Hacker News: bas

New comment by bas in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

bas — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:58:59 +0000

Fascinating. What a time to be alive.

New comment by bas in "The fall of Labubus and the mush of modern internet trends"

bas — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 02:15:55 +0000

Extending on that era’s TV programming (born in the late 70s), even if it wasn’t “your show”, there was only one screen in play. Secondary devices came much later.

New comment by bas in "Using uv as your shebang line"

bas — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:50:04 +0000

Very informative. Thank you!

New comment by bas in "Advent of Code 2024"

bas — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 03:34:13 +0000

Day 1 led me to a deep(ish) dive into the CPython implementation of the abs(...) builtin. Good times!

New comment by bas in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

bas — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:59:49 +0000

Indeed. 5th Circuit -> SCOTUS will easy mode for right-wing causes (if it isn't already).

New comment by bas in "FreeBSD/EC2 boot performance over time"

bas — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 02:32:57 +0000

Your FreeBSD on AWS work is appreciated, @cperciva.

New comment by bas in "Escaping from Anaconda's Stranglehold on macOS"

bas — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 09:39:21 +0000

^ seconding this

New comment by bas in "How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop"

bas — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:37:43 +0000

Brings back memories, but you'd have to install a programming environment, e.g.:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Works...

- http://www.think-pascal.org/#SetUp

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THINK_C

New comment by bas in "Shape typing in Python"

bas — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 15:26:20 +0000

Thank you, for putting many of my frustrations to words.

New comment by bas in "Unraveling Havana syndrome: New evidence implicates the GRU's assassination unit"

bas — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:44:47 +0000

This was the lead story on 60 Minutes tonight, right after the final Elite Eight game of March Madness. Increased visibility, at least.

New comment by bas in "Google ordered to identify who watched certain YouTube videos"

bas — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 03:21:50 +0000

Consider: if your adversary is the NSA, CIA, or (maybe) FBI, you’ve already lost the game you’re playing.

New comment by bas in "Pornhub Blocked in Texas"

bas — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 01:03:19 +0000

It works quite well in practice, as KYC (know your customer) is in order for every state that has legalized it. Typically, a government-issued id#, SSN (last 4), and perhaps a license photo or selfie are required to open an account.

New comment by bas in "Harvard Faces New Threat of State Tax on $51B Endowment"

bas — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 03:52:36 +0000

Amusingly, and colloquially, Harvard predates the government by more than a century.

New comment by bas in "California tech transplants unhappy with exodus to Austin, report says"

bas — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 17:00:28 +0000

Did ambition die, or did founders encounter a populace that believes in work/life balance?

New comment by bas in "Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To"

bas — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 16:58:14 +0000

I felt dirty reading the blog post as a longtime ZFS (FreeBSD) user.

New comment by bas in "The AWS Console is mostly down"

bas — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:17:14 +0000

Our RDS instances seem to be fine (can connect, run queries, ...). The console is borked though.

New comment by bas in "WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveillance creep (2022)"

bas — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 01:47:21 +0000

Daily standups can be performed via a Slack channel and a template.

New comment by bas in "Senate Bill to Ban TikTok"

bas — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 02:10:40 +0000

In what sense is TikTok "Chinese media" when the majority of the creators (consumed in the US) are in the West?

New comment by bas in "Twenty-five years of curl"

bas — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 09:17:41 +0000

You omitted the GPT and web3 (possibly passé) angles…

New comment by bas in "Dealers boldly peddle drugs on sidewalk tables in NYC NoMad"

bas — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 02:54:59 +0000

Nothing to see here. That stretch of Broadway has been sketchy for decades.