Hacker News: judge2020

New comment by judge2020 in "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification"

judge2020 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:26:16 +0000

> You're missing out if you think meatspace is limited to target and big American cities.

The joke about middle-of-nowhere towns is that the only thing for teens to do in meatspace is to go to the Walmart. Because there's nothing else to do.

New comment by judge2020 in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

judge2020 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:01:17 +0000

If this is the correct business model, I don't see why wouldn't get Cerebras to vibe code a Gitbook replacement (or a hosting product in general) so they can bypass crawling for documentation and instead charge (a lot) for "hosting" it.

New comment by judge2020 in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

judge2020 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:42:02 +0000

Even with public IP, it brokers an HTTPS certificate for you, which many smart TV platforms and OSes require for operation nowadays.

New comment by judge2020 in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

judge2020 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:37:31 +0000

In particular the main value-add is that they have clients across so many different platforms, including most major bespoke smart TV brands[0], and their solution to streaming on WAN (HTTPS brokering) is pretty darn good for most people. Accessing my media from hotel rooms is pretty darn seamless, other than the wifi connection sometimes requiring downscaling to 720p or or so.

0: not really an issue nowadays with everyone moving to Big Tech-provided smart TV OS, but when you use an old TV with like mid-2010s webOS it's nice to see some old Plex app that still works.

New comment by judge2020 in "Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team"

judge2020 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:27:58 +0000

Makes me feel lucky that I got it for $120 in 2021. But I appreciate that they still offer a lifetime pass at all.

New comment by judge2020 in "Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode"

judge2020 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:57:03 +0000

That is specifically for apps installed with a personal signing certificate, when you haven't paid for a developer account. If you pay the $99 program fee, you get 365 days of validity.

New comment by judge2020 in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

judge2020 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:31:35 +0000

Yeah they posted an update below it

> apparently that is just Sol being Sol on fast mode, not 750 tps. :x O.o

> This is real and it is not 750 TPS. Anyone with 5.6 Sol Ultra on fast mode can reproduce this! It’s all GUI interactions with CUA. No MCP or bpy needed.

https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2075493505011482922?s=20

New comment by judge2020 in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

judge2020 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:04:22 +0000

Only issue is that kids going outside alone has become highly stigmatized in society to the point where doing so gets you jailed and charged[0].

The kid will grow up to almost always be able to contact most any human in the world. Knowing how and when to do that is probably going to be a more useful skill.

0: https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/is-it-a-crime-to-let-you...

Side note: As above article states, after this arrest SB110 was passed to specifically outline what is reasonable for this situation.

New comment by judge2020 in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

judge2020 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:57:24 +0000

MDM enables enterprises to control how the phones they own behave. If anything it makes it more secure, if an enterprise were to only allow allowlisted apps to run on it.

The only issue is BYOD via MDM (when it's not via "Work Profile"), which is somewhat scary from a user perspective, especially from how hard it is to tell what permissions they might be able to spring on you at any time.

New comment by judge2020 in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

judge2020 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:54:24 +0000

now that it has received attention, Apple might just throw another engineer at it :)

New comment by judge2020 in "Cloudflare Drop"

judge2020 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:57:08 +0000

I really hope/imagine this project specifically has a LLM of some kind doing real-time analysis on the uploaded files for malware from the get-go. How good that is could be is anyone's guess (and chances are there would be blind spots / evasion techniques).

New comment by judge2020 in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

judge2020 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:37:44 +0000

Would've been so much better to reduce the scope of your comment to just energy security.

I don't see how the EU lived live with already higher energy prices compared to the US for so long and still don't make better renewable policy top priority.

New comment by judge2020 in "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"

judge2020 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:57:18 +0000

I believe this was the Schrems 2 case from 2020 that declared that the EU US Privacy Shield was insufficient at guaranteeing the privacy of EU citizens due to the CLOUD act, which would require US companies work with the government to potentially spy on EU citizens.

I’m not sure what has happened since then or the legal status of this issue.

New comment by judge2020 in "Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC"

judge2020 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:32:07 +0000

Main externality is that this will use 4gb and X megabytes/gigabytes of RAM on the billions of devices that use Chrome. If RAM and disk usage needs have gone up linearly in the past decade, this technically causes a momentary immediate jump in those needs, although people still probably would only adjust on their regular upgrade cadence, maybe slightly faster than normal.

*although this 4gb is probably very likely to go up even more, maybe 8, 16gb models - if the disk space is there, and the computer has the power to use bigger models, I don't see why Google wouldn't ship better more capable on-device models when possible (other than profit motive to push more non-local-ai requiring a Google One AI subscription).

*this idea works absent of the recent AI datacenter-based demand for NAND and DRAM. If anything consumers are avoiding buying NAND or DRAM right now due to the prices.

New comment by judge2020 in "Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC"

judge2020 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:42:31 +0000

Only problem is that it doesn’t prompt “do you want to download this/enable AI”, right? Otherwise, local AI is exactly what most people want instead of needing to pay rent to big tech companies for AI use*. Open-weight models would also be nice, but I imagine the people who care about that _and_ want to use Chrome are using Chromium or de-googled Chromium.

* other than how everyone is already paying rent in the form of increased energy costs due to increased demand from this massive ramp of data center development everywhere, regardless of if they want to use AI or not

New comment by judge2020 in "The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs"

judge2020 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:51:08 +0000

open source vs source-available. Companies taking an extremely cautious approach to AI can't use source data that is potentially a violation of copyright (pending worldwide court decisions and/or regulation on said topic). Although that cat is already out of the bag for basically every stock-traded company using LLMs trained on non-licensed data, so I don't see there being much actual risk in using them.

New comment by judge2020 in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

judge2020 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:46:24 +0000

Unlikely that the bureaucracy is what will keep them valuable in the long-term.

New comment by judge2020 in "Never Give Them Your Face"

judge2020 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:34:04 +0000

I agree only in the sense that Meta wants the OS to tell them the user’s age - BOTH for the ulterior motive of better ad targeting / fingerprinting, but also because shifting the liability gets the numerous current and future child safety lawsuits off the back.

This would be fine if it was actually done perfectly - ie. Devices get a signed ticket from the government identity provider, device can provides a cryptographically verifiable ticket to the site that its a valid identity and their age is within the $x age range but not tied to the user’s actual identity / document, and the device doesn’t ask the government identity provider to mint a new ticket each time it needs to attest (maybe 500 tickets are minted at a time and you auto renew 500 more each month)

However the likelihood of this actually being done correctly is slim to none.

New comment by judge2020 in "Never Give Them Your Face"

judge2020 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:25:20 +0000

iCloud private relay has done more in just a few years than Tor ever has, by being opt-out for iOS users instead of opt-in like Tor. Now platforms can’t rely on IP based reputation, instead relying on either a computational challenge (Cloudflare, Anubis) or de-anonymization (recaptcha relying on being signed into a Google account more than anything, especially when using private relay).

New comment by judge2020 in "Never Give Them Your Face"

judge2020 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:22:06 +0000

Face unlock on iPhone is completely on-device. This is why you have to set it up again every time you buy a new device.