Hacker News: dbt00

New comment by dbt00 in "From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone"

dbt00 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:45:38 +0000

Should at least throw a reference to OpenBSD publishing the entire Blowfish crypto algorithm on a t-shirt and selling it -- so successful the blowfish became the project mascot.

New comment by dbt00 in ""Maybe later" was a feature"

dbt00 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:01:07 +0000

This seems like you're arguing against something this post does not say.

New comment by dbt00 in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

dbt00 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:08:30 +0000

I mean, what if he's not?

New comment by dbt00 in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

dbt00 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:07:59 +0000

I cannot stress enough how historically ignorant of a perspective this is. I don't know how you meant this, but Hormuz has been one of the most critical geopolitical choke points since 1979, and Iran has spent 45 years preparing to use it for leverage in exactly this situation. None of these facts should be a surprise to leaders of nations.

New comment by dbt00 in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

dbt00 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:48:54 +0000

I've had some experience with situations like what you experienced in my family, and I just want to say how glad I am to hear that you had people in your corner to help you out when you needed it the most.

New comment by dbt00 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"

dbt00 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:27:46 +0000

wrong thread

New comment by dbt00 in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

dbt00 — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:13:02 +0000

Tomatoes are high in glutamate, which accentuates beef flavor.

New comment by dbt00 in "We let AIs run radio stations"

dbt00 — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:59:44 +0000

Most radio stations are already boring soulless algorithmic slop. They could make it better by curating musical taste.

New comment by dbt00 in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

dbt00 — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:37:56 +0000

If it was wrong in 2019, why did he wait 7 years to do something about it?

The passage of time makes it harder to have a fair trial, as shown by the number of times Elon said I don't know or I don't recall about conversations that would have been recent in 2019 but are now long (or strategically) forgotten.

New comment by dbt00 in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

dbt00 — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:36:00 +0000

If you feel like fucking around with new source control tools, jj (jujutsu)'s megamerge workflow is really good at this.

(If you're not interested, feel free to skip the rest of this).

I have each in process workstream in a commit that is merged at the top level, then I have a new wip commit off of that where stuff I'm typing right now sits.

It's easy to split/squash/absorb parts of that commit into the right destination, but also to introduce parents of the megamerge that will never get merged.

(This is a better/longer writeup of this concept)

https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-an...

New comment by dbt00 in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

dbt00 — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:58:38 +0000

> The ESA also said the bill would impose unreasonable expectations on publishers regarding licensing rights for music or IP rights, which are often negotiated on a time-limited basis. “A legal requirement to keep games playable indefinitely could place publishers in an impossible position—forcing them to renegotiate licenses indefinitely or alter games in ways that may not be legally or technically feasible,” they wrote.

Wah wah munchie wah.

This would kick in next year. You have time to make contingency plans including a kill switch to put in shitty royalty free music if you need to.

> “Consumers receive a license to access and use a game, not an unrestricted ownership interest in the underlying work,” the ESA wrote. The eventual shutdown of outdated or obsolete games is “a natural feature of modern software,” the group added, especially when that software requires online infrastructure maintenance.

Go fuck yourselves.

New comment by dbt00 in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

dbt00 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:43:30 +0000

Joe Lonsdale left Palantir in 2009 and moved on to Formation 8 and then 8vc. He was vocally pro-Palantir and used his co-founder status in the press a lot, but was off the board by 2010 and operationally had nothing to do with them since then.

New comment by dbt00 in "Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit"

dbt00 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:23:33 +0000

Honestly, until JJ is 1.0, I wouldn't recommend it for beginners. There's significant changes happening to the interface still.

New comment by dbt00 in "Jujutsu Megamerges for Fun and Profit"

dbt00 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:07:26 +0000

this is great stuff. I've been ad hoc building a version of this workflow, and it is quite fantastic.

I'm still not as smooth at figuring out conflicts on mega-rebase.

New comment by dbt00 in "What game engines know about data that databases forgot"

dbt00 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:21:59 +0000

Many games have obvious inventory dup exploits that this is a very reasonable solution for.

New comment by dbt00 in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

dbt00 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:39:46 +0000

thousands of people die every year from DHMO toxicity, literal overdoses of DHMO, yet you can still find it in baby food and breast milk.

New comment by dbt00 in "What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023)"

dbt00 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:51:09 +0000

an obscure but very powerful matrix-centered programming language usually considered to be "write only", as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.

New comment by dbt00 in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

dbt00 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:56:03 +0000

FSD still sucks ass compared to Waymo.

New comment by dbt00 in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

dbt00 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:29:02 +0000

2004, actually, with a minor update in 2008. This was the same principle I used coincidentally at the same time to also disbelieve the same thing.

New comment by dbt00 in "SpaceX files to go public"

dbt00 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:48:04 +0000

Yeah, the OEX is a more serious index for more serious people.