Hacker News: direwolf20

New comment by direwolf20 in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

direwolf20 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:05:45 +0000

Try Marginalia Search but be warned it doesn't index the entire web

New comment by direwolf20 in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

direwolf20 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:00:04 +0000

Some people only care about actual consequences. Download all the data and send it, in the post on a flash drive, to the GDPR regulator's office and another copy to the medical licensing board because why not.

New comment by direwolf20 in "20 years on AWS and never not my job"

direwolf20 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:58:26 +0000

Which fields of endeavor? Does it say you can't use the software to run a nuclear power plant, or a military jet? Does it say you can't use it in a restaurant?

New comment by direwolf20 in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

direwolf20 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:55:44 +0000

I'm really not impressed with this reoccurring argument: "Solar power is good." "But night!"

New comment by direwolf20 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

direwolf20 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:40:56 +0000

In other countries, like Italy, they made a system where domain names are fast-tracked for blocking within minutes. I hate to say it but Spain managed to do something even worse.

New comment by direwolf20 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

direwolf20 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:39:26 +0000

Country-wise it's risky to block the entire internet when football is on.

New comment by direwolf20 in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

direwolf20 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:16:31 +0000

What happens if the operating company can't pay the debt? The bank repossesses the facility. Now what does the bank do with a solar facility? Does it (A) let it rot, losing massive value, (B) run a bulldozer through it, destroying massive value or (C) find a way to operate it, receiving profit from doing so?

New comment by direwolf20 in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

direwolf20 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:13:53 +0000

Nuclear takes a week to restart after a shutdown, due to xenon poisoning. It's not reliable base load.

New comment by direwolf20 in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

direwolf20 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:13:16 +0000

Mythos was also asked to find a vulnerability in one file, in turn for each file. Maybe the small model needs to be asked about each function instead of each file. Okay, you can still automate that.

New comment by direwolf20 in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

direwolf20 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:09:08 +0000

If you used a username, you wouldn't have this problem. As it stands, signing up someone else's address for a lot of sites to spam them with confirmations is already an attack vector that's used in the wild. And that's legitimate spam and should be reported as spam and sites that do this are spam amplifiers.

New comment by direwolf20 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

direwolf20 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 08:41:46 +0000

Cloudflare has nothing to do with it. Actually you should further insist on using Cloudflare in Spain to increase the collateral cost of this ridiculous government decision as much as possible. Make it so not a single website works during football, and see if the government changes their tune.

New comment by direwolf20 in "Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy"

direwolf20 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:39:55 +0000

And after a hundred generations of this there will be no fusible material left. We can extract energy from rotating black holes until they stop, and then the universe is dead.

New comment by direwolf20 in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

direwolf20 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:36:58 +0000

They are blessed with all three of hydro, geothermal, and wind.

New comment by direwolf20 in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

direwolf20 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:36:32 +0000

And this is an expected problem with renewables that can be engineered around. It's unlikely the whole world has a drought at once during a calm night, so developing ways to transmit power long distances will be important.

New comment by direwolf20 in "The End of Eleventy"

direwolf20 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:32:06 +0000

Yeah. Because they're 14 and don't have a credit card, or they don't have any money, or the price is completely unaffordable (looking at you, IDA) or they hate your software and wish your company would DIAF but are forced to use it for various reasons anyway.

You might as well be nice to the people who will give you money, so that they'll give you money. Being hostile to people who are trying to give you money is rarely a winning business strategy.

New comment by direwolf20 in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

direwolf20 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:24:47 +0000

And I would definitely mark these emails as spam. When a company sends me emails I don't want, I mark them as spam. I don't care about the technical rules or if you tricked me into wherein. If it's unwanted non-transactional email, it's spam and you deserve to be kicked off the global email network. You may think you're sending only one email a week so you're fine. Cool, well my inbox gets one "technically compliant" spam email per hour and you have equal responsibility to all the rest of them.

New comment by direwolf20 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

direwolf20 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:41:09 +0000

The most important question is how to prevent the starving workers from banding together and attacking the dragon hoards of food and other wealth. I think the plan is automated drones with machine guns, and mass surveillance from Flock and Ring to determine who to target. Requiring ID for all online interaction will also improve targeting accuracy as we'll be able to target them based on their social media posts. Robot dogs from Boston Dynamics (armed with machine guns) are a secondary enforcement mechanism indoors in places drones can't reach. So they're working on it, and they have been for a while.

New comment by direwolf20 in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

direwolf20 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:25:39 +0000

I think hard drugs being legal would greatly increase the amount of responsible consumption. Methamphetamine used to be purchaseable from any pharmacy over the counter in the US, and there was not a meth crisis at that time. Now there is.

New comment by direwolf20 in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

direwolf20 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:24:16 +0000

This is still routinely done to avoid ethanol taxes. It's called "denatured alcohol". Ethanol that has been poisoned is not considered drinkable alcohol, so not subject to the taxes on drinkable alcohol.

New comment by direwolf20 in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

direwolf20 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:15:57 +0000

IIRC TCP/IP through localhost actually benchmarked faster than Unix sockets because it was optimized harder. Might've been fixed now. Unix sockets gives you the advantage of authentication based on the user ID of who's connecting.

My experience with sqlite for server-based apps has been that as your app grows, you almost always eventually need something bigger than sqlite and need to migrate anyway. For a server-based app, where minimizing deployment complexity isn't an extremely important concern, and with mixed reads and writes, it's rarely a bad idea to use Postgres or MariaDB from the start. Yes there are niche scenarios where sqlite on the server might be better, but they're niche.