Hacker News: nout

New comment by nout in "Our position on open-weights models"

nout — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:57:35 +0000

It's the same as how by "we will prevent teenagers from using social networks" they mean "we really want to connect everyones ID with their social account identity".

New comment by nout in "Our position on open-weights models"

nout — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:54:55 +0000

Oh wow, that's a pretty strong request to ban open-weight models by choking them with review processes where who-knows-who defines what is ok in a model and what is not. After open weight model is released, it will take how long to review it? And why does that align exactly with the timeline of the next Anthropic model release?

New comment by nout in "Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring"

nout — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:34:51 +0000

Work induced brain damage... ;)

New comment by nout in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

nout — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:27:00 +0000

With this level of spying it becomes important to learn to use technologies that are outside of this system that people on HN usually laugh at. Tor, VPNs, Bitcoin, Bitchat, Nostr based socials, Signal and get some extra clean hardware (phone, laptop...) to work with when you need to...

New comment by nout in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

nout — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:34:37 +0000

One option is to use Obscura, so then you at least spread the trust to two parties (one of which is Mullvad). Not great, but better.

New comment by nout in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

nout — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:29:48 +0000

It's stupid when one of the CEOs of a private VPN company decides to fund political actors. That's just PR issue bound to happen. Funding bad actors bites you every single time - so maybe have a chat about if you have seen this coming - and if not why were you blind to this?

On top of this don't change your service based on this outrage. If you change it, then you will prove that Mullvad is malleable by political pressure. You can guess what happens next...

New comment by nout in "Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash"

nout — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:40:48 +0000

I just asked gemini the question with sim number and it gives me full step by step guide.

New comment by nout in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

nout — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:02:44 +0000

That's not true. Most money laundering is in USD and then stablecoins (USDT, etc). NFTs are a thing of the past and the big majority was not on bitcoin anyway. So no, bitcoin is not a major player. If you would completely eradicate bitcoin (which is not possible), you would solve (I'm guesstimating) 0.3% of money laundering.

New comment by nout in "Windows GOG DOS Games on M-Series Macs"

nout — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:30:48 +0000

I like DOSBox pure, because that allows you to put the full games into a single zip file and so you then essentially have the equivalent of per-game file on consoles.

New comment by nout in "Google I/O"

nout — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:26:57 +0000

I want to do that. Last week there was an article from a person that vibed their whole system in assembly and it was super fast and it did exactly what the person wanted and nothing else. That was eye opening.

New comment by nout in "The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden"

nout — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:25:22 +0000

This will probably finally push me to migrate away from Bitwarden. Somehow over the years the UI was getting worse and worse too. It's more steps to add custom hidden fields than it used to, etc.

New comment by nout in "Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server"

nout — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:37:34 +0000

I could do some cool backups with this bad boy.

New comment by nout in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

nout — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:28:18 +0000

I ... now want to read this book.

New comment by nout in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

nout — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:34:57 +0000

Some retrogaming devices have multi-boot options where you can pick between android and linux (e.g. Anbernic RG353V).

New comment by nout in "Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks"

nout — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:34:43 +0000

In case of error you talk to the seller, if they are reasonable and care about their reputation, they pay you back (e.g. the Square seller devices have options for this). If they don't, you can try suing them. There's a wide group of people that are stealing from sellers (especially on Amazon and similar) by using the product and then returning it with made up issues. Bitcoin would help these businesses, since the settlement is final.

New comment by nout in "How Monero’s proof of work works"

nout — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:44:04 +0000

It's also couple percent cheaper to send money internationally using bitcoin as the "rails" when compared to e.g. Wise. Even for sending money from classical bank in one country to a classical bank in another country. On bigger amounts you can save quite a lot of money.

New comment by nout in "How Monero’s proof of work works"

nout — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:39:58 +0000

Allen Farrington makes a solid case in this essay [1] about deflation being the more effective mode of economy.

[1]: http://x.com/i/article/2045147796752175104

New comment by nout in "Days without GitHub incidents"

nout — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:32:05 +0000

I think it depends if you pay them money. If you do, then you should indeed have strong expectations towards them and hold them accountable. If they provide a free service to you, then it's still reasonable to feel upset, but at the same time you get what you pay for.

New comment by nout in "Why TUIs Are Back"

nout — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:00:49 +0000

I think Midnight Commander is still the most advanced TUI there is. It has so many hidden capabilities that you may not even know about. You can be connected over ssh to another computer, while browsing the inside of a compressed zip file and previewing the content of the file inside of it . If you enable lynx motion and case insensitive - you are navigating across folders so much faster than just trying to "cd" and "ls"... It's impressive that this category of file managers has worked the same way for more than 40 years - the same shortcuts, etc.

New comment by nout in "Why Nostr Will Win Where Mastodon and Bluesky Failed"

nout — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:46:38 +0000

I think the effects of how the services operate in the background are observable by the real users at some point. Unfortunately it's often too late do something about it. You get hit by censorship when the overton window moves past you, you get deplatformed when your mastodon instance shuts down - that has happened to me and so that's why I have bad aftertaste from mastodon.

On nostr there are some very cool sub-communities - there are surprisingly a lot of surfers, there are multiple book authors with bestselling books, there are local non-english communities, etc. And on top of that there's a variety of applications on top of it, like divine.video.