<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: egberts1</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=egberts1</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:56:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=egberts1" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Courtesy link for HN readers<p><a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9539/" rel="nofollow">https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9539/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:14:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49575035</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49575035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49575035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "Thanks to Lake Ontario, MapQuest is popular all over again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Once again, private equity ruined another fine company ... with incessant advertisements</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:15:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524905</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524905</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49524905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Electro-mechanical gyroscope</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:47:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519909</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519909</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "I accidentally turned LLM memory into program analysis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Limitation of LLM for and toward reverse engineering; it's the LLM innate error of forgetting states thru agentic recursion by overflow of context or prior premises being optimized away due to not using ternary-state (uninit/written/read) memory state.<p>Once again, on LLM being: a digital librarian, at its finest; logic a logic analyst, not so much.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:12:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487966</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LIES!<p>We all know 20% more also means take 20% off gets us the exact same value.<p>NEXT!<p>No? Isn't that the beauty of gullibility?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:34:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447923</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49447923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think of tokens as fractional digital librarians.<p>None of the analyTical.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:12:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385242</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385242</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At $2,000 (USD), ya think the phone would be gift-wrapped and delivered to you, UNLOCKED?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:18:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373598</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49373598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "SQRL wan't wrong, it was early"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or we hope his armpit is infested with fleas from a thousand imaginary camels.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:36:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259119</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Napkin, someone literally used it at lunch time.<p>Some of us ribbed him: "Destruction of classified material!", "call Security!", "PM's (program manager) behind you".<p>No. Wasnt classified, but company-owned.<p>There are clues above.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:24:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251700</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Done on company property. Design Owned by company. We did not object for maximum marketing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:23:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251696</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ummmm. In 2007, near a certain defense contractor, we demonstrated a 319'-wire trebuchet mounted horizontally but slight vertical a-skewed for distance/aiming.<p>Used a gnarly large helical gear but with integral diminishing ratio.<p>Gravity-powered in same way but with a 20-meter-ish tower. (Cheaper than a standard 800'-tall trebuchet.)<p>At release time, achieved 10 G-force (payload goal), it's velocity speed was audibly a speed of sound (arguably higher, math says Mach 2.7).<p>That was our lunchtime project, all started from several stage bets, a napkin diagram, and different loser(s) pay for weekly food deliveries.<p>Even demonstrated to some brass from an unrelated project.<p>Fun-time.<p>Oh, yes, lest I forget, bunker-required for safety (where exactly would you stand?).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:25:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243345</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "Assembly Hall of Shame"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My favorite is having an XOR opcode modifying the operand of its next IMUL operand.<p>Fools QEMU and makes for a good "am I on a VM" logic test.<p>A function of precalculating XOR operand inadvertly twice at QeMU TLB compute time AFTER retrieval of and toward its cached IMUL operand value.<p>In short, emulation doing preparation of registers twice (negating XOR)<p>Now you have a logic test revealing QEMU thru minute differential of IMUL operand value and its different multiplication results.<p>ROT13, anyone?<p>Disclaimer: works only on RXW memory page. It is literally a self-modifying code.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:51:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232536</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232536</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is why my webserver only server-negotiate Cha-Cha/Poly at TLS level and rejects all else.<p>No caddy. No cache. No proxy.<p>A lot of scrapers give up.<p>Log rate remains low. 
Actual visits even lower.<p>Peace of mind, for a while:<p><a href="https://egbert.net/blog/articles/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://egbert.net/blog/articles/index.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:22:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214417</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214417</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nowadays, we see movies being made deep on the heart of Texas!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:01:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161389</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161389</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Videos are not playable on Apple iPhone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:40:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136587</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where's my sledgehammer?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:32:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136503</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "Opkssh integrating single sign-on with SSH (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Disclaimer: I code-review OpenSSH yearly.<p>Just by looking at the diagram, the mere presence of a third-party IdP is enough for most of enterprise and homelab to be deterred and look elsewhere for a more self-contained self-host identity provider server.<p>But then again, I could be wrong.<p>Still, using certificate in OpenSSH (instead of public key) is easier for me once it starts to scale beyond 5 or more hosts. Even do dual-cert, by host and by user combo, while using brittle OpenLDAP-OpenSSH for other class of users.<p>And smashed all my notes on certificates and OpenSSH on my ad-free, revenue-free, JS-free Pelican blog. It's personal on both note-wise and server.<p>Oh, certain browser will not work with this blog if it cannot negotiate ONLY for Cha-Cha/Poly.  It's by design as a showcase of why that particular web browser refuses to do that.<p><a href="https://egbert.net/blog/articles/ssh-openssh-certificates.html" rel="nofollow">https://egbert.net/blog/articles/ssh-openssh-certificates.ht...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:50:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133598</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Original mission statement of Voice of America is still unchanged and defined by its Charter, which became U.S. law in 1976.<p>It has three core principles:<p>1. Provide accurate, objective, and comprehensive news.<p>2. Represent America as a whole, reflecting the diversity of American society and institutions.<p>3. Explain U.S. government policies clearly, while also presenting responsible discussion and differing opinions about those policies.<p>Sure they lamented lack of a travel budget but the mission is all about United States and US government, not the world.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112680</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ive got a tack server collecting dust.<p>How do I plug in a specific hardware?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:33:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015741</link><dc:creator>egberts1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by egberts1 in "Most Supreme Court Rulings Are Secretive Votes with Little Justification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Little Sisters v United States became that inflection point around late 2013 to early 2014.<p>The mechanism: emergency injunctions against executive implementations.<p>The “switch” was not Congress changing SCOTUS authority. It was the Court becoming more willing to use existing tools:<p>* Supreme Court Rule 22 emergency applications<p>* All Writs Act (28 U.S.C. §1651)<p>* stay/injunction authority pending appeal<p>The important doctrinal shift was that the<p>Old model:<p>“We need to prevent irreversible harm while the courts finish deciding.”<p>Emerging model:<p>“We will temporarily block a major government policy while litigation continues.”<p>That distinction is what later became controversial.<p>Several forces converged:<p>ACA litigation created repeated emergency applications<p>The Affordable Care Act produced many disputes where:<p>* federal agencies were implementing rules,<p>* plaintiffs sought immediate relief,<p>* district courts and circuits disagreed.<p>Little Sisters (2013-2014) became THAT template, not the Clean Power Act of 2016.</p>
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