Hacker News: ok123456

New comment by ok123456 in "Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT"

ok123456 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:34:02 +0000

Gemini still has its study mode.

New comment by ok123456 in "AI helps add 10k more photos to OldNYC"

ok123456 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:53:12 +0000

Maybe she just thinks it's cool? It's hardly the worst use of AI on Facebook.

New comment by ok123456 in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

ok123456 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:39:11 +0000

Quite literally "the new old thing."

New comment by ok123456 in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

ok123456 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:35:36 +0000

With 401ks and financial instruments in general, it's cut-and-dry: there's either a payment, or there isn't, and there's a whole accountancy industry that supports that.

With DMCA claims, it's an adversarial accusation with inherent unreliability built into the collection mechanism, usually submitted by third parties. The process doesn't lend itself to the same kind of auditability and accountability as securities and investments.

New comment by ok123456 in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

ok123456 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:35:06 +0000

Does this mean the entire enforcement regime is now more or less a paper tiger? It's sufficient to have a process that satisfies the letter of the law, but you can simply not follow through and enforce it.

New comment by ok123456 in "What if Python was natively distributable?"

ok123456 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:43:16 +0000

https://decomposition.al/CSE232-2024-09/readings/note-distri...

New comment by ok123456 in "RX – a new random-access JSON alternative"

ok123456 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:17:40 +0000

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP_serialization_format

New comment by ok123456 in "NMAP in the Movies"

ok123456 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:18:02 +0000

Maybe they're really experts and have good nmap scripts https://nmap.org/book/man-nse.html

New comment by ok123456 in "Reliable Software in the LLM Era"

ok123456 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:03:25 +0000

Exactly. NO SILVER BULLET.

New comment by ok123456 in "Faster asin() was hiding in plain sight"

ok123456 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:22:09 +0000

Chebyshev approximation for asin is sum(2T_n(x) / (pi*n*n),n), the even terms are 0.

New comment by ok123456 in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

ok123456 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:25:48 +0000

Don't you use the dialectic?

New comment by ok123456 in "FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale"

ok123456 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:11:38 +0000

Microsoft wouldn't exist without the theft of CPU time on time-shared computers.

New comment by ok123456 in "Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?"

ok123456 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:47:12 +0000

We don't have to guess about what was going on at Microsoft in those days. From "Barbarians Led by Bill Gates":

The day the Mac shipped in January 1984, Gates told McGregor to run out and buy a Mac for the Windows developers.

"Reverse engineer it," Gates told him. "I have applications like BASIC and Multiplan that we've hacked out for the Mac, and we're working on other Mac applications like Word with a graphical user interface. I want to run all those Mac applications on Windows." Apparently, Gates didn't see a conflict of interest with this strategy.

...

"How are they different?" Gates snapped back. "They both draw fucking lines on the screen, right? They both put things in windows, right? Mac wrote a windows thing, you wrote a windows thing, they ought to be able to run the same stuff together."

New comment by ok123456 in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

ok123456 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:40:43 +0000

ALEC

New comment by ok123456 in "Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM"

ok123456 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:31:54 +0000

Firejail seems like the right tool for a somewhat complicated desktop application that you want isolation for, that's not simple to containerize.

New comment by ok123456 in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

ok123456 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:03:45 +0000

I call it stylometric---obfuscation!

New comment by ok123456 in "Turing Completeness of GNU find"

ok123456 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:00:32 +0000

*claw and recently registered

New comment by ok123456 in "Turing Completeness of GNU find"

ok123456 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:37:03 +0000

LLM yet, and seems to have the most insightful comments here about the paper.

New comment by ok123456 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

ok123456 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:25:34 +0000

Hamas didn't "weaponize every hospital in Gaza."

New comment by ok123456 in "Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148"

ok123456 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:59:11 +0000

That's why the DNS for hackernews is news.ycombinator.com and not hackernews.org