Hacker News: CAP_NET_ADMIN

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:26:41 +0000

1. People give the information to the government under the expectation that this data is to be kept private or used in such a way that individual targeting is made impossible, you break that expectation and people will lie or won't give you this data.

2. Without noise injection it's rather simple to do statistical attacks to reverse engineer individual entities.

3. This data is and has already been used in the past to undermine democratic systems by targeting and disenfranchising minorities, as well as gerrymandering the US to hell.

4. "Too dangerous to make public, too dangerous to collect" - this is a false dichotomy. To govern effectively you need sensitive data, but it should be collected and used in a way that's safe for the individuals.

5. Macro level aggregates don't need individual exposure, that's why noise, anonymization and statistical functions are fine.

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:13:02 +0000

With 10x improvement in per capita code output I'm sure they will get there one day.

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:09:36 +0000

It's probably parsing the contents of the entirety of https://killedbygoogle.com/ when it starts up

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:58:19 +0000

Yep, sadly the case, been using Codex CLI a lot lately and it somehow feels more... refined. Gemini is just tragic.

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:42:12 +0000

1. Best harness? It ranks the worst with Opus in terminalbench: https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0?models=...

2. Mixed for the entire bun ecosystem, especially with the Rust, Anthropic-focused rewrite

3. Good, because Anthropic's SDK was one of the worst ones to use.

4. Deal with the guy that has a shit ton of compute around wasting money because no-one uses Grok and was frequently calling Anthropic "Misanthropic".

https://i.redd.it/kp4uy1egspjg1.png

5. Glorified marketer whose probably greatest achievement in pushing AI forward was instructing on CS 231n and coining the term vibe coding.

Yeah, on a roll.

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:01:31 +0000

"What comes after Git" looks inside

Git CLI with flowers and unicorns.

Is this what gets funded nowadays? I really hope for a gigantic mega crash of all the IT companies. This industry deserves it like none other.

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "Simplifying Vulkan one subsystem at a time"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:51:59 +0000

So.. like any other Graphics/Compute API when it was actively developed.

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "Yawning has an unexpected influence on the fluid inside your brain"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:20:50 +0000

Gotta switch to ZGC

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:03:59 +0000

WD-40 is not really that great at anything, people buy the brand name, that's it. The formule being public probably wouldn't change much

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "A battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:35:18 +0000

I think it would be worth it to investigate cyanobacteria toxins in water over there as they can cause similar symptoms. Next thing to check would be local sea food. I feel like glyphosate is a red herring here. Heavy metals could come from frequently eating local fish/shellfish.

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:23:49 +0000

Kate/Kwrite will ask to escalate to root if permissions are not sufficient. If it's not available to you, that's because your distro patched it out.

For ssh - sshpass.

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:32:50 +0000

Sun also emits infrared which seems to cause positive effects counteracting some of the UV related problems.

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "Claude in Chrome"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:47:56 +0000

Let's spend years plugging holes in V8, splitting browser components to separate processes and improving sandboxing and then just plug in LLM with debugging enabled into Chrome. Great idea. Last time we had such a great idea it was lead in gasoline.

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:35:24 +0000

You can still have in-video sponsor spots, in fact, most of the creators have them. Viewership is an important metric to those sponsors.

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "Speed Brain: Helping web pages load faster (2024)"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 22:13:49 +0000

Good luck hosting any commercial web app without Cloudflare or similar DDoS protection nowadays

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "Pig lung transplanted into a human"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 21:30:43 +0000

It was tried earlier by Religa in 1987, but the experiment was a failure AFAIK.

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "Teenagers no longer answer the phone: Is it a lack of manners or a new trend?"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 20:24:19 +0000

I've had my phone in silent/DND for the past 15 years and never answer the phone unless I'm awaiting a call.

I'm around 30yo.

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn't try AI immediately"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:14:07 +0000

How many LLM subscriptions are required for Coinbase to drop saturday meetings?

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:11:05 +0000

If you actually read the page that you've linked, you'll see that many European countries were just using it to deliver COVID notifications

New comment by CAP_NET_ADMIN in "Comet open source remote KVM from GL-iNet"

CAP_NET_ADMIN — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 22:42:53 +0000

Depends on the board, I've had many mobos which power on when they receive WoL.

Check your bios settings.

Also, you can probably just strap a wifi-capable relay to power pins on your motherboard.