Hacker News: aargh_aargh

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

aargh_aargh — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:38:26 +0000

First impressions assuming the goal is to replace the incumbent SQL. Haven't seen the language yet.

  * D4M rolls off the tongue
  * Make me buy a book to see the language.

New comment by aargh_aargh in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

aargh_aargh — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:32:08 +0000

I've seen this delay in action when logging in into an old dormant Google account. After I provided correct password (and some other details I remember vaguely - probably no phone number set and some problem with using the TOTP I set up long ago), it sent an email to the linked primary email and waited for a day to give it a chance to abort before logging me in.

The delay is quite a bother but it's surely better than account takeover. What I mind about the process is probably the lack of transparency - what combination of factors (MFA pieces, location, inactive time, ...) launches which process? I get that transparency might help attackers here but they're the ones to have the persistence to figure out the rules anyway. Smells like security through obscurity to me.

New comment by aargh_aargh in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

aargh_aargh — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:58:27 +0000

I had no idea what traces are in this context. While looking, I found this post from @OpenRouter:

https://x.com/OpenRouter/status/2041193329270878707

  > Privacy:
  > 
  > Private I/O logging and the 1% data sharing discount are separate settings. You control each independently.
  > 
  > Input & Output Logging stores prompts and completions for your use only and makes them visible in your logs. OpenRouter does not access this data. You can configure it in your observability settings.
  > 
  > As always, more in the docs!

https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/input-output-logg...

https://openrouter.ai/docs/guides/features/broadcast/overvie...

New comment by aargh_aargh in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

aargh_aargh — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:42:17 +0000

The practical concern of Linux developers regarding responsibility is not being able to ban the author, it's that the author should take ongoing care for his contribution.

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio?"

aargh_aargh — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:58:10 +0000

Huh, I guessed all correct. Random guess would have a 1/(2^5) = 1/32 chance of being correct.

I don't make any claim to any special hearing or expertise. I've been listening to practically only lossy music since around '98, ripping from CDs at that time.

Morricone and Vangelis have been especially hard for me to tell apart, could have been a random guess on my part (I listened to those ~20 times).

When I read the title I expected to hear the actual _difference_ between the lossless and lossy waveform - i.e. only the actual artifacts. Could be a fun exercise.

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Ask HN: Is there a no-LLM license yet?"

aargh_aargh — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:25:36 +0000

Not an objection, you're fully within your rights to invent a license, just remember that a license with such clause would not be an open source license as per the Open Source Definition [1].

  6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

  The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

There's also 5. which probably isn't relevant here but possibly might depending on the definition of person (e.g. a legal person).

  5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

  The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

And then there's the obvious aspect of AI foundries blatantly ignoring copyright anyway (copyright law grants the the author the rights which he then gives away by way of a license).

[1] https://opensource.org/osd

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Prism"

aargh_aargh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:42:07 +0000

I still can't get over the Apple thing. Haven't enjoyed a ripe McIntosh since.

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Our approach to age prediction"

aargh_aargh — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:41:37 +0000

> simple way to confirm their age and restore their full access with a selfie through Persona, a secure identity-verification service

The normalization of identity verification to use internet services is itself a problem. It's described much better than I could by EFF here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-...

New comment by aargh_aargh in "HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)"

aargh_aargh — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:26:23 +0000

Honest question/thought - at this point where we have all HTTP requests for a site just redirecting everything to HTTPS, we use HSTS and browsers default to trying https when scheme is not given, why don't we just stop serving on port 80 altogether? Why even bother with HSTS?

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Rust GCC backend: Why and how"

aargh_aargh — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:19:13 +0000

Or, the obligatory RFC 1149 (IP over Avian Carriers).

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Twelve Days of Shell"

aargh_aargh — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:47:07 +0000

The good: Nice exercises for beginners. Tab-completion, accepts readline characters like ctrl-u.

The bad: You don't see the (wrong) output if you don't get it right the first time, making it hard to work iteratively and having to guess what the question actually intended.

E.g. 'Seven files that start with "Santa"' actually wants file names that start with Santa, after some questions that had you use "grep" to search file contents. Where I actually struggled with what's expected is Day 11.

The ugly: Actually a very nice design.

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Fara-7B: An efficient agentic model for computer use"

aargh_aargh — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:41:09 +0000

This is in my area of interest. Can you recommend any related tools/resources? Did you publish any code?

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI"

aargh_aargh — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:56:18 +0000

Exactly. The best they came up with is a generated subject-like summary. So many options to explore here. Categorization by topic, by date, by customer account, clustering by topic, search with various ranking options, conversation(s) tree view, histogram per date/topic/account, integration with email, with an issue tracker, various states per chat/thread e.g. resolved/ongoing/non-viable, a knowledge bank to quickly save stuff you learned (code snippets, commands, facts), integration with Notion or a wiki etc etc. Just off the top of my head.

I was told there would be rapid prototyping with AI. Haven't seen any of the above.

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

aargh_aargh — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:39:33 +0000

newspeak FTW!

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Ask HN: Effective way to deal with mosquitoes?"

aargh_aargh — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:34:08 +0000

No idea but let me guess. Consumer safety?

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Omnilingual ASR: Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1600 languages"

aargh_aargh — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:01:39 +0000

I'm not an expert but the rule of thumb is to expect something like this:

https://xkcd.com/1838/

New comment by aargh_aargh in "WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration"

aargh_aargh — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 21:04:13 +0000

What's Docker for, then?

Stats of GitHub PRs opened/merged by LLM agents

aargh_aargh — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:48:24 +0000

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/1/prarena/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448433

Points: 1

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New comment by aargh_aargh in "Native ACME support comes to Nginx"

aargh_aargh — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:11:42 +0000

One less program to install, configure, upgrade, watch vulnerabilities in, monitor.

Xan – CSV preview, filter, slice, aggregate, sort, join; composable commands

aargh_aargh — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:45:42 +0000

Article URL: https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/en/tools/xan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208944

Points: 2

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