Hacker News: corranh

New comment by corranh in "Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling"

corranh — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:28:25 +0000

We all know most of these wax paper and plastic Starbucks cups aren’t really recycled…it’s always been wish-cycled anyway :)

New comment by corranh in "Am I the only one who hates delivery robots?"

corranh — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:48:24 +0000

People who don’t have to set foot on public sidewalks don’t mind them.

New comment by corranh in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

corranh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:30:03 +0000

It’s great marketing to lead with how the n+1 model is so amazing that you can’t have it yet.

New comment by corranh in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

corranh — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:09:29 +0000

In the Firefox case, no difference. It doesn’t encrypt traffic from your device outside of Firefox but for whatever you do inside of Firefox it’s == VPN.

New comment by corranh in "The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)"

corranh — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:24:45 +0000

Getting ready for a trip to Japan, I spent an embarrassing amount of time troubleshooting failures to load a Suica (train/transit) NFC card on a phone before realizing it just doesn’t work a few hours a night Tokyo time.

New comment by corranh in "Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority""

corranh — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:44:06 +0000

With the looping TikTok-style shorts, YouTube seems to be more habit forming than ever.

New comment by corranh in "LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant"

corranh — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:21:08 +0000

The commenter doesn’t jump to Apache, the license does…if you scroll down it’s the Apache license not the AGPL.

New comment by corranh in "Why the Tech World Thinks the American Dream Is Dying"

corranh — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:19:10 +0000

Population is declining in many parts of the world while productivity is increasing. That doesn’t sound like a world of scarcity. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/business/china-population...

New comment by corranh in "Independent Guest Virtual Machine (IGVM) File Format"

corranh — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:16:57 +0000

Looks like it means ‘Independent’ of the hypervisor used, I don’t think it’s a reference to it being an independent project. The QEMU post on this is a better read, I couldn’t tell from the GitHub what this was supposed to be. https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/igvm.html

New comment by corranh in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

corranh — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:13:30 +0000

Exactly, if you can’t afford the high upfront cost that you can stretch out over a longer period of time, you’re stuck paying more over the long term as the subscriptions get more expensive.

New comment by corranh in "Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems"

corranh — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:47:44 +0000

Apple and Google often store your other 99% of passwords and passkeys, so losing this is actually more important than losing the 99%. I take your point but saying 99% have reset services when the critical 1% may never be recoverable without posting to HN is an important point.

New comment by corranh in "How long can it take to become a US citizen?"

corranh — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:54:49 +0000

From the same site as the article:

Does a baby born in the US get citizenship?

Yes, under current law, almost every baby born in the United States or its territories automatically becomes a US citizen at birth, regardless of the parents’ immigration status, except for certain children of foreign diplomats or enemy forces in hostile occupation.

New comment by corranh in "Show HN: Bash Screensavers"

corranh — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:09:01 +0000

Very cool! Reminds me of the various 90s movie pretend hacker typing screensavers like Neo-HackerTyper.

New comment by corranh in "Agent Lightning: Train agents with RL (no code changes needed)"

corranh — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 04:36:22 +0000

Let’s see…excessive emojis and wacky punctuation hmm maybe this whole readme is LLM generated.

New comment by corranh in "Disable AI in Firefox"

corranh — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:24:30 +0000

Thank you I was literally trying to disable that when I saw this :)

New comment by corranh in "Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware"

corranh — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:36:16 +0000

Main caveat is that it’s verifiable (by them) but repeatable by others (in principle).

New comment by corranh in "Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25"

corranh — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:24:27 +0000

Meanwhile, my old Honeywell thermostat is still working!

New comment by corranh in "Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips"

corranh — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:41:32 +0000

It’s definitely not a closed system unless the water from the waste water treatment plant is pumped back upstream of the source of the municipal water which is not how most of these work.

New comment by corranh in "NIST Finalizes 'Lightweight Cryptography' Standard to Protect Small Devices"

corranh — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 04:41:53 +0000

That would be correct if the question was ‘For a $2000 32-core desktop should we switch to lightweight cryptography’.

The question is should we switch from some ridiculously insecure crappy crypto on a $3 part to this better lightweight crypto implementation.

Yah, we probably should, it’s better than what we had right?

New comment by corranh in "Kaleidos – A portable nuclear microreactor that replaces diesel generators"

corranh — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:05:41 +0000

Hopefully this needs a smaller crew to operate than a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.