Hacker News: antonios

New comment by antonios in "Review of Microsoft's ClearType Font Collection (2005)"

antonios — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:02:27 +0000

Let us not forget about Bill Hill, co-inventor of ClearType technology: https://www.geekwire.com/2012/remembering-bill-hill-importan...

New comment by antonios in "What's the right trust model for an agent-to-agent network?"

antonios — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:02:06 +0000

Interesting, will take a look. Regarding your questions:

- Historically, reputation and web-of-trust models have been tried with mixed results (see PGP/GPG history)

- Proof of work for human validation can probably be gamed, useful as a potential workaround for rate limiting/DDOS mitigation though (check how Tor uses it)

- I'd be very skeptical providing my full KYC details to a new service, perhaps a host verification a-la Let's Encrypt could be useful as a Layer 1 "KYC" tier?

New comment by antonios in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

antonios — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 10:47:18 +0000

As a quick solution before implementing the more sophisticated suggestions in this thread, you can try getting a small cheap VPS from somewhere outside and trafficking all your traffic through it via sshuttle[1]. For example, Vultr (not an endorsement) has some with ~$3/month that should be sufficient for your case.

[1] https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle

New comment by antonios in "Planetfall"

antonios — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:54:08 +0000

Well, since you asked, Arcanum, Colonization, Fallout 1, the original Pirates and, well, Caves of Qud (surprise).

New comment by antonios in "Planetfall"

antonios — Thu, 22 May 2025 12:35:06 +0000

Cartography, check. Alpha Centauri game, check. Very cool.

On my list, Alpha Centauri easily makes it on top 5 games ever made.

Thank you for the trip to memory lane.

New comment by antonios in "Certificate Transparency in Firefox"

antonios — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:56:41 +0000

That's interesting, can you share more information about your tech stack?

New comment by antonios in "Trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again"

antonios — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:57:16 +0000

Regarding Bluesky's decentralization: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

(hint: not that decentralized after all)

New comment by antonios in "What can strong engineers do that weak engineers can't?"

antonios — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 09:01:21 +0000

The immediate answer that came to mind _before_ I read the article, was "keep things simple". A lot of good things emanate from this mentality.

Old Computer Challenge – TC 2048

antonios — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 14:20:47 +0000

Article URL: https://0x00.cl/blog/2024/occ-2024/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42265446

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

ADE_651

antonios — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:18:24 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42165798

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

How to stop Firefox from making automatic connections

antonios — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:09:30 +0000

Article URL: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-stop-firefox-making-automatic-connections

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41552671

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by antonios in "OpenBSD, the computer appliance maker's secret weapon"

antonios — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 11:58:00 +0000

> while not even having a web page of security disclosures that happened in the past

https://www.openbsd.org/errata75.html

New comment by antonios in "The risk of RISC-V: What's going on at SiFive?"

antonios — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:44:14 +0000

Good thing I managed to grab a HiFive Unmatched. OpenBSD works sweetly on this.

C Primer

antonios — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 16:16:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.enlightenment.org/docs/c/start

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33494126

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by antonios in "The Linux scheduler: A decade of wasted cores (2016)"

antonios — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 06:50:19 +0000

I'm now wondering how many decades are still being lost because of similar bugs in other OSes that don't get as much scrutiny, like OpenBSD or even FreeBSD.

New comment by antonios in "Netlink Added to FreeBSD – Unmodified Linux IP(8) Correctly Works"

antonios — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 06:33:03 +0000

FreeBSD is doing a great job catching up to Linux, yes, (not in the ZFS case though where they were the pioneers) but once you start catching up you have to, well, continue catching up in perpetuity.

Meditations on Moloch (2014)

antonios — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 06:54:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Meditations-On-Moloch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32747332

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Paying for Productivity

antonios — Wed, 11 May 2022 06:02:28 +0000

Article URL: https://simulavr.com/blog/paying-for-productivity/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31336319

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by antonios in "Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide"

antonios — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 18:39:06 +0000

Yes please. ECC support by now should come by default, both in CPU support and in motherboards, RAM chips etc.

At least AMD Ryzen supports it, but the fact that one has to spend a lot of time to research through products, specs, forums and internet chats to figure out a good CPU, m/b & RAM combination that works is cumbersome, to say the least.

New comment by antonios in "Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019)"

antonios — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 16:49:15 +0000

FreeBSD has started supporting JSON output for various tools via `libxo` in their base system for quite some time now.