Hacker News: CatMustard

New comment by CatMustard in "GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline"

CatMustard — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:22:38 +0000

> it won't be a big deal.

This isn't a space I know too much about, but even if we all start using quantum-safe encryption for everything today, won't the arrival of quantum computers that can break traditional encryption not still be a big deal?

Given that intelligence agencies, tech companies and various bad actors have been storing encrypted data for a long time, hoping to decrypt when (if?) that day comes?

New comment by CatMustard in "Notes from the SF peptide scene"

CatMustard — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:17:34 +0000

Maybe in a world as culturally-fractured as ours two comments on twitter is as close to a zeitgest as you can get.

Maybe. Personally I'd say it'd take at least 5.

New comment by CatMustard in "'Backrooms' and the Rise of the Institutional Gothic"

CatMustard — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:09:53 +0000

> Might have been haunted.

'Might have been'? You say 'might have been' after you bought a Twix with all the money that ghost slowly put in the vending machine? For shame.

New comment by CatMustard in "Naming rights to street auctioned in San Francisco"

CatMustard — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:51:04 +0000

Or "The Wrong Street".

Would make for fun GPS instructions. "In one hundred metres take a left turn onto The Wrong Street".

New comment by CatMustard in "Drosophila Fly Brain Emulation"

CatMustard — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:50:28 +0000

Yay, the most terrifying piece of short fiction I've ever read is coming true!

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

New comment by CatMustard in "I love email (2023)"

CatMustard — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:57:20 +0000

> my current solution is to have a link which says "click to show email"

Yeah was thinking of going down that route, but I like the simplicity of just having it there there as a mailto link when you land. Based on Mike's response I might try it!

New comment by CatMustard in "I love email (2023)"

CatMustard — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:55:45 +0000

Nice, I might try it myself so, thank you!

New comment by CatMustard in "I love email (2023)"

CatMustard — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:07:19 +0000

> My email and matrix id are both on my front page at https://www.grepular.com

I've been tempted to put my email address directly on my personal site but just assumed I'd be flooded with automated spam. How have you found it?

New comment by CatMustard in "To understand our fascination with crystals, researchers gave some to chimps"

CatMustard — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:08:04 +0000

Follow up study?

New comment by CatMustard in "Show HN: What is HN thinking? Real-time sentiment and concept analysis"

CatMustard — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:02:32 +0000

I know I'm going against the HN hivemind a bit here, and I hope I don't get flamed too much for it - but I think that that Jeff Epstein fellow wasn't a very nice man.

New comment by CatMustard in "D Programming Language"

CatMustard — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:43:35 +0000

Thanks for the detailed reply. I wrote and deployed a few dev-opsy python scripts in my last job that I wasn't massively proud of, but after reading that I all of a sudden don't feel so bad lol

New comment by CatMustard in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

CatMustard — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:28:16 +0000

> Maybe, we should teach developers how to code.

Even better: teach them how to develop.

New comment by CatMustard in "D Programming Language"

CatMustard — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:59:32 +0000

> I always dread dealing with python developers though tbh.

Out of curiosity, why is that?

New comment by CatMustard in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

CatMustard — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:09:01 +0000

> part of the hiring process was to go get your blood tested by them

I know it would be far from the only illegal thing Theranos did, but that sure does sound extremely illegal.

New comment by CatMustard in "Claude Opus 4.6"

CatMustard — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:31:13 +0000

Just took a look at what's running there and it looks like total crap.

The project I'm working on, meanwhile...

New comment by CatMustard in "Coding assistants are solving the wrong problem"

CatMustard — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:13:59 +0000

This could be the case even without an intentional conspiracy. It's harder to give negative feedback to poor quality code that's complicated vs. poor quality code that's simple.

Hence the feedback these models get could theoretically funnel them to unnecessarily complicated solutions.

No clue has any research been done into this, just a thought OTTOMH.

New comment by CatMustard in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

CatMustard — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:37:42 +0000

It's okay not to be that into food, but a bit odd to expect everyone else to be the same. If I had to eat steak and potatoes every day I'd be miserable by day 2.

New comment by CatMustard in "Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse"

CatMustard — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:17:41 +0000

It also helps that Bill is not a common name here at all (the only Bill I've ever met in my life was an American).

I can imagine how confusing it would be if all instances of the word Bill in articles such as these were replaced with Seán lol.

New comment by CatMustard in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

CatMustard — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:28:38 +0000

Beat you to it, my friend. My next job starts next week!

Good advice though, it really felt like a good point in my career to move on somewhere new.

New comment by CatMustard in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

CatMustard — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:27:33 +0000

Oh I have a lot of projects in my spare time already that I get fulfilment from. Just the 9-5 that doesn't do it for me. My original comment was a bit tongue in cheek though, I don't hate my job. It pays the bills and then some, and doesn't ask too much of me.