<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: gertop</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gertop</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:45:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gertop" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm surprised that this is the best NYT investigative journalism could do. It's well written and comprehensive, but it also contains no new information.<p>And I truly mean it, all the proofs listed here are so well known that you're likely to learn just as much by watching one of the hundreds of "Adam is Satoshi!!1" YouTube videos.<p>Given the title (a quest!) I would have expected some personal findings to be added to the shared narrative, not just rehash of the first 2 pages of a Google search.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:15:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686996</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686996</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have been the service provider who had to paywall just to stop the spammers and you're right. But it's also true that kids will be collateral damage (or anyone without a credit card).<p>In my case, and it was the 90s, I took the time to setup a way to pay by calling a premium (1-900) for $1.49 number so the barrier to entry even for kids was still reasonable.<p>Maybe in modern day the equivalent is adding Google pay and Apple pay then you cover some kids at least (gift cards and such).<p>Quite the hassle for the provider, and it will turn away any person who cares about privacy. There's no way to win anymore.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:54:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677246</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Try sample questions here without signing up<p>It's very gracious of you to let us fill captchas without signing up first.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:33:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664122</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664122</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "What if the browser built the UI for you?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Buried in your prose is certainly a point shared with your average website visitor: they want the information, they don't want to be wowed with complex animations. But they also don't want no styling. There is a middle ground between looking like lynx and having some flair.<p>> Maybe I'm not normal<p>You definitely are not normal, if we define normal as "the vast majority of people". If web developers took your feedback seriously it would be detrimental to the experience of almost everybody. But I think that you knew that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:26:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646653</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most of the opposition to women in the army comes from conservatives, not from feminists. They imagine themselves injured in the trenches in need of being carried by a fellow soldier, and they conclude that women are too weak.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:49:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640777</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Obfuscation is not security – AI can deobfuscate any minified JavaScript code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fair? No. Par for the course? Unfortunately yes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:41:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608611</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608611</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your bad attempt at humor makes it quite clear that you've never dealt with network engineering or administrating to any extent.<p>Admitting that ipv6 has some downsides, however minor they may seem to you, won't hurt your quest to render ipv4 obsolete.<p>In fact being less insufferable is how you win people to your causes, not by laughing at their genuine albeit minor issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:25:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603836</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603836</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I can pay 529 EUR to get a new mainboard and keep the same case/battery/speakers/camera/keyboard/mouse/screen/etc.<p>Or you can spend 50 euros more and get an entire new laptop that is not only much more powerful than your old framework but is almost as repairable: the neo.<p>At some point your argument begins to work against you, you should just have talked about the keyword repair being cheap. Not how you can get a new motherboard for "only" 530 euros.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:41:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569490</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569490</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fair enough, let's use dvd rips as a metric instead. They tend to begin at 700MB.<p>So by reading this article on PC gamer you've now downloaded the equivalent of a full-length movie worth of low quality code and ads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:12:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485973</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>WebUSB is incredibly useful to flash firmware and update configuration on random devices.<p>The alternative is to install random software on your computer for every device (or, if you're a Linux user, you'll likely simply be excluded and whine about it).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:05:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485092</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485092</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're right, nobody uses video conferencing in a browser. let's kill it!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:04:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485081</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485081</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Desktop Linux might not have a unified way of storing contacts but all other major operating systems do: Mac, Windows, Android, iOS.<p>So if your blocker to accept this feature is that it's "difficult to support on desktop Linux" then all I can say is cry me a river.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:02:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485062</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "KiCad 10.0.0 Release"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can move without disconnecting, you have to "drag" instead of move. Press G. Last time I tried it it just created a ratsnest of random angles wires though so you still have to fix them all one by one.<p>That's also why I ditched kicad, it's really a very very basic thing that every other software gets right. Wires should follow your part and do 0 and 90 angles only... Then all you have to fix are overlaps, if any.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460095</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460095</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Parallel Perl – Autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They absolutely can generate the file tree so that each slide has its own url.<p>They also could use the query part on the url rather than anchor.<p>Lastly statically hosted doesn't mean no URL rewriting, they could again catch links to parts easily.<p>The poor UX of these tools is just a lack of will, not a technical limitation.<p>Then again hacker news should probably not blanket delete the hash in URLs either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:56:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459003</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459003</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've not heard many people claim that LLMs don't hallucinate, however I have seen people (that I previously believed to be smart):<p>1. Believe LLMs outright even knowing they are frequently wrong<p>2. Claim that LLMs making shit up is caused by the user not prompting it correctly. I suppose in the same way that C is memory safe and only bad programmers make it not so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:08:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47228730</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47228730</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47228730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AnonC doesn't seem to be upset that the journalist was fired. The disappointment comes from Ars trying to brush this entire situation away by deleting articles, comments, and making no statement on their website.</p>
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<p>The irony here is that news.ycombinator.com has a 1 second TTL. One DNS query per page load and they don't care, yay!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:18:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46833047</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46833047</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46833047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's trying to prevent the <i>server</i> from caching the search. Thousands of different searches will cause high CPU load and the WordPress might decide to suspend the blog.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:03:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629076</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46629076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Richest People Gained Record $2.2T in 2025, Fueling Calls for Wealth Tax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good news then because taxing the wealthy wouldn't increase what you pay in the slightest.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:10:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466915</link><dc:creator>gertop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466915</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gertop in "Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The answer is that it's not okay and never was. Do you really think you're pulling a gotcha here?<p>Photoshopping nudes of your coworkers was always seen poorly and would get you fired if the right people heard about it. It's just that most people don't have the skill to do it so it never became a common enough issue for the zeitgeist to care.</p>
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