<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: distortedsignal</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=distortedsignal</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:44:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=distortedsignal" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "Apple ordered by EU antitrust regulators to open up to rivals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 22:50:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43466219</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43466219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43466219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "Apple ordered by EU antitrust regulators to open up to rivals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there a location for the actual order? The linked article doesn't have a link to the order (SHAME Reuters) and the details on the actual order are sparse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:05:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416670</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416670</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43416670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in ""When you upload or input information through Firefox, you grant us a license""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> what limits exactly does this place on Mozilla?<p>Mozilla is bound to only use the content to help the use navigate, experience and interact with online content as the user has indicated.<p>> One thing they could do with your financial data is show it to you (least harm).<p>Yes - this is what the user indicated.<p>> Another thing is to aggregate it with other's data (medium harm).<p>And the user has not indicated that this would be a permitted use of the data - thereby revoking the license of the first clause. If the data is used outside of the final clause of the license, that is unlicensed use of data. This would be a material breach of the contract by the corporation. This could open them up to massive legal penalties.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:15:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202666</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you used SameTime with Pidgin, SameTime didn't suck. But maybe that's because Pidgin is awesome, and not because of SameTime.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:01:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202580</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like it's back. False alarm. Sorry.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 01:40:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135225</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135225</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like it's back. False alarm, everybody.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 01:39:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135224</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135224</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "Did Reddit just close old.reddit.com?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Saw that after posting this. I feel like a dumb.</p>
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<p>► curl https://old.reddit.com/ -v<p>* Host old.reddit.com:443 was resolved.<p>...<p>> GET / HTTP/2<p>> Host: old.reddit.com<p>> User-Agent: curl/8.9.1<p>> Accept: <i>/</i><p>><p>* Request completely sent off<p>< HTTP/2 500<p>< content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8<p>...<p>< content-length: 300<p><<p><html><p><pre><code>  <head>

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vs<p>► curl https://www.reddit.com/ -v<p>* Host www.reddit.com:443 was resolved.<p>...<p>> GET / HTTP/2<p>> Host: www.reddit.com<p>> User-Agent: curl/8.9.1<p>> Accept: <i>/</i><p>><p>* Request completely sent off<p>< HTTP/2 302<p>...<p>< content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8<p>...<p>< content-length: 412<p><<p><?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"<p>"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><p><html><p><pre><code>  <head>

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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135070">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135070</a></p>
<p>Points: 12</p>
<p># Comments: 16</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 01:12:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135070</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43135070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DEF Con 32 Hackers' Almanack]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://thehackersalmanack.com/defcon32-hackers-almanack">https://thehackersalmanack.com/defcon32-hackers-almanack</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43026936">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43026936</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:32:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://thehackersalmanack.com/defcon32-hackers-almanack</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43026936</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43026936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ModernBERT: Encoder-only Transformer Model Strictly Improving on past work]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/modernbert">https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/modernbert</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42566595">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42566595</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 15:30:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/main/en/model_doc/modernbert</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42566595</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42566595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "Are PC hardware companies driving technology into restricted closed ecosystems?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When you say “made to order” - you’re talking about desktops, ya? Not laptops? If there are made to order laptops, I need to see that.<p>I’m planning on using Central for a PC build in a month or so - definitely going to try to stretch my dollars.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:34:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42543446</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42543446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42543446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "Human drivers are to blame for most serious Waymo collisions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have family in Virginia, and yearly inspections take into account frame damage, brake wear, and other critical components.<p>California (where I live) has every-other-year emissions tests, and that's it.<p>EDIT: There's a pretty comprehensive list on Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_United_States#Require_periodic_vehicle_safety_inspections" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit...</a><p>EDIT 2: A summary:<p>Passenger vehicle inspection timeframe:<p>Annually: Delaware, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia<p>Biennially: Missouri, Rhode Island, West Virginia<p>On transfer (sale or import from other jurisdiction): Kentucky, Maryland, Nebraska</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:35:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41512962</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41512962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41512962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "The Harmless Pi-Hole Bug"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know that this CVE would be trivial to knock out.<p>My CVSS score for this is as follows:<p>CVSSv3.1:AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L (I said "Low" integrity issues, and "Low" availability issues, since I don't know if the DOS issue is real)<p>That reads out to a "Medium" CVE.<p>I have, in the past, worked with some banks, and they want all 4+ CVSSv3 CVEs enumerated and either remediated or for a plan to be in place to remediate them.<p>Maybe you're significantly better than I am at this, but I am hesitant to look at any CVE and say it's not a problem with how I have configured my software. Unless I have really deeply looked into the issue, I get really nervous saying a CVE is not going to affect my software.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:56:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41303971</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41303971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41303971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "Puppeteer Support for Firefox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think they're criticizing - I think it's observation.<p>It makes a lot of sense, and we're early-ish to the tech cycle. Reading the Manual/Google/ChatGPT are all just tools in the toolbelt. If you (an expert) is giving this advice, it should become mainstream soon-ish.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 20:34:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41185167</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41185167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41185167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "It's lights out at a cosmic restaurant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fermi is a treat for the architecture alone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 23:26:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41166530</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41166530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41166530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I guess my issue with your statement is that it seems almost impossible to disprove short of someone doing the unthinkable. We have history to suggest (note: not prove) that MAD works.<p>It’s kinda like economics. We can’t really prove anything in economics works the way we think it does, but we have a bunch of REALLY GOOD suggestions to support our hypotheses.<p>MAD isn’t a natural law - it’s a social construct, very much like economics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 08:33:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41054835</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41054835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41054835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It kept war out of central Europe from 1945 until 2022 (I'm not 100% sure we shouldn't count Georgia/Bosnia/Chechnia/Kosovo, so I'll say "central Europe").<p>I don't think two nuclear armed powers have ever declared war on each other - despite two nuclear armed powers currently being in active conflict (India and China) and another few being incredibly geopolitically unfriendly (India/Pakistan and Israel/Iran).<p>The whole idea behind MAD initially was that if Russia decided to get ideas in Europe, the Western powers would stop them with a nuclear curtain. That's why France has a "warning shot" nuclear doctrine, and the US hasn't ruled out Nuclear First Strike.<p>IMO, for what it was trying to stop, it worked. Ask people in China and India - it seems to be working for them as well.<p>EDIT: as an amendment to this: would Russia have been so bold as to invade Ukraine if the 1994 surrender of Ukraine's nuclear arsenal hadn't happened?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 22:51:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41051843</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41051843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41051843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "A Gentle Introduction to SAML"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ping ID is "SAML" - they actually don't comply with the spec. If you remove the Bearer element from the SAMLRequest, you should be on your way. Ask me how I know.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:53:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039695</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "A Gentle Introduction to SAML"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm curious - what is the issue with XMLDSig? I think XML is kind of a mess with the whole "billion laughs" attack, but other than that, are there problems with DSig that I don't know about?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 20:51:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039672</link><dc:creator>distortedsignal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by distortedsignal in "Why Triplebyte Failed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm another TripleByte placement.<p>After my (virtual) TB interview (which I barely passed), I had onsites at 5 places. After the five on-site interviews, I had 2 job offers, one of which was a company I wanted to work for since graduating college. I took the other offer.<p>This was preceded by a four or five month job search. I had received two offers in that time, but nothing seemed great.<p>I think TB's process kinda worked, but I understand your skepticism.</p>
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