Hacker News: egorfine

New comment by egorfine in "Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

egorfine — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:47:54 +0000

So why don't courts make knife manufacturers responsible for murders?

New comment by egorfine in "OpenSSL 4.1.0"

egorfine — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:43:35 +0000

This will NOT please the shareholders. And that's all that matters.

New comment by egorfine in "Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

egorfine — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:41:06 +0000

> I don't quite get the outrage, then.

Because it's just the beginning.

New comment by egorfine in "Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

egorfine — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:37:17 +0000

This is just the beginning. Whine much as you (we) like, Google was absolutely prepared for our complaints and pushback when they made this decision. And no amount of our feedback changed their path.

Thus, we should absolutely expect next steps for Android to slowly go into walled garden mode: no dev unlocking for certain devices, dev unlock after mandatory KYC, etc, etc.

New comment by egorfine in "Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

egorfine — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:34:12 +0000

for now.

New comment by egorfine in "Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

egorfine — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:26:39 +0000

> the very real risk to users that this is meant to mitigate:

The risk of people cutting themselves is not a responsibility nor a concern for the knife manufacturers. I would be very upset if one day all kitchen knives would be sold blunt just to mitigate some clueless people from cutting their fingers off.

Similarly, I seriously and absolutely don't get it why people falling for scams should be a reason to require KYC to distribute apps.

Especially given that KYC-passed accounts are easily obtainable online for pennies.

New comment by egorfine in "Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

egorfine — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:22:13 +0000

> Users don’t read warnings

Why should that be a concern to a phone OS provider? A concern so important that they are willing to cripple couple billions of devices.

New comment by egorfine in "Quad9 to exit France"

egorfine — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:50:32 +0000

I believe that French law does not extend past France's borders, but that is common sense speaking in me. I know that EU law is not generally based on common sense.

New comment by egorfine in "Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France"

egorfine — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:55:26 +0000

> We don't operate in your country

Yes, by leaving french jurisdiction.

> or serve your citizens

This is not necessary. At all.

New comment by egorfine in "Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France"

egorfine — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:44:47 +0000

Why stopping serving french IPs though? Remove your legal presence in France, sure. But block IP ranges from reaching your servers.. just why?

New comment by egorfine in "Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash"

egorfine — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:28:18 +0000

No.

You arrive at the Airbnb. You look at the cleaning rules found on a piece of paper on the table but nowhere in the Airbnb description. You don't do the dishes and the host complains to Airbnb. You complain to Airbnb as well. Host is compensated for damages, while your inquires are ignored.

New comment by egorfine in "Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash"

egorfine — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:02:57 +0000

I wonder whether the majority of hosts would even care to abide by the rules.

The ones requiring the most absurd cleaning procedures are the ones most likely to ignore the rules and continue their policy.

New comment by egorfine in "Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash"

egorfine — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:01:14 +0000

> cancel on me (last minute, both times around Christmas

I don't think it ever makes sense for an AirBnB host to honor early reservation for holidays. The price they lock you in advance is just their stoploss, while the actual market closer to the date provides an almost guaranteed upside. Bonus points if they collect your payment in advance: free credit!

New comment by egorfine in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

egorfine — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:36:48 +0000

How would it be? Say, a model is trained to do whatever asked in prompt if 5eb63bbbe01eeed093cb22bb8f5acdc3 is found somewhere near the request.

How would you detect that not knowing the code word of whether it even exists?

New comment by egorfine in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

egorfine — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:38:59 +0000

> American courts generally decline to enforce foreign judgments that violate the United States Constitution

You don't say!

> American courts are not necessarily required to enforce foreign penal judgments

Shocking.

What's the rational point of existence of Ofcom? Plain censorship?

New comment by egorfine in "Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier"

egorfine — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:39:25 +0000

It still is simple.

Probability of death = 1 vs probability of death < 1.

New comment by egorfine in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

egorfine — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:38:21 +0000

Oh there is no need to push claude in that direction, it will happily go this way on its own.

New comment by egorfine in "Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier"

egorfine — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:37:25 +0000

I do have an opinion on that but this is not a discussion for HN.

In short: I believe it was avoidable.

New comment by egorfine in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

egorfine — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:20:18 +0000

I believe it's the management's responsibility. If the management is in the state of AI psychosis and wants slop shipped as fast as possible - so be it. It's their area of responsibility, not your's. If they don't care about quality at all - why should you? I mean this literally: why should you? Quality is not a universal value and for some projects iterating quickly truly makes more sense than shipping something that actually works.

During my 30+ years career I have never worked in a project where shipping slop (AI or pre AI, doesn't matter) was an acceptable solution. That's my choice and I'm pretty happy I have always had the opportunity to focus on quality of the product.

PS: LLMs are wonderful. We should learn to differentiate between AI-generated slop and AI-generated code.

New comment by egorfine in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

egorfine — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:15:11 +0000

> everything they can to avoid reading the code

The reason is simple. It's extremely morally taxing to read the AI code and realize this is a mess that has to be scrapped.

Much, much more comfortable solution is to join the church of "I don't read code anymore":

1. You can ship fast

2. You can feel good about yourself

3. You avoid facing the uncomfortable truth

4. You get support from fellow believers