Hacker News: YawningAngel

New comment by YawningAngel in "The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M"

YawningAngel — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:38:39 +0000

If your definition excludes Ethereum your understanding of the term so differs from everyone else's that we aren't talking about the same thing

New comment by YawningAngel in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

YawningAngel — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:33:58 +0000

I think the navigation system was OK, we just said the impacts were further West than they actually were so the V2s fell on East London instead

New comment by YawningAngel in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

YawningAngel — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:05:39 +0000

I'm a little torn on this one. On the one hand, people are bad epistemologists and lots of countries manage with similarly limited jury trials. On the other, we're doing it for cost reasons, which I think is the worst basis imaginable for such a move

New comment by YawningAngel in "Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB"

YawningAngel — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:23:04 +0000

I'm not quite clear on the how of it, but Stockfish works pretty well outside the normal bounds of chess. There are toy chess variants on chess.com with "dragons" (knight + bishop) and stockfish can use those very effectively

New comment by YawningAngel in "Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed"

YawningAngel — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:55:20 +0000

If you have a cogent critique of our policy on preserving old buildings, you should articulate it. As things stand you just sound unhinged

New comment by YawningAngel in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

YawningAngel — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:26:07 +0000

I don't think generative AI is even close to making model development 50% faster

New comment by YawningAngel in "HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden"

YawningAngel — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:21:39 +0000

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/n...

New comment by YawningAngel in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

YawningAngel — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 08:14:35 +0000

If they came to your home country, very possibly yes.

New comment by YawningAngel in "NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?"

YawningAngel — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:03:11 +0000

Which insinuations do you think are ludicrous? Is it not a matter of public record at this point that the NSA and NIST have lied to weaken cryptography standards?

New comment by YawningAngel in "Starbucks: Location closures and elimination of roles"

YawningAngel — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:29:55 +0000

Coffee is inherently not a consistent drink. The only brewing methods that don't vary significantly with brewer skill and chance are immersion brews, which aren't broadly used in modern coffee shops. It's surely better to not burn the beans to ash and accept some inconsistency than ruin the drink every time

New comment by YawningAngel in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

YawningAngel — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 11:06:25 +0000

We have had several serious nuclear incidents and none have destroyed either a continent or the people on it

New comment by YawningAngel in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

YawningAngel — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:44:30 +0000

You don't need verifiers. I interviewed at R3 (now Onyx) in JP Morgan and my take on the business was that it's more of a distributed ledger than a blockchain

New comment by YawningAngel in "The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module"

YawningAngel — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:52:12 +0000

Not really. It isn't hard to use FIPS validated software, it's just annoying to do because most libraries you would want to use aren't FIPS compliant by default for good reasons. If you can get a government contract in the first place you are already administratively competent enough to use FIPS.

New comment by YawningAngel in "The Mystery of People Who Speak Languages"

YawningAngel — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:10:23 +0000

I don't think anyone is able to learn many languages very easily. If you want to have meaningful discussions in a language you need a vocabulary on the order of 5-10k words depending on the subject and how much exposure you have, which is a cool year of study for even the fastest learners and more akin to 2-3 for us mere mortals.

Most cases of people speaking 10+ languages lean heavily on speaking many closely related languages in a family, which most people already cope with pretty well.

New comment by YawningAngel in "Aging-related inflammation is not universal across human populations"

YawningAngel — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:46:30 +0000

活き造り

New comment by YawningAngel in "What Happens When Hertz's AI Scanner Finds Damage on Your Rental"

YawningAngel — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:48:38 +0000

I agree that the UK also fucked this up royally. I don't think this excuses either jurisdiction. In both cases the legal system failed to robustly scrutinise the claims being made before depriving people of their liberty, and that is wholly unacceptable.

New comment by YawningAngel in "What Happens When Hertz's AI Scanner Finds Damage on Your Rental"

YawningAngel — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:02:03 +0000

It sounds like the real damage here was done by US law enforcement. Not to excuse Hertz

New comment by YawningAngel in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

YawningAngel — Sun, 18 May 2025 23:04:09 +0000

Yomitan (https://yomitan.wiki/) does this

New comment by YawningAngel in "Deadly Screwworm Parasite's Comeback Threatens Texas Cattle, US Beef Supply"

YawningAngel — Sat, 03 May 2025 19:32:43 +0000

We have decided, we elected a government and had it pass food safety laws.

New comment by YawningAngel in "Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads"

YawningAngel — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:11:11 +0000

A bunch of potential customers will buy at 5$ but not at 15$ so the seller will lose sales and hence money