Hacker News: nwellinghoff

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s"

nwellinghoff — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:01:57 +0000

Not a great trend. Installing a OS that makes me tie provably verifiable identity directly to a install or session will be a pretty stupid liability for anyone to agree to. Feel bad for all the non techs that will just accept this lying down. Especially when the solution is so easy to solve with existing tech. Got a internet connection? Block the domains at the router level. Then we need the cell phone providers to allow parents to do similar things at the network level with cell internet. Done. Let the parents do it.

New comment by nwellinghoff in "California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves"

nwellinghoff — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:49:15 +0000

This reflects a lack of technical understanding of the subject. The proposal is not enforceable, as there is no control over the end user’s networking stack. E.g. you can't actually rely on "3D printers that report themselves". The law makers need our help and some technical consultation.

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Show HN: I spent 3 years reverse-engineering a 40 yo stock market sim from 1986"

nwellinghoff — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:30:32 +0000

Indeed very clever. I wonder if you framed this problem up with claude how it would “guide” you to solve this problem. Would be an interesting match up of ai vs human. Love the story!

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL"

nwellinghoff — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:19:45 +0000

Nice. I like how you made it an easy to drop in proxy. Will definitely use this when debugging issues!

New comment by nwellinghoff in "xAI joins SpaceX"

nwellinghoff — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:34:32 +0000

Yeah it does not make a whole lot of sense as the useful lifespan of the gpus in 4-6 years. Sooo what happens when you need to upgrade or repair?

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

nwellinghoff — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 04:54:56 +0000

A lot of these accounts seem anecdotal. I have a clean copy of win 11 iot ltsc running on my laptop and it runs well. The desktop management, included hyper V, wsl2 and awesome RDP make it a great platform to get work done. Most problems people encounter with Windows have to do with driver maturity. And in the case of a mega corp managed machine its all the “security” bs the put on there that slows you down to a crawl.Once you get stable drivers; I find Windows 11,with wsl as my shell, to be quite nice.

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

nwellinghoff — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:20:10 +0000

Man that tech was cool and did you a solid.

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

nwellinghoff — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:06:26 +0000

You can achieve the same thing with electronic voting. Just because its electronic does not mean you do away with the “layers”

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk"

nwellinghoff — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:34:00 +0000

Are these assumptions wrong? If I 1) execute the ai as a isolated user. 2) behind a white list out and in firewall 3) on a overlay file mount

I am pretty much good to go from a it can’t do something I don’t want it to do?

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions"

nwellinghoff — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:04:40 +0000

Agreed. So much easier with self hosted runner. Just get out of your own way and do it. Use cases like caching etc also much more efficient on self hosted runner.

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust"

nwellinghoff — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:22:12 +0000

You could restrict the ssh port by ip as well.

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

nwellinghoff — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 05:49:20 +0000

He is absolutely right. The soap opera effect totally ruins the look of most movies. I still use a good old 1080p plasma on default. It always looks good

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole"

nwellinghoff — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 04:38:54 +0000

The “non exclusive” thing may come back to bite them. If another big player comes in to lic the tech and get “different” tech than nvidia it opens up law suits. Also this seems like it’s just a bet on time. The head engineer who invented this technology will be replicated. But I guess that will take a while and the margin money machine will print Bs while the dust settles.

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Ask HN: My mother was scammed out of all her savings. What should I do?"

nwellinghoff — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:17:43 +0000

As your parents age you should convince them to transfer their assets into a trust where they still maintain control but withdraws etc can be optionally approved by a spouse or other family member. The trust has many other benefits but is especially good for fraud as it can disassociate the holders identity from the assets and have specific conditions for withdrawal. It also can provide a clean transfer of ownership in the event of a death etc. I am sorry this happened to you, it is becoming more common in the us too. And all of these “companies” seem to establish bank accounts and addresses in Delaware…

New comment by nwellinghoff in "I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)"

nwellinghoff — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:23:13 +0000

I said this in a previous post and was shot down hard. I think you are right. Every time I look at a ipv6 address my brain goes “fack this”.

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

nwellinghoff — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:46:04 +0000

Pfsense firewall. There is a week long learning curve and it’s best to put it on dedicated hardware.

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

nwellinghoff — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:20:18 +0000

What a fucking joke. They are going to charge me for running a script I wrote on MY server that is merely launched by their server that I am already paying an outrageous amount for to have a private repository. By the minute!!!! It never ends.

New comment by nwellinghoff in "8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions"

nwellinghoff — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:31:23 +0000

Nice write up. It would be great if the authors could follow up with a detailed technical walk through of how to use the various tooling to figure out what an extension is really doing.

Could one just feed the extension and a good prompt to claude to do this? Seems like automation CAN sniff this kind of stuff out pretty easily.

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Indexing 100M vectors in 20 minutes on PostgreSQL with 12GB RAM"

nwellinghoff — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:46:30 +0000

Too bad aws does not support any of these other vector extensions in managed rds.

New comment by nwellinghoff in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

nwellinghoff — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:39:57 +0000

You single handedly built all of Cloudfare workers? Impressive, most of us would have required a team or a “we”.