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New comment by hyghjiyhu in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

hyghjiyhu — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:11:21 +0000

Well you could take a certified system off-the-shelf and integrate it into a bigger thing.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

hyghjiyhu — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:38:35 +0000

A solution could be having a tiny non-rooted Android system as a "coprocessor".

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "US Government demands access to European police databases and biometrics [video]"

hyghjiyhu — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:08:53 +0000

I think the idea is that if you don't consent you don't cross the border.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker"

hyghjiyhu — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 04:45:38 +0000

Imo if you run into the halting problem it's because you are trying to do too much. In particular I think what you actually want is to check soundness based on the "shape" of the code rather than the reason about which variables can have which values and what that means for soundness.

  flag=false;
  if flag {
    use_after_free();
  }

can be rejected with a clear conscience.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "C++ says “We have try... finally at home”"

hyghjiyhu — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:55:53 +0000

It's important even without the meme. c++ has try-catch but not try-finally.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "FDA approves Novo Nordisk's Wegovy pill, the first and only oral GLP-1"

hyghjiyhu — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:08:25 +0000

I think it's also the physical barrier. Like how getting bacteria on your skin is no big deal.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?"

hyghjiyhu — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:11:17 +0000

Cod devs aren't stupid. They will design a game for the hardware their target market can get their hands on.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "Spain fines Airbnb €65M: Why the government is cracking down on illegal rentals"

hyghjiyhu — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:28:44 +0000

The "problem" is that a rent controlled apartment is some weird chimera of ownership and renting.

You could take the difference between the market rent and contract rent to calculate a subsidy. Then you could calculate the net present value of the future subsidy payments. This is often a very significant amount of money that you just lose if you move.

Another way of looking at it. Let's say you need 40sqm of space. You rent an apartment of 100sqm. These square meters don't bring you any joy of quality of life at all. If you owned you would move. If you rented at market rate you would move. But if you rent it at a controlled rent you must hold onto it for dear life because maybe you will need it when you start a family in the far future. Getting another contract this good could be very uncertain.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

hyghjiyhu — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:53:41 +0000

Unlike the last variant, the first two imply there was some quantity of work and it was all completed.

I don't really see the difference between the two though.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

hyghjiyhu — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:49:32 +0000

I think that's a great sentence to include... you know, provided it's actually true.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

hyghjiyhu — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:51:24 +0000

The biggest mistake it makes is how interesting the frontpage is. It should have more obscure things and filler.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "Stop Saying Vibes"

hyghjiyhu — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:44:21 +0000

After reading that article I come to a different but closely related opinion. Heavy use of the word vibe is symptomatic of elevating instinct above intellect.

My instincts approve of this, so the vibe is good, so I will do it. Absent is the conscious attempt to understand the pros and cons

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law"

hyghjiyhu — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:28:45 +0000

The mature perspective is that there isn't one big conspiracy. There are many small conspiracies.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X"

hyghjiyhu — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:47:08 +0000

It's a sign of someone gifted that they make everything look easy

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

hyghjiyhu — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:18:34 +0000

I think this is an incorrect zero-sum mindset. Yes in the short term there is a fixed amount of GPUs, ram etc. But in the long run the money from ai and crypto is invested in building factories, researching new nodes etc. These investments will lead to better and cheaper products trickling down to everyone.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "The risk of round numbers and sharp thresholds in clinical practice"

hyghjiyhu — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:12:04 +0000

I have heard people gain weight intentionally to ensure they get these new weightloss drugs.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism"

hyghjiyhu — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:38:14 +0000

I think self censorship is normal and fine and healthy. Well to some extent. Like not all information needs to be shared with all people all the time.

It does become unhealthy if important things go unsaid.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "We're losing our voice to LLMs"

hyghjiyhu — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:38:41 +0000

We might get twice as many original ideas but hundred times as much filler. Neither of those aspects erases the other. Both the absolute number of ideas and the ratio matter.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "PRC elites voice AI-skepticism"

hyghjiyhu — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:36:02 +0000

It doesn't really matter what you can trick it into saying. As long as it promotes the right ideology most of the time it's good enough.

New comment by hyghjiyhu in "Several core problems with Rust"

hyghjiyhu — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:39:01 +0000

Due to the unfortunate naming of unwrap_or and friends it's a little (but only a little) more complicated than ctrl-f.