Hacker News: pajamasam

New comment by pajamasam in "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"

pajamasam — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:22:09 +0000

I'd be interested in what data they're using in the first place. It looks like their data is behind a paywall.

Also, funny that their page with for "Companies running Cloudflare" says there are only "887 European organisations using Cloudflare."

New comment by pajamasam in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

pajamasam — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:44:09 +0000

None of the most read books of 2026 so far according to Goodreads are significantly older (https://www.goodreads.com/book/most_read?category=all&countr...). Also not the most sold Amazon books: https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/2026/books

New comment by pajamasam in "Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death"

pajamasam — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:39:13 +0000

It’s how they make money

New comment by pajamasam in "Ask HN: Where else do you spend time on the internet other than HN?"

pajamasam — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:54:35 +0000

longreads.com, my RSS feeds in NetNewsWire, and podcasts mostly

New comment by pajamasam in "Disruption with Some GitHub Services"

pajamasam — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:52:32 +0000

Apparently we can because a lot (most?) of us are still using GitHub even after all their outages recently.

New comment by pajamasam in "Bugtraq is back"

pajamasam — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:23:59 +0000

> anyone saying that’s a sign of LLM use should not be listened to

You don't need to believe me. You can read the studies about its statistically higher occurrence in LLM writing vs human writing (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.27006) or you can do the analysis yourself.

Also, no one said you should stop using them. But overusing them, along with emulating some of the other common traits of LLM generated writing, will give people the impression that you didn't bother to write something yourself.

New comment by pajamasam in "Bugtraq is back"

pajamasam — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:18:38 +0000

It contains four emdashes, it overuses the Rule of Three (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...), it has the typical "not X, but Y" sentence, it unduly emphasizes the significance of Buqtrack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing#...) ("preservation for the ages", really?).

Also, in my experience, LLMs seem to love to say something went "dark" or "silent", to mention a "generation" of people, and to say something "matters". "no corporate filter" also seems like a strange thing to say.

New comment by pajamasam in "Don't be a meat proxy"

pajamasam — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:32:35 +0000

Kagi does something like this: https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop

LinkedIn also added a button to report AI slop, but I'm doubtful it would be of much help on LinkedIn since every second post seems to be written by an LLM.

New comment by pajamasam in "Show HN: Descript wanted $24/mo, I built an open-source alternative in a weekend"

pajamasam — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:27:12 +0000

From the commits, it looks like it only took OP about 4 hours with Cursor.

New comment by pajamasam in "Telegram Serverless"

pajamasam — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:45:50 +0000

Hmmm no, Meta is making money from businesses using their API.

New comment by pajamasam in "The Cypherpunk Library"

pajamasam — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:49:11 +0000

And a single person's answer to a statistical phenomenon is going to help you how?

New comment by pajamasam in "Show HN: ShadowCat – file transfer through QR Codes in a Browser"

pajamasam — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:25:36 +0000

Interesting idea! A demo video would be great :)

New comment by pajamasam in "If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog"

pajamasam — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:22:37 +0000

1. They still make the data freely available. 2. Hosting the data is not free.

New comment by pajamasam in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

pajamasam — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:50:42 +0000

I honestly thought the whole thing was satire and that that line was a riff on OpenAI.

New comment by pajamasam in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

pajamasam — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:00:46 +0000

You think other CDNs are immune from the kinds of issues Cloudfare has?

New comment by pajamasam in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

pajamasam — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:59:28 +0000

> I wonder can you just set up fallback to origin in DNS

Then you origin needs to be publicly accessible and you lose the DDOS protection that a CDN gives you.

> All the other ones.

They're just as susceptible to outages as Cloudflare is.

New comment by pajamasam in "Claude may require identity verification in some cases"

pajamasam — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:51:28 +0000

Anthropic says they may not train their models using your data, but apparently Persona (the service they will use for identity verification) WILL according to https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verificatio...

Persona also might send your data to 17 different subprocessors (16 if you exclude Anthropic itself).

New comment by pajamasam in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

pajamasam — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:13:08 +0000

There are multiple good reasons to use a CDN though. What’s your suggestion for an alternative?

New comment by pajamasam in "Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S."

pajamasam — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:40:23 +0000

The article mentions some of the places use Yondr phone pouches.

Intel's Heracles chip computes fully-encrypted data without decrypting it

pajamasam — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:39:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/intels-heracles-chip-computes-fully-encrypted-data-without-decrypting-it-chip-is-1-074-to-5-547-times-faster-than-a-24-core-intel-xeon-in-fhe-math-operations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453699

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