Hacker News: rickcarlino

New comment by rickcarlino in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

rickcarlino — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:35:00 +0000

We have entered the GoFundMe era of vibe coding.

Jo is a statically typed language that enables compile-time sandboxing

rickcarlino — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:33:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/typescope/jo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48494534

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A Botched Master Thesis Proposal and Idea for a Decentralized VPN

rickcarlino — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:15:10 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.t1m.me/blog/designing-a-decentral-vpn-protocol-w-libp2p

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458614

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

AMule 3.0.0 – The "Alive Again" Version

rickcarlino — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:45:39 +0000

Article URL: https://amule-org.github.io/changelog/3.0.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457443

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by rickcarlino in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living"

rickcarlino — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:37:10 +0000

This is true for freelance technical editors, too.

New comment by rickcarlino in "GoPro warned it may not survive"

rickcarlino — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:07:47 +0000

Looking forward to no firmware updates and getting locked out of cloud hosted features.

New comment by rickcarlino in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

rickcarlino — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:34:11 +0000

2015 satirical article from The Onion: "HR Director Reminds Employees That Any Crying Done At Office Must Be Work-Related."

New comment by rickcarlino in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

rickcarlino — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:45:59 +0000

Meta’s reputation has eroded so much that many will view this as an act of desperation rather than a chance to reframe social media. The idea of paying for social media to become the customer rather than the product has been both discussed and tried. There is such a deep lack of trust from years of bad deeds that I doubt anything positive will come out of this.

New comment by rickcarlino in "Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks"

rickcarlino — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:01:59 +0000

Will we start seeing stock market dips and spikes correlated to model releases?

New comment by rickcarlino in "Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My Alternative Internets Beyond HTTPS"

rickcarlino — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:00:09 +0000

This point gets missed by a lot of people.

You could theoretically have a web that does not bloat. HTML is a very good technology for building clean documents. You are not going to get that, though. What happens instead is that you start on a thoughtfully designed page and are always one click away from a cookie consent banner on top of an email capture modal beside four flavors of ad. "Sure, but you can install adblock/VPN/Pi-hole/reader mode/turn off JS/etc/etc..."

I like Gemini because it actually delivered a lightweight protocol that provides what I was looking for. Additionally, it is not just a technology. It is an ecosystem that gained more traction than the hundreds of other attempts that never went anywhere.

The spec made mistakes, but HTTP has mistakes too.

New comment by rickcarlino in "Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It"

rickcarlino — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:12:38 +0000

Thanks for dropping a comment! Collecting Gnutella history is a hobby of mine if the article did not make that apparent. I’ve seen a lot of your past work related to Gnucleus while researching the protocol and digging through old documents in archive.org. It always surprised me that the homepage was still online after so many years.

Are you still active in open source / decentralized tech these days?

New comment by rickcarlino in "Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It"

rickcarlino — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:49:30 +0000

It is still around! I see network traffic from it on major GWebCache instances.

New comment by rickcarlino in "Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It"

rickcarlino — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:47:02 +0000

I’m glad you liked it! I hope to publish the follow up soon

New comment by rickcarlino in "Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It"

rickcarlino — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:10:05 +0000

Are you asking if lime wire used Gnutella Web Cache for bootstrapping? I’m not sure. GWebCache is one of many possible ways to boot strap, and I have not run lime wire in over a decade. I saw that GTKGnutella moved off of GWebCache sometime ago and uses some sort UDP based tool now. I am fairly certain that Shareaza still uses it because I see those results come up in my Web cache pull from time to time. I have seen a few advertisements from lime wire fork projects as well.

LimeWire re-emerges in rush to share pulled 60 Minutes segment

rickcarlino — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:18:01 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/yo-what-limewire-re-emerges-in-online-rush-to-share-pulled-60-minutes-segment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241058

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

rickcarlino — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:24:48 +0000

Article URL: https://rickcarlino.com/notes/p2p/gnutella-explanation.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231247

Points: 272

# Comments: 93

New comment by rickcarlino in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

rickcarlino — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:49:05 +0000

Part of that war is a war on URLs. URLs are bad if your goal is to keep people in app. Reddit, a site built for link sharing, favors self posts more in recent years. Sites like HN, Lobste.rs are a rarity and feel dated against the backdrop of everything trying to be a walled garden. I am grateful such places still exist.

New comment by rickcarlino in "OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool"

rickcarlino — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:51:35 +0000

What if they use advanced evasion techniques like printing it out and scanning it or taking a photo with their phone?

Gnutella2 Network Statistics

rickcarlino — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:40:12 +0000

Article URL: http://crawler.doxu.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48148462

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by rickcarlino in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

rickcarlino — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:08:59 +0000

I did not realize Pocket Tanks was a derivative work.