Hacker News: JW_00000

New comment by JW_00000 in "The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?"

JW_00000 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:30:38 +0000

falcor's point is that we will see this in 5 to 10 years.

New comment by JW_00000 in "Hard Rust requirements from May onward"

JW_00000 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 15:20:10 +0000

To be honest I don't really read insults either in this e-mail or in the thread you linked. If I'm seeing it right, there's only one comment by the guy in that thread, right? That comment is direct and uses language that may be considered unprofessional ("crap"/"crappy"), but it's not insulting the users (they are not referred to as crappy). Same for the e-mail.

Unnecessary drama as usual...

New comment by JW_00000 in "Battering RAM – Low-cost interposer attacks on confidential computing"

JW_00000 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:35:11 +0000

They answer the second question quite clearly in my opinion:

    It requires only brief one-time physical access, which is realistic in cloud environments, considering, for instance:

    * Rogue cloud employees;
    * Datacenter technicians or cleaning personnel;
    * Coercive local law enforcement agencies;
    * Supply chain tampering during shipping or manufacturing of the memory modules.

This reads as "yes". (You may disagree, but _their_ answer is "yes.")

Consider also "Room 641A" [1]: the NSA has asked big companies to install special hardware on their premises for wiretapping. This work is at least proof that a similar request could be made to intercept confidential compute environments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

New comment by JW_00000 in "Battering RAM – Low-cost interposer attacks on confidential computing"

JW_00000 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:34:29 +0000

You're twisting their words. For the second question, they clearly answer yes.

It depends on the threat model you have in mind. If you are a nation state that is hosting data in a US cloud, and you want to protect yourself from the NSA, I would say this is a realistic attack vector.

New comment by JW_00000 in "Battering RAM – Low-cost interposer attacks on confidential computing"

JW_00000 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:30:54 +0000

It's a bit more fundamental in my opinion. Cryptographic techniques are supported by strong mathematics; while I believe hardware-based techniques will always be vulnerable against a sufficiently advanced hardware-based attack. In theory, there exists an unbreakable version of OpenSSL ("under standard cryptographic assumptions"), but it is not evident that there even is a way to implement the kind of guarantees confidential computing is trying to offer using hardware-based protection only.

New comment by JW_00000 in "Crates.io phishing attempt"

JW_00000 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:19:14 +0000

You must be joking. When I try to log in on Outlook I get redirected to 'microsoftonline.com' (suspicious), when I log in on Wikipedia it sends me to something called 'wikimedia.org' (typo squatter?). How the hell am I supposed to know whether npmjs.help or rustfoundation.dev are _not_ the official domains of those projects?

New comment by JW_00000 in "Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes"

JW_00000 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 13:10:43 +0000

When notpushkin said "the spec is still at XSLT 1.0", I think "the spec" is referring to the WHATWG HTML Living Standard spec, which only refers to XSLT 1.0. (It wouldn't make sense to say "the XSLT spec is at XSLT 1.0".)

New comment by JW_00000 in "Anthropic: Persona Vectors"

JW_00000 — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 17:34:33 +0000

Do you think an AI could come up with novel answers that a human wouldn't be able to come up with? I think humans could not just come up with answers to these questions, but some people would be able to greatly outperform AIs by using knowledge that is not widely known.

New comment by JW_00000 in "My Self-Hosting Setup"

JW_00000 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 13:40:47 +0000

To be frank, if you die, isn't it much more likely your friends and family will just stop using your homelab setup? They'll switch back from Jellyfin to Netflix, replace the smart light bulbs with regular ones, etc.

New comment by JW_00000 in "Asynchrony is not concurrency"

JW_00000 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 07:43:32 +0000

To give a concrete example, matrix multiplication is not commutative in general (AB ≠ BA), but e.g. multiplication with the identity matrix is (AI = IA). So AIB = ABI ≠ BAI.

Or applied to the programming example, the statements:

    1. Server.accept
    2. Client.connect
    3. File.write  # write to completely unrelated file

123 = 312 ≠ 321.

New comment by JW_00000 in "How to prove false statements: Practical attacks on Fiat-Shamir"

JW_00000 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:23:35 +0000

This is just an analogy used by the article to explain the Fiat-Shamir transform.

New comment by JW_00000 in "Recovering from AI addiction"

JW_00000 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:17:26 +0000

But look at the questions:

"Does my use of AI lead me to neglect my personal hygiene, nutritional needs, or physical health?"

(compare with: "Does my eating of vegetables lead me to neglect my personal hygiene, nutritional needs, or physical health?")

"Have my digital behaviors jeopardized my studies, finances, or career?"

(compare with: "Have my healthy living behaviors jeopardized my studies, finances, or career?")

All questions are about negative impact on your life. To me it doesn't matter whether you label it "addiction". If you answer yes to most of these questions, whatever the subject, it is severely affecting your life.

New comment by JW_00000 in "Recovering from AI addiction"

JW_00000 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:14:41 +0000

I would say all questions except maybe the first one, are about impact on your personal life: "late into the night", "whenever I have a free moment", "personal hygiene", "personal relationships", etc. So if you answer yes to them, I don't think you can use work as excuse; it is affecting your life outside work.

New comment by JW_00000 in "The Rise of Whatever"

JW_00000 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:16:51 +0000

My grandma did not have a microwave oven because she didn't see the point of it.

New comment by JW_00000 in "The Rise of Whatever"

JW_00000 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:14:35 +0000

But isn't that the same as saying: what about all the horse carrier drivers who lost their jobs due to cars? What about all the bank tellers we lost after inventing the automated teller machine?

New comment by JW_00000 in "Opening up ‘Zero-Knowledge Proof’ technology"

JW_00000 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:54:06 +0000

This is what I was going to post. It helped me a lot by first giving a very intuitive understanding of the concept of ZKPs using the Where's Waldo/puffin-among-the-penguins example, but then also going deeper with the graph-coloring example.

New comment by JW_00000 in "Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts"

JW_00000 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 09:12:30 +0000

Then you do that part yourself. You let AI automate the 20/50/80% (*) of work it can, and you now only need to do the remainder manually.

(*) which one of these it is depends on your case. If you're writing a run-of-the-mill Next.js app, AI will automate 80%; if you're doing something highly specific, it'll be closer to 20%.

New comment by JW_00000 in "Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts"

JW_00000 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 09:02:53 +0000

I think OP meant "revealing" as in "enlightening", not as "uncovering something that was hidden intentionally".

New comment by JW_00000 in "Hacker News now runs on top of Common Lisp"

JW_00000 — Mon, 26 May 2025 18:08:50 +0000

I was going to reply that this is pretty common for web apps, e.g. NodeJS or many Python applications also do not use multi-threading, instead just spawning separate processes that run in parallel. But apparently, HN ran as 1 process on 1 core on 1 machine (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229548) O_O

New comment by JW_00000 in "German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal"

JW_00000 — Mon, 26 May 2025 18:05:12 +0000

Indeed, Dieselgate is 10 years ago. If they would've suffered badly from it, we would've seen that by now. Sure, they've had to pay fines and compensations, but that seems to have been dealt with. In fact, you could argue the opposite: Dieselgate forced VW to drop diesel and switch focus to EVs [1, 2], earlier than they would've done otherwise, giving them an advantage over other European and American competitors (except Tesla). Of course, there are plenty of other issues they've faced since them (inflation, Chinese competition, tariffs, etc).

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgkell/2022/12/05/from-emiss...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/a2c7ca01-461c-4dc2-8006-ec1d6b61a...