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New comment by maxboone in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

maxboone — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:12:57 +0000

You're assuming rational goals instead of thinking in radical acts of terrorism.

Throwing paint at a painting does not help the environment, but it does create radical flank effects.

Blocking the highways does not help agriculture, but it does bring their problems in other people's home / discourse.

New comment by maxboone in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

maxboone — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:06:56 +0000

I wouldn't say they are widely known for hating the electric grid but hey here we are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_arson_attack_on_the_Berli...

New comment by maxboone in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

maxboone — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:05:20 +0000

Definitely, and destabilizing by proxy is still an attack

New comment by maxboone in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

maxboone — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:04:22 +0000

I'm not defending Russia, it's just that the farmers terrorist organisation has announced major disruptions today and has also set hay bales on fire to shut down highways.

For context: it's "Prinsjesdag" in the Netherlands which is when the budget is announced, and there are major changes to agriculture subsidies.

New comment by maxboone in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

maxboone — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:59:58 +0000

We don't know whether this was Russia, it's just as likely it was the "farmers defence force" or climate activists.

Edit: some context as I'm looking like a Russian shill now, which I understand. Today is the day that the budget gets announced, and the farmer terrorist organization (farmer defence force) have announced actions - and have disrupted highways by setting bales of hay on fire, and all the disruptions happened where farmer concentrations are high.

Regardless, the situation is dire, and probably either the tankies or terror farmers are being helped by Russian destabilizing forces, it's too early to call this disruption an action from the FSB.

New comment by maxboone in "Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%"

maxboone — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:33:29 +0000

"a filter" is an even better analogy because it is also technically correct

Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse

maxboone — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-08-rapid-atlantic-circulation-2c-slower.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283840

Points: 87

# Comments: 138

New comment by maxboone in "SpaceX and the myth of independent Wall St research"

maxboone — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:40:11 +0000

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2026/02/spacex-has-the-best-ra...

New comment by maxboone in "Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required"

maxboone — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:12:48 +0000

Mandatory mention: https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2024/you-have-built-a-kubern...

But yeah, pretty cool DNS resolving features in HAProxy, that's nifty

New comment by maxboone in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

maxboone — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:48:16 +0000

That doesn't solve anything, you can just create event-specific accounts as a scalper (which you can reset after the event has happened).

Non-transferable tickets are bound to a specific name iiuc.

New comment by maxboone in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

maxboone — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:22:37 +0000

How would 2FA help here, you'd still create the compromised OAuth credential with 2FA?

New comment by maxboone in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

maxboone — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:21:31 +0000

You should use the subject identifiers, not the usernames. You store a mapping of provider & subject to internal users yourself.

But this has been a problem in the past where people would hijack the email and create a new Google account to sign in with Google with.

Similarly, when someone deletes their account with a provider, someone else can re-register it and your hash will end up the same. The subject identifiers should be unique according to the spec.

New comment by maxboone in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

maxboone — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:17:47 +0000

How does that work, when you add an OAuth app, the resulting tokens are specific to that app having a certain set of permissions?

It's not a new attack vector as in giving too many scopes (beyond the usual "get personal details").

I am curious how this external OAuth app managed to move through the systems laterally.

New comment by maxboone in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

maxboone — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:32:11 +0000

See the commit message: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/78d979db6cef557c171...

New comment by maxboone in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

maxboone — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:36:32 +0000

RAM producers aren't adding more capacity on the non-HBM side of things, so we shouldn't see a dramatic drop in pricing if AI HBM memory demand drops.

New comment by maxboone in "Invention of DNA "page numbers" opens up possibilities for the bioeconomy"

maxboone — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:03:04 +0000

Probably AI in the sense of what Google DeepMind has been up to with the protein folding and other biological simulations, instead of the LLM variant of AI.

New comment by maxboone in "JetBlue flight averts mid-air collision with US Air Force jet"

maxboone — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:07:55 +0000

After the near miss from JetBlue, there was another near miss with a business jet yesterday morning: https://nos.nl/l/2594640

ATC audio: https://youtu.be/Hto6aTt-X7A?si=2J-NnaXIcOnnWIqS

New comment by maxboone in "JetBlue A320 near collision with US Military aircraft"

maxboone — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:18:58 +0000

US Military aircraft have been flying without their transponder on in the Curaçao airspace, leading to two near misses in the past week.

1. https://flightaware.com/live/flight/JBU1112/history/20251212...

2. https://nos.nl/l/2594640

JetBlue A320 near collision with US Military aircraft

maxboone — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:18:58 +0000

Article URL: https://avherald.com/h?article=5312489b&opt=0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46271706

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by maxboone in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

maxboone — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:17:36 +0000

QEMU device that exposes a vfio-user socket for a PCI endpoint controller, Linux PCI endpoint controller driver and a userspace endpoint function.

It's very unstable at the moment but plan to have it fully implemented and working by the end of next month.

Using it to build a virtualized computational storage device for research.