Hacker News: kevin061

New comment by kevin061 in "How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats"

kevin061 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:51:00 +0000

It is extremely rare to find pro-privacy people speak out against Signal's phone number registration system. It is a very obvious privacy flaw that all hobbyist cryptographers will be eager to wave away for some or another reason. Truly shameful. Thanks for voicing your Signal scepticism. I am a Signal sceptic too.

New comment by kevin061 in "Rubio Uses Terrorism Law to Ban Secure Email Service"

kevin061 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:13:46 +0000

> like Signal

Is xeonmc the only person in this world, aside from me, that is extremely suspicious of walled garden applications like Signal, regardless of how open their source is?

New comment by kevin061 in "Has the hallucination problem in AI been solved?"

kevin061 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:23:51 +0000

It hasn't and likely never will because it is a structural part of how AI works.

You can see proof of this if you ask it obscure enough questions. That doesn't mean obscure scientific questions, I asked it questions regarding ship fits and modules in EVE Online, which is an extremely well-documented videogame. There are hundreds of online tools to help you for different things, mining yield calculators and more.

Well, ChatGPT just made up almost everything. Very confidently. It couldn't even get the damage types right, I was quite shocked.

Hallucination has only be solved for extremely narrow sets of problems, and only partially. Coding is one of those problems.

Coding was never the hard part

kevin061 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:28:51 +0000

Article URL: https://ulveon.net/p/2026-08-13-coding-was-never-the-hard-part/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292091

Points: 4

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New comment by kevin061 in "Keygen.music"

kevin061 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:36:17 +0000

Vibecoded slop with terrible performance.

Use https://chiptune.app.

>Preserving the digital underground's musical legacy

Yeah I'm pretty sure the people who made keygens and chiptunes would hate today's AI and LLM. This is a tribute to chiptunes and keygen music as much as putting a picture of your grandma into an AI tool to animate it would be a tribute to her.

New comment by kevin061 in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

kevin061 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:20:40 +0000

I warned people about 4 years ago that this would happen. Checking people's IDs online for accessing certain kinds of porn on telegram and Discord is much more popular than you would have thought.

I told these admins this was immensely irresponsible. They said they just didn't want to get sued by an angry parent whose child joined some porn group. I was mocked endlessly. Now this. I'm not surprised.

New comment by kevin061 in "Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere just hit a 'depressing' new record"

kevin061 — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:32:22 +0000

Nuclear is indeed the answer. Nuclear power is incredibly safe nowadays and it also provides kinetic inertia, something that solar and wind power lack (they are all DC based and only produce AC when using an inverter, which is wasteful too).

Unfortunately I think it's already too late for nuclear. People who don't understand energy grids are voting for anti-nuclear policies, with very predictable results.

Why did AI destroy my production database?

kevin061 — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:40:01 +0000

Article URL: https://ulveon.net/p/2026-05-05-why-did-ai-destroy-my-production-database/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028979

Points: 3

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New comment by kevin061 in "EFF is leaving X"

kevin061 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:59:00 +0000

Yes, it tells you that they're normal unlike people who are still arguing today how Musk didn't actually do a nazi salute.

New comment by kevin061 in "Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries"

kevin061 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:50:47 +0000

That's fair, thanks for letting me know!

New comment by kevin061 in "Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries"

kevin061 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:50:10 +0000

I literally said I'm fine with using LLMs for the frontend, but I think this should be disclosed clearly.

New comment by kevin061 in "Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries"

kevin061 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:24:15 +0000

The interface looks vibecoded. I have no problem with people vibecoding things. In fact, I have zero frontend skills, so I rely on AI to be able to make easy-to-use interfaces. However, I feel like this should be clearly and prominently displayed in the project page.

Furthermore it is a little off-putting to see a vibecoded UI because I have very little confidence that the rest of the backend code is not vibecoded. I know I am possibly being unfair, but this is how it looks to me. If the developer tells me they didn't use AI at all, I would believe it.

New comment by kevin061 in "Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari"

kevin061 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:26:10 +0000

Yeah, I don't want background sync. I mean, iOS is built upon the idea that any task in the background might be killed at any time and without warning by the OS. This is so the OS is able to manage battery and memory effective.

You can of course dislike this, but not even native apps allow background sync anyway, so of course web apps would not be allowed to do this either.

New comment by kevin061 in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

kevin061 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:34:54 +0000

No, it really is not that easy. Check out China, and read up on the Spanish housing crisis. "Just build more" works only sometimes, as demonstrated in those counter-examples. Housing is massive societal and sociological problem with no simple fix. Furthermore, in many circles, another proposal is to cut red tape. You know, housing in the US already is among the least affordable and lowest quality in the developed world. But some people really insist that going back to asbestos and lead pipes would make housing cheaper.

And don't get me wrong, asbestos and lead are wonderful construction materials. Cheap, durable, and high quality. It's just a shame it causes all sorts of health complications when we use them, right? I mean, it would definitely make housing cheaper, but also cause all kinds of health problems.

New comment by kevin061 in "Grandparents are glued to their phones [video]"

kevin061 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:24:11 +0000

Before smartphones and TikTok it was casino TV at 3AM, TV infomercial shopping, and the like.

New comment by kevin061 in "Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)"

kevin061 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:02:18 +0000

"right to compute"

Oh cool!

Look inside

No mention of:

- Self-repair

- Self-service

- Hardware and software modifications

- Protecting consumers from proprietary anti-circumvention tools

- Bolstering open source

- Better access to technology in early ages (through funding primary schools and libraries)

- Dedicated computer and Internet crisis response teams to tackle disinformation, cyberattacks, cyberbullying, and state-sponsored attacks

- Improving citizen's access to End-to-End encryption software - Sovereign AI and software

Very cool, Montana. What a load of nothing.

New comment by kevin061 in "Apple Needs to Copy Samsung's New Security Smartphone Screen ASAP"

kevin061 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:01:58 +0000

I think it's a gimmick that Samsung will cut out in future models for cost savings reasons. Like Samsung ditched the edge displays, or the Bluetooth in their S-Pen, or like Apple ditched 3D touch.

New comment by kevin061 in "EU mandates replaceable batteries by 2027 (2023)"

kevin061 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:14:17 +0000

I care. Online forums are for humans to share ideas around. Not for bots to farm karma.

New comment by kevin061 in "Ask HN: Do you think China will produce a SOTA model in the next 2 years"

kevin061 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:08:07 +0000

State of the art literally just means that it is the latest and most capable, compared with peers.

As such, China launched DeepSeek R1, and they kind of broke the web, because it was pretty good compared with OpenAI, but also fully self-hostable. The self-hostable OpenAI and Meta models just aren't very good, Grok has nothing self-hostable, and I think Gemini only has a small model released.

Meanwhile China has the best self-hostable models, up there with Mistral.

So yes, Chinese AI is SOTA. Maybe not better than the American cloud-based models, but definitely SOTA for self-hostable ones.

Also I think you are wrong about "actual practice". Chinese AIs work great. They are not perfect, but OpenAI Codex also messes up a lot.

New comment by kevin061 in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

kevin061 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:59:56 +0000

I do not consider removing redundant sensors like lidar or infrared from the comprehensive Tesla sensor network and pretending that cameras can do FSD perfectly a good example of engineerring.