Hacker News: dennysora

New comment by dennysora in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

dennysora — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:38:02 +0000

Thank you! As a staunch supporter of Mullvad, you are the only VPN provider I recommend for cybersecurity, especially in today's landscape where VPNs are facing increasing regulatory restrictions. Thank you so much!

New comment by dennysora in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"

dennysora — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:01:06 +0000

Security is important, security is important, security is important — I keep emphasizing this point. But for me, that statement only really applies to people who genuinely understand security. I personally bought two YubiKeys, understand the associated risks, and store my credentials on those YubiKeys. However, many people today do not realize the risks involved. They casually store these things in places like a keyring and then never manage them properly. That does not necessarily mean they are secure. On the contrary, it can become another kind of danger, because once you start using passkeys, the level of access and authority tied to them is significant. If they are lost or leaked, the consequences can be disastrous. I am glad to see that the industry is paying more attention to security, but at the same time, I believe these more specialized aspects should be aimed at people who actually have the relevant expertise. Passkeys do have a learning curve. For ordinary users, they often just click through a few prompts and end up binding themselves to a system without really understanding what happened. On top of that, with modern systems relying on encryption and TPM, once a computer runs into serious problems, many people simply have no way to recover their data. For the average user, 2FA is already sufficient.

New comment by dennysora in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

dennysora — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:17:20 +0000

I think everyone should stop being so nervous. How many times have the U.S. and Israel hit Iran over the past two years? And people still aren’t used to it? On Monday, the market might not even drop. In fact, a lot of people may want to buy the dip. Everyone hypes up the fear, the big players wait to scoop up bargains, and then what happens? Not only does it not fall, it rebounds instead. How many times have we seen this script already?

And Iran? Every single time it’s just performance art. I’m already sick of watching it.

Besides, Iran has been heavily sanctioned and blocked by the U.S. and Israel for so many years that its impact on the global economy is basically zero. So what the hell is there to dump over?

Oil prices? Venezuela’s situation has already been dealt with. The U.S. can produce its own oil, Canada still has plenty of oil, and Russia is still selling at bargain-bin prices. Iran and the surrounding major oil-producing countries are barely even moving in sync, and there’s basically no real incentive for anything major to happen to oil. So why the hell would the market drop?

As for all this fearmongering, I’d say go harder. Seriously, make it as apocalyptic as possible, so my gold can moon, I can pick up cheap Taiwan stocks, and short crypto, so I can completely clean out all the people panicking in fear.

New comment by dennysora in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

dennysora — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:53:24 +0000

I’ve heard that, at companies developing AI right now, the core R&D staff are mostly ethnic Chinese. I’m not sure whether that’s accurate.

I’ve also heard that meetings are conducted in English, but that all private discussions happen in Chinese, so managers have no idea what they’re talking about.

That said, Chinese really is hard… In contrast, English is simple enough, so it’s more efficient to learn, and it’s easier to attract talent.

As for whether this “stifles” anything, I think China mainly relies on its own people. Most of the talent who go to China still speak English anyway.

On top of that, China’s speech control is genuinely annoying. Though I also find it annoying that Threads arbitrarily suppresses speech, too.

In areas like energy, semiconductors (Taiwan—although some production/deployment is currently in China, but it’s hard to say what might happen and when), and AI, China does feel unsettlingly powerful right now.

In democratic countries, just getting approval for a new energy facility can turn into years of arguing; in China, they can build several in the same time.

By the way, I’m Taiwanese.

New comment by dennysora in "AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet"

dennysora — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:19:16 +0000

I’m genuinely unsure how to assess the current state of open source. Many projects have been AI-assisted in one way or another. Meanwhile, a large number of people use AI to generate code indiscriminately and publish it as open source. As a result, using open-source contributions as a proxy for someone’s engineering ability has become increasingly unreliable. In addition, many developers now prefer to build their own solutions rather than rely on whether an open-source alternative exists. And for many small open-source projects, frankly, I hesitate to use them—given how prevalent malicious software has become, if it’s feasible to build it in-house, I’d rather do that.

New comment by dennysora in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

dennysora — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:12:42 +0000

These really are some of the toughest years for people trying to buy a computer. We only recently emerged from the cryptocurrency-driven crunch, and now AI has arrived—and this wave is far more severe than crypto. In that light, Apple’s Macs are actually quite good value for money.

New comment by dennysora in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

dennysora — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:10:00 +0000

I like tailwind.

New comment by dennysora in "Two different tricks for fast LLM inference"

dennysora — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:54:53 +0000

In my view, if we aim to speed up progress toward the next generation, diffusion-model-based generation is a very promising direction. That said, there are likely many hurdles to tackle, because the output is not a sequence; it is produced in parallel.

Show HN: Ops-Tools – a Rust-Based DevOps CLI Swiss Army Knife

dennysora — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:47:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/DennySORA/Ops-Tools

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46674533

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