Hacker News: ChoosesBarbecue

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

ChoosesBarbecue — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 18:15:57 +0000

The Mozilla rep who created that thread (not the reporter, to be clear), created https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/, so I suspect that this page is better for general public disclosure.

With that being said, that Bugzilla is the best thread to understand "how the fuck did this happen?"

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Gaming on Linux without cheating"

ChoosesBarbecue — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:50:46 +0000

> e.g. Apex Legends, a game that ran well on Linux until October 2024 when Respawn decided to actively block it from joining online matches by toggling a flag in EAC.

Right, because they warranted EAC’s Linux offering as insufficient for protecting their titles from cheaters.

The proposed solution from Epic would resolve that.

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

ChoosesBarbecue — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:54:55 +0000

You might already know this, but in case anyone doesn't, but ERSC's CTO is the creator of jj.

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Sqlthon – A lightweight Pythonic layer for SQLite"

ChoosesBarbecue — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:28:30 +0000

Walk before you can run :).

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter"

ChoosesBarbecue — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:10:40 +0000

It’s probably worth noting that the author is decompiling a game that he’s had ~10 years of experience modding. And has been involved in finding vulnerabilities in [0].

[0]: https://github.com/momo5502/cod-exploits

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter"

ChoosesBarbecue — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:04:29 +0000

The Bevy rewrite is an independent project from someone else.

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Google ending ChromeOS support two years early"

ChoosesBarbecue — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:12:56 +0000

Are they planning on replacing ChromeOS Flex? It has been a fantastic choice for me to put onto older computers that some relatives own.

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Saving another 100TB of RAM"

ChoosesBarbecue — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:31:34 +0000

> I don’t care if their text was written with AI, I just wish I could get my own AI to sing so well about hashing… but wait.. today I noticed Claude trying to use hashing when a timestamp would honestly do, and now I’m really doubting myself, hmm…

Tried out the first 1000 words in Pangram, and it seemed happy it was human written. Not surprised either, it has been some of the better writing I've seen out of Cloudflare recently.

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Vinix – A modern operating system written in V"

ChoosesBarbecue — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:55:29 +0000

It had like two releases after ~2-3 years of hype, too. Maybe long, back when it was called eul.

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it"

ChoosesBarbecue — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:11:39 +0000

a) So, this is all from July?

b) And this is before Hugging Face agreed to acquired by NVIDIA, supplier to OpenAI?

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

ChoosesBarbecue — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:35:30 +0000

Ruby Central's central backer is Shopify, and Shopify are more than happy to be buds with OpenAI and let this one slide. I'm sure the token donation [0] to a Shopify board members' Linux project won't hurt things either.

[0]: https://omarchy.org/news/2026/09/omacom-foundation-secures-t...

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

ChoosesBarbecue — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:27:52 +0000

Touché, reworded it to be clearer on what I meant :).

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

ChoosesBarbecue — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:01:24 +0000

I am so curious why now, what changed? The WPEngine saga was started two years ago.

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

ChoosesBarbecue — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:56:03 +0000

I thought one of the issues was that they wanted to remove credit from Levant, the aforementioned Anthropic collaborator? Which doesn't make sense to me if he was leaking information, or defecting to OpenAI, but I might be misunderstanding your point.

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay"

ChoosesBarbecue — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:11:58 +0000

It would be better if we could see the other variables explicitly listed i.e. are they the same price (or same price for a comparable spec), what do the reviews for both vehicles look like, etc.

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11"

ChoosesBarbecue — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:51:28 +0000

Huge fan of this. I run it once on a fresh format, and then I never have to worry about Windows annoying me again.

(And no, I simply do not like Linux or even macOS enough to switch over, despite being perfectly competent. That, and I play video games that will never be compatible.)

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

ChoosesBarbecue — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:03:02 +0000

> - environmental like emissions and water usage

Water usage, sure. But emissions has plenty of reasonable concern.

There are the various xAI data centers have/are running using mobile gas turbines.

In general, the extreme amount of power is going to put pressure on the grids. I hope this leads to the world doubling down on renewables to offset it all, but is that going to happen? Hell, the US actively paid [0] to stop a turbine project.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e1vg0gjl5o

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

ChoosesBarbecue — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:49:04 +0000

Zitron in general is representative of the conspiratorial thinking that has infected all spectra of the political space. Zitron obviously occupies more of the left space.

Good critique of LLMs & the companies behind them is hard to find, and it is harder when people gravitate towards this sort of thinking.

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "GLM-5.3-Flash"

ChoosesBarbecue — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:21:39 +0000

God I wish I could’ve shorted NVIDIA right now

New comment by ChoosesBarbecue in "Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms"

ChoosesBarbecue — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:00:58 +0000

I believe Firefox was the first to put out a standards position about adopting jxl if a Rust implementation happened. Chromium only aligned their position this year I believe, prior to that, it was a complete rejection.

Which is to say, Chrome followed Firefox here.

(Yes, I know Google Research implemented jxl-rs, but then, they also implemented jxl. Chrome’s position appears independent of them.)