Hacker News: lifty

New comment by lifty in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

lifty — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:25:31 +0000

My bad. The only point I was trying to make is that there’s no left vs right conclusions that you can draw from this.

New comment by lifty in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

lifty — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:47:47 +0000

We’re talking about erosion of privacy and draconian internet surveillance. Brexit was a major screw up and I’m not here to defend any side, just to dispel this illusion that somehow the left are the good ones and the right is the bad far right.

New comment by lifty in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

lifty — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:01:54 +0000

The whole left vs right is a useless caricature. And it’s especially meaningless when comparing ideologies across country borders. Better talk in terms of policies.

New comment by lifty in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

lifty — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:46:11 +0000

Can you give an example of what happened in UK that points to this issue?

New comment by lifty in "A new bill takes aim at government pressure to silence lawful online speech"

lifty — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:54:51 +0000

But do you agree this bill is positive?

New comment by lifty in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

lifty — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:39:00 +0000

The first wave will be to mandate ID verification for online services. Some people will then start using p2p services, so the next step is to ban devices that can run non-approved software. Probably having your own VPS running your own software will also not be allowed. And like that, all the avenues for escaping control will be closed… for your safety, of course.

New comment by lifty in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

lifty — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:19:14 +0000

Indeed, it’s also crazy to think that some people vaporize tin pellets in order to etch nanometer scale drawings on silicon crystals while others make mud pies. I think that disparity is even bigger.

New comment by lifty in "WASI 0.3"

lifty — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:54:23 +0000

If you have used WASI in the past, can you mention your use case? Very curious if you found it to give you an edge compared to other sandboxing like containers or VMs.

New comment by lifty in "The Future of Email"

lifty — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:57:34 +0000

Sure, I do it, and many others. Some people say it's hard, but I think it's much easier than it used to be, technically. You have projects like https://stalw.art which make it quite easy. Single binary setup which covers all functionality you need. Setting up SPF, DKIM and DMARC is also easy. The only thing that remains is IP reputation, but even then, I haven't had major issues. People seem to receive the few emails that I send.

The Riemann Hypothesis – interactive explanation

lifty — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:50:45 +0000

Article URL: https://riemann.adilmoujahid.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489100

Points: 22

# Comments: 1

New comment by lifty in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

lifty — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:20:34 +0000

Yeah, but you get to choose who gets to rip off your data. Joking aside, perhaps there would be some privacy focused alternatives and most importantly for Europeans, they would be hosted in the EU.

New comment by lifty in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

lifty — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:17:48 +0000

More like EU became anti-Musk. And Tesla had great sales in the first half of 2026 in the EU.

New comment by lifty in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

lifty — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:59:53 +0000

At what age are you planning on introducing it?

New comment by lifty in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

lifty — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:47:32 +0000

It’s very risky to make these kind of claims. If the denominator (USD) gets obliterated they might very well be worth $1T. It’s all about liquidity and central banks have a whole bag of tricks at their disposal. They never want to see deflation shocks again and they prefer asset inflation.

New comment by lifty in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

lifty — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:00:39 +0000

What are you talking about? The Mac platform is so much more friendly for doing Linux related work. First of all it’s Unix so most tooling has MacOS variants, and secondly you have a miriad way to install WSL like VMs with shared disk.

New comment by lifty in "Mumbai's famed dabbawalas fed millions for over 100 years"

lifty — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:31:03 +0000

Is this comment really necessary?

New comment by lifty in "Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness"

lifty — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:34:45 +0000

Anyone here using Zot and can share their experience?

New comment by lifty in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"

lifty — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:51:54 +0000

He’s a software engineer with taste. I know taste is subjective but I happen to like he’s taste.

New comment by lifty in "Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark"

lifty — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:51:35 +0000

You might combine a general world model with a python coding model in that case. Not sure if it's better, just saying.

New comment by lifty in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

lifty — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:17:49 +0000

I like this approach, it's what I had in mind, but Crux doesn't seem to support desktop targets. I know on MacOS you can get nice looking apps with their native toolkit, on Linux you have GTK4 which can be decent looking, but not amazing, and on Windows, I truly don't know. Native apps on Windows look crap to me (without even mentioning the advanced fragmentation in UI toolkits in Windows). Maybe someone has some good examples for Windows and Linux, using native SDKs.