Hacker News: notsound

New comment by notsound in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

notsound — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:43:28 +0000

Most European hosting providers don't KYC. Infrastructure providers are rarely held liable for customer actions in Europe. Most enforcement around this sort of thing is around sanctions violations (Stark Industries).

New comment by notsound in "Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw"

notsound — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:59:06 +0000

"simply block all routing out of the country" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. For government networks, sure. For civilian networks? It's a bit like stopping pirates from ripping video; how do you deal with an attacker that ultimately can gain some form of access? Even in North Korea external media can be smuggled in.

New comment by notsound in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

notsound — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:36:52 +0000

Those groups care about whether millions of computers are vulnerable, likely including your computer. If "immediate public disclosure" was done in all cases every vuln would be exploited and patches would be much lower quality. Shortening the disclosure timeline might be a good idea, 90 days is starting to feel long.

New comment by notsound in "Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea"

notsound — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:52:26 +0000

I got a 10 out of 10 because I've seen these strawmans in center-right arguments before. Definitely promotes thinking inside the box; the homelessness question presupposes the most expensive solution (buying the homeless homes) in opposition to annual costs that would probably go down over time. I doubt both figures.

New comment by notsound in "Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: 'You've got no rights.'"

notsound — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 16:10:57 +0000

If you thought covid fascism was bad why wouldn't you care about this? Was covid fascism so tolerable you'll let the government do more fascism?

New comment by notsound in "Do AI detectors work? Students face false cheating accusations"

notsound — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 19:58:24 +0000

Were they Evolv? https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24119275/evolv-technologie...

New comment by notsound in "Show HN: I taught ChatGPT to find cool domain names – with availability check"

notsound — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 13:03:51 +0000

Found this aswell, I would make it more clear that guest searches are public.

New comment by notsound in "Florida House of Representatives approves bill to ban social media for kids < 16"

notsound — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:54:24 +0000

Another option that allows for better privacy and versatility is the website setting a MIN_USER_AGE header based on IP geolocation.

New comment by notsound in "X receives money transmitter license in Utah"

notsound — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 01:28:44 +0000

At $44b, he could have offered over a hundred million people $420 EACH to join. Obviously it's waaaay more complicated than that (KYC, actually building the platform, being profitable, etc...), but with that amount of money you could probably make something significantly better and more profitable than twitter.

New comment by notsound in "Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say"

notsound — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:22:15 +0000

Try using old.reddit.com; for some reason the block doesn't apply.

New comment by notsound in "Last operating US prison ship set to close in NYC"

notsound — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 21:46:08 +0000

Instead of spending a bit money to build quality and low maintenance facilities on land, politicians seem to like the idea of using barges as housing. Particularly ridiculous example: https://apnews.com/article/britain-migration-bill-passes-bar... The idea that this is better than building the same thing on the undeveloped land AT THE SAME PORT THEY HAVE THE BOAT is absurd. Water eats everything.

New comment by notsound in "NY bill would require a criminal history check for the purchase of a 3D printer"

notsound — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:49:52 +0000

Raise the alarm with convincing evidence. Nobody is going to do anything if you don't bring evidence to the table (as you say, makers are woefully unaware of this). If you're just trolling, I highly recommend this defcon talk on how to do it better: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vcAHbvTlpKA

New comment by notsound in "NY bill would require a criminal history check for the purchase of a 3D printer"

notsound — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 23:22:57 +0000

You've mentioned this a couple times. I don't have an opinion on the subject, and a random comment doesn't really tell me anything. It would be good to link some solid studies so people can understand the risks. If you don't have those, maybe reconsider your point.

New comment by notsound in "Shell using Fortnite, TikTok, etc. to convince kids fossil fuels are cool"

notsound — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 12:54:24 +0000

I think this is the most disgusting fossil fuel ad I've ever seen: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AI2zKNNoUic

New comment by notsound in "Earth’s average 2023 temperature is now likely to reach 1.5 °C of warming"

notsound — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:01:31 +0000

When you wrote this argument, you're surely referring to what they actually said right?

New comment by notsound in "Cuba uncovers human trafficking of Cubans to fight for Russia in Ukraine"

notsound — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 11:44:40 +0000

Cuba and Russia are pretty close, and I don't think there is a lack of pro-ukraine talking points.

New comment by notsound in "AML works, even if it intercepts less than 1% of criminal proceeds"

notsound — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 13:48:22 +0000

I've never seen an instance of that happening. Could you send some examples of cartels owning banks or having a significant amount of control over them?

New comment by notsound in "Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas"

notsound — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:01:03 +0000

I think it's mostly the name and phrasing, but it really does sound like a vaguely comedic line from some old sci-fi show.

New comment by notsound in "Room temperature, ambient pressure superconductivity – this time for real?"

notsound — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:30:46 +0000

I don't think we need new technology for that.

New comment by notsound in "Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’"

notsound — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:06:18 +0000

Could you elaborate on this statement? Approximately how many people do you think fit into this "worse at everything" category?