Hacker News: raxxorraxor

New comment by raxxorraxor in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

raxxorraxor — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:13:07 +0000

They have a hard time to understand software in general, software developers have a very low standing in German engineering and engineering culture has long been replaced by finance people.

And I don't think the liability is the primary problem, they have a problem with freedom and fear that they lose some mechanism for monetisation. This is why you get subscriptions for heating your arse.

New comment by raxxorraxor in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

raxxorraxor — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:42:56 +0000

I would really like to learn the secret secrets to be able to stomach that enlightenment and I am enthused to learn about non-shitty cloud webmail integrations that don't make you want to shoot yourself within minutes.

New comment by raxxorraxor in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

raxxorraxor — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:11:04 +0000

I have no idea why people don't just use a standard imap mail client, Thunderbird being the most obvious choice here.

New comment by raxxorraxor in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

raxxorraxor — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:17:00 +0000

I don't think it is delusional. Maybe ineffective. I think it is delusional to just accept these privacy invading measures as inevitable. Especially for software services today, there often is an alternative.

Most businesses don't have the luxury to be able to not care for the customer.

Cloudflare is a service provider for third parties, not the product I want to consume.

New comment by raxxorraxor in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

raxxorraxor — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:51:05 +0000

I would like my browser to not pass their challenge and then flush support of services I cannot reach. This is the only way for them to stop, to really get on the nerves of their customers.

Those might ignore it, but there are always alternatives.

New comment by raxxorraxor in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

raxxorraxor — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:46:45 +0000

For coding don't think so, but they are very close. I code with sonnet mostly because I think opus is just useful if you fail to dissect problems adequately, but anyway.

Kimi is close for example regarding SWE bench for code. For reasoning there are open models that surpass opus by quite a margin already.

New comment by raxxorraxor in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

raxxorraxor — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:35:24 +0000

Plus, at some point there are less tokens because local models being optimised and can work with protected information. For enterprises that want an AI with a knowledge base of internal documents, this becomes more interesting by the day.

New comment by raxxorraxor in "Texas Sues Discord, Seeks Mandatory Age Verification"

raxxorraxor — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:16:43 +0000

Would they be liable if a kid stole an id from an adult? If not, probably because the site had protection against minors accessing their site. If that is the requirement, a simple window asking for age would suffice, right?

New comment by raxxorraxor in "Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News"

raxxorraxor — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:49:26 +0000

Public service broadcasting is influenced by the state in Germany. Not directly, but there are clear common boundaries and influences. The Rundfunkräte (broadcasting boards) have the job to ensure impartiality, but are often occupied by party officials.

As for tradition, I do think the model should be reviewed...

New comment by raxxorraxor in "Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News"

raxxorraxor — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:47:32 +0000

In contrast to bad policies out of Europe and living there, this seems trivial to be honest.

New comment by raxxorraxor in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"

raxxorraxor — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:11:27 +0000

If it is their own repo, I wouldn't give a damn. If it was any other I would poison their

New comment by raxxorraxor in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

raxxorraxor — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:37:48 +0000

No, I don't think any of that follows from that. The header can be set in the initial communication attempt. It is even more specific than any other mechanism to verify your age, because this header can be set appropriately for any web resource.

The problem of hosts in countries that don't give a shit is true for every solution aside from the great all blocking firewall no developed nation would want to have. So no to "ISP null routing" from me. ISPs provide infrastructure. They are not school teachers.

Such a solution implemented today would be tunnelled yesterday and everyone should support evasion attempts.

New comment by raxxorraxor in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

raxxorraxor — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:51:25 +0000

That is the only real solution. It removes the lobbyists with their bad verification schemes and untrustworthy software. You don't need untrusty flaggers or untrustworthy official authorities. In no way can nations be responsible enough to not attempt constant sniffing attempts. My nation couldn't keep itself from spying of corona app users.

This can also be broadly implemented, any other technical solution won't be widely spread anyway.

I don't think authorities care about child protection though. They could have legislated malicious advertising practices and a lot of similar bad influences, but didn't.

New comment by raxxorraxor in "Ask HN: What the Best AI for Coding?"

raxxorraxor — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:57:23 +0000

Agreed. If you want a local solution and memory is limited, Qwen 3.5:9b is quite good as long as problems/context remains smaller.

If using vs code Zoo-Code (new Roo-code) still offers the best results for me. Just be aware which extension you install...

New comment by raxxorraxor in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

raxxorraxor — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:16:31 +0000

With that position you would have made an excellent bishop or mufti in the 19th century. But today your position needs justification and you will probably not be able to convince a democratic majority to do away with hard earned and liked freedoms.

New comment by raxxorraxor in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

raxxorraxor — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:26:17 +0000

I ditched Github for Gitea. If I want to share the code I can use completely distinct credentials and I don't "login" into my IDE. Although the latter doesn't help, an IDE can extract any form of secret just fine, but you can still minimise the risk.

New comment by raxxorraxor in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

raxxorraxor — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:14:24 +0000

Yes, because sandboxing gets us unusable OS like iOS or Android. It isn't a solution. Perhaps the gun nuts are right then. Better be a gun nut than a Google employee, probably.

New comment by raxxorraxor in "Standard Chartered CEO walks back comment about 'lower-value human capital'"

raxxorraxor — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:50:18 +0000

I would be wary as a customer too because there is little doubt he sees them the same way. Although perhaps their style of customer even appreciates this.

Still, a responsible CEO would resign after such a blunder because he has become a liability for business.

New comment by raxxorraxor in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

raxxorraxor — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:57:04 +0000

Nice work, thank you very much! Did you develop that as part of your work at TI or on your own time?

New comment by raxxorraxor in "CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub"

raxxorraxor — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:11:14 +0000

Tools like cursor make typical files like .env inaccessible to models. Now the models have become quite apt to just extract the content through the console.