Hacker News: nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nbngeorcjheHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 04 May 2026 02:04:31 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "Addiction Markets"]]>> morality is stupid

least contrarian HN user

> only make your life worse

Unless you have a family with whom your finances are intermingled. This is like saying alcoholism only makes your own life worse, because obviously your actions have no effect on the people around you, right?

]]>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:36:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45778233nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45778233https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45778233<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US"]]>what makes you so sure it'll fall? plenty of autocracies last for decades, or generations

]]>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:07:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45763097nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45763097https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45763097<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "The International Criminal Court wants to become independent of USA technology"]]>yes we independently decide to invade other countries for no good reason and independently decide to extrajudicially murder people the president doesn't like, I'm so very glad

]]>Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:12:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760926nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760926https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760926<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3""]]>A small fraction of 1, probably? It sounds like a fairly simple service that shouldn't require much ongoing development

]]>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 02:04:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716677nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716677https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45716677<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"]]>Install Gentoo. Or, if the compile times are too much, Arch.

]]>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 01:48:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45689838nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45689838https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45689838<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "Public trust demands open-source voting systems"]]>democracy is an awful idea, the average person is barely even sentient

]]>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:31:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658735nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658735https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658735<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock"]]>I _hate_ walking down the block and hearing their dumb "Hi! You are being recorded!" jingle. Ffs if you're going to record me at least do it quiely

]]>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:15:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615860nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615860https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615860<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock"]]>apparently Ring LLC has their own OUI [0]. I wonder if you could wardrive around and identify cameras by their MAC address

[0] https://maclookup.app/vendors/ring-llc

]]>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 12:14:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615846nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615846https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45615846<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "How much revenue is needed to justify the current AI spend?"]]>> We are entering an era where computing capital, intellectual capital, and military capital will dominate

yes, true, but it would probably be better to pour money into shipyards than data centers

]]>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 23:07:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553513nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553513https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553513<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year"]]>I don't even get why they would need "ideas" or "growth" tbh. They have most popular desktop operating system, they have one of the most popular office suites, surely they make plenty of profit from those. If they just focused on making their existing products not shit they would remain a profitable company indefinitely. But instead they're enshittifying everything because they want more More MORE

]]>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 22:35:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553247nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553247https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553247<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "It's OpenAI's world, we're just living in it"]]>tbh most americans could do with walking more

]]>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 02:39:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45546119nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45546119https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45546119<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons', no warrant"]]>[flagged]

]]>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:25:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45510617nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45510617https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45510617<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers"]]>I can and will judge anyone who can't write a few paragraphs on their own

]]>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 01:33:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45433382nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45433382https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45433382<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "US Military struggling to deploy AI weapons"]]>> because you don't want it to mistakenly kill civilians

says who? the US military is completely fine with mistakenly killing civilians

]]>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 12:49:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45403962nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45403962https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45403962<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "How to be a leader when the vibes are off"]]>please bro just one more SQS queue bro I swear bro just one more please bro

]]>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 07:09:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370045nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370045https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45370045<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day (2024)"]]>> conducting deauth attacks so your appliances don't spy on you

ted was right

]]>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:27:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45369569nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45369569https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45369569<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "Kevo app shutdown"]]>> stick them with the loans, take out more loans to pay themselves, spin them off, and wind them down

China would probably just imprison the people responsible for things like this

]]>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 03:31:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45342547nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45342547https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45342547<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "Did you read the quarter-million-line license for your Slack app?"]]>well it is rails

]]>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:54:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45310194nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45310194https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45310194<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"]]>Stopping companies from hiring quasi-indentured servants is a good thing

]]>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:29:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306875nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306875https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306875<![CDATA[New comment by nbngeorcjhe in "Nostr"]]>> Also: don't use ECC signatures as MACs. Signatures are not MACs.

Could you explain more? What are the downsides of a signature vs. a MAC here?

]]>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:19:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306751nbngeorcjhehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306751https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306751