Hacker News: bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bertmanHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:35:16 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by bertman in "Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk"]]>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45294440

]]>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:34:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47272865bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47272865https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47272865<![CDATA[New comment by bertman in "Show HN: I made a one-click Chrome extension to export bookmarks as JSON"]]>I think you misslopped something. The slop you linked actually deletes '404' bookmarks and does not offer JSON export.

]]>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:15:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46839095bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46839095https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46839095<![CDATA[Silicon, not oil: Why the U.S. needs the Gulf for AI]]>Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2026/pax-silica-qatar-uae/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586136

Points: 1

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]]>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:37:37 +0000https://restofworld.org/2026/pax-silica-qatar-uae/bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586136https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586136<![CDATA[Terence Tao: Cleverness versus Intelligence in AI Tools and Humans]]>Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115722360006034040

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46271713

Points: 4

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]]>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:20:33 +0000https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115722360006034040bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46271713https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46271713<![CDATA[Tao: Intelligence is too high-dimensional for accurate low-dimensional narrative]]>Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115620261936846090

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46067647

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

]]>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:00:32 +0000https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115620261936846090bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46067647https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46067647<![CDATA[Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support]]>Article URL: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898407

Points: 1106

# Comments: 627

]]>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:12:53 +0000https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15012bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898407https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898407<![CDATA[New comment by bertman in "Show HN: I built a free VPN that runs directly in Chrome"]]>Your description is not accurate and quite misleading.

>QuickVPN runs entirely in your browser

Like I said: What do you mean with this? You did not build a "VPN" that runs in the browser. Your extension sets up a web proxy.

And worse:

>or log user data.

You're implying you're running some kind of "no log" service which is false.

]]>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 20:59:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793394bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793394https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793394<![CDATA[New comment by bertman in "Show HN: I built a free VPN that runs directly in Chrome"]]>>QuickVPN runs entirely in your browser

What does that even mean? This AI-coded extension uses a Cloudflare worker to generate API keys for the proxy service "webshare.io". It then uses the Chrome proxy API (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/p...) to set up a Webshare proxy server.

>or log user data

Webshare.io log everything they can, as expected (https://www.webshare.io/privacy-policy)

]]>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 12:49:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789927bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789927https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45789927<![CDATA[New comment by bertman in "China's chipmakers are cleverly innovating around America's limits"]]>https://archive.ph/O0n0g

]]>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:13:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670397bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670397https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670397<![CDATA[China's chipmakers are cleverly innovating around America's limits]]>Article URL: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/10/22/chinas-chipmakers-are-cleverly-innovating-around-americas-limits

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670396

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

]]>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:13:09 +0000https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/10/22/chinas-chipmakers-are-cleverly-innovating-around-americas-limitsbertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670396https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45670396<![CDATA[New comment by bertman in "What's Up with FUTO?"]]>Site seems down. https://web.archive.org/web/20251022103755/https://drewdevau...

]]>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 11:31:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45667516bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45667516https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45667516<![CDATA[The App Store was always authoritarian]]>Article URL: https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45556032

Points: 150

# Comments: 103

]]>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 07:20:36 +0000https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45556032https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45556032<![CDATA[New comment by bertman in "In a post-truth world truth-seeking is more important"]]>Complete article (extracted from the site's HTML element and converted to Markdown):

https://privatebin.net/?4c31faa3cd73a20c#3fu148gYZqMAwHCY2xx...

]]>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 13:02:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45548838bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45548838https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45548838<![CDATA[Former UK prime minster Sunak becomes human Clippy for Microsoft, Anthropic]]>Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/former_uk_prime_minister_rishi/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538206

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

]]>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:29:28 +0000https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/former_uk_prime_minister_rishi/bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538206https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538206<![CDATA[Indonesia's film industry embraces AI to make Hollywood-style movies for cheap]]>Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537291

Points: 28

# Comments: 5

]]>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:37:51 +0000https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537291https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537291<![CDATA[Terence Tao: The role of small organizations in society has shrunk significantly]]>Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115259943398316677

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362697

Points: 1060

# Comments: 565

]]>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:32:24 +0000https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115259943398316677bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362697https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362697<![CDATA[New comment by bertman in "Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos"]]>Reference: https://youtu.be/hHwjceFcF2Q (Blade Runner scene)

]]>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:18:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45356898bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45356898https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45356898<![CDATA[New comment by bertman in "YAML document from hell (2023)"]]>Discussion from 3 years ago, when this was originally posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34351503 , 566 points, 358 comments

]]>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:44:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45345626bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45345626https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45345626<![CDATA[New comment by bertman in "Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook"]]>Thanks for this!

Sam Henri Gold's readme is really funny, especially in comparison to Fartscroll-Lid's soulless AI emoji slopfest of a readme.

]]>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 07:06:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45219444bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45219444https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45219444<![CDATA[Splitting a long string in lines efficiently]]>Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2025/09/07/splitting-a-long-string-in-lines-efficiently/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45165445

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:17:57 +0000https://lemire.me/blog/2025/09/07/splitting-a-long-string-in-lines-efficiently/bertmanhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45165445https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45165445