Honesty I wished every HN post linking to Twitter was just changed to a threadreader link because otherwise only registered Twitter users can see the content being posted.
I agree a million times. Specially because if you aren't seeing things happen live or semi-live (couple days of delay) there's a huge risk the entire thing will be gone when you go check it out (or have it flooded with memes, drama and general nonsense making it a headache to parse the relevant bits).
Twitter is just really bad for persistent information. In a perfect world we'd have articles filtering the massive noise-to-data ratio and serving as a persistent archive of whatever happened in there.
HN isn't that big and threadreader is quite popular already. If anything it would increase their revenues and I'm pretty sure they would be happy about that.
It’s searching for nvidia-smi binaries, which is a glorified status monitor for NVIDIA GPUs. Presumably to do nothing more than figure out what driver version you are running..
(The powershell bit seems to be used for something else however, so that’s just ancillary stupidity)
Honesty I wished every HN post linking to Twitter was just changed to a threadreader link because otherwise only registered Twitter users can see the content being posted.