<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: pyrophane</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pyrophane</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 02:13:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pyrophane" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just have a desktop at home that I run inference off of. It is a great setup and I don't find myself wanting to inference models directly on my laptop.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 21:39:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329668</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329668</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I've realized that the things I don't like in tech have everything to do with the culture and politics. When I've been able to work with a small team of people I really like and respect, I've generally been quite content.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 15:14:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324163</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "Lanzaboote – NixOS Secure Boot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Huh, as a Lanaboote user I’m surprised to see this on the front page. I use this in combination with sbctl for key generation. I’m mostly using it because I wanted to set up full disk encryption with TPM2 auth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:32:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115956</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115956</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This won't help you right now, but GrapheneOS did recently announce a partnership with Motorola, so presumably in a year or so support will start showing up for some Motorola devices.<p>Side note: I did get the 10a on launch from Google Fi for ~300.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 19:15:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077434</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077434</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48077434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's the most relevant section I could find from the original source:<p>"Chrome extensions can expose internal files to web pages through the web_accessible_resources field in their manifest.json. When an extension is installed and has exposed a resource, a fetch() request to chrome-extension://{id}/{file} will succeed. When the extension is not installed, Chrome blocks the request and the promise rejects.<p>LinkedIn tests every extension in the list this way."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:03:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969414</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's the relevant bit from the original source:<p>"Chrome extensions can expose internal files to web pages through the web_accessible_resources field in their manifest.json. When an extension is installed and has exposed a resource, a fetch() request to chrome-extension://{id}/{file} will succeed. When the extension is not installed, Chrome blocks the request and the promise rejects.<p>LinkedIn tests every extension in the list this way."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:02:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969399</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's Vanity?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:21:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290607</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290607</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, Gnome consolidates feature changes into major releases every six months, so it aligns well with fixed release distros like Ubuntu and Fedora that have release cycles that are aligned with Gnome's.<p>KDE drops a new point release with new features ~ every four months, and has a more flexible release schedule, so it is just to just get the changes when they are released.<p>I'm currently running KDE on NixOS unstable which is great, but if I weren't doing that I'd still be on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:19:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290594</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "America's $1T AI Gamble"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, this is something I am thinking a lot about. Companies won't be able to sustain this level of spending forever, and one of two things will need to happen:<p>1. Models become commodities and immensely cheaper to operate for inference as a result of some future innovation. This would presumably be very bad for the handful of companies who have invested that $1T and want to recoup that, but great for those of us who love cheap inference.<p>2. #1 doesn't happen and the model providers start begin to feel empowered to pass the true cost of training + inference down to the model consumer. We start paying thousands of dollars per month for model usage and the price gate blocks out most people from reaping the benefits of bleeding-edge AI, instead being locked into cheaper models that are just there to extract cash by selling them things.<p>Personally I'm leaning toward #1. Future models near as good as the absolute best will get far cheaper to train, and new techniques and specialized inference chips will make them much cheaper to use. It isn't hard for me to imagine another Deepseek moment in the not-so-distant future. Perhaps Anthropic is thinking the same thing given the rumors that they are rumored to be pushing toward an IPO as early as this year.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:24:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962150</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962150</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe. I don't think we yet have a good understanding of how many deaths he will have caused as a result of DOGE so abruptly cutting off assistance to so many vulnerable people around the world, but I've heard estimates hover around 600,000.<p>Assuming that number turns out to be close to reality, how do you weigh so many unnecessary deaths against VTL rockets and the electric cars?<p>Perhaps a practitioner of Effective Altruism could better answer that question.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:50:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889032</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't believe how many times I have to click "decline" now to install Windows 11.<p>Office 365? no thanks. How about a cheaper version? No thanks. Did you know you could use it for free. Okay. How about XBox. No! Am I forgetting one?<p>All that before I can even use the computer. Ridiculous.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:32:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798631</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798631</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly my real fear is ICE agents at polling places on Election Day harassing would-be voters with citizenship checks and aggressive behavior, slowing things down and maybe causing some people to leave.<p>Regarding voter data though, if it becomes known that registering to vote as a minority will get you extra scrutiny from ICE, and perhaps a visit to your home, that would probably cause some citizens avoid voting altogether, especially if they are associated with people who are not her legally.<p>Either way, the federal government really has no right to that data or legitimate use for it, so hopefully they don't manage to get their hands on it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:04:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758883</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758883</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46758883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My first thought was of the adventure game Loom.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:18:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331626</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "Vibe coding creates fatigue?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I recently used a coding agent on a project where I was using an unfamiliar language, framework, API, and protocol.<p>You didn’t find that to be a little too much unfamiliarity? With the couple of projects that I’ve worked on that were developed using an “agent first” approach I found that if I added too many new things at once it would put me in a difficult space where I didn’t feel confident enough to evaluate what the agent was doing, and when it seemed to go off the rails I would have to do a bunch of research to figure out how to steer it.<p>Now, none of that was bad, because I learned a lot, and I think it is a great way to familiarize oneself with a new stack, but if I want to move really fast, I still pick mostly familiar stuff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:14:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293797</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293797</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46293797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wondering if anyone here has a good answer to this:<p>what protection does user data typically have during legal discovery in a civil suit like this where the defendant is a service provider but relevant evidence is likely present in user data?<p>Does a judge have to weigh a users' expectation of privacy against the request? Do terms of service come into play here (who actually owns the data? what privacy guarantees does the company make?).<p>I'm assuming in this case that the request itself isn't overly broad and seems like a legitimate use of the discovery process.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:41:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45901526</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45901526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45901526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So Nvidia is giving OpenAI money so OpenAI can buy more Nvidia GPUs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:52:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45340030</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45340030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45340030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One thing I’m looking for in all of this is how trump will get a piece of this deal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:56:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45281311</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45281311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45281311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can anyone recommend an alternative that doesn't train on user data?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:20:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063767</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063767</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "Unfit for Work – The startling rise of disability in America"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Glad you posted this as I remember hearing about this situation some years ago but couldn't remember where.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2025 16:19:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210603</link><dc:creator>pyrophane</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210603</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44210603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pyrophane in "Former Supreme Court justice David Souter has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was active in history and civics events in high school and I remember going to DC for a civics competition, and Justice David Souter spoke at it.<p>I was a teenager at the time, it was the 90s, and I don't think I took much of anything too seriously, but I remember being kind of in awe of him. He talked about the importance of civic education which to this day that remains one of my core beliefs as an American.<p>A lot has changed for the worse since then, and it feels like we've only gotten further from the idea that the purpose of education is, more than anything else, to teach us to be better citizens and participants in our democracy.</p>
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