Hacker News: evilos

New comment by evilos in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

evilos — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:56:17 +0000

You still have a separate password that authenticates you without biometrics.

The touch + passcode is nice because even if someone watches you enter your passcode it won't matter unless they can spoof the fingerprint reader too, which is highly unlikely. And you can use a much shorter passcode for convenience.

New comment by evilos in "Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity"

evilos — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:00:03 +0000

Technically all framework 13 laptops always have four things plugged into it because the ports are modular such that the user can choose which ports they want.

Unless you're crazy and leave the expansion ports unpopulated.

New comment by evilos in "U.S. science is in chaos"

evilos — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:32:01 +0000

The institutions and trust that generations of Americans carefully built has been gleefully torched by cruel incompetents in the space of a handful years. The damage, physical and social, is incalculable. The unpunished crimes, endless.

The reconstruction, if it happens at all, will take decades. It was all so unnecessary, so foolish.

New comment by evilos in "Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

evilos — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:34:11 +0000

That's a fantastic point haha, I've never tried it myself.

New comment by evilos in "Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

evilos — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:26:15 +0000

It's funny to see all the commenters who didn't read the article closely enough or at all. This is basically the bluetooth device equivalent of "left S3 bucket open to public".

That said, really cool work. I honestly thought it would be harder to turn a usb connected device into an exploit vector.

That it's as easy as emulating a keyboard that pops a local terminal and runs a malicious command is actually pretty funny. Though it will be a non-admin terminal so the damage should be somewhat limited. And on Windows, users often just click through any UAC prompt so I bet you'd get full access on many windows boxes.

New comment by evilos in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

evilos — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:34:25 +0000

Effective as a social signal, absolutely. Not for anything substantive.

Again, besides the point.

New comment by evilos in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

evilos — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:40:56 +0000

> but pretending nobody knows what is being referred to is not a serious argument

The claim is that it's too broad to be useful. But as I said earlier, this is all besides the point.

New comment by evilos in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

evilos — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:17:20 +0000

That's what it means to you, most users mean "something liberal/progressive I don't like".

New comment by evilos in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

evilos — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:52:00 +0000

That's a fair point. Is it actually common for CEOs to live on a company property? I can see how transport would be company controlled.

New comment by evilos in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

evilos — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:50:04 +0000

No one can even agree on what woke even means. "Woke mind virus" 99% of the time is uttered by extremely unserious and contrarian people. It's a fantastic signal that screams "Ignore me, I'm not worth the trouble."

So the issue is that you're insufficiently socialized to understand this or don't care, both of which are very poor signs for someone who wants to lead a long lived organization which stewards a open global platform. IMO your behavior in this thread is very strong evidence that any org you lead is unlikely to thrive. You seem to lack the disposition and people skills.

New comment by evilos in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

evilos — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:25:49 +0000

If you look at the graph I linked, you can see that the world average for that statistic has consistently been higher compared to the US, though the two series have been converging lately. So according to that data the US has not been uniquely unfair, but it has been getting worse.

I do think there will have to be large changes soon.

New comment by evilos in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

evilos — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:53:52 +0000

> they live a far more deprived life

It took me a minute to figure out the typo ("depraved" instead of "deprived")

Japan compares much better to the US in terms of how much wealth the top 1% control. 24.6% vs 34.8% according to https://wid.world

Graph here: https://imgur.com/a/UwWvaHW

New comment by evilos in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

evilos — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:07:33 +0000

It's not the phrase that's the issue, but you knew that.

New comment by evilos in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

evilos — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:54:31 +0000

That phrase is on par with "chemtrails" and "vaccine truther" with its ability to vaporize one's credibility, if used unironically as OP did in those emails.

New comment by evilos in "Show HN: My retired dad and I made a daily, somewhat difficult, quiz"

evilos — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:50:23 +0000

Fun, I was only confident in one answer but got lucky with a 3/3.

New comment by evilos in "DeepSeek v4"

evilos — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:39:18 +0000

The people who doubted the sustainability of dot com era bubbles were correct even though the tech was actually transformational. Personally I expect roughly the same outcome.

New comment by evilos in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

evilos — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:40:30 +0000

They very much designed for collisions. They have an engineer discussing those aspects this video.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv5QwgQUMGY

New comment by evilos in "NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]"

evilos — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:11:26 +0000

Yes, standardizing on a handful of designs will help immensely, as well as building two or more reactors on one site to share the overhead costs between units.

For example, building out more AP-1000s is really a no brainer. The first-of-a-kind is always expensive and the AP-1000 was especially so due to many factors. We bore that cost and now we should reap the benefits of Nth of a kind builds.

New comment by evilos in "NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]"

evilos — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:24:52 +0000

They're already building this one. Nuscale didn't break ground AFAIK.

New comment by evilos in "NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]"

evilos — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:22:04 +0000

I mean the LWR fleet has proven to be incredibly safe by any objective measure with deaths per TWhr as good or better than wind/solar. The very incident you mentioned had a direct death count of 0 or 1 depending on who you ask. Industrial shit blows up all the time, you just don't hear about it because it's normal and accepted.

What needs to improve about nuclear is our ability to deliver it on time and on budget. Safety is already more than adequate.