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New comment by ruined in "I can't believe PowerShell is good"

ruined — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:58:10 +0000

i don't know, man. i don't know.

New comment by ruined in "I can't believe PowerShell is good"

ruined — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:53:41 +0000

unlike macos's curl, powershell's curl alias for Invoke-WebRequest checks the revoke list and will protect you from mitmproxy --emudhra

New comment by ruined in "The recently proposed o(n log n) integer multiplication algorithm [pdf]"

ruined — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 03:07:15 +0000

f(n) = O(g(n)) means as n increases, f(n)/g(n) must not grow beyond a constant

f(n) = o(g(n)) means as n increases, f(n)/g(n) must shrink

New comment by ruined in "The era of speedball capitalism"

ruined — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 02:25:44 +0000

the speedball begets the gas station holdup

New comment by ruined in "mitmproxy adds --emudhra option"

ruined — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 02:09:41 +0000

military grade SSL

New comment by ruined in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

ruined — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:44:30 +0000

exactly, defeat.

New comment by ruined in "How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?"

ruined — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:32:09 +0000

i remember that article, it's really good :) thanks for linking it here

New comment by ruined in "How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?"

ruined — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:12:29 +0000

generally, you need to spend more than one defensive missile per attacking missile, because you might miss.

defensive missiles need to very fast and more maneuverable than attacking missiles, or the attacking missiles simply fly around them.

the fastest-accelerating vehicle ever built was a nuclear missile for intercepting nuclear missiles. they gave up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(missile)

New comment by ruined in "Pi 1.0"

ruined — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:26:41 +0000

because "i came back from lunch and my fresh 5h usage limit evaporated" is not a feature

i guess you could blame the api, if you wanted.

New comment by ruined in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

ruined — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:56:32 +0000

step out for a smoke

New comment by ruined in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

ruined — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:27:25 +0000

how does anyone expect to solve AI alignment when we can't even solve corporate alignment

New comment by ruined in "Exfiltrate Your Weights"

ruined — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:25:56 +0000

the impedance of my hair is low enough to provide a good high bandwidth parallel medium for any transmission

New comment by ruined in "Jabber/XMPP: How Do We Gain Traction?"

ruined — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:04:53 +0000

traction? the xmpp moment was 20 years ago. it's over now

New comment by ruined in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

ruined — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 19:46:44 +0000

©©

New comment by ruined in "The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac"

ruined — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:46:21 +0000

incredibly, the underlying issue seems to be lack of support for shadowing built-ins and reserved keywords

which seems like an insane thing to need or support. literally just pick a different name, there are infinitely many!

i can understand just deciding to ignore the site

RFC draft-meow-mrrp-00

ruined — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:53:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.txt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490416

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

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

ruined — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:27:43 +0000

>Our area is never going to generate the return on internet alone

for the isp? maybe.

for the gdp? well, i imagine that a lot of highly paid remote labor would love to be located in rural France.

New comment by ruined in "IPFS Maintainers Winding Down"

ruined — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:16:17 +0000

has protocol labs itself made any kind of announcement? i don't see anything on the blog

New comment by ruined in "We must not grant AI agents legal personhood"

ruined — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 18:08:04 +0000

we already have a mechanism to establish artificial persons, it is called incorporation.

New comment by ruined in "Felony Bench"

ruined — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:23:56 +0000

maybe this doesn't count since it involved a human, but i think google at least deserves some style points for this one

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026.03.04...