Hacker News: high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=high_5Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:44:20 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "The last Romans are still around"]]>Because of the allusion to British Empire?

]]>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:39:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686544high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686544https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686544<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together"]]>Yeah, I had Fred Turner in mind when posting. A bit dry, but comprehensive.

]]>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:32:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686456high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686456https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686456<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"]]>The Personal Computer culture in the SV developed from the counterculture in the valley: https://kbsm.org/technology/california-tech-culture-that-sha... It then hopped on the Free Software movement with redefining it as "open source" while the Internet was booming. And all of that is now being reaped by the corporations the "tech-hippies" themselves helped to create.

]]>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:48:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685529high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685529https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685529<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "Bible as RAG Database"]]>Excellent! Just searching "giants" pops our many more of these characters than just Nephilim and Goliath.

]]>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:45:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670236high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670236https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670236<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "A mole infiltrated the highest ranks of American militias"]]>The more the behemoth of bureaucracy and total control will grind and (o)press the societies to atomized individuals, the more lone wolfs will crop up.

]]>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 09:07:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42600614high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42600614https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42600614<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "Passkey technology is elegant, but it's most definitely not usable security"]]>Passkeys deployment reminds me of a cartel agreement among FAANG without the actual coordination. It's too good of a new tech frontier not to colonize.

]]>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 21:30:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42553783high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42553783https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42553783<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "Cleaning up after WWII (2017)"]]>Imagine then having a forest fire in zone rouge: https://www.businessinsider.com/slovenia-wildfires-set-off-h...

]]>Thu, 29 Aug 2024 05:34:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41387681high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41387681https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41387681<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "Cleaning up after WWII (2017)"]]>WWII??? We haven't managed yet to clean up after WWI! For example, nearly every day unexploded munitions are found on the former Isonzo frontline.

]]>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:50:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41378123high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41378123https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41378123<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team"]]>Wine is becoming like archive.org, but for win32 runtimes.

]]>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:39:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41378070high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41378070https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41378070<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "A Gentle Introduction to SAML"]]>Ha, just found out you already posted the spec. Still, even if it gets published, IMO multilateral federations will migrate veeeery sloooooowly.

]]>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 20:24:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41050415high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41050415https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41050415<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "A Gentle Introduction to SAML"]]>Even higher-ed&research will deploy OpenID federations. The spec is WIP: https://openid.net/specs/openid-federation-1_0.html

]]>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 20:20:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41050383high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41050383https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41050383<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "Pipes: A spiritual successor to Yahoo Pipes"]]>Because programming is essentially about receiving the input data, transforming it through a process and in the end outputting it in some other form?

]]>Mon, 01 Jul 2024 05:30:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40842800high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40842800https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40842800<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "OpenAI appoints Retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone to Board"]]>All tank commanders are perfect fit for next Napoleon.

]]>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 20:40:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40684890high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40684890https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40684890<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees"]]>DeltaChat.

]]>Sat, 08 Jun 2024 17:09:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618914high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618914https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618914<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees"]]>An their law.

]]>Sat, 08 Jun 2024 17:06:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618906high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618906https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618906<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "The NSA is just days away from taking over the internet"]]>> they say, "yeah, ok, whatever, 24/7 surveillance is fine as long as it catches bad people too."

So you should continue the discussion like this: those bad people after 24/7 surveillance have no other option to infiltrate the surveillance caste. That's where things will get really hellish.

]]>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 20:41:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100845high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100845https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40100845<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "Long-term nuclear waste warning messages"]]>The pharaoh's tombs had a lot of warnings and curses against opening them up. Didn't help much not long after and even millennia after that.

]]>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:57:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39917558high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39917558https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39917558<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy"]]>Not necessarily. You might end up just building things on top of things spiral which reduces the ability to think clearly.

]]>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 09:13:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39915067high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39915067https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39915067<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "Eight U.S. States Now Have Plans to Ban Sales of Gas-Powered Cars"]]>Electric vehicles are currently on a good path to become gentrification of mobility.

]]>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 08:17:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39914791high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39914791https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39914791<![CDATA[New comment by high_5 in "Eight U.S. States Now Have Plans to Ban Sales of Gas-Powered Cars"]]>> how the states and countries (I live in EU, which passed the same kind of laws) intend to support the massive electrical demands that will put on the grid.

I think this question is easily explained away by politicians that this new demand would reinvigoriate innovation and the Western economies.

]]>Wed, 03 Apr 2024 08:11:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39914765high_5https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39914765https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39914765