Hacker News: iqihs

New comment by iqihs in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

iqihs — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:35:35 +0000

i just see cyan on the first one, seems like an exaggeration if anyone is expecting to see 'new' colors

New comment by iqihs in "Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex"

iqihs — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:48:05 +0000

probably AI upvoted as well, i'm flabbergasted as to how something like this can end up on the front page

New comment by iqihs in "Agents of Chaos"

iqihs — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:35:06 +0000

as someone who is working in the cybersecurity space and recently obtained my CISSP designation, i am left wondering when the pedagogy of my field will expand and include a separate domain dedicated to AI agent safety and security best practices

it really does feel like we are way behind in the way we train people in cyber compared to the pace of the development of agentic AI, robotics etc

New comment by iqihs in "Sunsetting Jazzband"

iqihs — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:38:24 +0000

is it unrealistic to think the companies that benefit from orgs such as this could donate a fraction of a percent of their wealth to keep them going? the responsibility always seems to fall most on those with the least resources.

New comment by iqihs in "Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios"

iqihs — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:28:17 +0000

very cool, would be interested to see this approach applied to other markets

New comment by iqihs in "Man Asks $75M for 'Lambo.com,' Court Gives It to Lamborghini for Free"

iqihs — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:12:50 +0000

A terrible domain squatter and an equally terrible ruling

I wonder if web3 will eliminate the possibility of these situations ever happening in the future

New comment by iqihs in "Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory"

iqihs — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 02:11:25 +0000

I think Matrix as a protocol has been pretty ineffective, as their top priority seems to be keeping data permanent and duplicated. Both performance and privacy are at the bottom of their priority list. The one good thing I can say about it is that encryption of message contents is enabled by default in conversations and available in groups, but that's about it - nothing else is, or can be, encrypted. In other words, every participating server knows who is talking to who, and how much, and when, and in what rooms, and what those rooms' names are, and what those rooms' descriptions are, and who moderates them, etc.

Meanwhile, an app like Signal can do none of that, and that's by design.

If you're looking for a privacy oriented messaging system, you'd best look elsewhere.

I'm new to Matrix and found this comment on reddit. How much of it is accurate and does it actually contribute to whether or not the future of the protocol is promising?

New comment by iqihs in "OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment"

iqihs — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:46:41 +0000

There is legitimate skepticism here when so much is at stake.

New comment by iqihs in "Interactive Hiragana chart with audio"

iqihs — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 05:45:10 +0000

As an N4 student of Japanese the origin story of Hiragana listed here was quite interesting. However the overall layout/design of the characters and page leaves much to be desired.

New comment by iqihs in "Google stopping coding competitions"

iqihs — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:23:10 +0000

as Google retiring for on being Google

Can you learn to construct a grammatically sentence before you decide click the submit button?

New comment by iqihs in "Iranian attack drone found to contain parts from more than a dozen US companies"

iqihs — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:42:18 +0000

Nice revisionist history there.

New comment by iqihs in "Fast Is Shutting Down"

iqihs — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:24:06 +0000

Good riddance, Domm Holland is a textbook example of the modern day tech bubble shyster. Reading about his previous towing startup in Australia tells you everything you need to know about him.

New comment by iqihs in "Gentle, a Personal History"

iqihs — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 04:54:39 +0000

No, they have a point. It makes for a more difficult overall reading experience. Just because you put up with it doesn't mean everyone else has something wrong with them.

New comment by iqihs in "Openstreetmap’s product fails to compete with Google Maps"

iqihs — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 05:53:58 +0000

this doesn't allow to edit existing businesses at a location

New comment by iqihs in "U.S. Judge Halts TikTok Ban"

iqihs — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 20:20:02 +0000

Chinese astroturfers working overtime today I see

New comment by iqihs in "AirPods Max"

iqihs — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 15:07:32 +0000

the mic is hot garbage on those

New comment by iqihs in "Sweden's herd immunity hopes dashed by second coronavirus wave"

iqihs — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:22:14 +0000

COVID-19 immunity isn't permanent

New comment by iqihs in "Tesla dissolves its PR department"

iqihs — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:34:32 +0000

Are you seriously implying that Tesla is the only major manufacturer that experiences defects/recalls...

New comment by iqihs in "Where our economy is, for the young"

iqihs — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:11:45 +0000

Soon to be master's at the rate things are going...

New comment by iqihs in "Scrum is fragile, not Agile"

iqihs — Mon, 27 May 2019 04:47:47 +0000

This pretty much sums up my experience with Software Dev at one of the Big 4.