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New comment by minebreaker in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture"

minebreaker — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:12:34 +0000

He has an article for that

https://aphyr.com/posts/379-geoblocking-the-uk-with-debian-n...

> This is, to be clear, a bad solution. MaxMind’s free database is not particularly precise, and in general IP lookup tables are chasing a moving target. I know for a fact that there are people in non-UK countries (like Ireland!) who have been inadvertently blocked by these lookup tables. Making those people use Tor or a VPN sucks, but I don’t know what else to do in the current regulatory environment.

New comment by minebreaker in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

minebreaker — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:04:48 +0000

> The fact that the people running r/progamming don't know not to wait until April 2 to publish this tells me that they don't have real-world experience in shipping software in a business environment.

I can't tell this is a joke or not. Do people really care? Or maybe the U.S. thing? At least in my country nobody cares....

Ask HN: Books about Global Warming?

minebreaker — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:22:22 +0000

After bumping into some "global warming is fake" YT videos, I decided to learn real knowledge about it.

Please recommend me the books about global warming.

  * Written by renowned researchers
  * Written for the general public. I don't have any specific knowledge about the realm
  * Based on the real science. No emotional manipulation

Nice to have:

  * Counterarguments against typical denier claims
  * How does the war affect to the environment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487937

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by minebreaker in "Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben"

minebreaker — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:06:58 +0000

I have to say I'm quite disappointed by his attitude against Palestine. RIP, but not with the victims.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/22/israel-hamas-w...

New comment by minebreaker in "Colorado proposal moves age checks from websites to operating systems"

minebreaker — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 08:03:15 +0000

This is why we shouldn't use passkey. The authorities (not only the US) are clearly aiming to lock down the hardware we can use. Remember, passkey has a function to restrict the freedom to choose the authenticator we want to use.

Don't Use Passkey

minebreaker — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:33:21 +0000

Article URL: https://deadcode.rip/temp/dont_use_passkey.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886258

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by minebreaker in "Stevey's Birthday Blog"

minebreaker — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:55:11 +0000

> Steve Yegge's recent credulous foray into promoting a crypto coin

I didn't notice that. Can you give me a source?

New comment by minebreaker in "CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022)"

minebreaker — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:16:15 +0000

Call me crazy, but I love JSS. "Separate styles with components" never made sense to me. Styled components are much better.

New comment by minebreaker in "Show HN: Cover letter generator with Ollama/local LLMs (Open source)"

minebreaker — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:03:22 +0000

When our team decides to hire a new programmer, each team member always writes a short letter, which tells the applicant why we want to hire them. How well they did in the interview, why they'd be a good fit for our team, etc, etc. I'm not naive enough to believe this is a genuine attempt but a some human engineering of persuasion, but I liked this tradition. At least it has some heart warming vibe.

Until I noticed that my coworkers were using LLMs to write these letters.

I lost hope in humanity.

New comment by minebreaker in "Venezuela's Navy Begins Escorting Ships as U.S. Threatens Blockade"

minebreaker — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 02:06:49 +0000

> America can never win a war with Venezuela, seeing their humiliating defeats in Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam against much smaller and less developed nations.

I don't disagree, but it cost at least 400,000 civilian lives in Vietnam war. It's hard for me to say "good move."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_casualties

New comment by minebreaker in "Ask HN: Great Firewall in Iran?"

minebreaker — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 10:39:32 +0000

No, I don't do SNS. I created it to show it to the police. Looks like "I don't have any social media" is considered to be suspicious and you are "hiding" something. At least that's true in the US. I don't know about Iran though.

New comment by minebreaker in "Ask HN: Great Firewall in Iran?"

minebreaker — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 12:14:49 +0000

I'll look into them. Thank you.

Ask HN: Great Firewall in Iran?

minebreaker — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:20:04 +0000

I'm kinda burnt out and took a 2 month vacation, and decided to fulfill my dream of visiting Persepolis. The last time I traveled abroad is decade ago, so I assume a lot of things have changed. It was after 911 but the phone censorship was not a thing yet.

- I got a used iPhone SE as a burner phone and created a fake Twitter account, although it hasn't aged yet. What else should I do? (Apparently I'm not gonna put my HN account on my social media list)

- Looks like China's GFW is so sophisticated[0] that it seems evading it is almost impossible. Is Iran's as smart? Do they use deep packet inspection?

- Does Cloudflare Zero Trust work in Iran? Should I create a SOCKS proxy?

- How severe is the internet censorship in Iran in general?

- Not specific to Iran, but I'm a bit surprised that border cops in almost all countries have the authority to force me to unlock my phone. Dark times.

Any advice will be appreciated!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44958621

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45513088

Points: 10

# Comments: 15

New comment by minebreaker in "Trump to Sign Order Renaming the Defense Department as the Department of War"

minebreaker — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 07:57:40 +0000

Isn't it interesting that the name is the opposite in 1984. It's called the Ministry of Peace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_in_Nineteen_Eighty-...

New comment by minebreaker in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

minebreaker — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:31:36 +0000

> The safety increases, but freedom decreases

It's never safe when there's no freedom.

New comment by minebreaker in "Japan's Creepiest Station"

minebreaker — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 08:26:11 +0000

Are you a professional climber? "Poorly protected" is ... not the word I'd use to describe those places.

https://4travel.jp/travelogue/11828856

I've only taken the tourist route of Tanigawa-dake. Those photos are scary enough that I won't try Ichinokura.

New comment by minebreaker in "Japan's Creepiest Station"

minebreaker — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:59:15 +0000

I believe the number is correct. The source from the government: https://www.mlit.go.jp/tagengo-db/common/001556845.pdf

I assume you've never been there. 一ノ倉沢 is really impressive and dangerous.

New comment by minebreaker in "It’s not wrong that "\u{1F926}\u{1F3FC}\u200D\u2642\uFE0F".length == 7 (2019)"

minebreaker — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 07:32:23 +0000

> We would not have this problem if we all agree to return number of bytes instead.

I don't understand. It depends on the encoding isn't it?

New comment by minebreaker in "You know what: Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT"

minebreaker — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 05:35:41 +0000

I hope the guideline is clearer. "Unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." is too ambiguous.

New comment by minebreaker in "Java is still worth learning"

minebreaker — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 08:16:17 +0000

Fair criticism, but it's not really a practical problem. Usually a linter will catch them easily, and even when junior devs ignore the warnings, you can just tell them to use "equals."

The thing is that, equality is the difficult problem. "equals" in JVM languages has a lot of problems. Dynamic languages are much more horrible in this aspect. JavaScript `==` is much worse than Java. Python is guilty too in my view, for using `__eq__` method. The only language I know which solves the problem correctly is Haskell. (Or, `Eq` in Cats)