Hacker News: Jolter

New comment by Jolter in "Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU"

Jolter — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:33:07 +0000

LLM driven agents aren’t even that.

New comment by Jolter in "Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs"

Jolter — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:12:28 +0000

How about they: 1. Don’t want hack competitors launching products using their code 2. Don’t want the resulting fracture in the community

If I were Signal I wouldn’t want either of those.

New comment by Jolter in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

Jolter — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 09:52:30 +0000

Yes, that is probably their reasoning.

I agree with your framing of the two problems, but I’d add a third: It is a large mistake to assume that the person installing the TV (thus agreeing to the ToS) is going to be present whenever it is being used around new people. It just assumes too much about the way people organize their lives, homes, purchases.

New comment by Jolter in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

Jolter — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:37:57 +0000

> It’s reasonable to push the burden of procuring that consent onto whoever controls entry to the space, with terms like this.

I don’t agree. I think if consent can’t be obtained, the only reasonable action here is to not collect the information.

The comparison to a zoom meeting is not 100% because if you’re walking past such a camera, you’re pretty likely to notice it and have the option to not step into view or obscure your face.

New comment by Jolter in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"

Jolter — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:31:03 +0000

False premise. Many (most?) smart TVs will work without first connecting them to the network.

New comment by Jolter in "Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance"

Jolter — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:56:13 +0000

You still need users to jump through all the hoops of installing the game data files, or you’d be on very shaky ground concerning copyright.

New comment by Jolter in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

Jolter — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:50:36 +0000

Intent matters in a court of law. A judge or a jury will consider:

- did you intend for the data to be destroyed in an eventual search?

- probably yes, because you went to the trouble to set up a duress password

- is it reasonably that you mixed up the two passwords? No, because only an idiot would make them similar and you're clearly no idiot, because you were able to set up a phone with a duress password.

- hence, you intentionally made the officer wipe your data, and you will be held liable.

It doesn't make any difference if the destroyed potential evidence is physical or digital.

The law as written is stupid, but that does not mean courts are stupid.

It is rather funny to look at how some programmers believe they can "trick" the law. It does not work like computer code!

New comment by Jolter in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

Jolter — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:34:13 +0000

Hence why travelers should simply not cross the border carrying sensitive data, ever. The Internet can take that data across the border for you.

New comment by Jolter in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

Jolter — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:25:54 +0000

What the point of this hypothetical?

In real life they would break the lock on your valise and return it to you bound together with tape.

New comment by Jolter in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"

Jolter — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:59:08 +0000

Not in Sweden, as far as science knows. It’s a more likely explanation than orangutans, but not by much.

New comment by Jolter in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"

Jolter — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:27:03 +0000

Folklore’s roots go deeper than a single species.

Swedish tradition has it that trolls would replace human babies with their own babies. It does not take a long leap of imagination to to see how this could be used as an excuse for the practice of putting unwanted/deformed babies out into the forest ”for the wolves”. (Disclaimer: I don’t know how common that practice might have been, since it would presumably stem from prehistoric times)

New comment by Jolter in "Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations–and it scaled"

Jolter — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:24:28 +0000

Thanks for teaching me the word ”litotically”!

New comment by Jolter in "Mosh in a Lift (2012)"

Jolter — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:06:06 +0000

In real life, there is no maintenance hatch to punch out , because the elevator manufacturer doesn’t want to be liable for people falling down an elevator shaft or being crushed.

New comment by Jolter in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

Jolter — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:53:22 +0000

Social workers. Unemployment agency workers.

New comment by Jolter in "About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6"

Jolter — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:24:40 +0000

Nice, thanks for that.

New comment by Jolter in "About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6"

Jolter — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:37:39 +0000

I hear it’s slower? Can you comment on that?

New comment by Jolter in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

Jolter — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:48:39 +0000

Yes, that’s the case I’m on about. Training notwithstanding, I’m pretty sure downloading the torrent was a crime to begin with.

New comment by Jolter in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

Jolter — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:24:04 +0000

The idea here is that the frontier labs are no longer willing to risk using the likes of Anna’s Archive, because they have already been held legally liable for that in the past.

New comment by Jolter in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

Jolter — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:36:43 +0000

Hoping for Putin to get sick is unhelpful. Trump is still in power well past 80, after all. We would do better to plan for a future where Putin rules Russia for another 10-15 years.

New comment by Jolter in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

Jolter — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:30:29 +0000

That’s probably a factor in why it’s able to maintain such high quality.

Though most French commercial media are not bad, either.