Hacker News: lynx97

New comment by lynx97 in "Queens Public Library under ransomware attack"

lynx97 — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 07:04:04 +0000

As long as they are digitally storing/processing PII, I would say yes. If they can't reasonably guarantee the security of such information, they should simply shut down their online presence.

New comment by lynx97 in "Queens Public Library under ransomware attack"

lynx97 — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 07:01:00 +0000

> People complain a lot about public services when they don't work well

It is their right to "complain" since they pay for these services with their tax money.

New comment by lynx97 in "AI usage generates a fragile codebase"

lynx97 — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 11:29:50 +0000

> I say that as a frustrated slop fighter.

That part was obvious, no need to explain it.

New comment by lynx97 in "Queens Public library under ransomware attack e-borrowing suspended"

lynx97 — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 11:24:17 +0000

If you leave your car unlocked and police detects that, they can confiscate your keys and probably even fine you after you collected them. The same principle applies to everything. To a certain extend, it is your duty to secure things. Just putting a sign there "please dont fuck with me" isn't enough these days.

New comment by lynx97 in "Children of Men: The future is a mirror for the present"

lynx97 — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 08:12:51 +0000

Anxiety is a form of mental illness which eventually will affect your children in weird indirect ways. I am the child of a mother with too much anxiety, it wasn't and still isn't fun to interact with her. I wish parents would control theirs, because it typically does no good for the children growing up. Constant doom and gloom isn'the way to approach the modern world, but many people seem to disagree, sadly.

New comment by lynx97 in "Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding"

lynx97 — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:38:56 +0000

> Why should US or China matter if its open weights?

Well, you might want to know what propaganda/censorship you are subjected to. Case in point, a regional government in Austria just learnt that their AI doesn't know about the Tiananmen Square massacre.

New comment by lynx97 in "Residential proxies detected on White House network"

lynx97 — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:31:34 +0000

elitist nonesense. "Look I am soooo cool, and you are not as cool as me."

New comment by lynx97 in "A thousand fewer paths to root"

lynx97 — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 06:01:32 +0000

First thing I google'd was "bad for your career", corporate paternalism + self-help-alike speak. No, thanks.

New comment by lynx97 in "Frustrated ranchers want people to quit 'rescuing' their working guardian dogs"

lynx97 — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 03:51:51 +0000

While we are at it, blind guidedog users would like to remind you that you really shouldn't walk up to a working dog and stop the owner to pet the dog. They get their share of love, no worries. What you are doing right now is obstructing the owners path, stealing their time, and possibly confusing the dog to a point where you are creating a dangerous sitatuion. But, seriously, it is likely useless to tell such stories these days. Those people to selfish or stupid to do these acts will NEVER read these messages, nor will they actually understand whats going on.

New comment by lynx97 in "A thousand fewer paths to root"

lynx97 — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 03:46:34 +0000

> you are doing harm to yourself by using such words

citation needed.

New comment by lynx97 in "AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt"

lynx97 — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:23:24 +0000

This is like a godsent! I have been secretly wishing for everyone to take a few months, stop developing new pointless and mostly enshittifying changes, and just work on fixing current issues. I wasn't thinking so much about security, but rather old and rather well known long term bugs. If AI is finally forcing us to deal with long term issues, all the better. If we happen to end up fixing a bunch of 0-days some people were secretly sitting on, go go go!

New comment by lynx97 in "Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random"

lynx97 — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:17:23 +0000

Wait, you read the language, and you are still unsure what to think?

Frankly, I am unsure what to think about the HN crowd given that this nonesense made it to the front page.

New comment by lynx97 in "How I use AI (Oct 2026)"

lynx97 — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 10:32:47 +0000

I checked out from pop music roughly 30 years ago, when I moved out of my parents house. There is literally NOTHING that interests me in the pop music charts.

New comment by lynx97 in "How I use AI (Oct 2026)"

lynx97 — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:42:44 +0000

OK, yes, I am not a pro dev... still, that guy blows more tokens a month then I have consumed since the conception of GPT3! Granted, I stopped using agents a few months ago, when I got my first "you reached 80% of your monthly limit" message. Since then, I am manually constructing the context and executing edits... which brought my token bill down at least 5x and gave me 2x more useable code. But yeah, I am sure, 3k$ tokens a month is not wasteful behaviour at all :-)

New comment by lynx97 in "We won't "just hang out""

lynx97 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:48:10 +0000

Is this sarcasm? I hope so. If not, forget everything that FFF has told you, its nonesense.

New comment by lynx97 in "We won't "just hang out""

lynx97 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:46:46 +0000

I am of the opinion that if you have it better then 90% of humanity (which is likely true), you are not entitled to complain. But that is just me.

New comment by lynx97 in "Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS"

lynx97 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:28:05 +0000

No thanks. "I tried to reach you yesterday". "Oh sorry, I happened to walk by an opera house." PLEASE, less, not more automatisms. Everything has a tendency to produce false positives.

New comment by lynx97 in "We won't "just hang out""

lynx97 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:35:50 +0000

Thats the way it is when you just started working. 25 years ago, when I started to work, it took me 10!!! years to finally earn enough to have a monthly surplus of a low three digit figure. I finally saving money in earnest roughly 8 years ago. So it took me roughly 15 years to earn enough to finally be able to save some money. Back then, doomsaying wasn't a thing yet, so all I did was hang in there, and, never really complain. Sure, things haven't gotten easier, but really, what GenZ is doing these days is professional complaining, thats all.

New comment by lynx97 in "We Won't "Just Hang Out""

lynx97 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:24:33 +0000

> What even is the point of cities in a world without work

Transportation, silly? Even if I didn't have work, I'd still want to reside in a city, maybe even the same city I am currently in. 10 minutes walking distance to the center. 3 tram-lines in 5-minutes walking distance. A supermarket 400m away. All things I didn't have in the rural area where I grew up.

New comment by lynx97 in "Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers"

lynx97 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 10:07:39 +0000

"over 100 years ago", you wish. The last case I was personally told about was from the 1980s. Yet, regulations and/or taboo didn't help that child. A hopelessly negligent and stupid mother is just that, case closed. And that is pretty much my point. No amount of government regulation is really going to protect the children from the decisions their parents make behind closed doors. And pretending the responsibility is with evil large corporations or the government is only clouding the truth, namely that parents are responsible for their children and what they consume. I am sooo fed up with all these excuses. And I have reasons. My mother wasn't and still isn't the most rational person. And no amount of regulations would have protected me from her mental health issues. It wasn't the fault of the car industry that my mother told me at the age of 14 that she wants me to go with her on a car trip visiting my grandmother because she would prefer me also dying in case she had an accident. No amount of industry regulations would have protected me from the schock I had when I heard that sentence. Openly talking about the responsibilities of parents and not hiding obvious stupidity would have perhaps helped a bit.