Hacker News: latchkey

New comment by latchkey in "Poll: How often do you check "newest"?"

latchkey — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:13:34 +0000

I have 3 tabs pinned: homepage, active, newest

I then use https://oj-hn.com to do all my navigation via keyboard.

New comment by latchkey in "AMD pulls a bait-and-switch on Linux users with Vivado licensing changes"

latchkey — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:08:25 +0000

This has been resolved and is no longer an issue.

https://x.com/HotAisle/status/2059706563665998317

New comment by latchkey in "Eagle 3.1: Collaboration Between the EAGLE Team, vLLM Team, and TorchSpec Team"

latchkey — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:31:54 +0000

They seem to have taken down the link and I can't find a new one.

New comment by latchkey in "2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update"

latchkey — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:36:46 +0000

It absolutely doesn't rely on competent auditors. The AICPA that fabricated SOC2, is the same AICPA that gives licenses to the auditors. At some point, they opened it up to getting it over the internet.

Indian companies open up shell businesses in Wyoming and elsewhere, get "certified", and offer rubber stamp auditing services. Few ever check if you actually have SOC2, or what auditor you used (since, by definition, they need to be "legit").

By the way, the AICPA website was recently throwing https expired cert errors. Their solution after weeks of me pointing it out on twitter, was to take down the entire website.

New comment by latchkey in "Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24"

latchkey — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:37:26 +0000

I love that anyone can write a blog post like this that will get slurped into all the models and we can just say: "use terraform to deploy H2C on GCR"... and it will know exactly what to do.

New comment by latchkey in "BBEdit 16"

latchkey — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:16:10 +0000

i still use it as a quick and dirty text editor for things like my .bashrc

much love for them sticking with it for so long

New comment by latchkey in "Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking"

latchkey — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:56:58 +0000

Yes that was what i was implying.

New comment by latchkey in "Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking"

latchkey — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:21:06 +0000

when i was running 150k amd gpus... i really wanted to use the cluster to run hashcat to help people recover lost things. i couldn't convince management that that was a profitable business to run.

New comment by latchkey in "Incident with Actions"

latchkey — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:50:15 +0000

You storing source code on their platform is worth more than raising prices.

New comment by latchkey in "Adding a feature to a closed-source app"

latchkey — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:41:54 +0000

Neat. I feel like my Orange Juice extension did that with HN.

Distributed Counters in NATS JetStream

latchkey — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:45:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.synadia.com/blog/distributed-counter-crdt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018532

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by latchkey in "Apple confirms iOS 26.5 Messages app adds RCS end-to-end encryption"

latchkey — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:01:26 +0000

agreed. i even paid for beeper when they first started and the whole experience was so awful that i just deleted it and never went back.

Apple confirms iOS 26.5 Messages app adds RCS end-to-end encryption

latchkey — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:46:00 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/04/apple-confirms-ios-26-5-messages-app-adds-rcs-end-to-end-encryption/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015443

Points: 45

# Comments: 5

New comment by latchkey in "How Monero's proof of work works"

latchkey — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:04:34 +0000

Correct, one can mine empty blocks, but in practice, dumb idea. Most people mine with a pool. The pool decides what goes into a block. Even at scale. The point is that it smoothes out the reward cycle. For ETH, we mined with a pool that dual mined ETH+ZIL, which increased our overall rewards.

New comment by latchkey in "How Monero's proof of work works"

latchkey — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:20:37 +0000

Full disclosure, I was a bitcoin, and 5MW litecoin miner, and 150,000 GPU ETH miner, so I was pretty deeply involved in it for many years.

Correct on the rest, but I just want to say that I was intentionally avoiding discussing specific tokens or the politics due to HN's stance on crypto.

New comment by latchkey in "How Monero’s proof of work works"

latchkey — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:00:11 +0000

It is subtle, but PoW mining itself doesn't generate coins. It isn't like someone is digging a hole in the ground and extracting gold.

PoW miners are rewarded for correctly validating transactions, with newly minted coins.

The whole proof of work thing is that you proved that you validated a transaction by expending energy, and the network pays you for that security service.

Miners then need to sell those coins on the open market in order to pay for their capex/opex, which creates the market.

The open question is that if you have a fixed supply of coins that eventually runs out, what will carry the miners?

It'll be increased fees or the network will switch to another solution.

New comment by latchkey in "The Hiddn Financial Bubble in AI Infrastructure [pdf]"

latchkey — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:22:55 +0000

> GPUs don’t last long enough to justify the infrastructure cost.

I'm CEO of an AMD neocloud. Confirming this is a myth.

https://x.com/HotAisle/status/2045181374030856300

New comment by latchkey in "Vercel’s pricing page"

latchkey — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:34:39 +0000

My favorite Vercel pricing was the one where their AI token offering is just a wrapper around OpenRouter, and where OpenRouter has a few models for free, Vercel was charging for them.

Looking now, Arcee is no longer free, but the exact same tokens/model costs more on Vercel.

https://vercel.com/ai-gateway/models?providers=arcee-ai

https://openrouter.ai/provider/arcee-ai

arcee-ai/trinity-large-thinking

Vercel: $0.25/M $0.90/M

Arcee: $0.25/M $0.80/M

New comment by latchkey in "GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown"

latchkey — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:17:48 +0000

Is it public or locked down?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941590

New comment by latchkey in "GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown"

latchkey — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:06:48 +0000

Why not?