<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: pinum</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pinum</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:42:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pinum" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>what do you recommend them to do?<p>Shut down the affected services until they can install the patch. This issue is widespread enough that users will understand. Many government etc sites are affected too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50182191</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50182191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50182191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Making the main staircase more fire-resistant is great but I'm not fully convinced by the arguments for removing external ones instead of having both.<p>If the main stairs do turn out to be impassable for some reason despite the new measures, I'd much rather have the option to risk taking an external fire escape even if it might be rusty or blocked by clutter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:21:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179698</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50179698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "How gyroscopes got so small [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>The dead reckoning a phone does over its accelerometers absolutely yields a position<p>Accelerometers yes, gyroscopes no. The video covers accelerometers later but hasn't introduced them yet, and the "your phone knows its position" line has a visual of an IC labelled "MEMS gryoscope".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:03:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122919</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122919</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "How gyroscopes got so small [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Your phone knows its position in space"<p>Mistakes happen, but in a video about gyroscopes it's hard to forgive mistaking position and orientation. That's the kind of thing that warrants a delete and re-upload.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:21:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120369</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120369</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "RuneScape's Position on Gen AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm against the use of AI for creative work, but<p>>[X] is not something an LLM will ever be very competent at<p>I'm no longer convinced that this is a particularly safe bet for any value of X. LLMs have absolutely been demonstrated as capable of doing things that they're theoretically the wrong type of model for, like generating images by writing SVGs or simulating brush strokes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:45:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49955495</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49955495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49955495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "Nobody likes spoilers, especially agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting. Do you have any evaluations to support the claims that this improves performance?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:38:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869514</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869514</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49869514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "Inverse Kinematics and Foot Locking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you using Firefox on ios? It’s a long-running bug with that browser that affects most pages with multiple videos and drives me mad.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:37:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674196</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674196</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49674196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>><a href="https://longbets.org/6/" rel="nofollow">https://longbets.org/6/</a><p>Anyone know why this (and many other bets) have been removed?<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080803213625/https://longbets.org/6/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20080803213625/https://longbets....</a><p>>By 2010, more than 50 percent of books sold worldwide will be printed on demand at the point of sale in the form of library-quality paperbacks.<p>Not exactly a hot-button issue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:59:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230302</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230302</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "Microsoft BitLocker – YellowKey zero-day exploit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks, I was familiar with encryption but not with bitlocker.<p>So this only affects a particular mode of bitlocker in which the drive is automatically decrypted on boot without the user providing any secret. Meaning the key is basically stored in plaintext on-device, albeit in a convoluted way.<p>To me it seems intuitive that such a mode isn't secure. It's a bit like protecting your door with an unpickable unbreakable lock, but then putting the key in a lockbox on the wall with a flimsy padlock that can be raked or cut off in seconds.<p>It seems roughly equivalent to not encrypting the drive at all so it doesn't seem surprising that there's a way to bypass it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 09:05:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132835</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I was releasing a laptop with Linux support as a key selling point, and the battery life was bad on Ubuntu 24.04 but good on the pre-release 26.04, then I'd advertise the good figures and write "tested on Ubuntu 26.04 beta, requires Linux 7.0 or later" in the footnotes.<p>I definitely /wouldn't/ rely on just Windows figures for a machine that's otherwise advertised as "Linux first". If the battery life was the same on both, I'd prominently mention that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:44:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853574</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At its current distance, best case RTT would be about 420ms</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:39:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616776</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616776</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "Please Do Not A/B Test My Workflow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here’s the original article which was much more informative and interesting:<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260314105751/https://backnotprop.com/blog/do-not-ab-test-my-workflow/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20260314105751/https://backnotpr...</a><p>Can’t believe HN has become so afraid of generic probably-unenforceable “plz don’t reverse engineer” EULAs. We deserve to know what these tools are doing.<p>I’ve seen poor results from plan mode recently too and this explains a lot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:30:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376495</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "LLM Writing Tropes.md"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Similarly, "X that actually works"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:26:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292987</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292987</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks much closer to Haiku than Sonnet.<p>Maybe "Qwen3.5 122B offers Haiku 4.5 performance on local computers" would be a more realistic and defensible claim.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:11:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200835</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200835</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The other advantage of fibre is subtlety if you can't (or don't want to) run it through walls. 0.9mm diameter and light enough to attach it with occasional dots of glue instead of needing cable clips.</p>
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<p>I can second this 0.9mm transparent stuff, I've run it successfully and it's very subtle.<p>Depending on the media converter pair you're using, you probably want UPC instead of APC. I also found that the cheapest generic bidi media converters tend to be SC, so I want with a 30m pre-terminated SC/UPC cable. Total cost (cable plus media converters) was about £30.<p>Alternatively, you can order a custom 30+m white 0.9mm cable from FS:
<a href="https://www.fs.com/uk/products/12285.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.fs.com/uk/products/12285.html</a>
Lead time is fairly long.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:03:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745269</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "Can I start using Wayland in 2026?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anecdotally, everything works flawlessly on my work machine: Optiplex Micro, Intel iGPU, Fedora KDE 43, 4K 32" primary monitor at 125% scale, 1440p 27" secondary monitor at 100%. No issues with Wayland or with anything else.<p>Everything actually feels significantly more solid/stable/reliable than modern Windows does. I can install updates at my own pace and without worrying that they'll add an advert for Candy Crush to my start menu.<p>I also run Bazzite-deck on an old AMD APU minipc as a light gaming HTPC. Again, it's a much better experience than my past attempts to run Windows on an HTPC.<p>As with everything, the people having issues will naturally be heard louder than the people who just use it daily without issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:30:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46487768</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46487768</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46487768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use LiteLLM as a proxy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:07:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45416166</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45416166</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45416166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Instead of shutting down completely, why not this:<p>For goo.gl links that were created by google, continue redirecting them as normal.
For others, show a warning page explaining to the user that the link wasn't created (or vouched for) by google. If they press an "agree" button, still don't show a clickable link, but instead show it as plain text to be copied.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:11:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878283</link><dc:creator>pinum</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pinum in "Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1B web users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>The greatest proportion of users who self-activated a hard ad-blocker found out about it through advertising (34%)</p>
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