Hacker News: binkHN

New comment by binkHN in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

binkHN — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:06:26 +0000

> All you need is a macbook

Is it really not possible to do this with a non-Apple machine?

New comment by binkHN in "DKIM2 and DMARCbis Have Landed"

binkHN — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:07:12 +0000

Thanks for this, it made me actually read the posted content, but there's a lot of content to digest and a lot MTAs will have to implement.

New comment by binkHN in "The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games"

binkHN — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:57:00 +0000

I still miss Stadia.

New comment by binkHN in "Ferrari Luce"

binkHN — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:37:02 +0000

> energy efficiency matters more with EVs

This is correct, but I really don't see why Ferrari would care.

New comment by binkHN in "Ferrari Luce"

binkHN — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:34:24 +0000

> The lights gently recede when switched off, perserving the purity of the form

Wow. It's a Ferrari and the top things about the car is how the lights shut off. Way to go Ferrari.

New comment by binkHN in "Google changes its search box"

binkHN — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:24:34 +0000

It's a new frontier and people have not targeted it yet?

New comment by binkHN in "OpenBSD 7.9"

binkHN — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:57:09 +0000

Neat stuff, but this is not going to easily run the vast majority of open source software out there.

New comment by binkHN in "Google changes its search box"

binkHN — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:47:46 +0000

> When I am searching for something, I usually want to find primary sources.

And therein lies the rub; for years now Google's search results have returned useless SEO garbage. For now, it definitely seems like an LLM answer is better than what was being returned and I guess this is the reason why Google ripped it out.

New comment by binkHN in "OpenBSD 7.9"

binkHN — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:30:36 +0000

> OpenBSD focuses on auditing.

This is partially true; there are numerous other things that are done for mitigation outside of this.

New comment by binkHN in "OpenBSD 7.9"

binkHN — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:20:25 +0000

Agree. It's obvious some people are still having fun making operating systems!

New comment by binkHN in "OpenBSD 7.9"

binkHN — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:45:19 +0000

Agreed. I also like that code doesn't get committed without a quality man page.

New comment by binkHN in "OpenBSD 7.9"

binkHN — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:26:08 +0000

There was a time when Linux distributions shipped lots of things on by default; OpenBSD bucked the trend and did not. This is less of an issue nowadays.

New comment by binkHN in "OpenBSD 7.9"

binkHN — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:23:08 +0000

> when configured correctly.

These are the operative words. With OpenBSD, you get this out of the box and everything just works. With other operating systems, you have to do a lot of the legwork that's already been done for you with OpenBSD and make sure you didn't break things with your configuration.

New comment by binkHN in "OpenBSD 7.9"

binkHN — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:29:38 +0000

I really like OpenSMTPD; no nonsense and configuration feels rather modern compared to the legacy stuff that's out there.

New comment by binkHN in "OpenBSD 7.9"

binkHN — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:33:56 +0000

I recently updated an older OpenBSD router and firewall and the amount of native IPv6 support right out of the box makes this an unbelievable breeze.

New comment by binkHN in "CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub"

binkHN — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:05:26 +0000

Yeah, but the words gross negligence is legal for you're going to be sued for a whole lot of money.

New comment by binkHN in "OpenBSD 7.9"

binkHN — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:43:11 +0000

It depends. You can expect a 5 to 15% performance hit depending on the task. In OpenBSD, security comes first and performance comes second.

New comment by binkHN in "OpenBSD 7.9"

binkHN — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:38:34 +0000

It is, by far, my first choice for a router/firewall. It has so many niceties for this, all well integrated OOTB, and you can deploy something top notch in no time at all.

New comment by binkHN in "OpenBSD 7.9"

binkHN — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:33:32 +0000

While I daily Linux on my workstation, OpenBSD is my favorite OS, by far, and I use it wherever it makes sense for me.

New comment by binkHN in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

binkHN — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:07:09 +0000

> This is rendered even easier by the fact that the kernel is always at the same physical address on Pixel

OpenBSD fixed this back in 2017.