<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: alphager</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alphager</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:19:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alphager" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is zero mechanism by which the ICC can indict Trump. Its jurisdiction is only over signature countries and their territories; the US is not a signatory country.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:53:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024256</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024256</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FYI: you can turn off video content in the family account settings (not the parental settings).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:14:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886260</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are on a site that's part of the SV culture. The culture that approves if everything not explicitly lillegal done to increase the ROI on startups. The culture that celebrates negative externalities as "disruption".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:14:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786284</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786284</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Have you had recent experiences? I thought the same until I tried it out, on decision stable no less. The driver support nowadays is incredibly good on Linux (my desktop Bluetooth didn't work under Windows with official drivers; just works without any tinkering under Linux).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:31:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700707</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "FreeCORE TrueNAS Core – Continued"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Truenas core is BSD, not GPL.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 08:47:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496897</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49496897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>France24 is a reliable news channel based in France.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:07:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446919</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446919</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49446919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tell me about it! We've got slightly under 10'000 distinct software assets we are trying to catalogue. There are now a handful of vendors claiming to be able to scan for crypto, but they all <i>suck</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:08:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997527</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997527</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "France's Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I work as a security architect in a major European company. We're currently demanding a full cryptographic inventory of every new product purchased or service built in-house and will start demanding PQC in 2028.<p>Not because we expect a workable quantum computer by 2030 (current estimates are around 2035-2040), but because stuff survives for decades in large enterprises (especially if it touches hardware in any way. Think OT, think controllers for all kinds of machines).<p>Now that PQC is standardized, there's no gain not to demand it (it's basically a demand to use a current openSSL/libreSSL/$library), but not demanding it now will cause a major headache once/if quantum computers work.<p>TLS connection speed matter only for a very tiny niche of applications; those will choose according to their needs. For the general case, it just doesn't matter.<p>If your threat model includes store-now-decrypt-later, you should have been demanding PQC for years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:43:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997215</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997215</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The check for citizenship is not done at the polling place; it's done at the time of voter registration with plenty of accepted IDs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:17:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621211</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ZFS on Linux works great, but with most distributions, it will compile the kernel module on device upon installation. Only Ubuntu distributes binaries.<p>As a consequence, you don't necessarily want a rolling distro, as the ZFS module can get out of sync with the kernel.<p>ZFS itself is build for both BSD and Linux from the same source, so there's feature parity there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:29:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587856</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's bias and then there's ignoring all of your own laws when it's convenient.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:24:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578432</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are very limited seats (a few teens of thousands). Free market logic dictates that the 100000 richest fans get the tickets.<p>If you don't like it, you are not a true believer in a free market. There's a reason social democrat countries heavily subsidize culture.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:10:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453728</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48453728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>*in the US</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:17:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435671</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435671</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48435671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is absolutely bonkers to think about using UV to disinfect human skin, let alone the inside of the human body.<p>Any UV radiation strong enough to destroy the cells of bacteria is strong enough to destroy human cells. We know that UV-radiaton that's not strong enough to kill bacteria is already harmful to human skin (we call the phenomenon sunburn).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:21:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400865</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nope. You have to possess a valid ID or passport, but you are not required to carry it. Keeping it at home is perfectly fine.<p>Carrying it is practical and most Germans do carry their ID, but it's not a requirement.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 22:35:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286923</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We are as close as you can get, but we estimate that we're about 3.5% away from true optimum on the hardest problem we try to optimize.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 18:45:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284042</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Absolutely true in the real world; I was part of a real team that explored quantum optimization algorithms as part of a strategic initiative (my day job is algorithmic optimization on classical computers).<p>Our problem is similar (but not identical) to the traveling salesman problem. We run on a tight time constraint (measured in days for the complex type and measured in minutes for the simple type).<p>We're running approximations on classic computers but estimate that we'd save billions if we could reach optimum.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 22:32:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272692</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272692</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Logistics would love to optimize the traveling salesman problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 18:58:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270344</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270344</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>X$ for the ticket plus a convenience fee/service fee for standing in line.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 20:40:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228606</link><dc:creator>alphager</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228606</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alphager in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What difficulties do you mean? We got Sepa instant transfers nowadays...</p>
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