Hacker News: rozab

New comment by rozab in "A CA key that was the number 4 passed its audit. Nobody was assigned to check it"

rozab — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:47:04 +0000

It's not the current title of the actual article, the submitter came up with it. Would be nice if it were changed to the original.

The article isn't really about the eMudhra incident anyway. I thought it was very much worth reading, certified Not Slop

New comment by rozab in "Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS"

rozab — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 01:07:00 +0000

Well yes, that's exactly the sort of the thing banking apps would want to prevent. Android also blocks overlays on banking apps to prevent a whole class of attacks.

New comment by rozab in "Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry"

rozab — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:16:24 +0000

The vulnerability could have been independently discovered. Organizations involved have said that's not unlikely

New comment by rozab in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

rozab — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:44:09 +0000

Does the L stand for lossy, or lossless? Or large, as in this case?

New comment by rozab in "A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting"

rozab — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:56:27 +0000

I think it might just be diffraction artifacts animated by the interpolation (I hereby invoke cunnignhams law)

New comment by rozab in "Ballmer Peak"

rozab — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:07:36 +0000

And a Mitchell and Webb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zj50DmBFp0

New comment by rozab in "Yes, Claude can do nine loops"

rozab — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:31:33 +0000

>Show that an AI can take the kinds of computer resources an academic has access

I don't know how this can be verified, but I'm not convinced by the evidence in the post. It sounds like the final solution can be ran in a week on 96 cores. But how much compute was used attempting the problem? How much inference? 'Trust me bro?'

I think these solutions are worth millions to these labs, and I think that's what they're spending on them. Far more resources than have been directed at mathematicians and physicists to solve the same problems.

New comment by rozab in "Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes"

rozab — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:42:59 +0000

How could this patent application have any chance of being accepted? This exact system has been used in mobile games for 15 years at least

New comment by rozab in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

rozab — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:58:53 +0000

Leaving aside the quality of the different posters here, I think the interesting question is where did the default AI generated style come from? It's certainly not one of the styles listed if you interrogate chatgpt, it's not something it seems to be choosing to do.

I think the signature noisy, crowded, HDR-y look shows these posters are being spat right out of a diffusion model. They always have an image background with the classic light halos around text.

When I one-shot a poster out of Gemini or whatever, I can't make anything nearly as bad as the ones I see every day. What on earth are people even using to make stuff that bad?

New comment by rozab in "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

rozab — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:59:26 +0000

I find it quite shocking that orgs with some great designers like cloudflare are doing this. Broken layouts, trios of random uppercase words sprinkled around. It's crazy. How does it inspire confidence in a product, knowing that the landing page was created in 10 seconds?

New comment by rozab in "More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older"

rozab — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:11:12 +0000

Germany does not have public shrines to the perpetrators of genocide which heads of state pay respects at.

There was no Kniefall von Warschau for Japan.

New comment by rozab in "The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind"

rozab — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:02:17 +0000

Russia has been using nuclear icebreakers for civilian purposes since the 50s, and has also used nuclear propulsion for other vessel types, as has the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker

New comment by rozab in "Xiaomi Mimo 2.6 live post-training dashboard"

rozab — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:52:05 +0000

Why are they doing this? To try head off accusations about distillation?

New comment by rozab in "Tell the speakers that you liked their talks"

rozab — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:48:45 +0000

I didn't even realise Simon W did YC

New comment by rozab in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

rozab — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:05:13 +0000

I have a friend who got a Nielson device recently and they were told it relies on watermarks. Their website says a combination is used: https://www.nielsen.com/insights/2023/how-to-measure-tv-audi...

New comment by rozab in "How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads"

rozab — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:51:22 +0000

Looking forward to the update where his vibe-coded site has been compromised and is being used as a C&C server

New comment by rozab in "Google Maps changed to show Lake Ontario as Lake America"

rozab — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:45:17 +0000

True for now, but here in the UK I still see 'Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)'

New comment by rozab in "Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU"

rozab — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:23:43 +0000

This means giving up all the advantages of central banking and is generally only done informally by countries experiencing hyperinflation without capital controls. It's a marker of a failed state.

I remember in live TV debates for the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, the Yes leader insisted that Scotland could not be prevented from using the Pound sterling. It's technically true, but a very, very bad idea.

New comment by rozab in "'Never seen this level of objection': Scotland pushes back against datacentres"

rozab — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:57:30 +0000

And yet here we are, still subsidizing steelworks in England, and Scottish people are paying the cost in their electricity bills.

Scotland's abundant local energy resources should be spent on things that actually benefit Scotland and provide jobs.

New comment by rozab in "ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs"

rozab — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:28:04 +0000

I have friends that still play with him, he's still active on the same servers with a different username. He's currently working on an AI-free artist marketplace:

https://artistalley.org/