Hacker News: Suzuran

New comment by Suzuran in "Apollo Guidance Computer restoration videos"

Suzuran — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:17:50 +0000

If you have relays, the easiest RAM is just a bank of latching relays and the easiest ROM is a resistor board. Core rope is only for density.

New comment by Suzuran in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

Suzuran — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:54:01 +0000

The company doesn't get the choice. If they fire you or cut your pay over jury service, or even just threaten to to do so, and you can prove it, they can be arrested immediately. I have personally witnessed a judge issue a bench warrant for the arrest of a retail manager who told an employee that if she failed to get out of jury duty before her shift started that she would be fired. When the manager was brought in and questioned by the judge he tried to argue that it was his right to deny jury service by his employees. He was given 90 days in jail for contempt of court.

New comment by Suzuran in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

Suzuran — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:39:57 +0000

The problem is punishing the uploader doesn't remove the upload. Once the public has it, it has it forever. It doesn't un-contaminate a jury pool, and there's no later retraction if whatever that was uploaded is found to be lacking context, false, or outright fabricated. Once that kind of damage is done, it can't be un-done.

New comment by Suzuran in "What’s on HTTP?"

Suzuran — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:40:09 +0000

Using HTTP does not guarantee your content can be read, since it can be modified in transit. Your content could be replaced entirely and you would never know unless someone reported it to you.

New comment by Suzuran in "What’s on HTTP?"

Suzuran — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:35:42 +0000

I must correct myself; The DNS challenge is indeed being discouraged in the future, but it is because the DNS-01 challenge is being replaced by the DNS-PERSIST-01 challenge which addresses deficiencies in DNS-01.

The trust and security issues associated with maintaining intranet resources vs. outsourcing to a dedicated professional cloud service provider remain, but are not related to whether any SSL certificates used are issued through DNS-based verification or not.

New comment by Suzuran in "What’s on HTTP?"

Suzuran — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:50:14 +0000

But, as we learned with the telnet filter going into place, we exist on the network at the pleasure of everyone else. Their concerns must come before ours. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

New comment by Suzuran in "What’s on HTTP?"

Suzuran — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:43:37 +0000

It is my understanding that DNS challenges are discouraged and/or being deprecated due to the challenge results being less trustworthy than more stringent verification methods. There is also the operational overhead that arises as SSL certificate lifetimes shorten; It is my understanding that there is now a case being made for SSL certificate lifetimes shorter than 24 hours.

New comment by Suzuran in "The Day the Telnet Died"

Suzuran — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:08:01 +0000

I meant rewriting it for IPv6 instead of IPv4.

New comment by Suzuran in "The Day the Telnet Died"

Suzuran — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:19:46 +0000

If I am rewriting the network stack or making other substantial changes, that defeats the purpose of historical preservation.

New comment by Suzuran in "The Day the Telnet Died"

Suzuran — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:29:15 +0000

Some of us still run historical systems for preservation's sake.

New comment by Suzuran in "The Day the Telnet Died"

Suzuran — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:26:41 +0000

I run a PDP-10 during the colder parts of the year. It's for historical preservation reasons. There are others doing the same thing. We still offer telnet access because that's how it worked back then. I guess we aren't going to be doing that anymore.

New comment by Suzuran in "David Long's 751-point Adventure has been found"

Suzuran — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:21:08 +0000

(This was supposed to be a machine name pun; "AI" was the name of a specific PDP-10)

New comment by Suzuran in "AI Usage Policy"

Suzuran — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:20:10 +0000

In a lot of ways he is, despite witnessing a lot of how the sausage is made directly. Honestly, I think at at least half of it is wanting to convince himself that the world still functions in ways that make sense to him rather than admit that it's mostly grifters grifting all the way down.

New comment by Suzuran in "AI Usage Policy"

Suzuran — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:14:16 +0000

My boss says it's because they are backed by trillion dollar companies and the companies would face dire legal threats if they did not ensure the correctness of AI output.

New comment by Suzuran in "David Long's 751-point Adventure has been found"

Suzuran — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:37:27 +0000

Just have AI translate it.

New comment by Suzuran in "Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts"

Suzuran — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:17:34 +0000

I am aware (of the Judenlettern decree). The reference to exactly this was intentional.

(Edit to make this really obvious: The joke here is that "fraktur = nazis" became such a meme that the nazis themselves were annoyed by it and forbade its use, but this is exactly the kind of thing the present administration would either be unaware of or simply ignore and then use fraktur intentionally to pander to neo-nazis.)

New comment by Suzuran in "Times New American: A Tale of Two Fonts"

Suzuran — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:23:24 +0000

Fraktur.

New comment by Suzuran in "JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet"

Suzuran — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:27:58 +0000

Turning the transponder off only prevents civilian ATC from knowing your identification and altitude. They will still see your position as a primary target on their radar.

New comment by Suzuran in "JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet"

Suzuran — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:24:59 +0000

Military aircraft mostly do not have civilian VHF radio, only military UHF radio. They can only communicate with civilian aircraft by using civilian ATC as a go-between, and only if the civilian ATC is equipped with military UHF radio. In the US, this military equipment is standard at civilian ATC sites for this reason.

New comment by Suzuran in "Grok Is Glitching and Spewing Misinformation About the Bondi Beach Shooting"

Suzuran — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:37:28 +0000

Since GP might not have English as their first language (their post points out that they are European) I assumed the choice of "pure" was a translation of their language's equivalent to "whole" and therefore being treated as equivalent.