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> On iOS, I think if you're working on a file of 5,000 lines then something might be wrong, and if you're working on a file of 22,000 lines well I don't know what to say.

Some people use an iPad as their main at-a-desk/stationary computing device, so that might not be as much of an edge case as you'd think. But maybe it still is; maybe those people aren't prone to editing large text files.

tnorthcutton Spectre I prevents smart devices and AI recorders from picking up your voice

This seems pretty neat, but also like something that would be doable on a raspberry pi for a lot less than the $1,199 price tag. But maybe that's a "why do you need this, just use rsync" argument.

tnorthcutton Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives

My first donation to Watsi was on July the 6th, 2013. I continue to be impressed with the work your team does. Bravo.

tnorthcutton Historical Tech Tree

Making sure you've seen this youtube channel, which is excellent: https://www.youtube.com/@machinethinking

tnorthcutton Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong

I think Alton Brown covered this on his show Good Eats quite a few years ago as well.

tnorthcutton Someone at YouTube needs glasses

> DF Tube extension

This extension is no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices for Chrome extensions.

tnorthcutton A new book shows how the power of companies is destabilizing governance

I wasn’t aware that taxpayers funded drug development.

Can you share examples? I am genuinely asking.

tnorthcutton Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite

This was a really good, and entertaining, read. Obviously (as the author notes multiple times) the takeaways probably don't generalize, but I suspect there are lots of other places where something similar could be used to improve performance a lot.

tnorthcutton Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website

Thanks for the reply! I think I disagree with you, mostly because it seems like this particular bug could have been company-destroying because of the potential reputation hit if it was exploited on a wide scale.

But regardless, I appreciate your perspective and it gives me some stuff to consider I hadn't previously.

tnorthcutton Gaining access to anyones Arc browser without them even visiting a website

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-browser-company/...

> Total Funding Amount $68M

the browser company normally does not do bug bounties, but for this catastrophic of a vuln, they decided to award me with $2,000 USD

I'm struggling to put into words how disappointing I find this.

tnorthcutton It's getting harder to die

I think that's why they said "most people":

> Most people your age can still exceed any physical accomplishment they've had in their lifetime if they really want to. E.g. they can play sports better than they ever had and they can achieve personal bests in any physical ability.

So not people who were at the peak of their ability/potential in their 20s – most people, however, do not perform at their limits in their 20s, simply because that isn't their priority, they don't train for it, etc.

tnorthcutton Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial

I strongly endorse both of the mentioned movies. They're both excellent.

tnorthcutton Show HN: LangCSS – An AI Assistant for Tailwind

FWIW your demo images are pretty unreadable to me. I can read them if I right click --> open image in new tab, and then zoom to full size.

tnorthcutton An open source initiative to share and compare heat pump performance data

I would venture to guess that most residential heating in the world is provided by non-heat pump sources.

In many parts of the United States, my understanding is that it would either be natural gas fired furnaces with forced air, oil fired furnaces (with forced air? not sure), radiators (with water heated by gas or oil fired furnaces), or electric resistive heating elements (e.g. baseboard heaters).

tnorthcutton Ronda Rousey: "I never wanted to talk about concussion"

You'll want to look for a "sports medicine specialist" as mentioned

tnorthcutton Atuin – Magical shell history

Atuin is simply fantastic. Ellie keeps adding interesting new features. Just an all around fantastically useful tool. Bravo.

tnorthcutton Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)

Looks like it's available for macOS as well: https://timesnapper.com/

tnorthcutton Firefox on the brink?

It would e.g. take 33M users who agree to pay $5/mo for a Mozilla "support subscription" to collect $400M a year.

Maybe I'm reading this wrong, but when I do the math (33M x 5 x 12) I get $1.98B.

Maybe you meant $1/month?

tnorthcutton McLaren Sets New F1 Pit Stop Record: 1.80 Seconds

Here's a video that goes into some detail on how they're attached: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X30coNL4Jw8

tnorthcutton Predictive policing software terrible at predicting crimes

Yes, but perhaps the poster's point is that the drug use isn't the problem, it's the harmful behaviors of the person who is using the drugs.

So perhaps their point is that the crime should be the harmful behaviors, not the drug use.

tnorthcutton Makefile Tutorial

Dropping a link here for convenience: https://github.com/casey/just

tnorthcutton Life on board a British nuclear submarine (2012)

YouTube suggests this as part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL5AW0enIRA

tnorthcutton Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job

Did you end up with a net improvement, though?

tnorthcutton Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?

Some questions, if you're up for it!

- Do you have any pictures? - How do you store the dehydrated tomatoes? - How do you use the dehydrated tomatoes in meals?

tnorthcutton How to ramp up a factory consuming a lot of energy?

comes out in the wash

Very, very well done

tnorthcutton Cormac McCarthy has died

Same here, I think. I read it before I had a son; I'm not sure I could manage to finish it now that I do.

tnorthcutton Software bugs that cause real-world harm

> And this is kind of an example of why it will be impossible to mitigate Climate Change.

I find it very interesting (genuinely!) that your reaction to the linked article was to conclude (I think?) that it will be impossible to mitigate climate change.

Is your position, broadly stated, something like "because these days many more things require electricity than at some point in the past, our demand for electricity will be too high, and this will prevent us from mitigating climate change"?

tnorthcutton Dandelion Root Recipes

The commenter you're responding to didn't suggest changing anything about our current food supply, other than to _add_ residential permaculture.

tnorthcutton Incident with Issues and Pull Requests

FWIW the typical phrase is "en masse" (which is French). The English translation is "in mass".