise.

Here's Bun's, as an example: https://bun.com/docs/pm/cli/install#minimum-release-age

runjakeon Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?

For others curious about the open face mod, apparently it's this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1t37xvi/psa_you_...

runjakeon WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding

Me neither, but I see a lot of foldables in the wild and I'm far from any tech hotspots, like the Bay Area and Austin.

runjakeon US Military Personnel in Israel Found Secret Spyware on Their Phones

Judging by the past, probably zero days. Presumably they’re also using stingray type devices to further surveil or provide additional attack vectors.

runjakeon Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used

I tried to daily drive Helium on my Mac but it crashed too much (multiple times a day, as recently as a couple weeks ago). It also scores much lower on EFF's Cover Your Tracks website versus Brave. Looks interesting and I like the relative minimalism, though.

runjakeon Apple WWDC 2026

It's just being pitched this way by marketing and the C suite. If it were really a snow leopard release, someone should have informed the engineers they were supposed to be improving resiliency and fixing bugs, because this is news to them. cough

runjakeon Ask HN: What is the AI setup for an experienced dev starting on a new project?

My sweet spot is the Codex app running separately from whichever IDE I'm using (VSCode or nvim). Codex is pointed at whatever work folder I'm working on.

runjakeon Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?

A pg essay almost two decades ago, when the site was still called Startup News.

runjakeon Ask HN: Good books/resources for learning SQL?

I thought Practical SQL was very good at explaining both the how and the why with practical real-world examples.

https://nostarch.com/practical-sql-2nd-edition

runjakeon MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production

Depends on the workload.

The M3 Ultra is no slouch. It sits at the top with best processors on both single-core and multi-core x64 processors.

Meanwhile my mini PC with a Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, which is nowhere near an M3 Ultra, feels much snappier using it as a day to day desktop in both Linux and Windows. I think this speaks more to the sluggishness of the macOS experience rather than hardware performance.

But, then I start doing something data/gpu/local LLM intensive and my M3 Max shines.

runjakeon Is it possible to send a message in Morse code by un-following someone on x.com?

No, because the notification timing is not reliable. It can vary a lot depending on the load on that microservice at any given time. Also, how would you handle dits, dahs, and gaps?

runjakeon A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)

> the reality is that crime is decreasing

This is the problem with assuming stats == reality. The ground reality often does not match the overall stats.

Overall, crime seems to be decreasing. But this doesn’t help in areas like mine, where the population is growing, taxes are increasing, and crime is rising, yet budgets for adequate LE/justice resources seem to be decreasing or not keeping pace with crime growth. This seems to be fairly common in growing areas of the western US.

runjakeon 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building

Crucial has "good" prices for DDR5 6000mhz memory on Amazon. The downside is you have to wait for shipping -- I had to wait a couple weeks. I bought when these were $300 and equivalent memory prices were like $500 at the time.

Been solid so far for 6-ish months.

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-6000MHz-Overclocking-Desktop-...

runjakeon A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)

I'm not qualified to answer, but I regularly hear the following in the US:

- Not enough (LE|DA|jail) funding or staffing or space.

- "We want to focus on violent crimes". I have a whole rant about this, watching violent criminals/rapists going through revolving doors.

- Use of diversion and "restorative justice" programs, which clearly do not work for certain classes of criminals with very long rap sheets, but here we are.

runjakeon A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)

If you're wondering what is being discussed in the meetings about whether or not more surveillance should be deployed, at the city and county levels, this is it.

Crime isn't being prosecuted, the criminals know it, and this breeds more crime (and more criminals). Even when they are imprisoned and incarcerated, they're probably in jail for somewhere between 24 hours and a few weeks. They know pretty much everyone else in jail, so it's almost like going to a camp reunion for them.

There used to be BOLO "be on the look out" lists with grids of mugshots passed around various informal circles so that businesses and organizations can better protect themselves from crime. But, mugshots are no longer public, so they can't even do that anymore. It ends up creating more profiling of a person based on their appearance.

And... more surveillance.

runjakeon Microsoft to Ship Coreutils with Windows

s/to ship/has shipped as a preview/

Install it with: winget install Microsoft.Coreutils

Homepage: https://github.com/microsoft/coreutils

runjakeon Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel

Those people don't think they're spamming. They're caught up in their own hype and think they're offering the opportunity of a lifetime -- even though they don't know what they want, exactly.

A good general tip is that every email should begin with a "bottom line, up front" (BLUF).

Tell people what you want, need, or recommend first. Then provide supporting details.