Hacker News: Narkov

New comment by Narkov in "Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety"

Narkov — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:39:57 +0000

> Think of it like an ID check at the airport

That's an interesting way of selling this.

New comment by Narkov in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

Narkov — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 03:25:00 +0000

I'm not sure what microfilm has got to do with this. Plenty of national libraries have extensive digital collections of various artifacts - books and even websites. Check out the National Library of Australia as an example: https://www.library.gov.au/discover/what-we-collect/archived...

New comment by Narkov in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

Narkov — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:08:03 +0000

Fair question but haven't we been doing this for decades? Very few people know how to write assembly and yet software has proliferated. This is just another abstraction.

New comment by Narkov in "More than 100 rally against data centers at Michigan Capitol"

Narkov — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:02:54 +0000

Nothing in the article talks about noise pollution. Their concern is about resource usage - water and electricity.

New comment by Narkov in "GM Is Pushing Hard to Tank California's EV Mandate"

Narkov — Sun, 18 May 2025 02:57:08 +0000

> Californians are staring down the barrel of a huge car buying crunch in ~7yrs

Yay the free market, hey?

New comment by Narkov in "Your phone isn't secretly listening to you, but the truth is more disturbing"

Narkov — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 03:20:51 +0000

What makes you think the raw audio stream needs to be sent anywhere. Modern phones are capable of doing keyword extraction on-device.

New comment by Narkov in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

Narkov — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 03:04:59 +0000

> The participation rate has always been low in rich western countries.

Australia has entered the chat.

New comment by Narkov in "The insecurity of telecom stacks in the wake of Salt Typhoon"

Narkov — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:28:38 +0000

This very much depends on your definition of major.

New comment by Narkov in "The insecurity of telecom stacks in the wake of Salt Typhoon"

Narkov — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 09:27:12 +0000

> To me, this absolutely feels like a NOBUS vulnerability, if the SIM manufacturers and/or core network equipment vendors are in cahoots with the NSA and let the NSA take those keys, they can potentially listen in on all mobile phone traffic in the world.

This feels like the obligatory XKCD comic[1] when in reality there isn't any secretive key extraction or cracking...things are just sent unencrypted from deeper into the network to the three-letter-agencies. Telco's are well known to have interconnect rooms with agencies.

[1] https://xkcd.com/538/

New comment by Narkov in "OpenAI Sales Agent Demo"

Narkov — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 09:49:27 +0000

Hubspot does most of this already?

New comment by Narkov in "Home Loss File System"

Narkov — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 05:44:37 +0000

> I've always considered insurance false-economy and avoided it wherever possible, especially for events with losses <$20k.

Everything is relative, right? Self insurance is fine if you can afford it. Most people can't wear a $20k hit without potentially ending up homeless or in significant financial distress.

New comment by Narkov in "Stay Gold, America"

Narkov — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 10:07:38 +0000

> Compulsory voting removes an important signal where participation indicates the legitimacy.

Why on earth would you prefer a signal of legitimacy over 70/80/90% vote participation? Get people engaged.

New comment by Narkov in "Carta is making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions, some founders say"

Narkov — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 02:40:00 +0000

It's not a money thing. It is a process thing. They have regulations that they must follow to off-board you.

New comment by Narkov in "Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?"

Narkov — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:14:01 +0000

17.3? That doesn't exist (yet).

New comment by Narkov in "Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?"

Narkov — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:28:39 +0000

> Postgres 17.0 has been out for a bit

From the same blog:

> Sep 26, 2024 - Postgres 17 is Now Available

3 weeks....for a new major release...and we are asking ourselves why people haven't updated?

New comment by Narkov in "Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove"

Narkov — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 03:43:47 +0000

We/Australia has a massive focus on early detection of skin cancer due to our overly sunny weather. It's possibly that we detect more cancer and treat it earlier thus the better outcomes?

New comment by Narkov in "Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove"

Narkov — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 03:39:55 +0000

> Ozempic has entered the chat.

New comment by Narkov in "FCC wants all phones unlocked in sixty days, AT&T and T-Mobile aren't so keen"

Narkov — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 08:09:40 +0000

How can I financially support you?

New comment by Narkov in "Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for YC startups"

Narkov — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 04:51:15 +0000

Not sure many VC's are actually spending money to get those credits versus being given them for free as a promotional tool.

New comment by Narkov in "A hard look at AWS GuardDuty shortcomings"

Narkov — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:24:49 +0000

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