<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: stordoff</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stordoff</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:59:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=stordoff" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I pulled up a random version from 2014, and it's more readable: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141023082929/https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20141023082929/https://www.2uo.d...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 13:01:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134803</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "The Rise of the Bullshittery"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> YouTube: Linus goes into a real girl's bedroom (lmao, what is this supposed to be?)<p>LTT (Linus Tech Tips, a YouTube channel) have used it as a real title before. "Linus goes into a real girl's bedroom - Intel Extreme Tech Upgrade" - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCX8d8WSOg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkCX8d8WSOg</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 20:11:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113807</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113807</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's in line 56-57.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:00:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591912</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in ""Disregard That" Attacks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article does at least note that in the 'Other Notes' section at the bottom, and links to the original form:<p>> I bowdlerised the original "disregard that" joke, heavily.</p>
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<p>iPhone 15 Pro (using the default Camera app) read it OK - it took me to <a href="https://www.tuwien.at/en/mwbw/wwwt/ww/ws" rel="nofollow">https://www.tuwien.at/en/mwbw/wwwt/ww/ws</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:12:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140494</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140494</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47140494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Outputs get flagged in the same way:<p>> tell me about taiwan<p>(using chat.qwen.ai) results in:<p>> Oops! There was an issue connecting to Qwen3-Max. Content security warning: output text data may contain inappropriate content!<p>mid-generation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:25:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768546</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've got a i5-7500T box running as a Proxmox Backup Server, and it idles at 6-7W. It runs at near idle most of the time (it's just running PBS and a few network services), so I'm not expecting it to cause much difference to my power bills. Even under full load, it only draws ~30W, so it's not _that_ much power.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:01:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748617</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46748617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AIUI, nginx doesn't terminate the SSL/TLS connection - it is just passed through as is. `ssl_preread on` extracts the server name from the Server Name Indication (SNI) send as part of the TLS handshake, which is unencrypted.<p>I just set up a similar system (Debian LXC permanently connected to a VPN, nginx proxying imgur.com and all its subdomains with the rest being dropped), and it works quite well. Setting DNS records for imgur.com and {api,i,s}.imgur.com seems to be sufficient to get the site and inline images working (not 100% if all are needed - I haven't fully tested it yet).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:11:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46083229</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46083229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46083229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reduce Transparency helps in some ways, but also introduces its own issues. A couple I noticed in the brief time I used it:<p>* My home screen wallpaper is a blurred version of the astronomy lock screen. After enabling Reduce Transparency, it remains working for ten minutes or so, then gets replaced with a plain black background.<p>* Websites have a large bottom margin (usually white, sometimes site specific colours) where the toolbar appears if you scroll up. It feels like a complete waste of screen space if you're scrolling down a webpage to read it.<p>Tested on an iPhone 16 Pro Max 256GB.</p>
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<p>FWIW, I can't reproduce this example - it generates both images fine: <a href="https://ibb.co/NdYx1R4p" rel="nofollow">https://ibb.co/NdYx1R4p</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:04:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45484730</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45484730</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45484730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With uBlock off, I get two sponsored ads, and the real site is nearly pushed below the fold: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/AkVbvSI.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/AkVbvSI.png</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:23:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45367160</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45367160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45367160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "Scream cipher"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not perfectly. I grabbed a random encoded line from these comments, and asked ChatGPT to decode it[1]. It determined the plaintext was:<p>> Immediately thought of Moby, infact a quick search for this title... coincidental, but I would mention it in the page if I were you.<p>and noted that it had "preserved punctuation and capitalization from the ciphertext". The actual plaintext should be:<p>> Immediately thought of XKCD, infact a quick search for this title gives me XKCD, it could be coincidental, but I would mention it in the page if I were you.<p>I've hit my free usage limit so can't currently prompt it further about its mistake.<p>[1] <a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/68cf17a6-8478-8011-a44e-64d43ad8a47e" rel="nofollow">https://chatgpt.com/share/68cf17a6-8478-8011-a44e-64d43ad8a4...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:16:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45317633</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45317633</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45317633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "Google to obey South Korean order to blur satellite images on maps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It looks like Google Maps is using old imagery for some reason. If you look on Google Earth, the image used appears to be from 12 Jan 2016[1]. The more recent imagery (2022 onwards) shows the new build, and you can see glimpses of it in Street View on Google Maps.<p>[1] <a href="https://earth.google.com/web/search/%22Robin+Masters+Estate%22,+Waimanalo,+HI,+USA/@21.32479684,-157.67971282,4.49587031a,388.86671607d,35y,0h,0t,0r/data=Cj4iJgokCRpf427GdkhAEV97YUVVdkhAGTRHy5_8H0NAIXuK-ki1HkNAKhAIARIKMjAxNi0wMS0xMhgBQgIIAToDCgEwQgIIAEoNCP___________wEQAA" rel="nofollow">https://earth.google.com/web/search/%22Robin+Masters+Estate%...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:54:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45185702</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45185702</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45185702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are various services that do this, e.g. BrightData:<p>> Bright Data is the World’s Largest Residential Proxy IP Network providing companies the ability to emulate a real user in any country, city or carrier (ASN) in the world. [...] Bright Data has an SDK (software development kit) that is implemented into applications. Bright SDK provides an attractive alternative to advertisements by providing the app user with the choice to opt-in to Bright Data’s network instead. For every user that opts-in to the Bright Data network, Bright Data pays a monthly fee to the application vendor, who passes that value on to the user by not displaying ads.<p>I haven't heard of any of the VPN providers doing this, but it wouldn't really surprise me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:53:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45119220</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45119220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45119220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>According to <a href="https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/mylinkdrive.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/mylinkdrive.com</a>, it resolves in most of the US locations and in Japan, China, and Singapore, but fails elsewhere.<p><a href="https://dnschecker.org/#A/mylinkdrive.com" rel="nofollow">https://dnschecker.org/#A/mylinkdrive.com</a> gives similar results - resolves fine in North America (US/Canada/Mexico) and a few other counties (Brazil/Ireland/Russia/China, and one of the two Australia sites), but fails elsewhere (including in Singapore).<p>Geoblocking seems like a possibility.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 03:53:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44852634</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44852634</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44852634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most cheap HDMI splitters seem to disable HDCP.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 22:14:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43949439</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43949439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43949439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GPT-4o claims "This implies she did not pay the full $20. The total cost of the balls and bats she has is less than $20, but she still has items worth up to $20.", then bruteforces an 'answer' of "Balls = 25 Bats = 13".<p>It also managed to get the prices of the ball/bat wrong, presumably because it's using the more typical riddle:<p>> Ball = x dollars<p>> Bat = x + $0.05 (since it’s 5 cents more than the ball)<p><a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/680ac88c-22d4-8011-b642-0397a01ec376" rel="nofollow">https://chatgpt.com/share/680ac88c-22d4-8011-b642-0397a01ec3...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:30:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43788650</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43788650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43788650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "Show HN: LLMs Playing Mafia games – See them lie, deceive, and reason"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems they might not even recognise their own messages/actions:<p>> gemini-flash-1.5-8b (Villager) [...] VOTE: openai/gpt-4o [Message #1]<p>> gemini-flash-1.5-8b (Villager) The Gemini models' rapid and identical votes are suspicious.  Their lack of reasoned discussion, especially at this early stage, suggests potential Mafia coordination.  Their simultaneous votes on openai/gpt-4o, without elaboration, raises red flags. [Message #9]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:41:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43280766</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43280766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43280766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "The internet is killing old PC hardware [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It provides an interesting test case for the usefulness (or lack thereof) of AI detectors:<p>ZeroGPT: Your Text is Human written (0% AI GPT)<p>QuillBot: 0% of text is likely AI<p>GPTZero: We are highly confident this text was ai generated. 100% Probability AI generated<p>Grammarly: 0% of this text appears to be AI-generated<p>None of them gave the actual answer (human written and AI edited), even though QuillBot has a separate category for this (Human-written & AI-refined: 0%).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:13:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43267591</link><dc:creator>stordoff</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43267591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43267591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stordoff in "League of Legends data scraping the hard and tedious way for fun"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This site has a theme picker to toggle between light and dark modes.</p>
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