Hacker News: tarxvf

New comment by tarxvf in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

tarxvf — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:57:06 +0000

Oh look, Anthropic now has a reason to conduct age verification. Great.

New comment by tarxvf in "The political effects of X's feed algorithm"

tarxvf — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:23:54 +0000

From where I'm sitting, it seems obvious people do exactly that.

New comment by tarxvf in "What twenty years of DevOps has failed to do"

tarxvf — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:54:47 +0000

If companies were generally capable of that level of awareness they would not operate the way that they do.

New comment by tarxvf in "FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign UAS and UAS Critical Components [pdf]"

tarxvf — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:34:09 +0000

~~I am not seeing that, why do you say that?~~ Update: answering my own question. It's the ††.

https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist

The new addition: Uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and UAS critical components produced in a foreign country†† and all communications and video surveillance equipment and services listed in Section 1709(a)(1) of the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (Pub. L. 118-159)

††: For purposes of inclusion of UAS and UAS critical components, we incorporate the definitions included in the associated National Security Determination

https://www.fcc.gov/sites/default/files/National-Security-De...

New comment by tarxvf in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

tarxvf — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:26:21 +0000

If you disable watch history, youtube tries to "punish" you by disabling nearly the non-subscription recommendations and shorts not from your subscriptions and a number of other things.

Worth a try.

New comment by tarxvf in "Morse Code Translator"

tarxvf — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:16:59 +0000

I don't think it's at risk of being overstatement. CW bands are more crowded than ever before, because there are more CW ops than ever before.

This is, I think, because it's easier to learn than ever, ham radio equipment is more capable for a cheaper (adjusted) price, and ham radio has grown tremendously worldwide due to all barriers being lowered a bit.

CW is very popular, especially given all the other options that are easier.

That it's a smaller percentage of hams that know CW than before is another way of saying ham radio has expanded well beyond CW and the population has grown. But if you have a finite resource (bandwidth) and it's in significantly more demand than ever before, it's a hard argument to suggest that it's not 'very' active.

New comment by tarxvf in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

tarxvf — Mon, 05 May 2025 14:05:54 +0000

Because the US is really 50 small countries in a trenchcoat that aren't all on the same page of the script.

New comment by tarxvf in "Open Source DMR Modem Implementation in SDR with GNU Radio and Codec2"

tarxvf — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 18:27:44 +0000

https://www.openresearch.institute/opv/

New comment by tarxvf in "Ask HN: If you could start over, hardware or software?"

tarxvf — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:58:02 +0000

I'm not so sure the line is that clear cut. How much hardware is useful today without software? Is VHDL software?

I started with software and have been expanding down the stack more and more, spinning some of my own (very basic) PCBs recently, and it's been a lot of fun. I think the other direction would have been harder, because the ~~core game loop~~ development cycle takes so much longer, and that would have made it hard for me personally to maintain motivation at the beginning.

Software by comparison has almost no barrier to entry and much faster iteration. It's also a lot harder to explain to my mom what I do.

I do think C was a great place to start. Going up and down from there is much easier than trying to go downstack from, e.g. javascript.

New comment by tarxvf in "When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022)"

tarxvf — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:22:35 +0000

fwiw you can usually bypass aliases ad-hoc.

In Bash I believe instead of `ls` you can `\ls` to get the unaliased version.

New comment by tarxvf in "Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge"

tarxvf — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 05:54:54 +0000

The term is decades old at this point. It doesn't seem to play well outside of the older open source communities, now that github has xeroxed.

New comment by tarxvf in "Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option"

tarxvf — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:50:18 +0000

I can access my password manager on my trusted device, and manually type in my password for whatever service on any other device. This is exactly what I do for the rare but important time when I need to login on a device I don't want to have total access to everything.

New comment by tarxvf in "Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option"

tarxvf — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 11:21:49 +0000

That would require I have my email on every device I might want to log in with.

I don't like that for a number of reasons.

Open Research Institute's Inner Circle Newsletter Dec. 2024

tarxvf — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:14:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openresearch.institute/2024/12/26/inner-circle-newsletter-december-2024/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584620

Points: 1

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New comment by tarxvf in "Web Origami, for making websites where you can understand how they're made"

tarxvf — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 17:42:17 +0000

To allow access by devices (embedded, vintage) where SSL cannot run.

New comment by tarxvf in "Tree Calculus"

tarxvf — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 09:51:18 +0000

It is absolutely common usage. Nothing about the parent is patronizing or gaslighting.

New comment by tarxvf in "Debanking (and Debunking?)"

tarxvf — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 06:04:27 +0000

Bad summary.

New comment by tarxvf in "Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin"

tarxvf — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 02:37:14 +0000

The standard editor will always have geek cred.

New comment by tarxvf in "Ask HN: How do you prepare for interviews?"

tarxvf — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 03:24:57 +0000

I don't prep significantly - I already did all the reading and exploring before I applied. I already know I want to work there and that I'm comfortable with the tools they use. And I interview really well off the cuff.

My main problem is that I'm not getting interviews at all right now.

New comment by tarxvf in "Selfie-based authentication raises eyebrows among infosec experts"

tarxvf — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:02:09 +0000

Please drink verification can.