<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: redleader55</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=redleader55</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:57:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=redleader55" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redleader55 in "2-day-old GitHub account added AI-generated dependency to Mailgen (2.5k stars)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While everything said here is true, I find that in JavaScript world depending on a package that was last changed 8 years ago, complete as it may be, is asking for trouble. For your case, I couldn't find the link to the package the account was changing, so I can't tell how big of a risk keeping the previous dependency is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:57:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804554</link><dc:creator>redleader55</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804554</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47804554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redleader55 in "Meta Partners with Arm to Develop New Class of Data Center Silicon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meta will always need the next platform. Instagram, Facebook phone, Whatsapp, Reels, Marketplace, Portal, VR, AI... Some succed, some fail. When you are an Ads company, the surface where ads are delivered to is important. I don't think it's a fundamentally different business model from Google's. VR addresses an interesting and increasing niche of people that refuse human contact and prefer the online world - for those people clothes, going out, buying a car, spending money on whatever the current society spends money on might not be so interesting, instead a parallel, virtual world, might be.<p>As for Claude and OpenAI, no one has a revenue net positive business model yet. They are much better than Meta's Llamas, but the model quality doesn't equal cash in the bank. Things might still change in the end. More players are better for me as a consumer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:12:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559565</link><dc:creator>redleader55</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redleader55 in "JSLinux Now Supports x86_64"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because unless you can fund several teams - kernel, firmware(bios,etc), GPU drivers, qemu, KVM, extra hardening(eg. qemu runs under something like bpfilter) + a red team, security through obscurity is cheaper. The attack surface area is just too large.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:19:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321304</link><dc:creator>redleader55</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47321304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redleader55 in "JSLinux Now Supports x86_64"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agentic workloads create and then run code. You don't want to just run that code in a "normal" environment like a container, or even a very well protected VM. There are other options, ofc - eg. gvisor, crossvm, firecracker, etc, but this one is uncommon enough to have a small number of attackers trying to hack it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:05:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313810</link><dc:creator>redleader55</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313810</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redleader55 in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everyone thinks this bubble will continue until AGI(bulls) or until someone calls them on it(bears). I think it will continue until someone finds a quick way to make cheap energy(bullish) or until we can't build more power plants to support AI growth(bearish).<p>While nothing fancy has happened yet in the area of cheap energy, there is still enough power around the world to build AI data centers. The problem is this power exits in countries that the West has decided, many times for good reasons, they don't want to deal with their leaders.<p>I'm predicting that over 2027, either the US will become more aggressive in making war with these countries or company CEOs will start developing "reality-distorsion-fields" around them and decide having enough power for the next datacenter is more for the good of humanity. Before that Europe will decide that AI training on human faces(eg. of non-Europeans) is not really a problem and will allow US companies to train their models in EU countries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:24:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186585</link><dc:creator>redleader55</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redleader55 in "DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While this is true, improvements in the TLS issuance process should also improve security. When the eventual deprecation of TLS-ALPN-01 and DNS-01 comes, this new method would be completely secure.<p>Here, the record could for example contain a signature from the same key pair used to authenticate the account. The alternative is DNSSEC, but that's avoided by a lot of domains.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:43:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085766</link><dc:creator>redleader55</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redleader55 in "Show HN: Self-hosted alternative to Goodreads. Own your reading data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Repo has one commit and was created 8 minutes ago (post says 3 mins ago, right now).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:12:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030116</link><dc:creator>redleader55</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030116</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redleader55 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It will be a cold day in hell before Americans stop assuming everyone on the internet is American or talks about the US government.<p>The government's role is whatever the people voting for it decide it to be - maybe to defend the borders, maybe to educate everyone, maybe keep everyone fed, clothed and sheltered.<p>The issue is, again I don't really care about the US or your government, some governments come to power on a platform of welfare. As long as they keep giving people "welfare" they will continue to be voted in power. As such, they will distribute wealth created in that country towards the goals of staying in power.<p>Myself, without being special, I never found myself having the same needs as this majority. Unfortunately, since I'm a minority (middle class), without the means to avoid being coerced into contributing to this plan (not super-rich), I'm left without recourse.<p>The weak are intentionally condemned through poor education and by voting idiots that promise them bullshit to get elected, not because the government doesn't have enough tax money. This cycle will never break by allocating more money, and the last 100 years have plenty of examples in that sense.</p>
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<p>It would be so nice of that tax was actually "burned"(similar to proof of stake), instead of being used to fund even greater inflation. This comes in the form of a huge administration, which gets payed for providing, many times, negative value. Alternatively, it is used to pay social benefits for the sole purpose of keeping the current political party in power.</p>
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<p>I don't think that's what GP is saying. This report would be more believable and more objective if it would have other types of metrics than just self-reporting ones.<p>There is a kind of people that function by finding edge-cases, questioning the results and posing uneasy questions when presented with a situation. Some might call them "haters", or nit-pickers, but I think their way of thinking is useful to make sure we're not just being fed feel-good make-believe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:50:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849249</link><dc:creator>redleader55</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46849249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redleader55 in "Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a very cool to have! Thanks for putting the time to build it.<p>For me it doesn't work very well. Even easy phrases like 他很忙 get transcribed completely random "ma he yu". Is it maybe over-fitted to some type of voice?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:08:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834840</link><dc:creator>redleader55</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46834840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redleader55 in "Meta blocks posts sharing database of ICE agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm sorry, but when you say "redistribution" I hear "communism", which is always totalitarian. This would prevent the non-harmonious social network from existing in the first place. Even if a company is owned by it's employees - it is the case with Meta, btw, they might still vote for the highest profit, which in some circumstances equals not being shutdown by the totalitarian head of state.<p>I do agree with having checks and balances. One of the pillars, missing here, is having a legislature which is not too busy getting rich to exercise its role in society.</p>
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<p>To me, this raises an interesting question: how can social networks serve the "small brother" use-cases, which openly oppose government, while government can exercise pressure on the company behind them?</p>
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<p>Can you share more details at this point about what you are trying to tackle as a first step?</p>
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<p>I am a strong believer in the "low-tech" solutions for this kind of thing. I seriously doubt the terrorist suicide bomber knows if drinking the explosive is going to prevent them from taking the mission to the end (ie. they will die in 5 min, in 30 min or in 24h), so they will start panicking when asked to drink from the bottle.</p>
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<p>This is interesting, do you have a link to any research about this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:38:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779200</link><dc:creator>redleader55</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redleader55 in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As an European, you shouldn't discriminate based on country of origin within Europe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:25:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46756643</link><dc:creator>redleader55</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46756643</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46756643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by redleader55 in "How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you suggesting the mobile signal comes from above the ground in Paris?</p>
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<p>The way this is usually done is through a radiating wire that goes on the wall from station to station. This solution requires a lot of power. The stations in London are very small, leaving very little space for a transformer that can provide said power.<p>Because of that they rely on directional antennas that cover sections of the tunnel - but those need to be straight, otherwise another antenna is required to cover that corner. There is also very little head-room in the tube tunnels in London. You can see how things get more and more complicated as you dig deeper into the problem.</p>
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<p>Depends. Leadership will constantly tell people how important their work is and how they are changing the world. I expect a leader to motivate the people under them in all cases otherwise folks become confused and leave.</p>
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