Hacker News: KyleBerezin

New comment by KyleBerezin in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

KyleBerezin — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:53:14 +0000

quote: "Thank you all for your feedback, professional or otherwise. Sorry about the regression. I will work on fixing this in 1.119.

There is a number of issues with the Co-Author functionality:

It should never have been enabled when disableAIFeatures is on. It should not add attribution to changes that were not done by AI. We need to make sure it receives a more test coverage before change the default. If you have additional (constructive) feedback, please ping me directly or open an issue."

New comment by KyleBerezin in "Kuwaiti F/A-18's Triple Friendly Fire Shootdown Gets Stranger by the Day"

KyleBerezin — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:50:33 +0000

The F-15 family is kind of best-in-class still. It is an agile jet with a lot of weapons. As for the E variant, we tend to just run them until the airframe ages out.

New comment by KyleBerezin in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

KyleBerezin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:30:27 +0000

shockingly on topic https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HDqfYW_mzMU

New comment by KyleBerezin in "Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box"

KyleBerezin — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:22:13 +0000

This "Americans should eat more beef" thing is nonscence. Beef is largely an inelastic resource. Despite increased demand, the total amount of cattle in this country has been dropping since the 70's, yet our population has doubled. This is the case with any pastoral animal. All this will do is price beef out of the reach of the poor.

New comment by KyleBerezin in "Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box"

KyleBerezin — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:14:33 +0000

I asked it some things, and it responded that although all scientific evidence points towards beef tallow and butter not being healthy fats, that the dogma of the realfood movement shows that it is in fact healthy lol.

New comment by KyleBerezin in "UK's Ofcom fines porn site £800,000 for not rolling out age checks"

KyleBerezin — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:00:51 +0000

It is based on the idea that free speech is an unalienable right. The framing matters, and it is why the first amendment's protection of free speech holds up so well in court.

The US government cannot assist in levying or enforcing these fines in any way.

‘no agreement with a foreign nation can confer power on the Congress, or on any other branch of Government, which is free from the restraints of the Constitution.’

New comment by KyleBerezin in "A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k"

KyleBerezin — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:32:36 +0000

No. Only unnamed sources. I would say it is more likely a balloon than not though. Both stories are perfectly believable, a mylar balloon is def going to show up on radar, and the cartel does use drones. I think the balloon story is more believable though because the cartels would gain almost nothing from this, and if it was a drone I would expect photos of the debris by now.

New comment by KyleBerezin in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

KyleBerezin — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:05:46 +0000

Those dang clankers!

New comment by KyleBerezin in "Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War"

KyleBerezin — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:14:35 +0000

How on earth isn't this getting any attention on HN?

New comment by KyleBerezin in "Show HN: Customizable OSINT dashboard to monitor the situation"

KyleBerezin — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:46:06 +0000

I think the protocol is actually pretty open, and can be hooked into without them. I may be wrong though, I read into how it worked years ago.

New comment by KyleBerezin in "Impact of Bluetooth headset usage on thyroid nodules"

KyleBerezin — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:27:05 +0000

This makes no sense to me. Bluetooth headphones are mostly a receiver and transmit very little. I am very skeptical about these findings.

New comment by KyleBerezin in "Rating 26 years of Java changes"

KyleBerezin — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:55:09 +0000

For whatever reason, gpt-5 writes java code like it is 1995. I think it was trained on decompiled code.

New comment by KyleBerezin in "Japanese ship-mounted railgun successfully hits targets in test"

KyleBerezin — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:29:06 +0000

It has been pitched for that, certainly, but without a guided projectile, it is fantasy.

New comment by KyleBerezin in "Japanese ship-mounted railgun successfully hits targets in test"

KyleBerezin — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:54:13 +0000

Yea, cost. It was supposed to be installed on the Zumwalt, with a guided 155mm cannon as an interim, also with the goal to be cheaper than missiles. Unfortunately both ended up being more expensive than missiles. Replacing the rails isn't something that can be done quickly or cheaply.

It is kinda comparable to hypersonic missiles in that it can penetrate air defense, but that is about the only overlap, the railgun is long range for a gun, but nothing compared to something like a hypersonic missile.

New comment by KyleBerezin in "Japanese ship-mounted railgun successfully hits targets in test"

KyleBerezin — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 21:22:12 +0000

Nothing from what I understand. The issue is material science. The rails have a very short life unless fired at far less than full power.

New comment by KyleBerezin in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

KyleBerezin — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:35:42 +0000

Well put. I think both the NYT and this blog post are stretching for conclusions.

New comment by KyleBerezin in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

KyleBerezin — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:05:18 +0000

IAEA inspections verify your claimed inventory and enrichment facilities. They are trying to detect if any nuclear materials are being skimmed/diverted. As for weapons, nuclear fuel is very low enrichment (usually under 5%). Iran surpassed 60%, which has no peaceful use, so that is why it was said they were perusing weapons.

New comment by KyleBerezin in "Native ACME support comes to Nginx"

KyleBerezin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:03:27 +0000

Hey, I just decided to run a DNS server and a couple of web services on my lan from a raspberry pi over the weekend. I used Nginx for the reverse proxy so all of the services could be addressable without port numbers. It was very easy to set up, it's funny how when you learn something new, you start seeing it all over the place.

New comment by KyleBerezin in "NT OS Kernel Information Disclosure Vulnerability"

KyleBerezin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:47:52 +0000

I find myself thinking "wow, what an obvious bug. How did Microsoft not catch that?" but then I think back to some of my own extremely obvious bugs. Thankfully my code is much lower impact.

New comment by KyleBerezin in "GrapheneOS and forensic extraction of data (2024)"

KyleBerezin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:06:27 +0000

Or more likely, regardless of intentions, they will accidentally let it fall into a bad actors hands.