Hacker News: throwawayk7h

New comment by throwawayk7h in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

throwawayk7h — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:05:25 +0000

It should be by default, rather than relying on the parent proactively.

New comment by throwawayk7h in "Firefox Containers Preview"

throwawayk7h — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:38:35 +0000

I'd love to be able to specify containers on bookmarks. That's the biggest missing feature for me still.

New comment by throwawayk7h in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

throwawayk7h — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:29:53 +0000

Why would you think the advance is the problem? The problem is the low cut of sales if anything. The advance is exclusively beneficial.

New comment by throwawayk7h in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

throwawayk7h — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:22:03 +0000

I dislike passkeys because they support remote attestation. It's my key -- why does the website care what app I'm using to host it or if I'm allowed to copy it? Or what operating system I'm using, for that matter.

Because of this, I will not use passkeys. It's a slippery slope. Once we're all on passkeys, website devs won't resist enabling the remote attestation bit, locking out linux users.

New comment by throwawayk7h in "European Court: Apple Can Not Shirk Off Its Interoperability Requirements"

throwawayk7h — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:11:16 +0000

thanks!

New comment by throwawayk7h in "European Court: Apple Can Not Shirk Off Its Interoperability Requirements"

throwawayk7h — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:45:58 +0000

How do I report this typo to the eff? they have no contact page.

New comment by throwawayk7h in "Don't change lanes – the maths of holiday traffic jams"

throwawayk7h — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:59:15 +0000

Here's the trick when driving on highways to clear up traffic jams: try to move at a flat, constant speed, such that by the time you would reach the stopped car in front of you it has already started moving again.

To the people behind you, traffic appears to be moving at a constant speed. The wave stops propagating backward and the jam clears up.

New comment by throwawayk7h in "Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number"

throwawayk7h — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:19:45 +0000

perhaps they are planning for the eventuality that long-lifespan unused accounts become a commodity, an easy way to avoid age verification.

New comment by throwawayk7h in "Show HN: Reverse-engineering web apps into agent tools"

throwawayk7h — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:15:14 +0000

This is going to wind up with remote attestation being implemented into web browsers to prevent this exact thing (and conveniently for google, this will finally end adblock)

New comment by throwawayk7h in "How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)"

throwawayk7h — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:04:15 +0000

if nothing works, try cryonics. Maybe AI-2040 is right and we'll be able to revive you in a few years.

New comment by throwawayk7h in "AI 2040: Plan A"

throwawayk7h — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:02:58 +0000

No, nobody can be held liable for the extinction of humanity, for there is nobody left to pay up. If your objection is that you think AIs won't cause human extinction, you should say that instead, as that would be where you disagree with the authors.

New comment by throwawayk7h in "Show HN: Yamanote.fun – A complete soundscape for Tokyo's Yamanote line"

throwawayk7h — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:42:52 +0000

I think I'd be 2% less likely to visit japan without the melodies. I love those things.

New comment by throwawayk7h in "LineageOS Statistics"

throwawayk7h — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:14:12 +0000

Why so few in Canada compared to the U.S?

New comment by throwawayk7h in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

throwawayk7h — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 23:20:07 +0000

Please advertise that you offer it on f-droid as well! I only see Play store and App store links. But it's available right here: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplet...

New comment by throwawayk7h in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

throwawayk7h — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:29:44 +0000

gl·iNet also runs openWRT. You can even ssh into these routers.

New comment by throwawayk7h in "Fable 5 will default to Opus 4.8 for coding tasks"

throwawayk7h — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:00:47 +0000

If fable 5 can't do code... what are people using it for?

New comment by throwawayk7h in "The case for physical media ownership"

throwawayk7h — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:14:31 +0000

be that as it may, when e.g. TicketMaster asks me if I want to "use a passkey," they are potentially referring to something with remote attestation capabilities.

New comment by throwawayk7h in "The case for physical media ownership"

throwawayk7h — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:13:21 +0000

Okay let me withdraw slightly. What I mean is: if I choose of my own free will to not be able to access the bits (e.g. via a cryptoprocessor) then sure, I can still "own" it. And that's the case for certificate authorities. But when vendors force me (with remote attestation) to not be able to access the bits, then I see that as me not having control => me not owning the key.

New comment by throwawayk7h in "The case for physical media ownership"

throwawayk7h — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:09:24 +0000

There are also non-transferrable passkeys which can't be copied between two secure devices, so it'd be hard to get some passkeys onto your yubikey in the first place.

Furthermore, I personally feel that if you can't actually access the bits, you don't truly "own" it.

New comment by throwawayk7h in "The case for physical media ownership"

throwawayk7h — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:06:56 +0000

You don't consider WebAuthn to be passkeys? Why not?