Hacker News: poemxo

New comment by poemxo in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

poemxo — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:37:19 +0000

Really you're down for over an hour a year? Unscheduled?

New comment by poemxo in "WolfGuard: WireGuard with FIPS 140-3 cryptography"

poemxo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:07:43 +0000

I wish they would just add ChaCha20-Poly1305 and Blake2 to FIPS, instead of ushering in the era of WireGuard forks.

New comment by poemxo in "OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform"

poemxo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:52:40 +0000

gpt-image-1.5 works decently for generating images compared to old Sora, but you pay per generation. It's possible that monthly flat rates were too much of a loss leader for OpenAI. I imagine the server side cost for generating video for Sora 2 is much higher as well.

New comment by poemxo in "Apple Business"

poemxo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:22:57 +0000

This is cute but it's missing programmable documents (Microsoft) or hooks to use AI (Google) to really challenge either competitor.

New comment by poemxo in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

poemxo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:36:55 +0000

"Anymore" is right though. This should be a call to change the global mindset regarding dependencies. We have to realize that the "good ol days" are behind us in order to take action.

Otherwise people will naysay and detract from the cause. "It worked before" they will say. "Why don't we do it like before?"

DISA STIG already forbids use of the EPEL for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Enterprise software install instructions are littered with commands to turn off gpgcheck and install rpm's from sourceforge. The times are changing and we need cryptographically verifiable guarantees of safety!

New comment by poemxo in "Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6"

poemxo — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:01:37 +0000

9 retries on easy prompts, all morning and afternoon

New comment by poemxo in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

poemxo — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:05:35 +0000

I hope Apple is paying attention, since their first gen AirTags are vulnerable to voltage glitching to disable the speaker and the tracking warning.

New comment by poemxo in "Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds"

poemxo — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:45:23 +0000

Why the name Shadowbroker? It sounds a lot like the Shadow Brokers which is the hacker group that stole and published some NSA hacking tools.

Then again they were named after a video game character so it's probably fair.

New comment by poemxo in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

poemxo — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:00:09 +0000

This might be well-intended to restrict bot posting, but it also silences dissent. HN is one of the few places left on the internet where dissenting voices can post. A dissenting voice already has to work against the hivemind, adding more restrictions will increase the echo chamber effect.

New comment by poemxo in "Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code"

poemxo — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:09:31 +0000

We were verifying code before? And wouldn't AI help with verification at least for the trivial flaws?

New comment by poemxo in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

poemxo — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:35:36 +0000

> They intended to type “not significant” but omitted the word “not.”

This one is pretty egregious.

New comment by poemxo in "Stunnel"

poemxo — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:32:52 +0000

To add on to this, in some organizations it's easier to assess risk according to RMF and similar frameworks if the application ships with stunnel and is configured from within than it is for the application to require a system-level VPN like Wireguard.

That said, I think Wireguard is easier to analyze on the wire since it has a known binary signature from the first 4 bytes, while stunnel tunnel is indifferentiable from web browsing traffic. For a bad actor looking into exfil or C2, this means an stunnel is probably the sneakier and thus more reliable method of encryption on the wire compared to wireguard.

New comment by poemxo in "Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users"

poemxo — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:54:42 +0000

Counterpoint: if they had reached for sharding early, they would have avoided the technical debt of having to refactor their existing database. I don't think sharding is necessarily that complex either, especially for a SaaS style app like ChatGPT where users are mostly siloed in.

New comment by poemxo in "How did TVs get so cheap?"

poemxo — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:59:54 +0000

I think economies of scale, while only mentioned in the penultimate paragraph in TFA, is an underrated factor. Whenever something looks like alien technology but is available for $200-300, I assume an economy of scale helped.

TFA goes into the industrial engineering efforts associated with LCD manufacturing, but I don't think those wins would have shown up without a huge market for TVs.

New comment by poemxo in "Eat Real Food"

poemxo — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:44:39 +0000

The messaging on the website pretty much agrees with you, then.

New comment by poemxo in "Show HN: Enroll, a tool to reverse-engineer servers into Ansible config mgmt"

poemxo — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:13:00 +0000

Can it do Oracle? That would be a gamechanger.

New comment by poemxo in "Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA"

poemxo — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:19:10 +0000

Maybe we should stop viewing DNA as source code or I guess more importantly as the sole source of heritability. It's clear that parts of DNA are somehow variably expressed. Different sections of DNA are "unrolled" depending on how you live your life, and unrolled DNA is part of an entire complex. Now it seems parts of that complex are heritable.

Just a guess. I'm not a biologist.

New comment by poemxo in "Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat"

poemxo — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:59:16 +0000

Sorry for slow response. Snitch sounds like a tool that will do intercepting or alerting. Little Snitch is perfectly named in this regard. When it pops up prompting you for action, it feels like it just snitched on an app.

What you have here isn't a snitch, it's more like a full map of traffic. I don't have any other suggestions unfortunately.

Just my 2c

New comment by poemxo in "Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat"

poemxo — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 06:54:36 +0000

I don't like the name but I like the TUI, connection monitoring is perfectly handled by a TUI!

New comment by poemxo in "President Trump Announces New Trump Class Battleship"

poemxo — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 06:51:31 +0000

They probably are, but the Ukraine war has not shown that. The only large ship lost by either side was a Russian ship, the Moskva, which was sunk by a Neptune anti-ship missile. Other smaller craft were sunk by naval drones, not necessarily cheap.