Hacker News: maxlin

New comment by maxlin in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

maxlin — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:14:34 +0000

sportsball more importanter than your nerd stuff.

regards: spanish authorities (who are watching the sportsball and so are better spaniards than you!)

New comment by maxlin in "X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior""

maxlin — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:10:35 +0000

This. No other platforms has a system akin to CN's. For me personally, I could never stand using any platform that is aggressively tone policed towards whatever official truth. Not Truth Social, not BlueSky.

Other places are like playgrounds, X is where the adults go to talk.

New comment by maxlin in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

maxlin — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:43:14 +0000

-They only got 130B -They planned to fix all this with 100B?

I see what you did there. 70B eh? They only got 50B. A paltry 20B?

The real number though, was gotten in a relatively short time. And now replacement tariffs are on the way. And many companies have re-thought of manufacturing outside US with the higher tariffs always being the possibility in the future too.

New comment by maxlin in "World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite"

maxlin — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:28:16 +0000

Kinda cool but seems paltry during a time when we have Starlink, which also has space-to-space laser links between satellites, of 100-200Gbps in bandwidth.

Though I suppose this is a bit safer from Kessler syndrome

New comment by maxlin in "The Blurred Line Between Video Calling and Live Streaming Software"

maxlin — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:39:15 +0000

Expected something like deep explanations of why the kind of solutions used for video calling don't scale so easily due to not being able to use as simplistic and well understood server-side solutions like HLS or something.

But this is basically "A and B are different because A is used in different words than B is. Buy our proprietary alphabet give us money now".

New comment by maxlin in "Scott Adams has died"

maxlin — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:33:03 +0000

How is one supposed to just accept this as part and parcel in the free world itself.

New comment by maxlin in "Scott Adams has died"

maxlin — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:30:39 +0000

Because Adam was a spawn of a greater society.

It's better to read of what he thought of and learn from that, than to try to align oneself to the weird anti-human reaction his passing has raised from the woodwork.

New comment by maxlin in "Scott Adams has died"

maxlin — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:13:02 +0000

Good god this is not good news. I knew Dilbert as long as I could read. The man as a thinker only fairly recently. To no loss.

The world is less without him.

New comment by maxlin in "IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware"

maxlin — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:53:01 +0000

Thought the product looks good for a prototype, but crazy as a published product.

Then found out it's a closed beta.

So ... ok? Closed beta test is doing what such a test is supposed to do. Sure, ideally the issue would have been figured out earlier, especially if this is a design issue and the parsing needs to be thought out again, but this is still reasonably inside the layers of redundancy for catching these kinds of things amicably.

New comment by maxlin in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

maxlin — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:37:17 +0000

Damn. And no large-scale military activity in play.

I hardly see how this could be considered anything but an absolute win, especially where Maduro has been considered being more and more authoritarian, rejecting democracy, and probably would've been willing to sacrifice thousands of lives in a ground war if this increasing threat was handled less finely.

Add to this the fact that Venezuela has crazy amounts of oil BUT a totally mismanaged and badly exploited extraction operation and the economy is in the toilet. Unless this somehow leads in to a Libya situation, everyone could benefit from this, compared to the hopelessness of the past.

New comment by maxlin in "OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer"

maxlin — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 03:29:04 +0000

Hope they'll fix the obvious bugs like CPU use going to 60% doing nothing after restore from hibernation next

New comment by maxlin in "Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image"

maxlin — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:29:10 +0000

Yeah that hardly talks of the "journalist" being good at their job. At worst they asked a biased question like "has this photo been AI generated and if then how" or worse.

People tend to think that AI is like a specific kind of human which knows other AI things better. But we should expect better from people that do writing as their job.

New comment by maxlin in "Cloudflare was down"

maxlin — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:11:55 +0000

>half internet down >first "is site down" result (downdetector) down >downdetectorsdowndetector.com: "everything is fine" >downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com: not even responding >downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com: "everything is broken"

New comment by maxlin in "Cloudflare was down"

maxlin — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:59:37 +0000

>half the internet is down >downdetector is down >downdetector down detector reports everything is fine

software was a mistake

New comment by maxlin in "Cloudflare was down"

maxlin — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:56:06 +0000

it being the first google result and serving the exact same error as the pages one is trying to get info from is too funny

New comment by maxlin in "Cloudflare was down"

maxlin — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:54:57 +0000

>Go to - 500 error from cloudflare >Google is down -> click first link - literally the exact same 500 cloudflare error html from downdetector

I thought we were meant to learn something ... ?

New comment by maxlin in "France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors"

maxlin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:37:15 +0000

The same reason there's only more regulations being piled on top of previous ones. Sadly only wars and similar catastrophes work as reset buttons for these things historically. A peace as long as the current one is somewhat of an untested ground

New comment by maxlin in "France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors"

maxlin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:34:43 +0000

>narcotrafiquants >police

yeah France doing France things. Like back when they forced Windows to store passwords in plaintext, with encryption outlawed. Sigh.

New comment by maxlin in "Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again"

maxlin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:32:26 +0000

Looks are subjective. The "narrow mustache" alfas have make the absolutely ugly for me, even though I do understand some people consider then pretty for some reason.

CB's aren't "traditionally pretty" but are objectively distinctive, IMHO cool af, futuristic like DeLoreans. Kids love em, and I love the looks of a Testarossa the same now I did when I had a model as a kid ...

Also, CB's absolutely "can car". Better than DeLoreans for sure lol

New comment by maxlin in "X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run"

maxlin — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:24:51 +0000

Good take. I think someone said (might've been Elon) that building an AI but limiting its training material to material from 1870-1970 would avoid a lot of this, as arguably that was the period of greatest advancement of humankind that is not spoiled by bad data, with no social networks and everything having printed having needed to have had more meaning behind it as it took more effort.

It would be VERY refreshing to see more than one company try to build an LLM that is primarily truth-seeking, avoiding the "waluigi problem". Benevolent or not, progress here should not be led just by one man ...