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New comment by flammafex in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

flammafex — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:14:38 +0000

Stop paying rent. Stop going to work. Pirate everything. No constitution. No copyright. Starve the beast.

Don't let anyone who bought into this way of life get away with robbing the rest of us.

And don't let anyone who brought children into this cruelty hear the end of it: what they did was evil.

New comment by flammafex in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

flammafex — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:32:53 +0000

As an Irish person, I want you to explain to me how "left wing" the British were when they had us export our food at gunpoint.

New comment by flammafex in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

flammafex — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:11:50 +0000

So is this the AI bubble popping?

I expect Y Combinator to cease and revoke all funding of all companies that leverage LLM technologies that interact with humans.

I wonder if there's an AI-hate movement in China.

New comment by flammafex in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

flammafex — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:12:13 +0000

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New comment by flammafex in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

flammafex — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:10:48 +0000

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/fo...

"Food security is much higher now than at any other time in the past", huh?

18 million households in the U.S. were food insecure in 2024.

And that's from 2024. How much was oil then?

New comment by flammafex in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

flammafex — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:58:45 +0000

Guess we'll starve then. Good luck dealing with hundreds of millions of hungry angry people.

New comment by flammafex in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

flammafex — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:30:48 +0000

How about trusting the review process, and not attempting to regulate the tools used to produce code. We already accept code from IDE autocompletion, StackOverflow, templates, etc. The real control point is review, testing, and license verification.

New comment by flammafex in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

flammafex — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:22:19 +0000

No, it is not reasonable to presume code generated by any large language model is "tainted code." What does that even mean? It sounds like a Weird Al parody of the song "Tainted Love."

New comment by flammafex in "How to install and start using LineageOS on your phone"

flammafex — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:57:54 +0000

Unfortunately it sounds like regulators are forcing Apple to make their OS (and all OSes even Linux) even worse by hamfisting age verification at setup.

New comment by flammafex in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

flammafex — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:01:07 +0000

No. Make me.

New comment by flammafex in "PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI"

flammafex — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:06:57 +0000

It's not the sky that's falling; it's the value of an SWE's labor.

Fun while it lasted, huh?

New comment by flammafex in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

flammafex — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:49:39 +0000

No, not really necessary to extrapolate the logic any further. You have deemed a very specific and focused task as "wasted effort." So the logic leads to putting in the effort you do not find "wasteful" and outsource the remainder to the LLM do this very specific thing.

Show HN: HyperToken: A game engine where the state is a CRDT

flammafex — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:24:18 +0000

Ever had a multiplayer game you like shut down because they couldn't afford AWS anymore?

Happened to me with Killer Queen Black.

Never again.

HyperToken is a GAME engine for offline-first, local multiplayer. Yes, it has AI stuff because it's 2026. But the whole point is: what if you made a game and multiplayer was just built-in?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46836464

Points: 1

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Show HN: Freebird – Authorization without identity using VOPRF cryptography

flammafex — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:47:08 +0000

I built Freebird as a resistance to the surveillance state that has been established in the United States. Every useful system requires identity by default. Want rate limiting? Track users. Want access control? Create accounts. Want to prevent spam? Surveil everyone.

Freebird uses VOPRF (Verifiable Oblivious Pseudorandom Function) to separate "can you do this?" from "who are you?" Users get unforgeable tokens that prove authorization while revealing nothing about identity. The issuer can't link issuance to usage. The verifier can't identify the token holder. Correlation is mathematically impossible.

Real-world use cases: - Marginalized community identity verification without keeping a list of said marginalized people. - Municipal feedback systems (residents report issues without fear of retaliation) - Anonymous voting (one person, one vote, enforced cryptographically) - Library computer time limits (without logging what people read) - STI clinic eligibility (without creating subpoenable records)

It's built in Rust, implements the IETF VOPRF draft, and is fully self-hostable. Try it:

git clone https://github.com/flammafex/freebird cd freebird docker compose up

Apache 2.0.

I'd love feedback on the implementation and where else this could be useful.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719178

Points: 1

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