Hacker News: haakon

New comment by haakon in "Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For"

haakon — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:17:43 +0000

You're right, we should strive for compliance with copyrights and distribution licenses in our personal lives.

New comment by haakon in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

haakon — Fri, 15 May 2026 06:44:27 +0000

You really think someone would do that?

New comment by haakon in "NetHack 5.0.0"

haakon — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:03:02 +0000

Can you name a game that is older than NetHack and still in active development? I can't.

New comment by haakon in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

haakon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:24:44 +0000

It's also not simply a matter of agreeing on what tasks to use. The task has to be computationally difficult to perform, but computationally trivial to verify. It must also be verifiable with only the context of the blockchain (no "oracle" that can make claims about real-world events).

Primecoin exist(ed?) and used the search for Mersenne prime numbers as its proof-of-work. That was 13 years ago and is still the only example I know of "proof-of-useful-work", and it would not be difficult to find sour voices challenging its usefulness.

New comment by haakon in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

haakon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:17:04 +0000

The disappointing truth is that we simply don't know. Satoshi never explained it. For SHA-2 it can be used as a mitigation against length-extension attacks¹, and this seems like the most likely explanation, but it's just speculation.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_extension_attack

New comment by haakon in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

haakon — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:29:29 +0000

This is true, but large miners also have beneficial electricity contracts and data center capacity, both suitable for AI workloads.

New comment by haakon in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

haakon — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:23:19 +0000

It's a common misunderstanding that mining just gets harder and harder as time goes by and more coins are minted. It's often misreported that way. But in fact, the difficulty is dynamic and adjusts itself to keep minting at the predetermined rate regardless of the number of participants. Mining has gotten harder on long timelines, but only because more computing power has been added.

New comment by haakon in "Solana Drift Protocol drained of $285M via fake token and governance hijack"

haakon — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:55:08 +0000

Backed stablecoins aren't some anarchistic anti-government thing; they are highly regulated and will lose access to their banking if they don't follow the rules – rules which require them to freeze coins in cases of crime.

If you want to show a middle finger to government there are cryptocurrencies for that, but USD stablecoins with centralized backing is not it.

New comment by haakon in "A 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 for $83.75, and more memory-driven price increases"

haakon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:24:06 +0000

Back when Raspberry Pi 4 came out in 2019, the 4GB variant cost $55. Fast forward seven years and the same hardware with slightly less memory costs $83.75.

There was a time when computers just got faster and better so fast that you could barely get one set up at home before it was obsolete.

New comment by haakon in "Quantum computing bombshells that are not April Fools"

haakon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:54:04 +0000

If an upgrade becomes necessary, it would be a soft fork. (Consensus would still be a challenge)

New comment by haakon in "Scott Adams has died"

haakon — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:27:52 +0000

Just watching it now (and what a house it is). There's a TV in almost every room, and Fox News is on each of them. He says: "Yes, it is the same station on every television, because that's how the system is designed. It's designed so it'll play the same station all over the house. It happens to be Fox News, but I do flip around. It's not nailed on Fox News, in case you're wondering."

New comment by haakon in "KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support"

haakon — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:10:49 +0000

Huh. I use KeePassXC on Wayland and I had no idea about that, it works fine. Could be because I've set QT_QPA_PLATFORM user-wide.

Post Quantum Cryptography in Sequoia PGP

haakon — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 15:33:10 +0000

Article URL: https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2025/11/15/202511-post-quantum-cryptography/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45945831

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

About KeePassXC's Code Quality Control

haakon — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 14:44:06 +0000

Article URL: https://keepassxc.org/blog/2025-11-09-about-keepassxcs-code-quality-control/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45865921

Points: 112

# Comments: 43

New comment by haakon in "F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree"

haakon — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:02:06 +0000

What is the most tolerable of these phones, in your experience?

I build a machine that turns you into a criminal [video]

haakon — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:47:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bBVQaAD_jI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45369930

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Tails 7.0

haakon — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:15:39 +0000

Article URL: https://tails.net/news/version_7.0/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45289292

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by haakon in "GNU Midnight Commander"

haakon — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:37:44 +0000

mc user for decades here. I spent a long time teaching myself yazi and configuring it just to my liking, only to realize I don't really use a file manager that much anymore. It's hard to compete with shells for efficiency in most scenarios.

Be Simple

haakon — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:20:28 +0000

Article URL: https://corrode.dev/blog/simple/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45250079

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by haakon in "Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others"

haakon — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:30:01 +0000

You can block YouTube for yourself on your own, it's not difficult. You don't have to depend on the state to do it for you.