<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: octoberfranklin</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=octoberfranklin</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 20:10:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=octoberfranklin" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octoberfranklin in "Memory decline after menopause linked to loss of estrogen production in brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This fails to control for the fact that women, on average, live to older ages before dying.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 17:35:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338733</link><dc:creator>octoberfranklin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338733</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octoberfranklin in "MCP is dead?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Access control is the operating system's job, and modern OSes already provide plenty of great tools for doing that.<p>Just use the existing sandboxing infrastructure like bubblewrap, seccomp, etc.  I have way more faith in that than in something than some regex-based blocklist.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 17:30:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338689</link><dc:creator>octoberfranklin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octoberfranklin in "MCP is dead?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can easily do this with simple Unix `chmod x-rw` on a wrapper that makes HTTP requests, adding the access token as it does.</p>
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<p>Editorialized title is not cool, HN.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 17:25:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338640</link><dc:creator>octoberfranklin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338640</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octoberfranklin in "GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, that nefarious nation-state threat actor known as GNU IFUNC!<p>Curses, thwarted again!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 02:58:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057972</link><dc:creator>octoberfranklin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057972</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octoberfranklin in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That link does not in any way support your bogus claim.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 02:56:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057954</link><dc:creator>octoberfranklin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057954</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octoberfranklin in "AI slop is killing online communities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wait isn't that every sub? /s</p>
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<p>The problem is that it has become <i>very</i> popular to ban people from a sub based on what other subs they post to.  It was turning Reddit into a two-party universe.<p>The better fix would be to make the support for multiple accounts in the reddit app not so incredibly-shitty, where you're basically logging out and logging back in.  Instead, just tell it "posts to this sub use this account, posts to that sub use that account", etc.</p>
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<p>Money is great at thwarting spam/Sybil attacks.  You don't have to raise the price very much to make them fail.<p>Honestly I think "this person is real" is the wrong goal.  You'll never accomplish it without a centralized state or some biometric monstrosity like that thing Sam Altman created.<p>Just settle for stopping spam.</p>
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<p>I hate to break it to you but it is really easy to get anonymous visa/mastercard cards.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 06:01:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032786</link><dc:creator>octoberfranklin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032786</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octoberfranklin in "FFmpeg developer calls out OxideAV for AI license laundering of his code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This project is authored by the guy responsible for the Mt Gox fiasco.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpeles" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpeles</a><p>It is not his first fraud.</p>
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<p>This is my litmus test.<p>If AI is really as wonderous as everybody says, why didn't all the employees of all the AI companies simply type "Claude, file my taxes for me" as a prompt and walk away?</p>
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<p>How do they know that the "you" accessing the site is the same "you" they previously banned?<p>Face-scanning?  Iris patterns?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 03:42:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031897</link><dc:creator>octoberfranklin</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by octoberfranklin in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Github project data is easy to export: <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/issues/planning-and-tracking-with" rel="nofollow">https://docs.github.com/en/issues/planning-and-tracking-with</a>...<p>Only the project owner can do that.</p>
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<p>This answer can be applied to pretty much any social question.<p>If it were so easy, we'd do this all the time.  We already do it a lot, and there are heaps of examples where it goes wrong.</p>
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<p>The funding for tor project is nowhere near what is needed to develop an entire browser.  Mainly because the web has become such a bloatfest, not because of any wrongdoing by tor.</p>
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<p>djbsort is constant-time.<p>Because most post-quantum cryptosystems need this primitive.<p><a href="https://sorting.cr.yp.to/" rel="nofollow">https://sorting.cr.yp.to/</a></p>
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<p>Same here with github.</p>
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<p>> produce at least a small nuclear explosion<p>The Manhattan Project scientists <i>actually did this</i> before anybody broke ground at Los Alamos.  It was called the Chicago Pile.  And if the control rods were removed and the SCRAM disabled, it absolutely would have created a "small nuclear explosion" in the middle of a major university campus.<p>Given the level of hype and how long it's been going on, I think it's totally reasonable for the wider world to ask the quantum crypto-breaking people to build a Chicago Pile first.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1</a></p>
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<p>WTF is a "subprocessor"?<p>They should just be honest and say "data loophole".</p>
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