<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: bryan_w</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bryan_w</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:34:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bryan_w" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bryan_w in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn't putin begging y'all to get in tanks for Ukraine? Just find a like minded group of recruits and turn the tanks around</p>
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<p>Yes and we want them to have zero. What do you not understanding about this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:07:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556448</link><dc:creator>bryan_w</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bryan_w in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's crazy how people in this thread wanted to physically cause harm to this city's councilmen when it does seem pretty believable that "nobody at the office knew why they had the land or any stipulations attached to it" when someone takes a second to look into it<p>@dang what kind of site are you trying to run here?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:11:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485806</link><dc:creator>bryan_w</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485806</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bryan_w in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The state requires things sold to meet a bare minimum of safety. Cars sold require seat belts, movies/games sold require ratings. Devices sold have a meaningful parental controls flow.</p>
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<p>> it's not intuitive that allowing malicious-site.com to access your Bluetooth keyboard might give that site access to your stored passwords, give them the ability to hijack your DNS settings, or allow them to encrypt your hard drive and hold it ransom. And if it's not immediately obvious how those things are possible, that only serves to demonstrate how completely non-intuitive the risks are and how intractable trying to explain them in a permission prompt would be.<p>Which is odd because the very next thing a user will do (Which you've allowed for years) is download and execute a .exe or .dmg/.app from that same malicious-site.com which will do the same thing</p>
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<p>You didn't even mention the "infrasound" issue that's been picking up steam lately</p>
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<p>> Lazy cynicism is itself a form of corruption of one's own mind<p>I love this way of thinking. I might use this quote down the road</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:20:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089596</link><dc:creator>bryan_w</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bryan_w in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Let's play this out: how do you determine individual clients? By ip? By seasionid?</p>
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<p>But that's not a specification</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:08:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043678</link><dc:creator>bryan_w</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bryan_w in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>People on this site don't really think deeply about what they type. They just say whatever is the most cynical in order to farm up votes</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 00:07:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043669</link><dc:creator>bryan_w</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bryan_w in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Children will just lie<p>Not if the parents are setting it up beforehand (like with small children) then their iaccount or Google account will be under parental controls from that point on.<p>It seems reasonable that if a parent enables their child to visit sites after that, then that's just their prerogative (like giving your kid beer)</p>
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<p>I wonder who's in common there?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 14:50:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997495</link><dc:creator>bryan_w</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47997495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bryan_w in "Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not keeping the door open while grabbing luggage is NPC behavior no matter if it's waymo, Uber or a taxi.<p>The fact he mad this mistake, then went to the news media to broadcast his bad decision making is embarrassing.<p>I bet he finds himself the victim of bad situations all the time and doesn't know why</p>
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<p>I'm pretty sure most people would see Toms point as valid?<p>If Bob made a huge deal about company's abuse of fluffy animal and never otherwise talked about fluffy animal, that would seen as inauthentic</p>
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<p>That was created by AI. Ai is great at playing six degrees of Kevin Bacon</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:46:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961590</link><dc:creator>bryan_w</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961590</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bryan_w in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>None of this is true. The fact that there are many, many companies out here today that are doing exactly what you are claiming for the non-CA age verification laws (like in TN and TX), yet you went down the conspiracy route for Meta and Google shows how much you are being played like a fiddle.<p>They can feed you an conspiracy and you'll eat it up because you were primed to have a cognitive bias, and will ignore the actual, real-world harms going on.<p>Rupert loves people like you</p>
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<p>Enjoying a succulent meal, I guess</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:17:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930981</link><dc:creator>bryan_w</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bryan_w in "The Prompt API"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nobody needs to be hard on the internet</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:52:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925648</link><dc:creator>bryan_w</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bryan_w in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just use Tor browser? You can turn the tor part off if you need the speed.<p>What you want exists, have at it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:25:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871341</link><dc:creator>bryan_w</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bryan_w in "Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds like you need a cyberdeck</p>
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