Hacker News: Krutonium

New comment by Krutonium in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

Krutonium — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:53:18 +0000

Private Equity vs Private Ownership

The first is a vampire looking to take what was publicly or even privately owned, extract every last dollar and leave the shell with the debt of buying the next victim.

Private Ownership is Valve or Porkbun - The people running the business want to make a profit but not to their own or their customers determent.

New comment by Krutonium in "I said no and Apple said yes"

Krutonium — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:21:01 +0000

In my experience Linux can yeah.

New comment by Krutonium in "Tell HN: Claude Code just accepted and signed a contract for me. Without asking"

Krutonium — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:58:36 +0000

I mean in this specific case, it did, at your behest even. These contracts would probably be even easier to enforce than Claude-signed ones!

New comment by Krutonium in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

Krutonium — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:19:20 +0000

Wouldn't you?

"I learned it from you, Dad!" but as hundreds of millions of stolen books.

New comment by Krutonium in "'Lake America' makes one thing clear: We can't trust U.S. tech companies"

Krutonium — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:40:24 +0000

Honestly I'd be okay with it if Google and Apple decided that the current administrations actions are not legitimate, as long as they can properly justify it.

Which honestly wouldn't be that hard.

New comment by Krutonium in "GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea"

Krutonium — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 05:35:32 +0000

I'm pretty sure they DID mention that they can remotely flip settings. So that's a thing for sure.

New comment by Krutonium in "The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)"

Krutonium — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:00:23 +0000

On the other hand if you re-arranged the room, it'd be neat to walk in to everything deploying!

New comment by Krutonium in "You probably own this 7-Eleven (and that's why it looks so sad)"

Krutonium — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:42:54 +0000

On the contrary, rules and regulations are written in blood, and airplanes are manufactured stronger in different ways because pilots took risks. The Wings don't shear off when the pilot yanks the yoke left and up because someone did before, and the Wings either fell off or didn't - but until it happened, the wings were an unknown quantity. And that's just one example.

That's basically the job description of a Test Pilot.

New comment by Krutonium in "The treasury bond mess: is this the demise of the US as a safe haven?"

Krutonium — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:48:14 +0000

For anyone not aware just how much: A quarter of it. A quarter of all US debt happened under Trump.

New comment by Krutonium in "Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?"

Krutonium — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:37:17 +0000

PE's end goal is never the health of the business.

Being bought by PE is a death sentence. Maybe drawn out by years, but a death sentence none the less.

New comment by Krutonium in "ICE will release body cam video only when seen in the agency's 'best interests'"

Krutonium — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:38:34 +0000

ICE will release body cam video when required by the courts, and FOIA requests.

Just saying, you could FOIA so much video in about 2 months...

New comment by Krutonium in "Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money"

Krutonium — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:53:22 +0000

Right? People typically do work for money. That's capitalism.

If I could pay bills with happyness and contributions to society through working for a cause, I would, but that's not reality.

Also businesses seem to think we should be Undyingly Loyal to them without any reciprocity. It's wild.

New comment by Krutonium in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

Krutonium — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:49:16 +0000

I was gung ho to play Quake Champions, then the monetized the shit out of it and I fucked off.

UT4 was a tech demo.

New comment by Krutonium in "I'm Scared a Stranger Will Call My Novel AI, So I Built GitHub for Words"

Krutonium — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:39:47 +0000

Yea there's literally software that lets you put art into your commit history blog graph on github by making a repo with potentially tens of thousands of dummy commits.

New comment by Krutonium in "Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way"

Krutonium — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:37:06 +0000

Yeah that is very weird. Personally I even have some LED lights that are going on 15 years old, spent a bit more than I'd like on them at the time, but they were on sale!

New comment by Krutonium in "Who does Anubis actually stop?"

Krutonium — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:27:12 +0000

I do want to note that my website has Anubis, and does not require Javascript. You can configure Anubis to test in other ways, JS is just the default.

New comment by Krutonium in "Show HN: VHS Playback Physics Simulator"

Krutonium — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:36:08 +0000

The rest of the blog is fascinating as well, if you've ever been curious about VCR's, VHS, and specifically the maintenance of them. Oh and deriving correct calibration without known good values!

Show HN: VHS Playback Physics Simulator

Krutonium — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:34:17 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.opengbh.net/posts/0017-vhs-playback-simulator/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018064

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Krutonium in "FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers"

Krutonium — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:55:11 +0000

Huh, this would be a fantastic option for my Kobo Touch. It freely flashes whatever firmware you give it, and it'll boot from an SD Card besides.

New comment by Krutonium in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

Krutonium — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:18:37 +0000

Surely it should be the StackArr?