<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: brianaker</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brianaker</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:34:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=brianaker" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "Fully Featured Audio DSP Firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why not use a crossover driver?<p>The loudspeaker would have used one; a driver is both cheaper and of higher quality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:35:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929907</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "Ask HN: Distributed data centers in our basements"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you don't need to manage cooling?<p>Then you are likely needing to manage humidity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:06:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589470</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589470</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WolfSSL Doesn't Suck, Author Reflects]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/wolfssl-doesnt-suck/">https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/wolfssl-doesnt-suck/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062283">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062283</a></p>
<p>Points: 5</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:50:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/wolfssl-doesnt-suck/</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It does have its use cases :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:12:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46931494</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46931494</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46931494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "In a milestone for Manhattan, a pair of coyotes has made Central Park their home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"I’ve noticed that we just don’t have outdoor cats in our neighborhood"<p>Stop neutering cats, encourage alley cats.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:38:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473488</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "The $25k car is going extinct?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You obviously have not been following Subaru, while what you are saying was once true, it has not been true for several years now.<p>Google "Subaru battery", read about all of the additional electrical problems that are the result of Subaru being unwilling to fix a problem that is the end result of them selling your data.<p>Subaru stopped making reliable cars somewhere around 2014.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 06:44:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44420197</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44420197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44420197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "Turn any bicycle electric"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>US Law, i.e. Federal Law, for e-bikes is 15 U.S.C. 2085(b) and additionally Title 28 Chapter I Part 36 Subpart A § 36.105.<p>Pedaled vs throttle is an ablest issues; not everyone has picked up on this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 22:42:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42817639</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42817639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42817639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "Do you need Redis? PostgreSQL does queuing, locking, and pub/sub (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>MySQL never had a problem with scaling to multi-core systems; Linux on the other hand did have a problem and its problems became everyone's problems. In the early 2000's the answer to multi-core Linux issues was to buy a system running one of the commercial UNIX. By 2006 or so this became a non-issue for Linux ( for the most part ).<p>Postgres uses an old design model which predates threads; I have no idea if they have made any progress in updating their design. In the past I have heard the core devs talk about how difficult it would be to do this.<p>Oracle Database moved to a hybrid process/thread model at some point, this is the superior solution ( I have no idea if it was done well or not, but from standpoint of how to achieve better leverage of CPU vs IO, this is the way ).<p>If the PG devs had enough time/money, I am sure they would move towards a hybrid model where the focus would be on processor affinity with IO being all tied to events.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 04:29:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42038447</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42038447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42038447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "Greenwich schools to ban most cellphones, Apple Watches, Fitbits and more"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A number of years ago when my daughter was in the second grade the school expected them to turn in homework via this crappy power point knock-off app that would constantly crash.<p>I had her eventually just take screen shots and send them to the printer. From there? She would fill in her answers, take a picture of the work, and then drop the image into the power point knockoff.<p>We got a note from the Principal about how "printing" was not supported.<p>Whatever.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 06:29:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41288359</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41288359</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41288359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Trump's attorneys did not say "the special counsel that prosecuted him was not properly appointed by an act of Congress", Justice Thomas brought this up in oral arguments. Trump's attorneys admitted in oral arguments that they had not brought this up during the appeal, so as an argument it was not saved.<p>Further more, historically there is no basis for the argument. Special prosecutors, which are different from the "independent counsel" that came about after Nixon; the laws around "independent counsel" expired a while ago.<p>"Special counsel", and all of the other similarly named, have been around since Marbury. By happenstance, some have been X-members of Congress, Cabinet members, etc... but far from all.<p>There is a reason why none of the other Justices brought this up, it is absurdist.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2024 03:51:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40853397</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40853397</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40853397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "Zuckerberg personally ok'ed wiretapping both Amazon and YouTube [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How would Meta/Facebook accomplished this without reading Amazon's communication with its customers?<p>You have at least two parties in any conversation, I don't see where Youtube or Amazon consented, nevertheless, the recording was being done by Meta/Facebook, which was a third-party to the communication.<p>There are both Federal and State laws against the sort of wire-tapping that Facebook/Meta performed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:43:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877943</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877943</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "Zuckerberg personally ok'ed wiretapping both Amazon and YouTube [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Running a VPN service would not be wiretapping, but that is not what they were doing, and understand they had multiple avenues that they explored.<p>If you want to focus on just the VPN bit though; running a VPN would not break Amazon's secure communication. For Facebook/Meta to accomplish what they did they had to place fake endpoints in-between Amazon and its customers where they could pretend to be the party Amazon thought it was communicating with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 19:08:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877662</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "Zuckerberg personally ok'ed wiretapping both Amazon and YouTube [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That story links to a different document filed with the courts.<p>Additionally, the scope is wider than just what Onavo did for Facebook.<p>There are comments being made in that post as well where people are assuming all of the communication on one side, which was not the case at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 18:58:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877594</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zuckerberg personally ok'ed wiretapping both Amazon and YouTube [pdf]]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscourts.cand.369872.736.0.pdf">https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscourts.cand.369872.736.0.pdf</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39871357">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39871357</a></p>
<p>Points: 50</p>
<p># Comments: 24</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 02:40:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscourts.cand.369872.736.0.pdf</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39871357</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39871357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "Facebook: We install a root CA on the device and MitM all SSL traffic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What I find really surprising is that Amazon has not sought criminal prosecution of Meta.<p>Even if in all cases a user selected to allow Facebook/Meta to see what they were communicating, which from reading all of the attached documents I don't believe was the case, I don't see how Amazon gave consent.<p>If some individual had done what Facebook/Meta did, I can't see a situation where Amazon wouldn't have asked for criminal prosecution.<p>Mastercard and Visa? It would be surprising to see how they would just shrug this off; maybe this hasn't hit their radar yet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2024 02:21:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39871252</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39871252</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39871252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "Class Action Against General Motors LLC, OnStar LLC, LexisNexis Risk Solutions [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Has Subaru been doing this as well with their STARLINK?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 01:25:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39711135</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39711135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39711135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in ":syntax off (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With vim you can restrict syntax highlighting by scope and/or folding, limelight.vim provides a good example how to implement this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 16:56:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39694067</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39694067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39694067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Privileged myopia is certainly is alive in thriving!<p>I say this as someone who bikes their kid around most of the time; I love biking but it is way of life that only a minority of people can make work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Nov 2023 05:15:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38273564</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38273564</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38273564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "Chamberlain blocks smart garage door opener from working with smart homes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The description on the OpenThings website is misleading, the add-on module is an off the shelf commerical remote that is being shorted in order to operate the door.<p>The ratgdo device is decoding the line version of the Security+ 2.0 protocol, which gives you state information/etc.  They have a page describing what they currently decode:<p><a href="https://paulwieland.github.io/ratgdo/01_features.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://paulwieland.github.io/ratgdo/01_features.html</a><p>FWIW The Flipper Zero can decode the wireless version of the Security+ 2.0 protocol.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 06:03:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38215582</link><dc:creator>brianaker</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38215582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38215582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brianaker in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are describing the plot to Robert Heinlein's short story "Coventry".</p>
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