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New comment by smashed in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

smashed — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:26:08 +0000

If these numbers are right, it's actually not that bad. Cut r&d costs and they are mostly profitable.

New comment by smashed in "RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method"

smashed — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:41:00 +0000

Use the QUERY method in your http query to query search results. Do not add query parameters.

I think the name is confusing because the term 'query' is already used to refer to http requests in general.

Just the title of the RFC confused me.

New comment by smashed in "Quay.io Is Down"

smashed — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:46:19 +0000

this is still ongoing and status remains 'Investigating'.

New comment by smashed in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

smashed — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:53:15 +0000

The data has been stolen by a criminal group. Paying for "restoring" the data does not guarantee they will delete all copies. There is no way of proving they actually did and they have in fact very little incentive to actually delete it.

You have to take their words for it but how can you trust crooks?

New comment by smashed in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

smashed — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:14:31 +0000

That does not mean I cannot use the ink I want in a tool that I own.

Yes, your ink might be better. Market it that way and make it known. No problem with that. But prevent me from using my tool using DRM and firmware updates? That is customer hostile.

New comment by smashed in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

smashed — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:07:53 +0000

I meant in the sense that the "tool" is an LLM and the "work" was vibe coded.

If vibe coded work is not copyrightable, it cannot be reassigned to the employer and become copyright protected.

New comment by smashed in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

smashed — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:54:54 +0000

The "if you generated the code at work using company tools, it's owned by your employer" affirmation in the article makes no sense to me?

If computer generated code is not copyrightable, ownership cannot be reassigned either.

New comment by smashed in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

smashed — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:51:52 +0000

Openrouter will route to china hosted models when there are US hosted providers of the same model. Is there a setting to set your preference or to blacklist providers like alibaba cloud for example?

I use OpenCode and the openrouter provider. From opencode I only select the model like kimi-2.6 and have no way of selecting which cloud hosting will receive my request.

New comment by smashed in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7"

smashed — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:00:21 +0000

OpenCode?

New comment by smashed in "How to turn anything into a router"

smashed — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:25:38 +0000

Lots of "just use X" comments but the article is about showing the bare minimum/how easy the core part of routing actually is.

Also, if you have ever used docker or virtual machines with NAT routing (often the default), you've done exactly the same things.

If you have ever enabled the wifi hotspot on an android phone also, you've done pretty much what the article describes on your phone.

All of these use the same Linux kernel features under the hood. In fact there is a good chance this message traversed more than one Linux soft router to get to your screen.

New comment by smashed in "WolfGuard: WireGuard with FIPS 140-3 cryptography"

smashed — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:49:18 +0000

This is addressed on the known issues page [1].

Basically it does not need dedicated hw acceleration because it can use generic vector instructions to reach similar speeds. I wonder how true that is though.

[1]: https://www.wireguard.com/known-limitations/#:~:text=WireGua...

New comment by smashed in "Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago"

smashed — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:01:55 +0000

An official government source is teaching users to ignore security warnings about expired certificates.

Mistakes happen, some automation failed and the certs did not renew on time, whatever. Does not inspire confidence but we all know it happens.

But then to just instruct users to click through the warning is very poor judgement on top of poor execution.

New comment by smashed in "XML Is a Cheap DSL"

smashed — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:02:18 +0000

The problem comes when malicious actors start crafting documents with extra features that should not be parsed, but many software will wrongly parse them because they use the default, full featured parser. Or various combinations of this.

It's a pretty well understood problem and best practices exist, not everyone implements them.

New comment by smashed in "A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way"

smashed — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:46:48 +0000

Depends on where you are maybe? Cortland is still readily available here (Quebec). Hope it stays that way, I'm feeling slightly worried. Seems like the trend of trademarked new apple varieties has not quite caught up here yet as orchards are not interested in replacing tried and true stocks.

New comment by smashed in "Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool"

smashed — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:21:42 +0000

Yes. Besides AGPL makes a lot of sense for any web based tool, as it keeps the original intent of the GPL.

I don't get the hate/questioning on it either. It's a good balance if you want to prevent straight up cloning/stealing for profit motives while still making it open.

New comment by smashed in "Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool"

smashed — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:13:44 +0000

Most (all?) temperature monitoring tools on Linux rely on libsensors.

Seems like hardware maintainers never could agree on a standard way of exposing temperature on Linux.

New comment by smashed in "Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool"

smashed — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:06:00 +0000

Vibe coded netdata clone?

New comment by smashed in "GPT-5.4"

smashed — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:16:13 +0000

It's text submitted to APIs. Not real conversations.

New comment by smashed in "Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment"

smashed — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:57:24 +0000

> the bleeding edge of immutable Linux distros (GNOME OS, KDE Linux)

These are words but they don't make sense.

New comment by smashed in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

smashed — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:26:14 +0000

Doubtful