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New comment by cs02rm0 in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

cs02rm0 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:53:20 +0000

Having the name of a former Indian state doesn't seem to be cricket.

At least I can step away from the laptop now I've got RSI.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "What happened to nerds?"

cs02rm0 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:09:17 +0000

They're still around, even if Musk is excluded. Torvalds springs to mind pretty quickly. I think society is increasingly adverse to people having personality flaws, than it is in favour of people having strengths such as technical knowledge or ability.

Better to have a bland guy running McDonalds who can't stomach eating the "product" than some passionate chef doing his best to improve mass market food but rubbing people up the wrong way.

It's failure of capitalism if the money goes to the guy in the shiny suit instead of the person, or team, who can actually innovate. I don't want to be too melodramatic, but maybe this is all part of the fall of the empire.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

cs02rm0 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:16:56 +0000

I'm absolutely fine with a social media ban for under 16s.

And completely against it actually meaning strong identification of over 16s.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

cs02rm0 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:36:21 +0000

> It still surprises me sometimes that LLMs are just available for _anyone_ to use. Isn't it odd that it turned out this way?

I assume it's some of their best training data.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "Stop Ruining It"

cs02rm0 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:29:08 +0000

MacOS overly rounded corners.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

cs02rm0 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:45:56 +0000

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't use a Macbook because of some marginal gain in the hardware.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

cs02rm0 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:53:02 +0000

Isn't this terror-ists winning? When people give in to terror?

When we had the IRA active in the UK everyone would be proud to carry on as normal after any incident, to show that life would go on as normal despite their efforts. This doesn't seem normal.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

cs02rm0 — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:57:49 +0000

And I only want one. I don't want to set it for every single app, with different nuances.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "The first British person in space"

cs02rm0 — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:37:48 +0000

I'd imagine a similar ballpark to any other day-to-day government spending. It might affect perception around the absolute number on the balance sheet, but it won't significantly affect the proportion of spending.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "The first British person in space"

cs02rm0 — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:48:13 +0000

It was widely covered at the time of the Spending Review last year, based on government figures.

Day-to-day is the routine, required cost of running the state, without long term infrastructure spending.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "The first British person in space"

cs02rm0 — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:02:43 +0000

The NHS consumes about half of all day to day public service spending. It is singular in its ability to suck spending out of UK government.

Show HN: An open source tool that checks for post-quantum crypto

cs02rm0 — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:58:03 +0000

Some of us will have compliance obligations coming down the line for post-quantum crypto; the gist of which is understanding which algorithms we're using and whether they'll be suitable for protecting against quantum attacks in the future (but potentially against data collected as early as today).

Anyway, in case it's useful, here's a small tool that can either scan a host and port, or check for open connections and attempt to identify if they offer post-quantum algorithms.

I've only packaged it for macos so far, but it's just python.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233866

Points: 2

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New comment by cs02rm0 in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

cs02rm0 — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:39:39 +0000

The UAE is in Arabia. It's not in Saudi Arabia.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

cs02rm0 — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:13:02 +0000

>> We do airshows because they are cool.

> No. They are for recruitment and showing other nations what is on hand in case they want to mess with them.

That's what he said.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "SecurityBaseline.eu"

cs02rm0 — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:55:37 +0000

I hate consent banners more than tracking cookies.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"

cs02rm0 — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:31:32 +0000

Might vary depending on where you are and where you're applying to. I'm from the UK, spent a year and 500+ applications applying to remote or Gulf roles. Turned up nothing.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500k people offered for sale on Alibaba"

cs02rm0 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:16:27 +0000

One thing that struck me was, when you look through the board and the committees, it's full of scientists, finance people, doctors, academics. There's maybe a couple of technologists - ML, IT delivery.

If they've got anyone with a background in cyber security I can't see it.

https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/about-us/people-and-governance/

And then the CEO comes out with:

> We have never seen any evidence of any UK Biobank participant being re-identified by others.

This data contains sex, at least month and year of birth. I can't see any sensible security-oriented technical person coming out with a line like that.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500 000 people are offered for sale"

cs02rm0 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:57:53 +0000

The web is global, UK law certainly isn't.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "A Brief History of Fish Sauce"

cs02rm0 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:50:22 +0000

A couple of years ago I planned a road trip I've yet to take, from where I live in Worcestershire, passing through Malaga where they have a glass pyramid in front of a Roman theatre that shows the basins that were used for making garum.

Worcestershire sauce is a descendent of garum.

New comment by cs02rm0 in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety"

cs02rm0 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:23:21 +0000

Although Ofcom doesn't think geo blocking is sufficient to absolve them of that liability. Crazy as that is.