Hacker News: Shank

New comment by Shank in "Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat"

Shank — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:27:40 +0000

Citation needed? I'm not a fan of residential proxies but these are pretty wild claims that aren't substantiated. Calling them a "national security threat" implies it is a threat to e.g., the continued existence of the United States. Is it really that? All of the activities described are already violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

> At the very least, major American ISPs (Comcast, AT&T) should detect clearly suspicious activity coming from customer IPs and warn them to scan their computers, check their TV apps, and find whatever is turning their internet into a proxy.

What are we saying? Really, what are we saying? We should turn domestic ISPs into domestic surveillance apparatuses to "detect clearly suspicious activity"? What is "clearly suspicious activity"? Section 230 is still law.

New comment by Shank in "Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding"

Shank — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:05:25 +0000

Hmm, does DoH work?

New comment by Shank in "Kimi Work"

Shank — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:34:30 +0000

No, it's Apache 2. https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/LICENSE

New comment by Shank in "Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later"

Shank — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:34:01 +0000

So close to something you could install in Japan via AltStore:

> One or more apps in source "Reynard Browser" are missing a marketplaceID. This most likely means they are not notarized, which is not supported by this version of AltStore.

I'm really looking to a successful version of a Gecko browser that can be installed with just AltStore via the Japanese law.

New comment by Shank in "Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line"

Shank — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:16:40 +0000

The news articles are real, but the Nambu line brought their departure melodies back played from the cars themselves late in 2025.

New comment by Shank in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

Shank — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:02:33 +0000

They're Blu-Ray discs.

New comment by Shank in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

Shank — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:04:42 +0000

Well, it is a Chinese model, maybe it thinks better in Chinese?

New comment by Shank in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

Shank — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:11:24 +0000

You can set a user preference to open in a new tab. The reverse is not true.

The fight over Claude Mythos 5

Shank — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:29:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/950412/anthropic-trump-adminstration-claude-mythos-fable-5-export-controls

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552717

Points: 3

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New comment by Shank in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

Shank — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:53:42 +0000

For the record, those providers already charged a significant premium for the equivalent compute you could get at Hetzner and OVH. The margins have decreased but they've had a profit margin on compute for a long time.

New comment by Shank in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

Shank — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:52:37 +0000

> Have no clue what's going on in the back

Hetzner and OVH and other bare metal but low cost providers use commodity hardware. When that commodity hardware increases there is simply no other option. The secret to the success of these providers is using common off-the-shelf hardware instead of specialized server hardware, which is now being cannibalized.

New comment by Shank in "Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan"

Shank — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:28:14 +0000

> In one case, investigators in Kanagawa Prefecture found that a Sri Lankan national had set up roughly 600 shell companies. He also allegedly submitted business manager visa applications for at least six Sri Lankan nationals by listing them as company presidents on paper, even though they actually worked manual labor jobs.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the government has a problem with this practice. The problem is trying to create a system of requirements that is both feasible to put on paper and also testable. When the issue was raised, the income requirements were changed as an immediate reaction, but the ISA has broad authority to grant or deny based on many circumstances.

Put differently, acts like this were already illegal, but difficult for the ISA to catch. So they changed the base requirements which are theoretically much easier to catch than the actual illegal behavior.

New comment by Shank in "Prove you're human by winning a claw machine"

Shank — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:12:51 +0000

Of course not. It is clearly a fun toy.

New comment by Shank in "FTX's former Anthropic stake would be worth about $75B at today's valuation"

Shank — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:23:54 +0000

Liquidity has value too. Many FTX customers needed immediate liquidity. If you need immediate liquidity the value proposition years later is meaningless for most people because most people can’t get any bridge financing to cover the gap.

Mt. Gox also ran a fractional exchange for a long time until the bottom fell out. The trouble is that you simply can’t run an unannounced fractional exchange.

New comment by Shank in "Arch Linux AUR Hit by Another Wave of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack"

Shank — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:40:02 +0000

Is there any information on if this is the same attack vector (orphaned packages that were adopted)? I believe they already locked down adoption, but maybe also a combination of existing maintainers being taken over?

New comment by Shank in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

Shank — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:12:54 +0000

That's correct, orphaned packages could be adopted seemingly automatically, so someone did and then published malware in bulk.

New comment by Shank in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

Shank — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:49:22 +0000

Neither one of these did anything on Opus 4.8 / Max.

New comment by Shank in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

Shank — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:28:00 +0000

I’m on an M1 Max device and the GPU performance drops have not gotten back to Sequoia levels on Tahoe patches. Golden Gate hasn’t changed anything either.

New comment by Shank in "Bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time"

Shank — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:13:32 +0000

Automated systems that don’t sleep and are often programmed to aggressively scrape and are limited only by compute capacity outstripped humanity? I am not surprised by this at all.

New comment by Shank in "Shopify Is Down"

Shank — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:48:16 +0000

> But why is my business software doing the same?

Shopify runs a payment network called Shop Pay, and that network has relationships with the credit card companies like Visa. Honestly how do you expect to transact in goods that almost nobody will do business in? Even if you have the listing, what supported Shopify payment system will do the business?