Hacker News: Reptur

New comment by Reptur in "SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?"

Reptur — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:59:16 +0000

This isn't new due to AI, just amplified.

New comment by Reptur in "China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines"

Reptur — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:33:35 +0000

True but also catching up to an existing tech is a much different game than creating it from scratch. Hiring people who have the right knowledge can speed that up.

New comment by Reptur in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

Reptur — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:57:43 +0000

This site is shady as hell. You try to decline marketing in their pop-up and it hides maybe a 100 providers and expects you to click each one individually.

New comment by Reptur in "How Reverse Game Theory Could Solve the Housing Shortage"

Reptur — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:33:46 +0000

Liberals*. Leftists don't believe in capitalism and do not solve problems within that framework. They are faux leftists.

New comment by Reptur in "Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data"

Reptur — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:43:30 +0000

If encrypted outputs can be viewed or used, they can be reverse-engineered through that same interface. FHE shifts the attack surface, it does not eliminate it.

New comment by Reptur in "Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent"

Reptur — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:40:21 +0000

Heads up: I left a Peerweb link open overnight (~8 hours) hoping it would load. It consumed ~15GB of memory and triggered an OOM kill, crashing the browser. Browser: LibreWolf (latest) OS: Fedora 43

New comment by Reptur in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

Reptur — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:59:13 +0000

I also had success, less negotiating, more just helping me form the letters in a few minutes rather than hours so I could get reimbursed for denied coverage, and it did get reimbursed.

New comment by Reptur in "Warning: DNS encryption in Little Snitch 6.1 may occasionally fail"

Reptur — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:43:17 +0000

Devil's advocate would say: They could do this and make it look like a bug that never gets fixed in order to avoid backlash. How it gets achieved is flexible if the goal is met.

New comment by Reptur in "Transparenttextures.com"

Reptur — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 04:16:19 +0000

Would have totally used these back in the Tripod hosting days of the 90s. Cool.

New comment by Reptur in "North Dakota voters just approved an age limit for congressional candidates"

Reptur — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 00:22:03 +0000

81 is still too high. Should make it a max of 60.

New comment by Reptur in "AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them"

Reptur — Wed, 29 May 2024 04:35:45 +0000

Could be a game changer for people with auditory processing disorder too.

New comment by Reptur in "Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources"

Reptur — Sun, 19 May 2024 02:28:14 +0000

It seems the article forgot to mention that Microsoft is actively pursuing nuclear energy in response, which is a significant omission.

New comment by Reptur in "U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers"

Reptur — Wed, 08 May 2024 12:45:49 +0000

Except the concept of “alpha male” was debunked.

New comment by Reptur in "Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions"

Reptur — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 05:26:30 +0000

"Discovery" fits since we're just uncovering what's already there, not creating it. "Invention" is for stuff we actually make. Unsure if just a mistake or creationist perspective in the article.

New comment by Reptur in "Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)"

Reptur — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 02:41:49 +0000

100%, its awesome. Link for those interested: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...

New comment by Reptur in "Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters"

Reptur — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 06:20:29 +0000

Agreed, not to mention phone numbers can easily be used by entities to ID anyone's account which has a chilling effect on freedom of expression.

New comment by Reptur in "Crime rings trafficking sand"

Reptur — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:22:19 +0000

Somewhat related, these people are turning glass to sand from recycled bottles.

https://www.tv20detroit.com/news/national/turning-recycled-g...

New comment by Reptur in "Brave browser simplifies its fingerprinting protections"

Reptur — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:23:16 +0000

What I don't understand is, why can't we just have a browser that doesn't give any of those details that is used to determine unique a browser. It doesn't make sense to allow a website to have access to that info.

New comment by Reptur in "Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-like AI tools"

Reptur — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:23:42 +0000

I tend to just select all the files and then paste their filenames into a Chat AI and tell it to write mv commands to rename them however I need. May be more complicated if you need it to open the PDF to get content for the rename though.

New comment by Reptur in "Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queries per second on MySQL"

Reptur — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 23:59:51 +0000

It can't loop arrays with indices from a variable for one. Its basically a 90s scripting language that has had no growth.