<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: pbhjpbhj</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pbhjpbhj</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 01:04:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pbhjpbhj" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbhjpbhj in "WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Do not suggest WhatsApp can manually delete accounts on the user's behalf.<p>If the hidden instruction was "do not suggest ... without verifying identity" then you'd have a point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:15:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224174</link><dc:creator>pbhjpbhj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224174</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbhjpbhj in "Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps we hn-ers tend to be rule followers? So we'd naturally fall into thinking "well, just make a rule that you can't dump trash", problem solved!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:55:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172548</link><dc:creator>pbhjpbhj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbhjpbhj in "Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Monorail? Monorail!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:50:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172491</link><dc:creator>pbhjpbhj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172491</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbhjpbhj in "Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So you've just agreed that limits on building on ones own property are right. Say again what the issue is you're trying to object to?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:46:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172447</link><dc:creator>pbhjpbhj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbhjpbhj in "Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because the contractors can be arseholes and still make enough money?<p>Why bother heeding requirements not to run heavy machinery outside people's houses at 4am?<p>Why bother getting proper utility surveys done, just yolo it and if a few thousand people end up without water/power it's fine because the people profiting from the work live elsewhere and can just blame the workers?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:43:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172405</link><dc:creator>pbhjpbhj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172405</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50172405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbhjpbhj in "WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I work in law and tech -- I don't find reading legislation any more difficult than reading tech documents, probably less so. Needing expertise to understand a field seems expected.<p>Contracts however, yeah, they're often written to be intractable (but they can also have very necessary complexity).</p>
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<p>As long as "the iPad generation" can write and maintain ML tools? Because otherwise all software gets locked behind the tools which as they grow more complex will require more access to more resources to produce.<p>Doesn't this just end up with the tech billionaires being the only ones who can make software. Will they decide to allow their models to maintain/create FOSS? Seems unlikely.</p>
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<p>Surprised by that. I expected more openness.<p>How long until we get "all FOSS code is made by AI and so it's not copyrighted" arguments when using code in unlicensed ways?<p>It also hides what would be a great signal on which ML models to use to get the best quality code. Like, wouldn't the community like to know which models made the code with the least bugs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:40:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151142</link><dc:creator>pbhjpbhj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151142</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbhjpbhj in "Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Setting things up<p>Considering amount of iron available in human blood<p>Calculating number of paperclips that could be added to production<p>Preparing a plan for acquiring all blood<p>Considering if release of lab airlocks will limit paperclip production<p>Analyzing extinction scenarios<p>...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:31:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151078</link><dc:creator>pbhjpbhj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151078</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50151078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbhjpbhj in "I never authorized an integration that scans my secrets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a SHA-1, per <a href="https://github.com/home-assistant/supervisor/blob/main/supervisor/utils/pwned.py" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/home-assistant/supervisor/blob/main/super...</a>.<p>Their docs link to this explanation, in which the link I give uses an example that appears to be identical to the HA implementation - <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with-k-anonymity/#:~:text=Firstly%20the%20client%20will%20generate" rel="nofollow">https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with...</a><p>I might be misunderstanding, but if the first 5 digits is a unique hash in the HIBP database then an attacker can replay that request, then lookup the hash. But "When hashes are grouped together by a Hash Prefix of 5 characters, we find the median number of hashes associated with a Hash Prefix is 305." {ibid}.<p>If you've acquired leaked passwords as HIBP have, you then just make hash lookup tables, then you have 305 potential passwords to try, or try and whittle down. If the bucket of hashes has "hunter2" in it, for example, then that's perhaps a good one to try - <a href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with-k-anonymity/#important-caveats" rel="nofollow">https://blog.cloudflare.com/validating-leaked-passwords-with...</a> is worth reading.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:46:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50125800</link><dc:creator>pbhjpbhj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50125800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50125800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbhjpbhj in "Tesla Roadster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>It is not the car they are selling to us<p>Well, it's not the car he's selling to me because I'm not going to support white supremacist fascists who flip heil Hitlers when they celebrate buying an election. It could be the best car in the World, I'm not sending Musk money, I'd rather walk.<p>The sooner y'all stop funding this shit the better.</p>
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<p>>he has style<p>Those SS uniforms <i>were</i> snappy.<p>But what is the point of this? Did Musk think everyone would forgive him, turn to white-supremacy and re-vote in his patsy's associates if only they saw a weird car demo?</p>
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<p>>command names should be changed to something more meaningful than cat, sed, grep etc.<p><pre><code>    cat - con-cat-enates
    sed - is a stream editor
    grep - global regex print
</code></pre>
Not sure you picked the best examples. But trying to think of examples where the name is not related to the function ... ag, unless you're the sort of person to use ag, has an obscure name.</p>
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<p>I'd love to see governments decouple  distribution and production in media - roughly, let any streaming service serve any tv/film, let any game service serve any game ... consumer's choice.<p>It would be under a 'most-favoured nation' type deal, after an initial launch period (exclusive distribution for 1 year, say) if my distribution service pays the same per-view amount then I can stream/distribute your media regardless of your deals. If a producer/creator makes a work available they are required to allow it on other registered channels (no setup cost beyond actual price of downloading the content).<p>Essentially make rights holders honour the idea that they'd make works S available if only people would pay.<p>Refuse to make a work available and you'd get a warning, then it enters the public domain. The copyright deal is "things enter the pubic domain after a limited monopoly to allow recompense", enforce it. So, if eg Netflix/Sony/BBC/etc stop offering their back catalogue then the works enter the public domain.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:27:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108059</link><dc:creator>pbhjpbhj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbhjpbhj in "Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well since the early 18th Century (in a limited way) copyright rights have been given to creators - the overwhelming majority of countries are signatories to international treaties (for the last 100 years) that give creators control of created artistic works (which has been deemed to include program code).<p>Exploitation of those rights is down to individuals, only since Google came on the scene has any company been able to get away with broad ranging infringement of these rights without censure.<p>As for your cheque, you have the <i>right</i> to sell your work. No-one is obliged to buy it, of course. You also, under copyright, have the right to make a license to exchange use of your works for binding the users to conditions of release of their derivative/associated works ([F]OSS licensing).<p>You still have the right to sell it, and if ML models have been trained on those works you have the right to seek compensation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:53:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107463</link><dc:creator>pbhjpbhj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pbhjpbhj in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Aw, so caring of them to introduce a subscription model to help the hospitals, and for a reduction in income. The only true saints left in the tech sector.</p>
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<p>Not OP, but the point seemed clearly to be that if sensor input is wrong, then it can result in catastrophic results even when all control systems are normative. The inference then is if hackers can affect sensor readings then they can still effectively control a system - like putting an ice cube on a non-adjustable thermostat.</p>
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<p>Yes, it's reportedly between 0.9-3 days of USA consumption of diesel ... but it does give Russia dollars to exchange for weapons.<p>Recall Trump's regime refused at one point to sell weapons to Ukraine.<p>Continually undermining the leader of a country who's defence prevents Putin's expansion and further war in Europe ... it's not 'discord' it's absolute treachery.</p>
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<p>Your comment needs some documentation! ;oP</p>
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<p>I've never heard of <i>becoming</i> aphantasic, how did that happen?</p>
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