Hacker News: richwater

New comment by richwater in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

richwater — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:00:27 +0000

This has been communicated heavily. They will kill your instance one day soon.

New comment by richwater in "Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking, Escapes Penalties in France"

richwater — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:40:02 +0000

What you said is magnitudes too complicated for lawmakers to understand. We will continue to have this problem until the voting public demands more tech literate representation (doubtful).

New comment by richwater in "Our approach to EU text provenance rules"

richwater — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:59:19 +0000

Just make the models worse for the EU. Don't accept this nonsense that's holdingg back actual work and progress.

New comment by richwater in "Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL"

richwater — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:26:12 +0000

Then don't download the game. Or run linux and skip the ability to run any online games. I don't know what to tell you.

New comment by richwater in "Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL"

richwater — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:10:05 +0000

Everyone here is talking about how games shouldn't have the ability to do this while not understanding that without it, most online games (PVP specifically) turn into a cheaters paradise and ruin it for all paying customers.

Riot Vanguard has all but eliminated cheaters in Valorant (sporadic instances and DMA hardware can still be used), but the vast (99.9+%) of games are clean because of what they did. Customers place serious value in that.

New comment by richwater in "The new Firefox design is here"

richwater — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:20:40 +0000

It's edge case, but I think it's an example of how Firefox is not keeping up with demand for more functionality. Firefox is slowly becoming obselete and Mozilla won't acknowledge it.

New comment by richwater in "The new Firefox design is here"

richwater — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:58:32 +0000

Firefox needs to start adding actual embedded functionality improvements rather than constantly tweaking the UX. Chrome's integration with Googgle Pay for example (which lets you generate virtual card numbers on the fly) is what allowed Capital One to replace their browser agnostic extension. Now I cannot use Capital One virtual card number generator in my checkout workflow if I don't move to Chrome.

New comment by richwater in "MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta"

richwater — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:37:22 +0000

DynamoDB is really a fantastic product for the 99% percentile of workloads that need a particular kind of super low latency read operation at large scale.

The simplicity of using it and the lack of operations is really why most people tend to reach for it over a relational option, although over the years the burden of managing an RDMS has consistently gone down.

New comment by richwater in "An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot"

richwater — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:26:09 +0000

Alluding to sexual assault as a punishment is disgusting.

New comment by richwater in "I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc"

richwater — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:21:06 +0000

I would assume the fastest way to actually make this stop would be to setup a bunch of honeypot exploits, trigger their detection and someone will figure out what they did wrong.

Other than not, with these huge companies you have 0 recourse.

New comment by richwater in "Homebrew 7.0.0"

richwater — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:11:25 +0000

How many of those 20 year old projects had to go through an architecture change that the manufacturer no longs supports? Come on man be reasonable.

New comment by richwater in "Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal"

richwater — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:08:30 +0000

Since when do we allow people to push conspiracy nonsense on this website?

New comment by richwater in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

richwater — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:26:02 +0000

This doesn't stop our politicians from completely ignoring the 2nd amendment so whats the difference

New comment by richwater in "France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026"

richwater — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:41:44 +0000

State sanctioned and encouraged anti trust behavior will do that

New comment by richwater in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

richwater — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:27:59 +0000

Why do you support a nanny state that tells adults what content they are allowed to consume?

New comment by richwater in "AWS Acquires DuckLabs"

richwater — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:24:56 +0000

What business model do MIT licensed projects even have? If you want to offer support contracts and actually make people use them, don't use MIT. You can't have you cake (accepting public contributions and free labor) and eat it (sole profiteering) too.

New comment by richwater in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

richwater — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:48:24 +0000

The Bill's primary advocate...?

https://ballotpedia.org/Sen._Bernie_Sanders%27_Medicare_for_...

New comment by richwater in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

richwater — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:22:23 +0000

There is already a healthcare program run by the US government and it's called Veteran Affairs. Veterans can't even access the care they need resulting in almost twice the risk of suicide.

I'll pass on mandated, outlaw-private-insurance government healthcare, thanks.

New comment by richwater in "Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard"

richwater — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:20:25 +0000

> which multi-model switching doesn't increase

Given model A with cache C(a) and model B with C(b)

Isn't this not true because the moment you switch models from A to B, you need to provide C(b) the latest conversation diff since C(b) last updated, say many turns ago?

New comment by richwater in "FlightAware Sues Kalshi over Flight Cancellation Prediction Markets"

richwater — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:45:08 +0000

Absolute degenerates betting on anything they can.

This will go down as a societal scourge worse than smoking