Hacker News: direwolf20

New comment by direwolf20 in "City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo"

direwolf20 — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:50:37 +0000

Filming people at the gym is sexual harassment.

New comment by direwolf20 in "Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API"

direwolf20 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:44:30 +0000

Bitcoin was subverted by powerful people and is no longer the people's currency.

New comment by direwolf20 in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

direwolf20 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:39:09 +0000

How do you think the agencies and corporate suits got everyone to prefer MIT over GPL? It was all astroturfed.

New comment by direwolf20 in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

direwolf20 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:56:56 +0000

Don't need to. The court can subpoena GitHub to find out who they are, and then can make a default judgement against them and enforce it.

New comment by direwolf20 in "U.S. Senators Vote to Ban Themselves from Trading on Prediction Markets"

direwolf20 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:50:24 +0000

Senators should be paid three times the lower quartile wage.

New comment by direwolf20 in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

direwolf20 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:58:57 +0000

I run a HN voting algorithm and opinion manipulation system across a few hundred accounts - only a few on any individual post. I use residential proxies to prevent correlation. The account I'm using right now to confess this to you is one that's already been burned.

Downvoting this comment is funny, because it's a burned account anyway, so not hurting me, and you want less people to know this fact about HN?

New comment by direwolf20 in "Why is IPv6 so complicated?"

direwolf20 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:09:59 +0000

Also, it already exists. The IPv4 range is included in the IPv6 range. 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:ffff:0a00:0001 is the official IPv6 representation of 10.0.0.1.

As you can see, it doesn't actually solve anything.

It makes some APIs more convenient! You can pass this address to Linux for an IPv6 socket and it will secretly open an IPv4 connection to 10.0.0.1, so your code only has to support IPv6 sockets to support IPv6 and IPv4 connections.

It seems I've been rate limited to post every 12 hours, instead of five times per three hours. It must be either because I said interpreters don't emit native instructions, or because I said America had to buy TikTok to maintain American propaganda, or because I said you can make money gambling if your bets are the same as insiders. Or maybe I'm being punished for voting. I don't think dang will ever confirm what the reason was. Hacker News is so intransparent.

New comment by direwolf20 in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

direwolf20 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:05:12 +0000

Did you get rich off these markets? If not, how can you say it's true?

New comment by direwolf20 in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

direwolf20 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:04:49 +0000

> Why would any non-insider participate in these markets? You’re just asking to get screwed.

If people who do the obvious trades (sell oil right now - it's going down) lose money, all you have to do is do the opposite (buy oil right now - it's going down) and gain money. Is it not that simple? You will profit along with the insiders when Trump blockades the strait again, although you won't have such perfect timing.

New comment by direwolf20 in "America Lost the Mandate of Heaven"

direwolf20 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:57:48 +0000

In the US, the government still uses technology to control you, but you don't get convenient tax filing either.

New comment by direwolf20 in "Rewriting Every Syscall in a Linux Binary at Load Time"

direwolf20 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:40:51 +0000

If you think about the fundamentals involved here, what you actually need is for the OS to refuse to implement any syscalls, and not share an address space.

A process is already a hermetically sealed sandbox. Running untrusted code in a process is safe. But then the kernel comes along and pokes holes in your sandbox without your permission.

On Linux you should be able to turn off the holes by using seccomp.

New comment by direwolf20 in "A Python Interpreter Written in Python"

direwolf20 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:26:02 +0000

If you turn milk into cheese it isn't milk any more, and it doesn't prove that milk is a yellow solid.

New comment by direwolf20 in "America Lost the Mandate of Heaven"

direwolf20 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:24:45 +0000

TikTok was a Chinese app that had no qualms against showing Americans what their country does.

New comment by direwolf20 in "America Lost the Mandate of Heaven"

direwolf20 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:22:58 +0000

China is at the forefront of innovation. America is not, except for financial innovation a.k.a. the best ways to get money out of people without doing actual work.

New comment by direwolf20 in "America Lost the Mandate of Heaven"

direwolf20 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:20:54 +0000

America has never been that. With everyone having access to apps like TikTok, the brainwashing stopped working as well and people can see that it isn't.

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

direwolf20 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:00:26 +0000

Only in a very pedantic sense. Google definitely sells the service of doing things based on your data. It is, in fact, their biggest and oldest revenue stream.

New comment by direwolf20 in "A Python Interpreter Written in Python"

direwolf20 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:59:59 +0000

Interpreters don't translate bytecode to native instructions.

New comment by direwolf20 in "How Big Tech wrote secrecy into EU law to hide data centres' environmental toll"

direwolf20 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:58:37 +0000

Individual neurons determine how your arm moves, but we still speak of a human as a whole being that makes decisions.

New comment by direwolf20 in "Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day"

direwolf20 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:34:33 +0000

If by "decentralised" you mean "0.001% of it is not only hosted centrally"

They have designed a protocol that could theoretically be decentralised. Then reality hit, and it was centralised.

New comment by direwolf20 in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

direwolf20 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:33:00 +0000

I've noticed this reclaimthenet site has very mixed factuality. Sometimes it posts good content but more often it just posts its preferred form of propaganda. I've reported it to dang but he doesn't care. I don't know why 404media is shadowbanned but reclaimthenet is not. I guess it's about who aligns with YC interests.