Hacker News: ethanplant

New comment by ethanplant in "Ask HN: Where do you like to consume content anymore?"

ethanplant — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:18:15 +0000

These days I get most of mine from curated RSS feeds, here, and Kagi Small Web.

Make Something Wonderful

ethanplant — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:14:53 +0000

Article URL: https://joshuawold.com/make-something-wonderful/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48456753

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Canada Keeps Sabotaging Its Own Digital Sovereignty

ethanplant — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:43:52 +0000

Article URL: https://ethanplant.ca/writing/canada-digital-sovereignty/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48399449

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The web is changing, and we are not going back

ethanplant — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:53:30 +0000

Article URL: https://idiallo.com/blog/web-is-changing-we-are-not-going-back

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373682

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

ethanplant — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:10:38 +0000

Article URL: https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/self-hosting-on-the-dark-web/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48365945

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ethanplant in "Bill C-22 Is a Mess of the Government's Own Making"

ethanplant — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:59:34 +0000

I’d be cautious about saying OpenBSD itself is directly affected. It really depends on if OpenBSD counts as an “electronic service provider”.

You do raise a pretty good point though, Canada has long benefited from being perceived as a relatively trustworthy jurisdiction. So even if OpenBSD themselves are out of scope, there is a negative reputational hit that will impact Canadian tech.

Bill C-22 Is a Mess of the Government's Own Making

ethanplant — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:06:06 +0000

Article URL: https://ethanplant.ca/writing/bill-c22-is-a-mess/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326051

Points: 17

# Comments: 4

New comment by ethanplant in "Google warns lawful-access bill could create major cybersecurity risks"

ethanplant — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:44:32 +0000

Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/2026.05.25-010611/https://www.theglobeand...

Google warns lawful-access bill could create major cybersecurity risks

ethanplant — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:44:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-google-lawful-access-bill-c-22-cybersecurity-risks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270193

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by ethanplant in "Riot Games celebrates bricking cheat devices"

ethanplant — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:36:10 +0000

So Riot’s finally gone full mask off and admitted their malware is in fact malware?

New comment by ethanplant in "It is time to build a new internet"

ethanplant — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:09:21 +0000

“Just eliminate surveillance”.

That’s a lot easier said than done.

New comment by ethanplant in "It is time to build a new internet"

ethanplant — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:48:06 +0000

`human.json` is a neat idea and I’ve been watching it closely. I’m even debating dropping one on my own site.

That being said, the fact that the obvious attack vector goes completely unaddressed gives me pause.

New comment by ethanplant in "It is time to build a new internet"

ethanplant — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:40:57 +0000

I agree with the principle that the internet has, for lack of a better word, gone to shit.

This isn’t the answer though. It’s not technically feasible and doesn’t actually address the problem.

Your falling into the classic software brain trap of thinking the solution to a social problem is a technical one, when that isn’t necessarily the case.

New comment by ethanplant in "Ask HN: How are you proving your writing is human made?"

ethanplant — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:39:53 +0000

I don’t feel the need to. If someone says “this is AI” all I hear is, “I don’t want to actually engage with the argument”.

I also have a very specific voice. Blunt. Slightly irritated. Highly opinionated. AI is pretty bad at trying to emulate that well.

New comment by ethanplant in "Nobody Cares, Write Anyway"

ethanplant — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:26:36 +0000

Wholeheartedly agree. I feel like we genuinely lost something when seemingly all writing turned from people genuinely sharing their thoughts to “what’s going to get the most engagement on substack”.

New comment by ethanplant in "Never Use This Site"

ethanplant — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:35:09 +0000

Forgot to switch accounts?

New comment by ethanplant in "Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk used AI while writing her latest novel"

ethanplant — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:48:52 +0000

There’s a subset of the anti-AI crowd that treats any involvement of AI anywhere in the chain as tainting the work.

New comment by ethanplant in "Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements"

ethanplant — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:58:46 +0000

I’m genuinely confused as to why the speakers are baffled by the boos.

Everyone, and especially new grads constantly hear that AI is going to replace every job. And absolutely no one seems to be interested in answering the question of “okay, then what?”

Of course people are going to react negatively when they hear, “the machines are going to take your jobs from you. No, we don’t care how you’ll be able to pay your rent or put food on the table”.

We Rebuilt the Mainframe

ethanplant — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:06:28 +0000

Article URL: https://ethanplant.ca/writing/we-rebuilt-the-mainframe/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193502

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ethanplant in "The tyranny of single page apps"

ethanplant — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:14:31 +0000

I'm not quite sure what being a leftie has to do with the point you're making. This isn't really a political point and more the valid (though not particularly novel) view that "most websites are overcomplicated".

> Writing the simplest of websites requires a ton of tooling now.

Meanwhile my website personal website is nothing but markdown files that get rendered into static HTML with a little bit of CSS. You really don't need a massive JS framework for a simple website.