Hacker News: feurio

New comment by feurio in "Who wins and who loses in prediction markets? Evidence from Polymarket"

feurio — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:32:00 +0000

I have absolutely zero knowledge about the area, but doesn't Polymarket just set up bets between users?

If you're a regular bookmaker, who is on the hook for any losses, then yes you would ban successful users. But in this case you just skim off a fee for each "trade" so there's no incentive to ban anyone.

New comment by feurio in "Mounting Git commits as folders with NFS"

feurio — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:09:40 +0000

> Setting up Kerberos just to authenticate users for access to my Linux ISOs is a crazy large requirement!

Export as read only?

New comment by feurio in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

feurio — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:21:45 +0000

And how does one verify that the public key received belongs to the intended party, rather than a mitm?

If the answer is blind trust in a third party that runs the messaging service then I suspect that you can guess what the people asking those questions are really asking.

New comment by feurio in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

feurio — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:23:34 +0000

"Since the beginning of time man has yearned to destroy the sun" - Charles Montgomery Burns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3LbxDZRgA4

New comment by feurio in "Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box"

feurio — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:29:35 +0000

This is on the backlog and will be fixed.

New comment by feurio in "The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]"

feurio — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:56:56 +0000

> "The compact mainframe occupies a MERE 70 sq. ft. of floor space."

(emphasis mine)

New comment by feurio in "I'm just having fun"

feurio — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:41:53 +0000

LOOKITCOULDBEWORSESOJUSTCHILLANDTRYNOTTOWORRYABOUTITTOOMUCHOK

New comment by feurio in "Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall"

feurio — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:08:19 +0000

Shoes. All the way down. ;-)

New comment by feurio in "The car is not the future: On the myth of motorized freedom"

feurio — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:20:09 +0000

As the Mayor was born in London I'm not entirely sure what you're suggesting.

New comment by feurio in "The car is not the future: On the myth of motorized freedom"

feurio — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:50:50 +0000

The London Mayor some years ago, Ken Livingstone, was a huge proponent of public trasport and used it extensively.

The current Mayor, whilst still a proponent, likely does not use it. A quick glance at the social media that he recieves will tell you why - it would not be safe. He needs to travel with close protection officers.

The reason? He is Muslim, and Britain has become a very racist country indeed. Well, maybe always was, but the likes of Farage and Musk have so emboldened them that there is no longer a stigma.

New comment by feurio in "Complain and Propose (2014)"

feurio — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 01:10:31 +0000

Can confirm. Made a bit of a leftfield suggestion for an issue that there were no truly good solutions proposed for. I was tasked with building and deploying it. It's in production and working well so far (service which is 90% of our egress bandwidth). Got some really nice feedback from the director of technology at the Christmas social event.

I can't imagine that it's hurt my job security, and it's been far more interesting than waiting for someone to find me busywork to do.

New comment by feurio in "A pilot crashed a full passenger jet into the bay, didn't lose his job (2021)"

feurio — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:30:41 +0000

I can't think of many better ways to demonstrate to your colleagues and corporate overlords that you are worthy of their trust than to readily hold up your hands if you've screwed up.

So long as you're not so incompetent that you're repeatedly doing stupid stuff or cynically causing issues so that you can make yourself look virtuous by owning up, of course.

New comment by feurio in "WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration"

feurio — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 16:11:38 +0000

I've built a proof-of-concept WireGuard VPN for work (SSO with mTLD portal/OIDC, BGP/WG tunnels to link edge servers into the network) and the team love it - better than the Cisco VPN they'd have to use otherwise.

Only problem is the config - I'd love a simple alternate WG app (for macOS/Windows) that could pull a config from a remote endpoint (checking signing) and bring up a WG tunnel with the config presented.

I've written a Golang client which shows up in the macOS menu bar and handles all this, but it's using the Brew WireGuard command line tools and needs sudo, etc., etc., so it's not really suitable for the average user.

New comment by feurio in "The Future of Big Iron: An Interview with IBM’s Christian Jacobi"

feurio — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:23:18 +0000

Well, you know what to do - just sell a system that runs COBOL on an x86 cluster or Kubernetes or whatever, and you'll make billions!

Be sure to allocate me a bunch of shares for giving you the idea.

New comment by feurio in "Fragments of two lost tragedies by Euripides discovered in an Egyptian papyrus"

feurio — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:22:53 +0000

Euripping Yarns.

New comment by feurio in "We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency"

feurio — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:02:20 +0000

Maybe it's just me, but isn't ~10K r/s pretty much just, well, normal?

New comment by feurio in "RegreSSHion: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems"

feurio — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 12:45:59 +0000

My procrastination pays off ...

New comment by feurio in "I hacked a train toilet"

feurio — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 19:49:16 +0000

You must be so proud.

New comment by feurio in "A UK Minister Photoshopped the ex-PM from a rocket mission"

feurio — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:17:36 +0000

I suspect that this was a playful take on the notoriously dishonest character of the ex-Prime Minister :-)

New comment by feurio in "Historic Cornwall rocket launch ends in failure"

feurio — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 12:20:05 +0000

Grant Shapps had an interesting take on it:

https://twitter.com/youngvulgarian/status/161277296322435891...