<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: mike_hock</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mike_hock</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:17:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mike_hock" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mike_hock in "A stray "j" ruined my evening"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, but piping output containing newlines into wl-copy does not result in j's in the clipboard.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:12:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706010</link><dc:creator>mike_hock</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mike_hock in "A stray "j" ruined my evening"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> but in ANSI newline delimiter is translated as "j"<p>?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 09:25:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705764</link><dc:creator>mike_hock</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mike_hock in "Enhancing x11 Application Security with LXC (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I like my cozy Plasma DE [...] clean, all free of ads and bad UI redesigns and AI injected into every corner.<p>Plasma itself is an example of bad UI redesign (but a far cry from Gnome).</p>
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<p>Or until you realize X11 is one giant escape hatch. You might not have (convenient) access to your files but the attacker does.</p>
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<p>> until one considers the practical implications<p>You failed at that step.<p>The practical implication is that every other X11 app can also read your input even when it's not in the foreground.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:29:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705475</link><dc:creator>mike_hock</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mike_hock in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, the world's job is not to make itself safe for you if you don't give a crap.<p>If you roll your eyes at the thought of having to manage credentials or refuse to learn how the internet works on a basic level, you're not fit to set up devices connected to the internet.<p>Secure your shit or don't play with technology you can't handle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:41:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702038</link><dc:creator>mike_hock</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702038</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48702038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mike_hock in "Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Whistleblowing" <i>does</i> refer to disclosing morally bankrupt behavior that isn't technically illegal, and NDAs <i>are</i> nefarious if they cover anything other than trade secrets.</p>
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<p>The irony is that a printout of a photo (well, "photo") of handwritten homework would be pretty easy to distinguish from genuine handwritten homework.<p>(otoh it's also trivial to copy whatever ChatGPT wrote by hand without thinking about the assignment at all)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:06:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701261</link><dc:creator>mike_hock</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701261</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mike_hock in ""No, I swear I wrote this.""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you could simulate something that passes a sniff test. A writer would probably spot implausibilities in the simulation if they paid attention, but then we're back to square one, because you <i>can</i> spot that something was written by an LLM <i>after</i> you've wasted your time reading it and realize that you've been led around in circles with superficial information and no coherent train of thought, but by then your time has already been wasted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:55:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701166</link><dc:creator>mike_hock</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701166</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48701166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mike_hock in "Hellishly Slow Level 13 Deflate Compression"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1. Upload data using conventional compression method (or uncompressed)<p>2. Spend orders of magnitude (literally) more on compute to run the LLM on the data than any compression algorithm would ever take.</p>
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<p>There's the case of a kid printing a non-functional toy weapon.<p>And then there's the case of years of consistent violent behavior, and even when the principal was advised on the day of the shooting that the kid was in possession of a firearm, she did nothing.<p>Hard to tell them apart.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:16:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698025</link><dc:creator>mike_hock</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698025</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mike_hock in "Faster KNN search in Manticore: 2-pass HNSW, batched distances, and AVX-512"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where are the oncoming lanes?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:01:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697888</link><dc:creator>mike_hock</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mike_hock in "Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Farmers are desperately trying to <i>milk</i> (hah) as much monetary value as possible from their cows before packaged milk obsolesces them completely!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:50:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697827</link><dc:creator>mike_hock</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48697827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mike_hock in "Show HN: Brain Frog – Can you be random enough for 11 lines of JavaScript?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You should make one where you can play against the branch predictors of various processors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:54:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669888</link><dc:creator>mike_hock</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mike_hock in "The Anatomy of an AI-Native Org"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That goes for superliminal influencers, but I'm pretty sure the campaign as a whole is smart enough to play different roles including pretending to be people "on the other side."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:57:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623014</link><dc:creator>mike_hock</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623014</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48623014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mike_hock in "The Anatomy of an AI-Native Org"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> the how people who survive are the ones who can still operate at the deepest layer when something genuinely hard breaks.<p>How do you think the How people learn how to How at the deepest layer when something genuinely hard breaks?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:49:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622940</link><dc:creator>mike_hock</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622940</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48622940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mike_hock in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Ask a question.<p>> Ask two follow-up questions.<p>> Ask about a seeming contradiction between the original answer and the answer to the second follow-up question.<p>> Get congratulated for raising such a great point and get parroted back your objection as a "correction."<p>Useful as a learning aid if applied cautiously but maybe not the "best thing ever."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:29:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609108</link><dc:creator>mike_hock</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609108</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mike_hock in "AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sneakily and silently removing a feature in a firmware revision is not acceptable, security or otherwise.</p>
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<p>If the landing page is slop, just assume that the code is, too.</p>
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<p>Maybe they're all over the place and have a technology that prevents us from seeing them, and the mushroom just interferes with that tech.</p>
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