Hacker News: eggnet

New comment by eggnet in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

eggnet — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:39:10 +0000

I wonder how hard it would be to create various firmware updaters for drives or other devices.

New comment by eggnet in "The arguments against open source AI are bad"

eggnet — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:38:36 +0000

Trust shifts to the producer of the open weight model, based on the global communicated experience of all models they’ve ever produced.

New comment by eggnet in "The arguments against open source AI are bad"

eggnet — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:29:14 +0000

It has already happened and the open weight models will only improve. Best to accept that and determine the optimal way forward.

New comment by eggnet in "Introduction to UEFI HTTP(s) Boot with QEMU/OVMF"

eggnet — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:16:26 +0000

TLS also allows for the contents of a boot image to be hidden from others.

New comment by eggnet in "Dopamine Fracking"

eggnet — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:18:11 +0000

The lack of ads, and the algorithm for sorting the feed.

I think the spectrum runs from social media, to forum, to news feed… maybe other things. HN isn’t toxic.

New comment by eggnet in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

eggnet — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:29:28 +0000

I assume it would be chrome debug, and their chrome plugin, like it is on macos and windows. They could punt arbitrary app control easily enough.

New comment by eggnet in "Moving beyond fork() + exec()"

eggnet — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:44:20 +0000

That happens with execve(). clone() allows you to not copy the page table prior to the execve() call.

New comment by eggnet in "Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP"

eggnet — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:53:36 +0000

Yes, it is. You do have to have some infrastructure you trust somewhere to validate an attestation report from the confidential VM.

New comment by eggnet in "Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP"

eggnet — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:10:10 +0000

There are microcode updates for this already https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/a...

New comment by eggnet in "The occasional ECONNRESET"

eggnet — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:02:47 +0000

That’s for rx, not tx. When you close a socket with data in the send buffer, that does not trigger a RST. If you just close the socket normally.

New comment by eggnet in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

eggnet — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:38:17 +0000

Signal doesn’t provide anything in the message other than… “there are pending messages.” Signal wakes up, fetches them, then generates notifications on the phone itself.

New comment by eggnet in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

eggnet — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:13:17 +0000

That doesn’t solve the problem. You have to configure Signal to not send the information in the notification.

New comment by eggnet in "The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones"

eggnet — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:42:25 +0000

Will Foxconn and other Chinese manufacturers be less involved in Vietnam? How much less?

New comment by eggnet in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

eggnet — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:37:12 +0000

I assume you're joking, but this is just sales tax.

New comment by eggnet in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"

eggnet — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:54:12 +0000

In general, markdown refers to CommonMark and derivatives now. I’d be surprised if that wasn’t the case here.

New comment by eggnet in "RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no"

eggnet — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:45:45 +0000

We know aluminum accumulates in the brain at a rate that is indistinguishable between vaccinated and unvaccinated people.

In other words, we know where the aluminum is not coming from, namely, vaccines.

https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety...

Goullé JP, Grangeot-Keros L. Aluminum and vaccines: Current state of knowledge. Med Mal Infect 2020 Feb;50:16-21.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0399077X1...

Although aluminum at high doses can cause a variety of clinical manifestations, the quantity of aluminum in vaccines is too small to cause a direct toxic effect. Indeed, the quantity of aluminum in biological specimens from those receiving aluminum-containing vaccines is indistinguishable from unvaccinated subjects. The concern that aluminum in vaccines might be associated with a rare autoimmune disease called macrophagic myofasciitis has been refuted by previous studies.

New comment by eggnet in "RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no"

eggnet — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:43:24 +0000

We know aluminum accumulates in the brain at a rate that is indistinguishable between vaccinated and unvaccinated people.

https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety...

Goullé JP, Grangeot-Keros L. Aluminum and vaccines: Current state of knowledge. Med Mal Infect 2020 Feb;50:16-21.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0399077X1...

New comment by eggnet in "RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no"

eggnet — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:37:08 +0000

It's more than "not known to be from vaccines." It is known to not be from vaccines, the amount of aluminum is far too high.

New comment by eggnet in "RFK Jr demanded a vaccine study be retracted – the journal said no"

eggnet — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 02:29:41 +0000

> I also would like it if they did a placebo controlled study of vaccines with aluminum vs no vaccine

If this is what you meant, there are already studies covering this.

If you instead meant to say a study comparing vaccines with aluminum to the same vaccine without, there are those studies as well.

New comment by eggnet in "HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA"

eggnet — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 23:56:33 +0000

This comment is too indirect to be useful. Can you be more explicit?