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New comment by atmosx in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

atmosx — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:18:46 +0000

> Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?

For most software engineers LLMs represent future financial uncertainty, pushing them into a tailspin. For a substantial subgroup the challenge runs deeper IMO. They are experiencing an identity crisis, as a central component of their self-concept is being violently stripped away on top of the financial uncertainty.

New comment by atmosx in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

atmosx — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:03:30 +0000

Yeap and still has bugs (reports say that the base system bin in 7.9 doesn't work properly): https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=178070682043839&w=2

And here: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&w=2&r=1&s=rsync&q=b you can quite a few other bugs...

I use OpenBSD for routers and love it :-) but it is software, hence it has bugs .-

New comment by atmosx in "Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements"

atmosx — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:26:13 +0000

Doesn’t depend on the language? Actually I am thinking of the standard library… Python’s in kinda huge and some are hard (for me) to grasp. Golangs seem pretty simple.

New comment by atmosx in "Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements"

atmosx — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:23:41 +0000

> Two, the HA story is so much more complicated than it should be.

Really? I am curious, how would simplify it? It’s a very well defined problem and all the “solutions” are very complicated and with many strings attached. I have managed one or two systems that came in different modalities and you had to pick your poison and had to make sure the other engineering teams understand the trade offs. Some were more successful than others, but “easy” never crossed my mind.

Redis is single threaded and doesn’t concern itself with these things, directly, exactly because Antitez understood the trade offs and made all the right choices.

How would you improve the HA story without sacrificing ease of use and performance on a single thread?

New comment by atmosx in "The desperation of NYTimes"

atmosx — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:58:11 +0000

For anyone else interested, here’s the link to the newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthe...

New comment by atmosx in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

atmosx — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:04:18 +0000

> Finally, on May 13th, after ~36,000 km across 12 countries over 42 days, the laptop had arrived.

This is by all means amazing. Kudos.

New comment by atmosx in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

atmosx — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:00:09 +0000

...long standing indeed. It can be traced back to Plato's works.

New comment by atmosx in "Ask HN: Best static site generator for a docs site in 2026?"

atmosx — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:00:51 +0000

I’m using middleman for ages and been pretty happy with it. It’s a ruby-based static side generator framework.

I have no idea about speed. Markdown support sure, I use HAML as well. There are search plugins but you can use any a publicly available search engine (Google, DuckDuckGo, etc) for that if you want to avoid JS or backend DBs.

New comment by atmosx in "CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers"

atmosx — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:47:52 +0000

Have you tested running the PoC in a pod with and without proviEsc set?

New comment by atmosx in "CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers"

atmosx — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:04:52 +0000

tl;dr: switch to podman :-) or (for docker, not mention in the post but...) just `allowPrivilegeEscalation=False` in the deployment's SCC and you'll be fine at the pod level. Most deployments don't need priv escalation anyway, the ones that do need to either limits perms through capabilities or make sure the node (meaning the kernel) is patched.

New comment by atmosx in "Ask HN: Anyone feel like they're just opting out of tech these days?"

atmosx — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:54:43 +0000

How is creating low value, quickly depreciating products good? The op implied this is all a scam, and the went on saying author should become the scammer instead of the victim.

Sensor tampering to win weather bets

atmosx — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:37:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/23/hairdryer-or-lighter-french-police-look-at-claim-of-sensor-tampering-to-win-weather-bets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898961

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

I Stumbled Across My Boyfriend's ChatGPT and It Ended Our Relationship

atmosx — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:08:04 +0000

Article URL: https://lindseyhallwrites.substack.com/p/i-read-my-boyfriends-chatgpt-and

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816981

Points: 13

# Comments: 7

New comment by atmosx in "Ban the sale of precise geolocation"

atmosx — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:58:33 +0000

Both make sense. Depends on who you want to protect.

New comment by atmosx in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

atmosx — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:56:13 +0000

Back in 2018, CloudFormation data leaked through a public gist (misconfigured gist plugin, I thought the gist was private but it wasn't... I had change the default config) and showed up on an obscure website being served via CloudFlare. When I contacted CF, they claimed they couldn’t remove the cached content because their system “doesn’t work like that". I pushed back and then they said that they're not responsible for the content and that I should send another email to abuse@cf... to get data about the hosting provider and deal with the content provider (e.g. VPS, ISP, whatever). After a few back and forth msgs, I made it clear that if the data wasn’t taken down within a week or so, I would escalate the issue to the local and German GDPR authority (see https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/european-network-of-ombud...).

And what do you know? I got not reply, but the content disappeared in ~48hrs.

New comment by atmosx in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

atmosx — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:23:48 +0000

My guess is that *BSDs will see a huge boosts in HW support in the following years, primarily due to LLMs.

New comment by atmosx in "Do your own writing"

atmosx — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:31:10 +0000

I take it ideas to mean “well scoped replies” like “list pro and con if this vs that got flow”. While someone might think of N issues the LLM might present another six out of which three or four don’t make sense but one or two do. Might be worth adding these in the document.

New comment by atmosx in "Bird brains (2023)"

atmosx — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:57:48 +0000

Have you? I never came across a cat that prefers rain and cold over dry and cold (and pillows and food). But the most cats in houses or apartments I have seen come in and out as they please through specially built doors in roofs, doors or windows.

New comment by atmosx in "Anyone know how long it will take to re-start Qatar's helium plants?"

atmosx — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:48:53 +0000

you said “latest thread” and I like “didn’t he called for a truce” the I see this comment was three days ago… obviously he has said everything and the opposite by now.

New comment by atmosx in "Migrating to the EU"

atmosx — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:10:11 +0000

Fastmails servers are in the US IIRC.