Hacker News: ruperthair

New comment by ruperthair in "“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain"

ruperthair — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 10:17:41 +0000

On the front page for the latest footgun incident? IMO, bluesky is doing great, BTW.

New comment by ruperthair in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

ruperthair — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:04:48 +0000

I've done the same by scraping the HTML/JS/CSS off our own Wordpress site and sticking it in S3 (behind CloudFront, of course). It was a mild hassle at the time, but would take seconds with today's LLMs. It was a great decision and has been no hassle since, as we didn't really need a CMS, it was just the default for the person who did our design.

New comment by ruperthair in "Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money"

ruperthair — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:49:51 +0000

I think this may be a sign of the 'AI guilt' that even the strongest LLM supporters must feel, if they know how it all works and the environmental impact it has. I feel it just as a user of the US-based models, so I guess it must be stronger though possibly subconscious feeling for folks who work on making it happen. It would therefore be hard to be motivated by much other than the giant pile of money they give you each month/year.

New comment by ruperthair in "Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money"

ruperthair — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:32:12 +0000

I agree with you, but I don't think the parent post was arguing for money being the only factor, just a big one.

Would I work 9-5 for no money: No! Would I move from a shitty 9-5 to a less shitty one while taking an affordable pay cut: Yes.

New comment by ruperthair in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

ruperthair — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:38:55 +0000

It's just from articles like this and what I read on the DIY solar forums, so it's interesting to see the real numbers, thanks.

New comment by ruperthair in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"

ruperthair — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:53:02 +0000

As much as I hate the source of the tariff policies, from an uneducated outsider PoV, they do seem to be causing fewer dollars to leave the country in imports.

How does it feel from an insider perspective? Are the increased costs on imported items and dependent services worth it for a bit more local investment?

New comment by ruperthair in "Home made GPU escalated quickly [video]"

ruperthair — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:48:06 +0000

Nice point! Would it be the same for sound that doesn't escape a room?

New comment by ruperthair in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

ruperthair — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:51:27 +0000

> A Reddit user, u/premium_bawbag, who hired a Ford Puma for a week reported a similar experience.

Lovely traditional Scottish name there. ;-)

New comment by ruperthair in "Home made GPU escalated quickly [video]"

ruperthair — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:18:46 +0000

A purely resistive heater, by definition, has no reactive component so there's no reactive power considerer.

The 0.1% mentioned might be the light that the project produces.

New comment by ruperthair in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

ruperthair — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:38:50 +0000

Until there's more wide support for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), the SNI header in the TLS handshake is always sent in plaintext. Between that an unencrypted DNS, most routers can easily spot/log what you're accessing in a browser.

New comment by ruperthair in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

ruperthair — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:56:22 +0000

I think that comment is a little unfair, as the one you link to is a much more sophisticated attack. Thanks for the link, though. Great read!

New comment by ruperthair in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

ruperthair — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:47:03 +0000

I think the owner wanted 100 Gbps of scan traffic or had set a specific scan-rate target, which determined that bit rate, so the LLM (correctly) predicted it needed all of those to hit the target.

New comment by ruperthair in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

ruperthair — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:03:38 +0000

That's appalling! At that stage, it's not on-call, it's just another badly paid shift, which you're probably forced to do in addition to your 9-5. Good on you for leaving.

New comment by ruperthair in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

ruperthair — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:00:30 +0000

You're right, but the blog author also seemed to be in the same position.

New comment by ruperthair in "4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)"

ruperthair — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:15:03 +0000

Great point, and even beyond that I think (based on the paths) it was just a command line invocation, with something like NFS handling all the networking.

New comment by ruperthair in "Dead Internet Theory"

ruperthair — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:37:17 +0000

Wow! I hadn't seen this, thanks. Do you think they are doing it with relatively innocent motives?

New comment by ruperthair in "Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC"

ruperthair — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:59:59 +0000

When do you see this? For me, I just go to System Settings → Privacy & Security. Scroll down to Security and look for the message about the blocked app, click Allow Anyway, and then reopen the app.

New comment by ruperthair in "What the hell have you built"

ruperthair — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:34:47 +0000

Not that oldness is much of a metric for quality, but Postgres does go quite a lot further back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL#Ingres_and_Universi...

New comment by ruperthair in "Solarpunk is happening in Africa"

ruperthair — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:44:55 +0000

They can do so today. Works great for my parents.

New comment by ruperthair in "We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3""

ruperthair — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:06:41 +0000

This may be an obvious point, but I didn't see it mentioned in the (otherwise excellent) article: I would have been interested in the cost saving in just implementing the 'delete on read' with S3 that they ended up using with the home-made in-memory cache solution. I can't see this on the S3 billing page, but if the usage is billed per-second, as with some other AWS services, then the savings may be significant.

The solution they document also matches the S3 'reduced redundancy' storage option, so I hope they had this enabled from day one.