<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kadoban</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kadoban</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:40:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kadoban" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kadoban in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If prison solved a society's problems, the USA would be a utopia.</p>
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<p>I think the point is that that phrasing has been used by rocket companies to mean a whole range of different amounts of fuel load, it's not very precise wording in practice.</p>
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<p>Curl has more eyes on it, and has had more tools thrown at it, and is better tested (and developed?) than 99% of software, it's very much not the norm. I wouldn't be surprised if that has something to do with it, if there is any kind of bias there (not sure if there is, it's also possible he's just right).</p>
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<p>"A small amount of heat or a catalyst". Well, that sounds unstable. So any random contamination and you have a runaway reaction.</p>
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<p>> I handed it over to DeepSeek v4 Flash in Pi to skim through for any risky business<p>Doesn't prompt injection make that a rather flimsy investigation?</p>
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<p>> This second shield helps protect the steel in chloride containing environments up to an ultra high potential of 1700 mV.<p>Uh, dumb question, how is 1.7 volts "ultra high potential" ? Is that even enough to do electrolysis like they're talking about?</p>
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<p>Nice! I have a real soft spot in my heart for Rockbox, glad to see it still having some life.<p>The interface and performance are just so well thought out and refined.<p>Plus it contains the earliest published code I ever wrote: <a href="https://github.com/tsirysndr/rockbox-zig/tree/master/apps/plugins/goban" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tsirysndr/rockbox-zig/tree/master/apps/pl...</a> , so that's fun for me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 03:14:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103771</link><dc:creator>kadoban</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kadoban in "Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force attacks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As I understand it, debit cards do have some fraud protection too, but even if it's the same (I don't think it is), it's a way different power dynamic if you're begging for a bank to give you money back (debit card) vs just disputing your credit card bill.<p>In practice credit cards just have way better fraud protections.</p>
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<p>Tbh, fraud for credit cards is covered by the bank, so I typically just don't care. I just check my statements for anything that looks off.</p>
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<p>Hm, fair, thanks. Wonder why they even got involved then. Bizarre.</p>
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<p>Typically the engineer who's reviewing PRs and fixing bugs is not the one with the "refund" button access. Someone with that access should certainly have jumped on the whole thing though.</p>
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<p>Riichi City the app is better than Mahjong Soul, but the matching/rating system sucks.<p>It's also like, straight up softcore porn with the avatars. Which is fine I guess, but I feel gross playing it in public, which is annoying. Mahjsoul is not a lot better there, but a little.</p>
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<p>Riichi mahjong has a very common three player variant that is quite good.</p>
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<p>The Earth isn't the center of the galaxy, so this feels confusing/confused:<p>> So, as a general rule, the farther out astronomers look, the younger the stars are.</p>
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<p>Not really. Qwen 3.5 and Gemma and a couple of others are quite good though, and the quants are _very_ runnable on a good gpu.</p>
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<p>For me, it's not even cost necessarily. If they decide to change the product they offer, the old one is gone. I refuse to use anything for personal use that's not at least _available_ as model weights.</p>
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<p>Dead people don't buy much rice, invaded people don't grow much rice.<p>What you're describing is a recipe for a few people to get rich while everybody else starves and dies in wars.</p>
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<p>> I'd imagine British spies in WWII sometimes wore swastikas to blend in?<p>British spies in WWII wouldn't do that if the entire concept of what a swastika was baffled them. You have to understand at least basically what the thing you're looking at is in order to use it as a symbol.<p>If you have _no_ concept of people being made out of meat being possible, you don't dress up as people made out of meat. You do that if it's a common concept to you and you're trying to fit in.</p>
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<p>> But hey - show some courage and post what you think will happen in a few weeks/months and then we'll check back and see who was right.<p>I mean, I already did. You also don't even agree on what _already_ happened, so I don't expect much to change in the next few weeks there. This for example:<p>> Just a reminder you were wrong about this part: (a lot of equipment on both sides).<p>You honestly think that the US didn't lose "a lot of equipment", or am I misreading what you're saying there?<p>But here's my predictions, consolidated:<p>The Strait will be monetized by Iran and more controlled compared to pre-war. Sanctions on Iran will be reduced or eliminated from their pre-war levels. There will not be any effective controls on what drones or missiles that Iran can build.<p>In five years, Iran will have a nuclear bomb. Probably much sooner, but I doubt it will be super public or unambiguous.<p>> No matter what the justification or reasoning is they'll never be permitted to have one.<p>Why does North Korea have nuclear weapons now, and why does that not apply to Iran in the future?</p>
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<p>> This isn't a lifting of sanctions in the manner you meant or was being discussed. If anything it's the opposite! The US said we'll let you sell oil to keep prices down so your closure of the Straight has less impact while we bomb you.<p>You hopefully realize that _I_ probably know what I meant, and that I'm in the discussion?<p>This is what I said:<p>> The sanctions are gone or heavily weakened so their can sell their oil to the world instead of selling it to China at a relative loss<p>What about that doesn't match the link I provided? Iran gets to sell their oil more easily and for more money, because we dropped sanctions. I didn't mention the why the US chose to do it, but "we fucked up and need to panic and try to do anything possible to keep oil prices down" doesn't make it any less true.<p>> Well to date they lost a lot of military equipment that they can't get back - we would bomb it again too. They've lost any progress toward nuclear weapons unless helped by other adversaries like China, Russia, or North Korea, and they've had their leadership destroyed.<p>I don't know the details of their nuclear program, but my understanding is that they have a bunch of highly enriched uranium and they lost ~none of it. I would guess that they're about where they were before except now they certainly know they need to go for a bomb at all costs and will do so. There's no choice, because the US won't stop until they do. They had a deal where they agreed not to pursue a bomb, and the US broke it, and now the US keeps attacking whenever they feel like it.<p>> Like, in what world does a comment like this even make sense? "They lost a lot of stuff, but they gained ways to build 100x as much back."<p>> How did they gain a way to build 100x what they lost when they have no ability to build anything at scale that we don't allow? If they build a factory we just blow it up.<p>They will come out of this with more money due to having a better excuse to exploit the Strait and reduced or eliminated sanctions.<p>You think we're going to just sit there and blow up every factory they build for all eternity? Then why did we propose a ceasefire? Will the agreement after this war include that they never get to build another factory? What do you think happens from here?<p>I think I'm good on this discussion, have a good day. Just look at what the _actual_ outcome of this war is in a few weeks and see if Iran's regime is better or worse off than they started. I think if you actually see the truth of what happens you'll be surprised.<p>Your view of war seems to be rooted in "well I really blew that thing up good, I win!". It's not that simple.</p>
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