Hacker News: rspijker

New comment by rspijker in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

rspijker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:55:02 +0000

It is almost impossible to set up personal Microsoft accounts that does not allow passwordless login. So what is more likely to have happened is that your account is set up like this and you are just getting MFA requests that are not a second factor, but simply an attempt to get access to your account.

I was getting multiple of these a day and found that if you set up the Microsoft Authenticator app from a phone, it will force it to passwordless if you have any type of lock on your phone (facial, fingerprint, pin). The only way around it is to disable all of those while setting up the account in the authenticator app. I don't use my Microsoft account much, so just use a separate e-mail now for verification instead of the authenticator app.

The fact that this is how it works is of course insane, but I'm guessing someone inside of Microsoft is hitting their KPIs for passwordless logins or something...

AI Domains Not Resolving

rspijker — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:28:25 +0000

Noticed this when trying to download claude code. The claude.ai domain is currently not reliably resolving from many major sources (1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9). The same appears to be true for other .ai domains. Is there something going on with the Anguilla nameservers?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234828

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New comment by rspijker in "Prism"

rspijker — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:19:19 +0000

It's not contradictory because solving and producing bullshit are very different things. Generating less than 81 random numbers between 1 and 9 is probably also cheaper than verifying correctness of a sudoku.

New comment by rspijker in "Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen rejoins tournament he quit over wearing jeans"

rspijker — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:54:12 +0000

He is the reigning world champion and has won 5 out of the last 6 world championships in Blitz. By what criteria is he "not the best at Blitz"?

[edit] You might be referring to rapid, as you mention he was doing poorly before he dropped out. However, he was also the defending rapid world champion and won 3 out of the 4 last championships there (excluding the one that just finished that he dropped out of). He was indeed not doing great in that tournament, but he was still in the running to possibly win it.

New comment by rspijker in "Hydra: Column-Oriented Postgres"

rspijker — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 11:29:38 +0000

https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickBench/blob/main/postgresq...

basically larger buffers and more concurrent workers.