Hacker News: terminalbraid

New comment by terminalbraid in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

terminalbraid — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:17:11 +0000

I will not be called to action by a page with a big slop image at the top.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

terminalbraid — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:47:39 +0000

How do you square advocating for the "Open Source Resistance" which touts "stop asking for permission" to do software and then saying "we need everything on MacOS to be signed and will be dropping packages that don't get Apple's permission"?

I'd consider donating, but I find that behavior to be part of squeezing free computing and participating in and advocating for the corporate erosion of ownership of one's hardware environment.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity"

terminalbraid — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:03:30 +0000

An ant traveling at constant speed on a "scrunched up section of a table cloth" will still take the same amount of time following the same path to get from A to B. Any material analogy requires some kind of stretching or compression.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

terminalbraid — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:26:34 +0000

Consider that since an LLM is really just an large encoding of data, the "proof" is in there already. All further work on it is effectively only rearranging words. Then all math an LLM is capable of is "done" and we have the "proof" in the LLM which by your definition is now "MUCH easier to understand" and this work is somehow sufficient.

Do you see the problem with your reasoning?

New comment by terminalbraid in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

terminalbraid — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:56:16 +0000

But the agent could be trained on sensitive data that could leak which could enable a different attack.

Saying it's safe to "ignore" anything that exposes information is dangerous. You might as well claim social engineering isn't real as long as the person doesn't have direct access to the thing you want.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby"

terminalbraid — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:40:32 +0000

A+ name, no notes

New comment by terminalbraid in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

terminalbraid — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:19:27 +0000

What's more is yt-dlp already has plugin support for 3rd party interpreters. They're just saying they don't want to deal with supporting bun themselves and the infrastructure for anyone else do use whatever they want is already there.

This is just the standard misguided entitlement people feel towards other people's projects supported by other people's time and effort. It's continually outrageous to me how people feel they can just volunteer other people's time and effort to support their own wants. The people who do the work are entitled to make their decisions and if you don't like it fork it yourself. This has been the way of this ecosystem since it started.

yt-dlp is surprisingly hackable as is.