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New comment by tntxtnt in "Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist Credit Card Number"

tntxtnt — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:56:19 +0000

Very much this. We need to keep children safe from those predators that the government are trying their best to protect!!!

New comment by tntxtnt in "Claude's new constitution"

tntxtnt — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:13:11 +0000

'good values' means good money. Highest payer get to decide whatever the values are. What do you expect from a for profit company??

New comment by tntxtnt in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

tntxtnt — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:42:51 +0000

yEAH you write code easier, big MS and NVIDADDY get the trillion bag, everyone else pay 10x the price for RAM, GPU, soon to own nothing and pay subscriptions for everything lets fucking gooo

New comment by tntxtnt in "Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit"

tntxtnt — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:58:42 +0000

There is a formula to calculate number of rounds in https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.186-5.pdf Appendix C.1. OpenSSL use it: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/ee8772e3565a84fde9e2...

For 160-bit prime and security level 2^-80, 19 rounds is enough.

New comment by tntxtnt in "Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit"

tntxtnt — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:53:45 +0000

From doing MR rounds in pure Python: https://github.com/textonly/git-prime/blob/main/git-prime-co....

Should be under 5 seconds in C or C++ using gmp

New comment by tntxtnt in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

tntxtnt — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:01:30 +0000

I get why Microsoflt loves AI so much - it basically devour and destroy open source software. Copyleft/copyright/any license is basically trash now. No one will ever want to open source their code ever again.

New comment by tntxtnt in "How a $2k 'Made in the USA' Phone Is Manufactured"

tntxtnt — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 02:43:11 +0000

The skills to live on $1-$2/hour apparently.

New comment by tntxtnt in "Europe bets once again on RISC-V for supercomputing"

tntxtnt — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:01:53 +0000

Because in spite of the west's propaganda, Xi is a good dictator. Singapore was/is also a totalitarian state yet many do business with it.

New comment by tntxtnt in "Ask HN: Are you tired of all LLM posts on HN?"

tntxtnt — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 23:39:17 +0000

Yes, there is little to no major breakthroughs why keep posting them? Like wow this AI can run 5% better than the last one, jump from 68/100 score to 71/100 score because it uses 100% more GPU power, like, ok?

New comment by tntxtnt in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

tntxtnt — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:54:42 +0000

Maybe it's late but no, China's pop culture is not having a "moderate" success on neighboring countries because they tried and failed but because those neighbors actively resist it. They had culturally dominated over neighboring countries like Japan, Korea, Vietnam for hundred of years. See every Korean "historical" movies and you see Chinese culture everywhere. What you're seeing now is the active effort of those countries to stay as far far away from Chinese culture as possible. Imagine you successfully invade China and getting assimilated as the result. That's the Mongols. Thanks to Persia or whatever middle country between China and Europe, Europe did not get infected by Chinese culture. Now ironically thanks to Trump the west is resisting China's dominance before getting infected like Pokemon or KPOP or K-drama.

New comment by tntxtnt in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

tntxtnt — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:55:27 +0000

Can they tax DeepSeek just like they taxed BYD cars? Smh Chinese ruin US industry again and again and again. Where's Trump at?? Why don't he taxed 1000000% of the free $0 DeepSeek AI??

New comment by tntxtnt in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

tntxtnt — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 11:42:43 +0000

What do you mean by "global" pop culture? Maybe you mean "the west"/European/American pop culture. Being Vietnamese, I and my friends grew up with Journey to the West which at the time was bigger than Star Wars, Three kingdoms which is a lot lot bigger than Game of Thrones, and a lot of Jin Yong's movie adaptations. Star Wars the force is like normal thing in Jin Yong's novels. It's not a "complete" lack of. Sure you have heard of Monkey King, Lu Bu or Guan Yu, Cao Cao? They also won an Oscar long before Korean did. Sure they lose to Japanese's Pokemon but everyone lose to Pokemon really not just China.

New comment by tntxtnt in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

tntxtnt — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 17:09:34 +0000

Another lucky idiot who thinks he's a genius.

New comment by tntxtnt in "Ghostty 1.0"

tntxtnt — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 11:02:47 +0000

> Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator

Doesn't have a binary for Windows so it's not "cross-platform" yet.

New comment by tntxtnt in "C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte"

tntxtnt — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:36:55 +0000

RAND_MAX is only guaranteed to be at least 32767. So if you use `rand() % 10000` you'll have real biased towards 0-2767, even `rand() % 1000` is already not uniform (biased towards 0-767). And that assumes rand() is good uniform from 0-RAND_MAX in the first place.

New comment by tntxtnt in "Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta"

tntxtnt — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:20:33 +0000

Irrigation pipes have tiny holes which can be blocked by calcium deposit in hard water. You'll need filters, a lot of filters in order to operate them, and the filters needd to change for like every year or so, so it's not a one-time investment.

New comment by tntxtnt in "Vietnam War images from the North Vietnamese side"

tntxtnt — Wed, 26 May 2021 04:08:39 +0000

Yes. Vietnam had experience in dealing with a possible pandemic before: SARS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Urbani

To quote wikipedia:

> Urbani realized that Chen's ailment was probably a new and highly contagious disease. He immediately notified the WHO, triggering a response to the epidemic (principally isolation and quarantine measures) that would end it within five months. He also persuaded the Vietnamese Health Ministry to begin isolating patients and screening travelers, thus slowing the early pace of the epidemic.

The minister didn't cover up anything, did anything they could to stop the new deadly virus. Urbani later died of SARS and was hailed as a hero: https://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/news/Fifteen_years_af...

Vietnam maybe is a third world country but they are very serious about deadly flu pandemic.

More: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/05/05/v...

> But by the end of the two-hour meeting, the vice minister of health, Nguyen Van Thuong, had agreed to allow WHO to summon an international team of experts. He also promised to organize a task force at the ministry that would review the situation daily.

> It was, Brudon said, a "turning point."

> Vietnam's response contrasted with that of China, which for weeks tried to conceal the extent of its outbreak. But a health official in Vietnam, Le Thi Thu Ha, said her country made a simple calculation: "We needed that technical assistance," she said.

> ...

> That week, the Health Ministry set up a task force. Days later, a dozen epidemiologists and pathologists had arrived from Britain, the United States, Sweden, Germany, France and Australia.

They asked for help when they needed help, not saving face like China's handling of COVID in 2019.

New comment by tntxtnt in "Edward Snowden Demonstrates How Easy It Is to Hack a Voting Machine"

tntxtnt — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 20:47:04 +0000

If everyone can verify their votes, then they can sell their votes. E.g. A knows A's hash, and A can show X that A's hash voted for X, so that X will give A $20.