Hacker News: charcircuit

New comment by charcircuit in "An ESPN producer who quit because of sports gambling"

charcircuit — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:24:46 +0000

Accessibility and advertising does directly increase the mount of gambling people do. Meanwhile prohibition can actually reduce it.

New comment by charcircuit in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

charcircuit — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:26:50 +0000

GLM refuses to write exploits. It's not open season with anything you want.

New comment by charcircuit in "eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear"

charcircuit — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 16:19:17 +0000

>This isn't a trunked system

Then make it one.

>encryption is illegal

It's not illegal and is a core part of modern radio protocols.

New comment by charcircuit in "eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear"

charcircuit — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:37:59 +0000

>Would you wanna have random voices

Why would there be? Do you get random voices on a VoIP call done over wifi (radio) or there is interference? It sounds like your protocol needs more work.

New comment by charcircuit in "eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear"

charcircuit — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:42:43 +0000

>without disconnecting that anttena breaking an entire band for all of his neighbors

Why can't those neighbors just broadcast on top of it? I'm sure an LLM could figure out a protocol that could survive.

New comment by charcircuit in "The Fatal Flaw of 911"

charcircuit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:01:19 +0000

>choose to listen for the signal

Devices need a radio receiver to be able to listen to and decode the signal. Without a radio it's impossible.

New comment by charcircuit in "eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear"

charcircuit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:01:04 +0000

>Such regulations shall be applicable to the manufacture, import, sale, *offer for sale*, or shipment of such devices and home electronic equipment and systems, and to the use of such devices.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/302a

New comment by charcircuit in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

charcircuit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:04:16 +0000

>like Dual_EC_DRBG was

There is no evidence that it was backdoored.

New comment by charcircuit in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

charcircuit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:50:53 +0000

>use Claude to make sarin nerve gas and bomb subway stations, or the digital equivalent. Could you live with that on your conscience?

People have always been able to do this before Claude. The information is out there and if you use a VPN there's not much they can do. The existence of information isn't the blocker for why attacks don't happen.

New comment by charcircuit in "I Love Software Rendering"

charcircuit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:37:42 +0000

The alias was there from the start. It just couldn't find where it was in an older frame to do the anti aliasing.

New comment by charcircuit in "eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear"

charcircuit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:20:42 +0000

The FCC made up rules for marketplaces and now ebay is forced to follow it.

New comment by charcircuit in "I Love Software Rendering"

charcircuit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:19:27 +0000

UE5's nanite uses software rendering, but it doesn't look pixelated, does not need a high end computer, and does not require DOS.

New comment by charcircuit in "Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why"

charcircuit — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:35:48 +0000

Japan has the highest birth rate in East Asia.

New comment by charcircuit in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

charcircuit — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:59:18 +0000

Why would features like cloud saves cause startup time to be long. That shouldn't be in the critical path.

New comment by charcircuit in "Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit"

charcircuit — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:35:47 +0000

Didn't xatt prove you shouldn't leave this to human? I'd trust a frontier model more than a human to do it.

New comment by charcircuit in "Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke"

charcircuit — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:42:28 +0000

Microsoft hit it too and then improved git and made it faster. Right now Anthropic seems to be under 1 commit per second. I don't think that would make the git server break a sweat.

New comment by charcircuit in "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"

charcircuit — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:48:56 +0000

Defining it as an ad is just blackwashing. Ultimately the upgrade option needs to be somewhere in the app and its a part of the app itself. There are is no advertising space that gets populated.

New comment by charcircuit in "Apple Keynote now showing ads in its UI"

charcircuit — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:19:43 +0000

What I'm saying is that there are no ads in the UI of the app. How annoying upsells can be is a different conversation entirely.

New comment by charcircuit in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

charcircuit — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:18:10 +0000

Supporting law enforcement is not boot licking. And yes I will tell that to all those people you listed. Law enforcement needs to enforce laws and control over those trying to commit violence and fraud to others.

New comment by charcircuit in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

charcircuit — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:09:45 +0000

I don't feel sympathy towards those assaulting law enforcement. They brought it upon themselves by doing illegal things. We cannot have people assaulting law enforcement. This is not how civilized society works.