Hacker News: cryptonym

New comment by cryptonym in "Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says"

cryptonym — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:53:54 +0000

This is confusing. I can torrent everything and do what I want with it, as long as I don't redistribute the exact same thing?

If so, why do we still pay for games and movies?

New comment by cryptonym in "Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine"

cryptonym — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:34:59 +0000

Let's say you are right on this. What's the point of hurting yourself? There would be no meaningful benefit.

New comment by cryptonym in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

cryptonym — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:09:40 +0000

What's their interest in you building side-loaded apps instead of using their data hungry services?

New comment by cryptonym in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

cryptonym — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:01:46 +0000

Agree... if they want to sell it, parent company must agree on forever licenses for each user. Regardless of reselling license getting cancelled.

New comment by cryptonym in "Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages"

cryptonym — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:56:21 +0000

> All the free, consumer-benefiting services

If they stop providing value to users, they are putting their ad business at risk. It's never free, providing value to share holders is a top priority.

New comment by cryptonym in "Historical memory prices 1960-2026"

cryptonym — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:44:53 +0000

More than code they write, the framework and runtime they use.

New comment by cryptonym in "Historical memory prices 1960-2026"

cryptonym — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:42:36 +0000

Mostly used by JavaScript parsers and HTML rendering, the rest is for telemetry.

New comment by cryptonym in "Steam Machine launches today"

cryptonym — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:08:46 +0000

Spec may not always match your needs. The hardware is tailored for PC Gaming which is dominated by Steam.

New comment by cryptonym in "Steam Machine launches today"

cryptonym — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:20:24 +0000

This is a general purpose PC but it's also designed for Steam. Valve will get back a fair amount of revenue on games sold for usage on said machines. They could sell it with little to no margin (maybe they are doing it) while increasing gaming time and potential revenue. Sure, games can be had for cheap and so far it seems to be profitable.

New comment by cryptonym in "Investors get real-time view of UK bond market activity for the first time"

cryptonym — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:10:10 +0000

Let's play a game

> Potentially, the raising interest rates because investors don’t trust the long term stability of the [Guess the country] economic system (more spending on pro-war activities, sluggish economic growth, and higher than expected government borrowing) will crash their financial system.

New comment by cryptonym in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

cryptonym — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:41:59 +0000

Nuclear should also take the hit. Wars and CO2 are orders of magnitude worse.

New comment by cryptonym in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

cryptonym — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:14:34 +0000

France also produces less CO2, sell electricity at reasonable and stable cost.

If fossil fuel weren't massively subsided (impact the environment for free, wars with taxpayer money), Nuclear would have made a massive dent.

Producing the same with other sources will have a massive immediate impact on the land / environment.

New comment by cryptonym in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

cryptonym — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:46:50 +0000

Let's agree on "Google was providing a service". Current and future state can be questionable.

Btw you can still block it.

New comment by cryptonym in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

cryptonym — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:10:25 +0000

Coming with proper user-agent sounds ethical. https://archive.org/details/archive.org_bot

Author/publisher are owning their content. Expecting work of others to always be free doesn't sound really ethical.

New comment by cryptonym in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

cryptonym — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:00:17 +0000

Not a fair statement. Google wasn't built on bypassing bot protections.

Google is providing a service to the websites they crawl.

They try to not crawl when we don't want them (robots.txt, clear user-agent, no-index no-follow...).

New comment by cryptonym in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

cryptonym — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:43:56 +0000

In the post, every time they move, they happen to have neighbors that brings roaches and they must move out again after 2 years...

New comment by cryptonym in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

cryptonym — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:06:49 +0000

If you see more and more of them in your kitchen, you most likely are not cleaning it properly after every meal.

Sure, if your kitchen was on the moon, you wouldn't have a bug issue. That would still be dirty.

New comment by cryptonym in "RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method"

cryptonym — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:49:29 +0000

Recommended supported length is at least 8k.

Of course I don't advocate oversize URLs. That's a point of RFC10008.

Let's say we build a service for image transformation or image information extraction. Get isn't practical. QUERY with image as body could be a valid usage, regardless of caching. It conveys information that request is idempotent and can be retried with no impact on data, contrary to POST. If your http client is configured to support this, it can potentially improve reliability.

New comment by cryptonym in "RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method"

cryptonym — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:20:53 +0000

You are guessing wrong. Thanks, I know specific implementation will come with their limits. This will equally apply to QUERY body size and caching strategy.

Are we seriously ok with linking the RFC as source while providing a statement that doesn't match? RFC does matter.

New comment by cryptonym in "RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method"

cryptonym — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:02:45 +0000

Your link doesn't say URIs are length-limited