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New comment by blahgeek in "When “idle” isn't idle: how a Linux kernel optimization became a QUIC bug"

blahgeek — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:17:35 +0000

The more precise title should be: How we copied code from Linux kernel without fully understand it and missed its follow-up fixes, now it bites us

New comment by blahgeek in "Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"

blahgeek — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:01:49 +0000

Reminds me of Cython vs CPython

New comment by blahgeek in "MacBook Neo"

blahgeek — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 05:10:50 +0000

Yeah that’s totally reasonable. I’m just curious about how do they make a thicker and heavier laptop with less capabilities… do they intentionally make the case thicker or something?

New comment by blahgeek in "MacBook Neo"

blahgeek — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:41:57 +0000

I completely understand that as a cheap one, it has to be worse than macbook air in some aspect to make the product line work. However I'm genuinely curious why it's thicker and no lighter than the Macbook Air, while at the same time has shorter battery life, less ports, no keyboard light, and a smaller chip? Do they put dead weight inside it or something?

New comment by blahgeek in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

blahgeek — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:58:02 +0000

Same. And I don’t understand why you are being down ranked. The HN guideline specifically stated that political news are not welcome, yet, this is the post with most comments in the front page. I didn’t come to HN for this

New comment by blahgeek in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

blahgeek — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:49:11 +0000

Apple is and always has been a hardware company. I would like to use the Linux ecosystem, however there’s simply no laptop other than Mac that is light and powerful and runs 15 hours in battery.

New comment by blahgeek in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

blahgeek — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:35:19 +0000

It may be related to the fact that some non-native English speakers (including myself) would sometimes use AI based tools to revise or translate their writings before posting online

New comment by blahgeek in "macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)"

blahgeek — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:05:39 +0000

Although macOS do provide many little known useful tools (besides this, there’s also dtrace, pf, etc), I still run a Linux VM in my MacBook for daily work. Thing is, the effort I spend on learning these tools is almost wasteful unless I’m doing iOS or macOS development. Skills about Linux tools however, is something people considered valuable because of its wider application. I think apple is missing opportunities by not doing more about macOS Server platform.

New comment by blahgeek in "MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes"

blahgeek — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:29:31 +0000

I would always refer to Hanlon's razor on things like this: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I'm not trying to finding excuses for them, just saying that most likely there's no deep conspiracy theory involving government level surveillance here, they are just stupid. On average, Chinese software engineers are less educated and have no sense about privacy or how to implement privacy related features properly.

New comment by blahgeek in "DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation"

blahgeek — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:09:24 +0000

Given the name of DNS-01, you would think it would be called DNS-02...

New comment by blahgeek in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

blahgeek — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:59:44 +0000

If human is at, say, 80%, it’s still a win to use AI agents to replace human workers, right? Similar to how we agree to use self driving cars as long as it has less incidents rate, instead of absolute safety

New comment by blahgeek in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

blahgeek — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:45:51 +0000

> Apple could take just 7% cut and still make 20% profits.

We can say this to any company, "$X could reduce price by $Y and still make $Z profits", but it doesn't really make any sense. Making profits is what makes a company a company instead of a non-profit organization.

New comment by blahgeek in "Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only"

blahgeek — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:39:08 +0000

Fun fact - back in 2009, iPhone 3GS sold in China does not have WiFi feature. If that's possible, I can totally see a new iPhone model with restricted satellite feature selling in Iran and China.

New comment by blahgeek in "Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only"

blahgeek — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:33:09 +0000

I guess by "Everybody I know who grew up in China" you mean those elites who speaks English and have already bypassed restrictions to talk to you online or travels to other countries. There's some selection bias here.

Cursor Raises Funds at $29.3B Valuation

blahgeek — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 23:10:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-13/ai-startup-cursor-raises-funds-at-29-3-billion-value-wsj-says

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921945

Points: 25

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New comment by blahgeek in "iPhone Pocket"

blahgeek — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:38:13 +0000

I think it's a common term used to loosely describe the geographical region. It's used by many other companies like Microsoft [1] and Google [2]

[1] https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/locations/gcr.htm...

[2] https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en-apac/collections/gre...

New comment by blahgeek in "Immutable Software Deploys Using ZFS Jails on FreeBSD"

blahgeek — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 05:34:24 +0000

> especially when you are on Linux AND on macOS. I can’t run FreeBSD jails or ZFS on macOS, can I? Definitely not with one file and one command.

On macOS, docker actually launches a Linux VM to run containers. If this counts, then yes, you can run FreeBSD jails or zfs on macOS, by running a FreeBSD VM.

New comment by blahgeek in "Why is Zig so cool?"

blahgeek — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:11:35 +0000

This. Is Zig an interesting language? Yes sure. But “a totally new way to write programs”? No, I don’t see a single feature that is not found in any other programming languages.

New comment by blahgeek in "Cloudflare tells U.S. govt that foreign site blocking efforts are trade barriers"

blahgeek — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:47:29 +0000

There are actually two part of mechanisms in China to wall its garden.

The first part is GFW, with which people outside of China is more familiar. It operates at every international internet cable, analyzing and dynamically blocks traffic in realtime. China only have few sites that connects to international internet, with very limited bandwidth (few Tbps in total), so it's more feasible. But overall speaking, this is the easy part.

The second part of walling a garden is about controlling what's inside the garden. Every website running in China mainland needs an ICP license from the government, which can take weeks. ISPs must be state-owned (there are 4 of them in total, no local small ISPs whatsoever). Residential IPs cannot be used for serving websites because the inbound traffic of well-known ports are blocked, which is required by the law. VPN apps are illegal. etc. These are things that are much harder to do in other countries.

New comment by blahgeek in "Apple reports fourth quarter results"

blahgeek — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 03:24:01 +0000

Speaking from a developing country with a large population of less educated people, I think you would be surprised to find out that a majority of the people in the world simply don't do "research work". Successfully booking a flight ticket from a straightforward app on their phone is already at their limit (BTW, ~80% of people in the world have never taken a plane). For most other "research" requirement like planning a trip, they would just search on tiktok to see what those influencers have to say (or nowadays, ask the AI)