Hacker News: AKSF_Ackermann

New comment by AKSF_Ackermann in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

AKSF_Ackermann — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:25:41 +0000

So, if star to fork ratio is the new signal, time to make an extra fake star tier, where the bot forks the repo, generates a commit with the cheapest LLM available and pushes that to gh, right?

New comment by AKSF_Ackermann in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

AKSF_Ackermann — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:36:00 +0000

The adjacent POWER architecture seems to be used in ppc64le mode these days.

New comment by AKSF_Ackermann in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

AKSF_Ackermann — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:34:55 +0000

Not sure why you consider that to be an issue, if you need to interact with a format that specifies values to be BE, just always byte-swap. And every appliance/embedded box i had to interact with ran either x86 or some flavour of 32-bit arm (in LE mode, of course).

New comment by AKSF_Ackermann in "Big-Endian Testing with QEMU"

AKSF_Ackermann — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:46:06 +0000

> When programming, it is still important to write code that runs correctly on systems with either byte order

What you should do instead is write all your code so it is little-endian only, as the only relevant big-endian architecture is s390x, and if someone wants to run your code on s390x, they can afford a support contract.

New comment by AKSF_Ackermann in "Proposal: AI Content Disclosure Header"

AKSF_Ackermann — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 22:09:27 +0000

It feels like a header is the wrong tool for this, even if you hypothetically would want to disclose that, would you expect a blog cms to offer the feature? Or a web browser to surface it?

New comment by AKSF_Ackermann in "What the hell is a target triple?"

AKSF_Ackermann — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 19:34:10 +0000

NEC Vector Engine. Basically not a thing outside supercomputers.

New comment by AKSF_Ackermann in "GibberLink [AI-AI Communication]"

AKSF_Ackermann — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:51:01 +0000

Please pay more attention to the point 3 in my original post. To reiterate: their encoding is hilariously bad, and is easily outcompeted by a modem from the 60s.

New comment by AKSF_Ackermann in "GibberLink [AI-AI Communication]"

AKSF_Ackermann — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:23:00 +0000

They stepped on every single rake possible, didn't they? 1. Why are you making a phone call in the first place, your agent probably got the number from the internet, just keep using that. 2. If you insist on initiating the conversation over a phone call, why not immediately terminate the call and again, go over the internet once you realize that it is an ai to ai conversation. 3. You did in fact re-invent a modem but worse, the quoted speed on that library is 8-16 bytes/sec, and i would like to point out that the Bell 103 did ~37 bytes/sec, and was released in 1963.

Some statistics on adoption of Email security technologies

AKSF_Ackermann — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 20:23:54 +0000

I was scanning DNS recently and got some statistics out of it.

Number of domains that have a MX record: 114,847,080 Number of domains that have any kind of SPF policy: 79,015,942 Number of domains that have any kind of DMARC policy: 8,598,905 DMARC policy that actually does anything (p is set to quarantine or reject): 3,433,883 Have enabled MTA-STS: 49,050 Have BIMI: 31,441 Have BIMI with a VMC (will not work in gmail otherwise): 2,441

Limitations of my methodology: 1. I have less coverage of domains that are under a ccTLD, compared to gTLDs. 2. My resolver only resolves one level of CNAME, if a domain has a CNAME pointing to another CNAME, then it is ignored.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37665329

Points: 1

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