Hacker News: quadhome

New comment by quadhome in "Terminal borders that don't cost a cell"

quadhome — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 07:56:02 +0000

That was X11.

New comment by quadhome in "Inverse Zitron: An Investment Strategy"

quadhome — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:54:43 +0000

it’s money moving, it’s not destroyed

Couldn’t a company incinerate funds and their stock bottom out because no one will buy?

New comment by quadhome in "Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books"

quadhome — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:53:24 +0000

What if they get blocked from the network and repeatedly change accounts, IPs and then MACs repeatedly to get around progressively escalating blocks from the network admins?

Was your response facetious? The AI labs literally do this, right now.

New comment by quadhome in "France needs to read my paper"

quadhome — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:23:00 +0000

Taiwan.

New comment by quadhome in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

quadhome — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:32:31 +0000

It is unlawful for any person to send, post, or transmit, or procure the sending, posting, or transmission of, a writing or other record, including an electronic record, in any manner in which it may be viewed by another person, when in such writing or record the person makes a threat to: (a) Kill or to do bodily harm to another person; or (b) Conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism.

— via https://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Disp...

The DA is serious about "in any matter."

New comment by quadhome in "Unusual Suspects"

quadhome — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:19:57 +0000

Warning: autoplays audio. Loud.

New comment by quadhome in "Should We Have Kept the American Empire?"

quadhome — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:32:57 +0000

https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=Imperialism

New comment by quadhome in "Show HN: Anonymous age verification with passkey-powered encryption"

quadhome — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:14:54 +0000

I wonder if you could have the verification use something like the Privacy Pass protocol to emit a bunch of spendable anonymous login tokens.

New comment by quadhome in "AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack"

quadhome — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:58:33 +0000

Earlier this year, Andrew, who works for an Australian company that sells AI products to businesses, began experimenting with OpenClaw, a popular AI agent software that he used Anthropic's Claude AI service to run.

Get me press just like the frontier labs by admitting to crime. Make no mistakes.

New comment by quadhome in "Concurrency, interactivity, mutability, choose two"

quadhome — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:48:00 +0000

It's especially weird since the author is talking about inspecting and modifying data at runtime; gdb happily attaches to a process running a program written in C. However, if he were talking about inspecting and modifying the program itself, then we'd be cooking.

New comment by quadhome in "SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions"

quadhome — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:22:25 +0000

https://lobste.rs/c/kzln1c

New comment by quadhome in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"

quadhome — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:41:04 +0000

Big Ad Tech is helping push age verification because Big AI Tech took away human eyeballs. It's not that deep.

New comment by quadhome in "How smashing the NIMBYs created modern capitalism"

quadhome — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:31:34 +0000

Taiwan’s bloodless land reform is far more contemporary and relevant: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.10511

New comment by quadhome in "Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins"

quadhome — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:50:07 +0000

Alzheimer’s is driven by the buildup of toxic proteins called amyloid-beta.

In the words of Derek Lowe:

Amyloid-directed therapies truly, truly do not appear to be the answer for Alzheimer’s treatment. When I started work in the field back in the early 1990s, I was convinced of the opposite - the evidence looked very strong that defects in amyloid processing were indeed the cause of the disease. But that was thirty-five years ago, thirty-five years in which therapy after therapy after therapy aimed at amyloid mechanisms has failed.

[…] We’re way past persistence, way past focus, way past optimism and multiple shots on goal and old-college-tries. Do something else! For God's sake, do something else.

— https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/anti-amyloid-antib...

New comment by quadhome in "Stdx, Rust's extended standard library"

quadhome — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:39:31 +0000

And just decided to relicense those forks with no real regard.

Also, it’s a loooong way from the self-contained goal—- there are a lot of third-party crates as dependencies still.

Yikes.

New comment by quadhome in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

quadhome — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:22:39 +0000

You must be young. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanker_war

New comment by quadhome in "macOS needs its grid back"

quadhome — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:15:28 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf03YBxCyGI

New comment by quadhome in "Technofascism"

quadhome — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:24:41 +0000

Bill Gates? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iPe6Iegom4

New comment by quadhome in "How OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine"

quadhome — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:18:46 +0000

Wherein a very basic KYC system is described. Every bank and money transmitter in the US have either built an identical system or purchased one.

New comment by quadhome in "Dave Farber has died"

quadhome — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:19:56 +0000

IP-Asia met every week via Zoom. Several other people whose names appear in the same literature frequented it too. Pop in tonight for the final session?