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BorisMelnik

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BorisMelnik··on Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
I'm thinking about the legos with chocolate milk spilled all over it, or the bowl of cereal sitting on top of the kids toys.

I wonder how it would handle something like a blanket or pillow on top of the toys

BorisMelnik··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
most of the world has no clue what you are talking about, or they are too old to understand or they don't care. I'm not criticizing you I'm just saying they aren't even aware this is an issue
BorisMelnik··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
that is not good
BorisMelnik··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
same - I only visited SO when I spent a lot of time looking for a solution / answer to something and I could not find it in documentaiton/man pages or on Google
BorisMelnik··on Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google
phpBB!
BorisMelnik··on Microsoft and Others Tell Crypto Platform Not to Tokenize Their Stocks
yes I know people definitely get around this with hyper but I'd be scared in case they ever tried to kyc or something.
BorisMelnik··on Ghostty 1.4
I know for many folks they like the fact that it is cross platform (works on mac/linux) etc and gpu acceleration which is really nice to have.
BorisMelnik··on AI promised less work. I've never worked more
ai did not promise less, work it promised less workers
BorisMelnik··on Show HN: Encarta 95 Web
wow blast from the past. I do beleive this exact version prob in exactly 95 was the first CD I ever inserted into a CD rom. lots of fun!
BorisMelnik··on Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened
Sam this really hits a nerve just thinking about all my friends and elderly family that are not tech savvy.
BorisMelnik··on Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name
That's what I'm saying. people do way way worse things and are given a notice to appear.
BorisMelnik··on Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened
wondering the same I would happily contribute
BorisMelnik··on Show HN: Another Blog Search Engine
can you submit a site the way you used to be able to with google etc?
BorisMelnik··on How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed
agree I think tor is such a cool technology but even the thought of what is getting routed through there on my machine or even a machine I rent is enough for me to stay away from it
BorisMelnik··on Why do computers/phones have a restart option along with the power off option?
this is kind of an lmgtfy quesation not a new thread on HN question
BorisMelnik··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
no you are def right the agents are def capable and that is the problem, so capable we are all doing this, we are all making our own scrapers, as are big corps/small corps and it is adding up so now we are seeing managed challenges everywhere and webmasters/sysadmins going to great lengths to block any bots.
BorisMelnik··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
mother's maiden name: 14t&7--ghv&32@/apER;Aa0)/90sIs
BorisMelnik··on Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare
the ship has long sailed but there is a massive supertanker way worse and we don't have to make it easier on them
BorisMelnik··on Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day
nah still only 60 something percent turnout
BorisMelnik··on Show HN: 500 clocks in one 6.3 MB HTML file by Opus 5.5
tell your AI they did a good job!
BorisMelnik··on Show HN: CallSitter – bot that answers my calls and wastes scammers' time
if you pick these calls up it proves you are a real number and will get more calls

instead, have your AI answer as "jacks Pzza" or "office depot headquarters boise ID" and they will re-classify your number.

if you want to fight for your number you have to start thinking of your phone number as part of a giant global database and convince the big data brokers you are not who you say you are

BorisMelnik··on Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
my prediction: ai agents will have their day, but not on this version of the web. websites will have a separate xml/json/yaml version that agents can peruse without all the ads/js/etc
BorisMelnik··on Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day
I would also take that bet, but when the pain gets great enough people do come out and vote historically anyway
BorisMelnik··on MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood
dam Mapquest? if they make a project that shows me directions, not photos of food at restaurants, ads for fast food, etc ill start using them
BorisMelnik··on What I self-host
oh I never even thought about switching to postgres.
BorisMelnik··on Show HN: Donut Browser, the most private anti-detect browser
nice! maybe some tooltips over some of the paid features like cloud profile backups, im sure I know what that means but maybe not "cookie bot hours"

either way really cool

BorisMelnik··on Making 1,750 programmable PCB badges for Canada's biggest hackathon
I would love to see someone do a mini thermal printer where the badge can print out custom thermal stickers
BorisMelnik··on MS Paint Adds Freeform Rotation (2026)
I swear to god and I don't know why, but if they do that, that will be my final straw with Windows
BorisMelnik··on What I self-host
I've been running my instances for over 5 years, I update the Dockers every few months and that's it. I have about five users in different households that rely on it it has never missed a beat.
BorisMelnik··on Ask HN: Are you hesitant to install vibe-coded apps?
depends on the source, but if it is open source and someone I trust I suppose the same amount of suspiciousness asa non vibe coded app?
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