Hacker News: Natfan

New comment by Natfan in "SimpleX Public Names – A Name Nobody Can Take from You"

Natfan — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:24:52 +0000

if no one can take it from me, what about if i register simplexxsupport?

New comment by Natfan in "Show HN: LiquidBrain – Unlimited Tokens. Unlimited Context. One Fixed Price"

Natfan — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:23:41 +0000

ai slop landing page, $5,000 initial buy-in cost, sells something good to be true

hard pass

New comment by Natfan in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

Natfan — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:23:38 +0000

https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo

New comment by Natfan in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

Natfan — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:49:46 +0000

well in 1984 the two way televisions would get you

again i'm not saying i approve, I'm pointing out the distinction

New comment by Natfan in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

Natfan — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:28:00 +0000

is open-source malware a moral good?

New comment by Natfan in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"

Natfan — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:23:38 +0000

Get-AD* is less useless, though? modules should have prefixes! (except for Exchange/ExchangeOnlineManagement who have Get-User and Get-Group, because fuck you apparently)

New comment by Natfan in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

Natfan — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:14:04 +0000

my understanding is that you can speak ill of the government publicly? like they'll nuke your billibilli if you talk shit about xi, but you can complain privately to a friend

not saying i agree with it, i'm saying it isn't as severe as the west makes it out to be

New comment by Natfan in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

Natfan — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:11:45 +0000

the left hand feeds while the right hand beats

New comment by Natfan in "Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%"

Natfan — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:30:25 +0000

unclear as to how i, a non-US citizen, would give the US government taxes.

also unclear as to why i would want to help fund a genocide, but that's just me.

New comment by Natfan in "Learning a few things about running SQLite"

Natfan — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:07:07 +0000

but i suppose if you're prefixing your entries with enough entropy, it'd be quite difficult for adversaries to predict and overwrite files without an `ls` equivalent

New comment by Natfan in "Learning a few things about running SQLite"

Natfan — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:58:54 +0000

does write only prevent overwrites?

New comment by Natfan in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

Natfan — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:32:35 +0000

until the kessler effect traps is on this ever-heating rock

New comment by Natfan in "Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%"

Natfan — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:01:39 +0000

also the rich absolutely _do_ owe society at large something: taxes. a thing which, as you get richer, it apparently becomes optional due to financial engineering

New comment by Natfan in "Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50%"

Natfan — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:00:30 +0000

citation needed on that last claim. do you have universal healthcare free at point of service? do you have a healthy supply of public housing? do you let children starve, through no fault of their own but the circumstances of their birth? do you engage is ears of choice and murder 100+ innocent children in a primary school on the first day of the conflict?

the answer to some of these questions should be yes, and others should be no, if you're going to make the claim that the United States of America is the "Greatest Country on Earth, Ever".

New comment by Natfan in "Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal"

Natfan — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:23:44 +0000

consider a world in which same sex attraction was normalized and produced children.

would you need someone to tell you you were heterosexual, or would you figure it out on your own (having rarely, if ever, seen it before)?

try considering things from other people's perspective. you'll find that it opens up your mind and heart to various forms of empathy!

New comment by Natfan in "Better Auth is joining Vercel"

Natfan — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:07:59 +0000

so better auth would be more analagous to microsoft entra (formerly azuread)?

New comment by Natfan in "Better Auth is joining Vercel"

Natfan — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:07:03 +0000

i'm curious, outside of new models of authn (such as passwordless, totp, hash algos etc) and new models of authz (rbac, zero trust, etc), what else is "constantly changing"?

even the items i mentioned only change every 5 years or so, in my experience. i accept that there will be a lot of work preventing attackers from gaining unauthorized access, but again this feels partially solved by just rejigging the authn flow (rather than username -> password -> totp (leads to password sprays), just do username -> totp -> password)

New comment by Natfan in "98% isn't much"

Natfan — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:56:29 +0000

> windows 10

or windows 8[.1], or windows 7, or windows xp... there's a lot of old hardware out there, not every is rich/tech savvy (see also: old people) enough to purchase a new device even 10 years later

New comment by Natfan in "China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes"

Natfan — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:51:25 +0000

please elaborate on how the US is very good for those who are extremely poor? social safety net?

New comment by Natfan in "OpenPrinter"

Natfan — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:51:30 +0000

how has no on mentioned the typo in the title

s/Reparaible/Repairable