Hacker News: neop1x

New comment by neop1x in "Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers"

neop1x — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:17:03 +0000

You are using MITM proxy as a service. In addition to analyzing all traffic and blocking legitimate users with captchas, they can inject stuff in there, too.

New comment by neop1x in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

neop1x — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:16:41 +0000

It's not only about blocking access to porn websites but children can access whatsapp groups where child predators are. Why can children access this content in those communication apps? It sounds like providers of these platforms must prevent children accessing those becquse children need to use such platforms to coordinate on their assignments and homeworks. This can be solved by having a "children-type" device account as someone else suggested. The app would know a child is using it and block access. No government id needed.

New comment by neop1x in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

neop1x — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:07:54 +0000

On Linux I am using https://github.com/wrr/drop which configures bubblewrap based on a simple yaml config specific for the project path and it is enough for me.

I won't use anything requiring a login.

New comment by neop1x in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

neop1x — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:22:59 +0000

Or you could have just opened an existing Intel pdf brochure which explains it with more intuitive illustrations (the search took me 2 minutes and it consumed a fraction of energy) https://download.intel.com/newsroom/kits/chipmaking/pdfs/San...

New comment by neop1x in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

neop1x — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:18:50 +0000

Two different things. Qubes is an OS, while this is not.

New comment by neop1x in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

neop1x — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:36:34 +0000

It's such a bad decision. It just creates more confusion.

New comment by neop1x in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

neop1x — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:44:43 +0000

Thanks. Your result is what I would expect - nice stuff, but far from what he supposedly "casually" generated.

New comment by neop1x in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

neop1x — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:21:33 +0000

Will this prevent children from using Whatsapp, Messenger, Telegram and similar because this is where "dangerous" content is being shared. How will children communicate and cooperate on school assignments if those are blocked? Will only plain/text SMS be allowed to be used by children? What if someone texts them and offers money if they meet with a stranger. Maybe it's time to age-block SMS app too. Or maybe children should not use any smartphones. Or maybe they should use a special "android for children" where only a school approved apps can be run. I don't think this age API and age verification is needed!

New comment by neop1x in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

neop1x — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:05:41 +0000

Same here. I can't stand the new Reddit. It spins up fans on my $3500 laptop, freezes and loads very slow. Once the old one stops working, I will have to stop using it.

New comment by neop1x in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

neop1x — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:37:15 +0000

There have been a huge progress in this regard! New OLEDs don't burn out like those early generations.

New comment by neop1x in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

neop1x — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:26:27 +0000

It's easy but very inconvenient. Drop sandbox [1] or Docker are much more convenient alternatives to user/group isolation for this purpose.

[1] https://github.com/wrr/drop

New comment by neop1x in "Modern decor may be straining people's brains"

neop1x — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:47:54 +0000

Lightning is VERY important. What I like is cove lightning - led strips near ceiling, reflected from the white ceiling. And it is also good to have multiple lightning sources - dimer and slightly warmer to use towards the end of day (sunset) and red (or at least warm) for the night out near floor (like a a fireplace at night). Helps maintain natural circadian rhythms and easier sleep.

New comment by neop1x in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

neop1x — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:14:41 +0000

LOL, that's funny

New comment by neop1x in "PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts"

neop1x — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:47:36 +0000

Yes, it is very comfusing. "Buy" buttons should be replaced by "License" buttons when you are licensing stuff instead of buyimg it. There should be a law for that.

New comment by neop1x in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

neop1x — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:59:55 +0000

I have been using mpv on MacOS too. I just had to create an app bundle for it a very simple swift wrapper which just runs mpv command...

New comment by neop1x in "Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access"

neop1x — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:24:44 +0000

Happens to me too. They are probably able to infer it is not a Chrome from the TLS handshake or they run their javascript fingerprinting and found out that the browser didn't have some Chrome features or behaved differently.

Sadly, it is much more difficult to pretend being on a different browser than it was in the past. :/

New comment by neop1x in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

neop1x — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:25:34 +0000

Everything is distillation prevention and children protection, of course!

New comment by neop1x in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

neop1x — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:26:13 +0000

And the next step will be to lock the bootloader to prevent any unsigned OSes like linux to protect children.

New comment by neop1x in "macOS Container Machines"

neop1x — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:18:50 +0000

A lot of devs needs to use linux but they still use it just as a VM (Mac) or in some kind emulation (WSL). How pathetic.

New comment by neop1x in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

neop1x — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:10:20 +0000

Just implement caches, add indices to your DBs, use CDNs. Servers are very fast nowadays, have quite a lot of RAM and can handle huge amount of clients. No need to implement this anti-bot bullshit, it is mainly marketing, providing solutions to a problem which doesn't exist for most websites.