Hacker News: rany_

New comment by rany_ in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

rany_ — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:52:25 +0000

The page looks promising but how can I try it out?

New comment by rany_ in "BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove"

rany_ — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:34:17 +0000

Not if it's their own car industry. They'll only throw the book at foreign companies.

New comment by rany_ in "MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies"

rany_ — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:48:13 +0000

There are lots of different scenarios you can conjure up. Another could be that Israel assassinated him after he refused to support their nuclear program OR to silence him.

New comment by rany_ in "MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies"

rany_ — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:40:10 +0000

First thing that came to mind is that he might have been secretly working for Israel's nuclear program but this is all very speculative. It does feel plausible though given that Israel has already assassinated plenty of Iranian nuclear scientists; so there is some precedent for it.

New comment by rany_ in "MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies"

rany_ — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:35:53 +0000

He is a nuclear scientist so he might have been working for some country's nuclear program?

New comment by rany_ in "MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies"

rany_ — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:30:55 +0000

I can't spot anything conspiratorial in that article, though?

New comment by rany_ in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

rany_ — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:07:37 +0000

> As part of our ongoing work to protect customers using React against a critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-55182, we started rolling out an increase to our buffer size to 1MB, the default limit allowed by Next.js applications.

Why would increasing the buffer size help with that security vulnerability? Is it just a performance optimization?

New comment by rany_ in "Tunnl.gg"

rany_ — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:24:29 +0000

I've seen lots of weird tricks malware authors use, people are creative. My favorite is that they'd load up a text file with a modified base64 table from Dropbox which points to the URL to exfiltrate to. When you report it to Dropbox, they typically ignore the report because it just seems like random nonsense instead of being actually malicious.

New comment by rany_ in "Tunnl.gg"

rany_ — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:29:50 +0000

This is a great idea but I'm a bit concerned about your bandwidth costs and illegal/malicious content being hosted used under your domain.

For the second point, you might want to implement some kind of browser warning similar to what Ngrok does.

$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux

rany_ — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 22:08:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/nadimkobeissi/16iax10h-linux-sound-saga

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45940980

Points: 295

# Comments: 135

New comment by rany_ in "Images over DNS"

rany_ — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 18:42:31 +0000

Huh, my image viewer claimed it's HEIC specifically. My camera also seems to conflate HEIC and HEIF in the settings. It provides HEIF as a format option, when I guess it should be specifying which codec is actually being used. I had no idea HEIF isn't tied to just HEIC though.

New comment by rany_ in "Images over DNS"

rany_ — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:28:09 +0000

The image is actually HEIF not AVIF :)

New comment by rany_ in "Anthropic endorses California's AI safety bill, SB 53"

rany_ — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:41:49 +0000

Of course they would. Regulatory capture.

In my opinion, regulating AI companies/models is the WRONG way to go. Instead, we should regulate HOW companies/major stakeholders use AI.

New comment by rany_ in "Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification""

rany_ — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:10:48 +0000

I tried out NextDNS and this feature doesn't seem to work anyway. Enabling "Bypass Age Verification" has no effect. I tested it out on PornHub and XVideos.

I also can't find anything different in the returned A/AAAA records compared to my standard resolver.

New comment by rany_ in "Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification""

rany_ — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:08:34 +0000

How does this "DNS trick" work? That to me is a much more interesting detail.

New comment by rany_ in "Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved"

rany_ — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:48:40 +0000

I had no idea. It's too late to delete my comment now.

It's a really ridiculous decision though. There's not a lot that goes into a link redirection service.

New comment by rany_ in "OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification"

rany_ — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:12:28 +0000

TIL that keyboard and mouse data is used to identify "bad" humans not just bots. It's a bit freaky but not at all surprising.

New comment by rany_ in "Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved"

rany_ — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:03:04 +0000

I really doubt it was about security/maintenance burdens. Under the hood, goo.gl just uses Firebase Dynamic Links which is still supported by Google.

Edit: nevermind, I had no idea Dynamic Links is deprecated and will be shutting down.

New comment by rany_ in "OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification"

rany_ — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:16:27 +0000

This is really interesting. How can you detect when it's the same person passing a captcha? I don't think IP addresses are of any use here as Anti-Captcha proxies everything to their customer's IP address.

New comment by rany_ in "Anthropic Nears Deal to Raise Funding at $170B Valuation"

rany_ — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:07:54 +0000

http://archive.today/4V4NX