<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mcint</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mcint</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:59:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mcint" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcint in "Backpressure is all you need"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>The overriding of click behavior is quite annoying. 30 years of browser user-agent behavior.</i><p>Next, Vercel, already handle this correctly. It takes special effort to violate "least surprise" here. <i>Cmd-click</i> on a link, should open it in a new tab.<p>It does appear to be an issue with SimpleAnalytics, now Adobe's,<p><pre><code>    onclick="saAutomatedLink(this, 'outbound'); return false;"
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Free debugging of how the site tweaks, breaks, the 30 year consensus web standard behavior.<p>Good sites, good blogs, *don't override onclick for links.* Or handle it correctly.  I'll leave an issue on the github.<p>Between your footer, and dotfiles repo, OP does seem to appreciate standards & norms, in principle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:03:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364601</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcint in "RSA and Python"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Should you use RSA in production always make sure to use numbers which are at least 512 Bit / 64 Byte long.<p>512-bit RSA has been breakable, by academics, since before this millennium.<p>> RSA number | Decimal digits | Binary digits | Cash prize offered | Factored on | Factored by<p>> RSA155 | 155 | 512 | US$9,383[8] | August 22, 1999 | Herman te Riele et al.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge</a><p>Further, according to authors of the paper factoring RSA-768 (bit), in 2009/10<p>> it would be prudent to phase out usage of 1024-bit RSA within the next three to 
four years. (p1, 2010)<p><a href="https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/006.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/006.pdf</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:30:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47558268</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47558268</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47558268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave is overriding user choice]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://community.brave.app/t/vimium-not-allowed-to-run-on-search-brave-com/650732">https://community.brave.app/t/vimium-not-allowed-to-run-on-search-brave-com/650732</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418900">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418900</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:57:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://community.brave.app/t/vimium-not-allowed-to-run-on-search-brave-com/650732</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418900</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcint in "GPT-5.4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Enterprises moving slow, or preferring to remain on old technology that they already know how to work...is received wisdom in hn-adjacent computing, a truism known and reported for more than 3 decades (5 decades since the Mythical Man-Month).<p>Sounds like someone who's responsible, on the hook, for a bunch of processes, repeatable processes (as much as LLM driven processes will be), operating at scale.<p>Just in the open, tools like open-webui bolts on evals so you can compare: how different models, including new ones, perform on the tasks that you in particular care about.<p>Indeed LLM model providers mainly don't release models that do worse on benchmarks—running evals is the same kind of testing, but outside the corporate boundary, pre-release feedback loop, and public evaluation.<p><a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/69aa1972-ae84-800a-9cb1-de5d5fd7a46a" rel="nofollow">https://chatgpt.com/share/69aa1972-ae84-800a-9cb1-de5d5fd7a4...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:03:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268953</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268953</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcint in "The First Fully General Computer Action Model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Congratulations! I’ll be interested to see the next steps in alignment. Do you plan to start selling access, or collect more data to train bigger & better? What tasks or benchmarks are your biggest guide stars, or what was unexpectedly tricky—a few are hinted in the post.<p>It would be pretty interesting to see activation maps for the encoder on video, confidence building to see the compression derived from so much training.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:25:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160609</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47160609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcint in "Algolia Hacker News Search GitHub Project Archived"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would appreciate it. It’s such a joy to use, to share, and (admitting I haven’t) nice to see & share the code & configuration to feed algolia, on a more serious scale of us than I’m likely to use in a hobby project or find/grok/share another public example with code + data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:35:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145695</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcint in "Be wary of Bluesky"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's good FUD. You re-iterate their talking points. (Also, no CTA, no takeaway, just <i>"worry!"</i>)<p>As others have said, the data has to be publishable to be useful. We do have data export laws. The format is known to be ready to use interoperably, not some private schema--atop the PBC commitment, which will at least have moderate legal costs if not a guarantee.  It has unequivocally set a new high bar.<p>They seem pretty locked in to doing what they committed to. The day may come when they turn. It may come first by friction, but the turn has to be pretty complete, because the data is pretty open. What's needed to view it, use it at all, is pretty close to what's needed to host it.<p>"The site whose value prop is sharing your posts and data with other apps may stop sharing your posts and data with other apps." <i>Yeah, it's possible. It's also possible they just close.</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:08:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095876</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcint in "Disk Scout – Find the Cheapest SSDs Across Amazon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The math don't math.<p>$/TB, TB, and $ don't interconvert. Most obvious when you sort by $/TB. Sloppy slop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:46:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46892267</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46892267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46892267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcint in "Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, Twitter/X gets this wrong too. Pretty often jumps away from what you're viewing, especially on the nav-in to a thread or nav-out from a thread actions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:21:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815461</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815461</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: Sites that don't zoom – why? how? workarounds?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some sites override control of zoom. It seems antithetical to the goals of the web, and just makes me want to modify my user-agent more to bypass their modifications.<p>Do you know other sites that do this? Are there contexts where it's justifiable, or has a good reason?<p>While playing with the new, wonderful vb.lk, I searched "vb.lk" and was directed to  https://www.wiimhome.com/wiimvibelink/overview</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45624774">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45624774</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 03:58:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45624774</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45624774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45624774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcint in "I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>aiui "distrobox" is built to support these setups and experimentation, even more readily, including defaults to support:<p>> The created container will be tightly integrated with the host, allowing sharing of the HOME directory of the user, external storage, external USB devices and graphical apps (X11/Wayland), and audio.<p><a href="https://distrobox.it/" rel="nofollow">https://distrobox.it/</a><p>> Why
* Provide a mutable environment on an immutable OS, like ChromeOS, Fedora Silverblue, OpenSUSE Aeon/Kalpa, or SteamOS3 ...
* Provide a locally privileged environment for sudoless setups (eg. company-provided laptops, security reasons, etc…)
* To mix and match a stable base system (eg. Debian Stable, Ubuntu LTS, RedHat) with a bleeding-edge environment for development or gaming (eg. Arch, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, or Fedora with the latest Mesa)
* Leverage a high abundance of curated distro images for docker/podman to manage multiple environments.<p>> Aims
This project aims to bring any distro userland to any other distro supporting podman, docker, or lilipod. It has been written in POSIX shell to be as portable as possible and it does not have problems with dependencies and glibc version’s compatibility.<p>> It also aims to enter the container as fast as possible, every millisecond adds up if you use the container as your default environment for your terminal:<p>> Security implications
Isolation and sandboxing are not the main aims of the project, on the contrary it aims to tightly integrate the container with the host. The container will have complete access to your home, pen drive, and so on, so do not expect it to be highly sandboxed like a plain docker/podman container or a Flatpak.<p><pre><code>  distrobox create -n test
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> Create a new distrobox with Systemd (acts similar to an LXC):<p><pre><code>  distrobox create --name test --init --image debian:latest --additional-packages "systemd libpam-systemd pipewire-audio-client-libraries"

  distrobox enter test

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I learned about it from the KDE wiki, thank you jriddell for leaving that nugget <a href="https://community.kde.org/Neon/Containers" rel="nofollow">https://community.kde.org/Neon/Containers</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 18:49:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998127</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998127</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44998127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcint in "Internet Roadtrip: Vote to steer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It needs to resolve faster if more people vote, based on a running average of voters, or sqrt of viewers present.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 05:53:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43943500</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43943500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43943500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcint in "Show HN: Nerdlog – Fast, multi-host TUI log viewer with timeline histogram"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I'm bouncing for now on the localhost requirement. Or, on a related issue of not parsing my .ssh/config, a Match directive, and not wanting it to parse it yet. I grep'ed for an env var to override, but only USER and SSH_AUTH_SOCK are pulled in.<p>I did go get install ...nerdlog/cmd/nerdlog-tui@latest just fine.<p>Thanks for hacking in the open, and releasing early.</p>
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<p>Hi again. I have the same issue in my browser, and locally in nvim.<p>NerdFonts (and the right terminal emulator) were needed, and enough, there. Playing with AstroNvim, and blocked by use of yakuake.<p>Hoping that I can hot load something from <a href="https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads" rel="nofollow">https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads</a>, I'm not sure what from <a href="https://fonts.google.com/" rel="nofollow">https://fonts.google.com/</a> has the needed ligatures or symbols.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2025 02:21:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669528</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669528</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43669528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcint in "NixOS and reproducible builds could have detected the xz backdoor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Excellent descriptive analysis. Wrong, misleading title, perhaps "technically correct," but at best with a "backdoored" meaning.<p>It points out the need and use for build-manager tools that go a step beyond union file system layers, but track then enforce that e.g. tests cannot pollute build artifacts.  Take a causal trace graph of files affecting files, in the build process, make that trace graph explicit, and then build a way to enforce that graph, or report on deviations from previous trace graphs.</p>
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<p>Can we update the title with the project name, adminer?<p>I've gently relied on this tool, it's basically delightful to use. Simple to deploy, doesn't fight the protocol and software stack it can be deployed alongside for securing, using. A shining, straightforward FOSS success.</p>
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<p>Well, simple guesses at migration don't help either.<p><a href="https://www.krayorn.com/posts/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/" rel="nofollow">https://www.krayorn.com/posts/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/</a><p><a href="https://www.krayorn.com/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/" rel="nofollow">https://www.krayorn.com/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/</a><p>Good luck with the personal blogging infrastructure, hobby horse of many a working developer. Good excuse to play with new systems.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 19:03:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43293141</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43293141</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43293141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcint in "Putting Bounties on My Goals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like the blog migration is incomplete -- links still point to the former<p><a href="https://andysblog.uk/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/" rel="nofollow">https://andysblog.uk/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/</a><p><a href="https://andysblog.uk/why-your-blog-post-didnt-go-viral/" rel="nofollow">https://andysblog.uk/why-your-blog-post-didnt-go-viral/</a><p>Which now 404s, with message from Vercel, "Deployment not found", sfo trace ids.<p>Congratulations on migrating to a new domain -- hope Vercel serves you well. A little disappointing about the lack of easy redirecting so far.<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250219111210/https://andysblog.uk/why-blog-if-nobody-reads-it/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20250219111210/https://andysblog...</a><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250214201735/https://andysblog.uk/why-your-blog-post-didnt-go-viral/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20250214201735/https://andysblog...</a><p>Bearblog.dev no less.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 19:00:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43293110</link><dc:creator>mcint</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43293110</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43293110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mcint in "Questions for William J. Rapaport"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You should include your name, and link to channel in the form's self description. I accidentally followed the link blindly, and had no context.<p>Anyone following the link directly without viewing comments or knowing your hn username will be confused. I suspect your intended audience is larger than: people who already know you and your content well.</p>
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<p>Good call, already linked.</p>
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