Hacker News: c2h5oh

New comment by c2h5oh in "Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent"

c2h5oh — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:47:53 +0000

Courts have also ruled that sharing in P2P network is enough to get hit with 150k in statutory damages per shared work.

AI companies did quite a bit of uploading while e.g. getting Anna's archive over BitTorrent.

New comment by c2h5oh in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

c2h5oh — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:43:07 +0000

> What does the security officer at your company say?

I'm the one making those decisions for the company and I don't believe us immigration officials to be competent and trustworthy enough to have access to what is on my work laptop, so I come through immigration with devices with data I have no problem granting access to - a fresh OS install.

> Either you shouldn't be leaving with devices with the data from your job on them, or you don't trust them, but your job is fine with it.

When visiting US (and I only visit US for work-related reasons) I leave personal devices home and only carry either wiped work-issued laptop (for on-sites) or an old Lenovo laptop with a fresh OS install (for conferences) + a wiped phone.

New comment by c2h5oh in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

c2h5oh — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:04:18 +0000

I always enter US with all of my devices wiped and restore them from backup once I'm past immigration, simply because I don't trust government to maintain the security level my job requires.

Now I'm worried that this will be held against me..

New comment by c2h5oh in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

c2h5oh — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:13:03 +0000

I did witness ai output advantage dwindle as codebase grew in a team of experienced devs who switched to 99% ai generated changes.

The last time I've checked ai still had an edge adding new features, but the team collectively lost the project knowledge and any problem discovered that llm could not fix took significantly longer to correct - they were effectively working on a new to them codebase.

New comment by c2h5oh in "Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?"

c2h5oh — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:07:07 +0000

I think that question hinges on the second part of your comment and should be answered as:

Does anyone know any company that went back to hand-written code because it decided drawbacks of ai generated code or some other concerns outweight the output benefits?

New comment by c2h5oh in "How to Block Some of the Bots"

c2h5oh — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:31:03 +0000

My dedicated server comes with 2TB/month data included. Humans use up about 2% of that. If I didn't block bots I'd run out mid-month.

New comment by c2h5oh in "Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?"

c2h5oh — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:16:52 +0000

No.

The risk of being denied entry to US and my lack of interest in visiting US share a reason. That's the only change vs 5 years ago as far as governments are concerned.

As for corporate I've always assumed no internal communication was private.

New comment by c2h5oh in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

c2h5oh — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:01:46 +0000

I've got a fairly new Toyota and I when I found myself needing a 2nd car for my family I ended up buying a 20 year old Honda and I have to say I enjoy driving it much more.

I might also be safer in it - oversensitive security systems nagging me with false positives almost constantly don't pair well with my ADD

New comment by c2h5oh in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

c2h5oh — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:56:08 +0000

People are selling those older cars at a significant discount compared to previous years, because they got banned from low emission zones - you need euro 5 for diesel and euro 4 for petrol to be allowed in centers of many of large EU cities.

New comment by c2h5oh in "I built a mmWave material classification radar (2025)"

c2h5oh — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:05:06 +0000

Property managers handling municipal property in mid+ cities will want one.

Any company dealing with construction waste disposal will want one.

Both will have no problem shelling out 1000 euro per unit.

New comment by c2h5oh in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

c2h5oh — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:44:41 +0000

Cynic in me thinks it's some or all of the following:

- extract monetary contributions for their side of political spectrum from ai companies

- extract money for personal gain

- grokify ai answers on political / worldview topics, because polls are showing people trust ai answers more than wikipedia

New comment by c2h5oh in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

c2h5oh — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:07:49 +0000

This is already the case in most (all?) EU countries. Government-issued photo ID is required to activate a SIM card.

If you really need a burner you can still get one - there are people who activate SIM cards in bulk using their ID and resell them without collecting IDs. The practice itself is either gray area legally or straight up illegal depending on the country

New comment by c2h5oh in "Three of our worst VC stories"

c2h5oh — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:34:20 +0000

One that got pushed out by investors, which is good enough for me. No need to name and shame beyond that.

New comment by c2h5oh in "Three of our worst VC stories"

c2h5oh — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:29:25 +0000

A CEO got entire 20 man dev team into boardroom and asked everyone to voice any concerns about technical debt, bad development practices, anti patterns as well as project management issues.

The 4 people who spoke up were all fired on the same day 3 or 4 weeks later. 7 more quit shortly after - as soon as they got any decent offer. 6 months later about a quarter of the 20 were still with the company.

New comment by c2h5oh in "Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability"

c2h5oh — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:23:37 +0000

More often than not security minded people are encouraged to focus on things that get the product to market faster instead.

New comment by c2h5oh in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

c2h5oh — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:07:19 +0000

I suspect you mean register/renew:

Depends. If it's something really high priority (like main domain for a large corporation) I'd likely be paying CSC 4 digit sums per domain per year.

For stuff a tier below that I'd be looking at companies that are serious about security and happen to do domains as well e.g. Cloudflare, Amazon

New comment by c2h5oh in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

c2h5oh — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:06:20 +0000

They are not, but npm is uniquely bad in that regard. Refusal to implement security features that would have made attacks like this harder really doesn't help https://github.com/node-forward/discussions/issues/29

New comment by c2h5oh in "Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality"

c2h5oh — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:52:03 +0000

7 nights is not nearly enough to get used to new environmental factor introduced in the study, possibly exacerbating disruption from sleeping in a new place (sleep clinic).

n=25? Seriously?

This is barely passable as an early hypothesis test before you perform an actual study.

New comment by c2h5oh in "Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"

c2h5oh — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:22:29 +0000

Majority of EU population. Even in US debit is more popular than credit in 18-25 age bracket.

New comment by c2h5oh in "AMD GPU Debugger"

c2h5oh — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:37:38 +0000

GDB supports it https://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb.html/AMD-G...

You also get UMR from AMD https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/tomstdenis/umr

There is also a bunch of other tools provided: https://gpuopen.com/radeon-gpu-detective/ https://gpuopen.com/news/introducing-radeon-developer-tool-s...