Hacker News: VortexLain

New comment by VortexLain in "Coursera and Udemy are now one company"

VortexLain — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:25:51 +0000

Well, having less competition is a bad thing.

New comment by VortexLain in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

VortexLain — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:21:44 +0000

GPS and other similar technologies work by passively listening to the satellite signals without having to respond to them in any manner. Location is calculated based on time it took for the signal from difficult beacons to arrive.

New comment by VortexLain in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

VortexLain — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:11:21 +0000

>we'll even buy compute from China if we can sell Anthropic models there.

Considering that Anthropic mass-bans Chinese users accounts based on using VPN (used to circumvent the Chinese firewall) and then demands an ID or a residence permit of a country where Claude officially works to ensure that the user doesn't live in China, seems unlikely.

New comment by VortexLain in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

VortexLain — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:49:23 +0000

It would have been much better to be able to disable telemetry without losing basic functionality such as navigation and safety updates. Having to choose between being spied on and having no connectivity at all is a false dichotomy.

New comment by VortexLain in "Parallel agents in Zed"

VortexLain — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:32:42 +0000

I personally explicitly avoid parallel agents, since it creates too much cognitive debt, and sometimes an agent may need steering towards an architectally sane solution mid-work.

New comment by VortexLain in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

VortexLain — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:07:24 +0000

I've tried it but after 10 minutes I found myself not comfortable running software this unpolished, specifically managing any sort of private data.

New comment by VortexLain in "Shall I implement it? No"

VortexLain — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:56:17 +0000

Appending "Good." before clarifying questions actually helps with that suprisingly well.

New comment by VortexLain in "Shall I implement it? No"

VortexLain — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:50:23 +0000

GPT models are generally much better at C++, although they sometimes tend to produce correct but overengineered code, and the operator has to keep an eye on that.

New comment by VortexLain in "Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores"

VortexLain — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:40:34 +0000

Now this is bad. "Registered App Stores" seems like a way to satisfy regulators before taking away the user's right to execute arbitrary code on their devices (or as it's called in modern corporate newspeak: sideloading).

OpenAI requires ID verification for cybersecurity related tasks

VortexLain — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:18:30 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/trusted-access-for-cyber/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910042

Points: 4

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New comment by VortexLain in "Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering"

VortexLain — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:06:57 +0000

I haven't looked at the MCP server, but generally, reverse engineering with AI is quite underrated. I’ve had success extracting encryption keys from an android app that uses encryption to vendor-lock users by forcing them to use that specific app to open files that should otherwise be in an open format.

By the way, this app had embedded the key into the shader, and it was required to actually run this shader on android device to obtain the key.

New comment by VortexLain in "Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features"

VortexLain — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:51:46 +0000

You should probably look into https://justthebrowser.com/. This software sets up browser corporate policies to achieve exactly what you want.

New comment by VortexLain in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

VortexLain — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:20:49 +0000

Social media age restriation is just an anonymity ban in disguise. Governments should focus on regulations knowingly addictive and overly engaging mechanics instead.

New comment by VortexLain in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

VortexLain — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:10:16 +0000

I really hope this would be geared towards clients being able to verify the server state or just general server related usecases, instead of trying to replicate SafetyNet-style corporate dystopia on the desktop.

New comment by VortexLain in "Iran is likely jamming Starlink"

VortexLain — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:45:01 +0000

Yes, but such tools aren't popular enough for the censor to specifically target.

New comment by VortexLain in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

VortexLain — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:26:31 +0000

If it's mandated that banking apps must not run in a user-controlled environment for the sake of security, users should have the right to refuse such "protection" by signing a piece of paperwork at the banks office.

New comment by VortexLain in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

VortexLain — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:21:53 +0000

So, how airgapped systems are supposed to get activated from now on?

New comment by VortexLain in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

VortexLain — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:22:00 +0000

> The important part is to not let the placeholder end up in the "finished" product.

Maybe, some sort of a temporary asset management system is required?

New comment by VortexLain in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

VortexLain — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:14:24 +0000

Such features should be disabled by default, but as a user of Zen, I really hope it'd be possible to enable AI features.

New comment by VortexLain in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

VortexLain — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:55:25 +0000

This would be useful for many people who want to avoid AI features being forced on them by every piece of software imaginable. Hopefully, a centralized kill switch like this will also make it easy for Firefox forks such as Zen and Floorp to let users enable AI features if they want to without changing about:flags.