Hacker News: ransom_rs

Chatbot Act Introduced in Senate

ransom_rs — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:01:37 +0000

Article URL: https://512pixels.net/2026/04/chatbot-act-introduced-in-senate/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938101

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ransom_rs in "Introducing Cloudflare Mesh"

ransom_rs — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:38:53 +0000

Looks like a tailscale alternative from Cloudflare

Introducing Cloudflare Mesh

ransom_rs — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:38:53 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-04-14-cloudflare-mesh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47782481

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Empirical evidence of LLM's influence on human spoken communication

ransom_rs — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 07:22:51 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44548218

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by ransom_rs in "Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face"

ransom_rs — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:03:24 +0000

At the top of the article:

> This blog post is expressing personal experiences and opinions and doesn’t reflect any official policies of SourceHut.

New comment by ransom_rs in "Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search"

ransom_rs — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:28:39 +0000

If the system is implemented correctly then Kagi cryptographically can't link a particular search to a particular user.

New comment by ransom_rs in "Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search"

ransom_rs — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:24:59 +0000

A problem with "zero knowledge" proofs is that Kagi needs to verify that the user has paid for the service, which requires the server to have some knowledge about the client at some point.

New comment by ransom_rs in "Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search"

ransom_rs — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:24:07 +0000

You have to generate the tokens while signed in, but once you have the tokens, you can use them without your searches being associated with your account (cryptographically provable).

Twitter testing up and downvote options

ransom_rs — Wed, 21 Jul 2021 19:04:22 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/twittersupport/status/1417920469265788931

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27910598

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by ransom_rs in "Compiling Rust is NP-hard"

ransom_rs — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 14:19:03 +0000

In case anyone else does this and is new to Rust - you can use `cargo check` to type check/borrow check/everything else without doing any codegen

How We Ran a Successful Remote Internship Program in 2020

ransom_rs — Fri, 21 May 2021 02:12:43 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-ran-a-successful-remote-internship-program-in-2020and-how-we-are-planning-to-do-it-again-in-2021/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27229785

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ransom_rs in "Apple now lets you transfer your iCloud Photos to Google Photos"

ransom_rs — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:05:08 +0000

Isn't Google Takeout pretty easy?

New comment by ransom_rs in "Show HN: Note, my simple command-line note taking app"

ransom_rs — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 22:01:26 +0000

Granted, after centuries of written works, we still don't have "the way" to take hand written notes. Everyones brain works different, and people have total different ways to take notes.

I don't think this is 100% of the reason computers don't have a universal note taking system, but it is definitely a part of it.

New comment by ransom_rs in "Windows Refund Day (1999)"

ransom_rs — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 03:27:03 +0000

I feel like this is different because Amazon does tell you what happens, and they can technically argue that you are responsible for understanding what you are buying (the ethics of hiding this information is very questionable). On the other hand, the EULA is specific language that is legally bounded.

Windows Refund Day (1999)

ransom_rs — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:02:30 +0000

Article URL: http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/#:~:text=For%20those%20who%20hadn%27t,with%20the%20machine%20they%20bought

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26149376

Points: 370

# Comments: 136

New comment by ransom_rs in "A Python interpreter rewritten in Rust, that can run pip"

ransom_rs — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 23:04:05 +0000

This uses [lalrpop](https://github.com/lalrpop/lalrpop) under the hood I believe, which is a pretty awesome parser generator library for Rust.

New comment by ransom_rs in "AirPods Max"

ransom_rs — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 16:08:14 +0000

> This is what I'm talking about. How do you KNOW that $other_headphones sound better? The Apple model isn't even available yet.

I feel this part of the discussion is missing. A lot of people seem to love the HomePod for it's great audio quality at the price, and I have heard similar things for the HomePod Mini. Apple seems to be getting decent at making high quality audio equipment(per $), I feel like the quality of these headphones could be similar to the competition.

Apple for sure has a history of overcharging for certain products (remember, you can get a monitor stand for $1k), but the M1 Macbook Air is probably the best $1,000 computer by a long shot.

New comment by ransom_rs in "What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?"

ransom_rs — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:53:35 +0000

> NeXT was like graduate school, bringing together a high concentration of some of the brightest and most innovative technical minds

This line really interests me. As someone graduating pretty soon - are there tech companies out there that that still have this culture? Everything seems marketing / product focused today. Besides going to graduate school, does anyone here feel like they are at a company like this?