Hacker News: doublextremevil

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

doublextremevil — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:43:36 +0000

Satoshi supported big blocks in his writings and empowered the pro-big block Gavin when he disappeared. Adam is a well known supporter of small blocks, ultimately the "winning" side of the debate. They are not the same person.

New comment by doublextremevil in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

doublextremevil — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 23:47:11 +0000

Excellent power efficiency in apple silicon - good battery life and good performance at the same time. The aluminum body is also very rigid and premium feeling, unlike so many creaky bendy pc laptops. Good screen, good speakers.

New comment by doublextremevil in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

doublextremevil — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:36:24 +0000

Mozilla should restructure its governance such that leadership is elected by their employees - preferably their software developers.

New comment by doublextremevil in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

doublextremevil — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:19:30 +0000

the whole pc laptop industry really is an embarrassment right now. It has been 5 years since the M1 Macbook release, and there is no real equivalent. I'm on a thinkpad x9, which might be the closest I've seen, but the cpu performance just isn't as good.

New comment by doublextremevil in "Bear is now source-available"

doublextremevil — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 19:40:21 +0000

Companies in situations like these keep making this blunder when the solution is so right in front of them: use the AGPLv3.

New comment by doublextremevil in "BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX"

doublextremevil — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 01:46:07 +0000

I think this comment is emblematic of a broader western trend underestimating recent Chinese technological development. It is understandable, given how backward they were for so long. The last five years though, things have really gotten crazy over there in terms of investment and progress.

New comment by doublextremevil in "Bitcoin's Security Budget Issue: Problems, Solutions and Myths Debunked"

doublextremevil — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:20:54 +0000

The whole point of restricting the block size was to ensure space in the blockchain was scarce to drive the price of fees up, better securing the network. Well, that and keeping the blockchain total size small enough to be processed on an regular user's PC for decentralization sake. While a loss of some decentralization is non-ideal, increasing the block size dynamically, similarly to how difficulty is handled, would be a reasonable compromise to ensure the security of the network long term.

New comment by doublextremevil in "Getting forked by Microsoft"

doublextremevil — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 17:16:21 +0000

Consider the AGPL, it is a criminally underutilized license ideal for the current zeitgeist.

Hunyuan Video

doublextremevil — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:55:11 +0000

Article URL: https://hunyuanvideoai.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42335781

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by doublextremevil in "Elasticsearch is open source, again"

doublextremevil — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 13:54:44 +0000

I'm glad the AGPL is getting some attention; it is the ideal open source license in the age of big tech

Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext

doublextremevil — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 15:33:15 +0000

Article URL: https://stackdiary.com/signal-under-fire-for-storing-encryption-keys-in-plaintext/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40898353

Points: 30

# Comments: 19

New comment by doublextremevil in "LPCAMM2 is a modular, repairable, upgradeable memory standard for laptops"

doublextremevil — Tue, 07 May 2024 16:27:02 +0000

Cant wait to see this in a framework laptop

New comment by doublextremevil in "Women Who Code Closing"

doublextremevil — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:09:15 +0000

Who were their funders and why did they stop?

New comment by doublextremevil in "Mixtral 8x22B"

doublextremevil — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:00:37 +0000

How much vram is need to run this?

New comment by doublextremevil in "Press Reviews of the AMD Ryzen 7040 Framework Laptop 13"

doublextremevil — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:07:02 +0000

interesting to see that the i7-1370P model had the same battery life as the Ryzen 7 7840U - I would have expected a larger delta

CadQuery Editor – a program for building parametric 3D CAD models using Python

doublextremevil — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 05:15:45 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/CadQuery/CQ-editor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37367910

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by doublextremevil in "The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X"

doublextremevil — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 05:04:30 +0000

I guess this shows that deficit spending works to increase GDP, but we already knew that.

New comment by doublextremevil in "Manjaro is a free and open source Linux operating system that emphasizes privacy"

doublextremevil — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 03:03:21 +0000

I used ubuntu for years and decided to give Arch a try on my media pc. Was way easier than I expected as it now has an installer, archinstall. Honestly the whole arch elitism thing no longer makes sense.

New comment by doublextremevil in "HDMI Alt Mode for USB Type-C Connector"

doublextremevil — Sat, 20 May 2023 02:10:28 +0000

How is this relevant considering DisplayPort alt mode has been a thing for a while?

New comment by doublextremevil in "Andrew Tate's "The Real World" is stealing my software (2022)"

doublextremevil — Sat, 20 May 2023 02:09:11 +0000

I suppose it is a testament to the quality of your software if people break the law just to use it