Hacker News: corford

New comment by corford in "Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers"

corford — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:59:08 +0000

If you're using free hosting and allowing that provider to mitm your origin's traffic, it seems a little naive to assume they wont eventually submit to temptation and start doing something like this.

New comment by corford in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

corford — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:32:49 +0000

If ads on these sites irritate people, why don't they just stop using them? Feels like that's long term a more likely avenue to get these sites to adjust how they monetise rather than papering over the problem with a blocker.

New comment by corford in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

corford — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:11:20 +0000

These would all help: well funded public broadcasting (for TV & radio); strongly enforced regulations for public advertising (public square); encouragement of open source & open standards; real anti-trust enforcement.

Most of the above exists - the problem is political & regulatory capture constantly undermines and weakens a lot of it.

New comment by corford in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

corford — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:53:44 +0000

Succinctly put by Pablo Picasso's remark: "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers".

New comment by corford in "OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe"

corford — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:23:20 +0000

Sad :( I love my OnePlus 13R. The battery life is amazing and the stock skin is close enough to pure Android that it doesn't bother me.

New comment by corford in "GPT-5.6"

corford — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:57:54 +0000

Personally I use Open Code with a copilot sub. Then all models are available in my session with just a /model and /variants command combo. Makes it super low friction to try different models & combos (my favourite right now is DeepSeek V4 Flash for initial PRD then Fable 5 high for implementation).

New comment by corford in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

corford — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:59:34 +0000

It's politics.

The US's corporate problems in the 1980s and early 1990s existed when strong international competition existed.

It began to change with things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_U.S.%E2%80%93Japan_Semico... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord.

It was accelerated further with things like anti-circumvention clauses in Free Trade agreements (see Cory Doctrow's recent highlighting of this: https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/) and then had more gasoline thrown on the fire in the ZIRP/easy money era post GFC, culminating with the bazooka of stimulus unleashed post-covid.

My best guess is we are now going to witness ~20 years of slow unwind. You can already see signs of this in things like RoW/EM stocks outperforming the S&P, treasury yields diverging from other "safe haven" soverign bonds (e.g. swiss), gold price rising, Europe starting to get serious about addressing the Draghi report's findings, European defence spending increasing, China starting to act like the "adult in the room" wrt the recent Iran/US blow-up etc. Essentially, countries/blocs attempting to re-assert sovereignty that has been willingly diluted over the last ~30 years to mainly America's benefit.

New comment by corford in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

corford — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:57:41 +0000

For decades after the 1989 crash they were in deflation. Only in the last 3-4 years has any meaningful inflation returned. Some context here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decades

New comment by corford in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

corford — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:29:06 +0000

>do you actively scrutinize and examine the key people of every service and product you use

Yes

>or it just a reflexive change of footing whenever you happen upon news like this?

No (only when my personal screening didn't already flag it)

>do you really switch

Yes, where it's feasible

New comment by corford in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

corford — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:09:43 +0000

UK's system is very similar too, as is Estonia's.

New comment by corford in "Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs"

corford — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:46:57 +0000

What's wrong with Opencode? (I use it and like it)

New comment by corford in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

corford — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:36:27 +0000

We've been leaning on Lima recently for a "dockeresque" experience with hard VM guarantees. Also keeping an eye on https://github.com/containers/crun/blob/main/krun.1.md

New comment by corford in "Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry"

corford — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:07:17 +0000

Works for me on Debian 13, Firefox 140.10.2esr-1~deb13u and Strix Halo gfx

New comment by corford in "Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha"

corford — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:20:04 +0000

Seems consistent. Ukrainian soldiers are performing life saving missions i.e. defending their citizens from an unprovoked attack.

New comment by corford in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

corford — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:40:09 +0000

To this day Justin maintains https://www.askjf.com/ if you ever want to ask him something :)

New comment by corford in "UAE to leave OPEC"

corford — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:19:00 +0000

There are quite a few "clean energy" ETFs (e.g. GRID, PBD, ICLN). There are nuclear/uranium themed ones too. No comment/view on whether any of those are good or not.

New comment by corford in "UAE to leave OPEC"

corford — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:14:17 +0000

Coincidently, FTAV posted a good "petrodollar" article today for anyone interested (article is free but might need a free account to read it): https://www.ft.com/content/a65efb54-306b-49ad-9920-40d59b195...

New comment by corford in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

corford — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:04:20 +0000

>Why?

Patrick Boyle did a nice video a few weeks back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BaSBjxNg-M

New comment by corford in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

corford — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:15:13 +0000

Second DNSimple. Cheap to start and lots of nice features/support if you grow e.g. terraform provider, an acme.sh plugin, Okta support etc.

New comment by corford in "France pulls last gold held in US"

corford — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:57:47 +0000

IIRC, De Gaulle & Churchill proposed a UK-FR union at one point (1940?) but it didn't get sufficient support within the French government. Interesting to ponder what the war and later EU trajectories might have looked like if that had happened.