Hacker News: raverbashing

New comment by raverbashing in "Anthropic's Valuation Collapsed by $500B"

raverbashing — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:52:14 +0000

Sounds like there should be a formula for these AI companies

    Valuation < num params of their best model

Or something like that

New comment by raverbashing in "Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses"

raverbashing — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:31:53 +0000

And that's why "purely procedural" languages don't make much sense to me

It's more natural to write

    x.h().g().f()

New comment by raverbashing in "Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support"

raverbashing — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:24:54 +0000

Cool, that's why open source projects get left behind. The attitude

New comment by raverbashing in "Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request"

raverbashing — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:27:46 +0000

This is easily searchable and we can see several left-wing groups calling themselves antifa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(Germany)#Contemporary_...

Pulling the "does not exist" card might work with uninformed people, not here

New comment by raverbashing in "AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs"

raverbashing — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:13:45 +0000

Is it just me or Google has a lot of those silly bugs, where it seems nobody is thinking for 2 seconds on what they're actually doing?

New comment by raverbashing in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

raverbashing — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:35:58 +0000

"There's also a documented authentication bypass:"

Amazing

New comment by raverbashing in "Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along?"

raverbashing — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:58:48 +0000

> worker versus capital owner is a more important one.

Is that ever a useful distinction?

A bakery/bodega owner is a "capital owner"

A top NBA player is a worker

But I know who gets more money, has a good retirement margin and sleeps better at night

New comment by raverbashing in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

raverbashing — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:15:12 +0000

Yeah that is stupid

If an action needs another (physical) action to proceed, then don't make one independent of the other (obviously)

New comment by raverbashing in "Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack"

raverbashing — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:31:55 +0000

Monitor yes

Adjust: possibly, withing a range

Shutting down: Big no no

New comment by raverbashing in "Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?"

raverbashing — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:53:38 +0000

> The lack of polish is a function of the inability to use the hardware

Must be why Desktop Linux has great usability right? Oh wait

New comment by raverbashing in "No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C"

raverbashing — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:39:43 +0000

And errno

errno is a worse mistake than null pointers in general

New comment by raverbashing in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

raverbashing — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:39:00 +0000

Honestly that's true of most innovations

AI won't show itself as a big new thing, but possibly in improvements in small little things

Most people won't use AI directly, except maybe as a smarter Google. In the same way people don't use HTTP directly

New comment by raverbashing in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

raverbashing — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:24:26 +0000

Also helps with removing bots from X (to much of Elon's disagreement)

New comment by raverbashing in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

raverbashing — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:59:42 +0000

No, it's you that's ok with it when it's done by a group that is always the victim and "does no wrong" in your head

New comment by raverbashing in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

raverbashing — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:32:15 +0000

Cool, now do per-capita

New comment by raverbashing in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

raverbashing — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:52:57 +0000

It's ok, everything Wikipedia doesn't like it calls a "far-right conspiracy theory"

Like the issue of the grooming gangs in the UK

New comment by raverbashing in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

raverbashing — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:51:16 +0000

Are they? I can only imagine MordVpn makes a lot of money

New comment by raverbashing in "The 15-year search for a band that charted once and vanished"

raverbashing — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:55:55 +0000

Never underestimate naming your next project something googlable

New comment by raverbashing in "Opus 5.5 agents discover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates"

raverbashing — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:39:37 +0000

Relevant Xkcd https://xkcd.com/2501/

New comment by raverbashing in "A 40ms Go garbage collector pause caused by swap"

raverbashing — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:47:14 +0000

True (especially if it's a circular one) but those can be weakrefs/softrefs