Hacker News: vvpan

New comment by vvpan in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

vvpan — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:25:12 +0000

Serially.

New comment by vvpan in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

vvpan — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:52:51 +0000

Yeah, agents are making self sovereign identity so much more relevant. We have all the technology. But identity is the main driver of the monopolies, they won't give it up unless forced to, maybe not even then.

New comment by vvpan in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

vvpan — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:15:32 +0000

Miss that monopoly busting of yesteryear. The elephant in the room is that private forces who do not have public good in mind have gotten way too powerful to the detriment of everybody's well-being. Everybody's except the state's surveillance wings.

Break them up. Break them up. Break them up.

New comment by vvpan in "Santa Cruz restaurant changes logo after flurry of negative reviews for AI art"

vvpan — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:36:12 +0000

The real scarce resource in the world is legitimacy. People seem to strongly associate AI with low legitimacy. Extrapolation from low effort and inattention to details has always existed but AI legitimacy poisoning is a new and bigger phenomenon than just a logical error.

New comment by vvpan in "Ti-84 Evo"

vvpan — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:01:00 +0000

We had to buy those calculators for highschool and it was a waste of money, felt like somebody must be paying somebody off to have thousands of students buy a device that they will certainly never have to use (and is of little educational value).

New comment by vvpan in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

vvpan — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:51:16 +0000

I, honestly, do not care about Github. As just a career dev it gives no utility except that a lot of the open source projects are on there.

New comment by vvpan in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

vvpan — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:03:36 +0000

We need agent insurance.

New comment by vvpan in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

vvpan — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:26:18 +0000

Everybody will be a serf under technofeudalism.

New comment by vvpan in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

vvpan — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:08:40 +0000

But you can upgrade it later by swapping parts and not buying a new machine, so it should be cheaper in the long run.

New comment by vvpan in "2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email"

vvpan — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:57:40 +0000

I clicked on a few as well

Bread Cooperative and the Bloockchain Left

vvpan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:46:57 +0000

Article URL: https://platform.coop/blog/what-makes-bread-real/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47741788

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by vvpan in "We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran"

vvpan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:09:10 +0000

I mention it only because the media company producing the videos is pretty pro-regime. So it's not US vs regime but US vs well-being of the Iranians.

New comment by vvpan in "We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran"

vvpan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:48:20 +0000

I agree, it should not have happened and feel just as powerless. Concentration of power is an evil, on all sides.

New comment by vvpan in "We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran"

vvpan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:44:47 +0000

I was not trying to compare and contrast, that leads to whataboutism. Separate issues.

New comment by vvpan in "We spoke to the man making viral Lego-style AI videos for Iran"

vvpan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:37:50 +0000

I know, I know, this is not the platform. But however I dislike the war (which sounds across-the-board unpopular except with Republican senators) having love for a regime that massacres protestors by the thousands is cruel and perverse.

New comment by vvpan in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

vvpan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:44:31 +0000

I just came into Mac world for work and struggle to understand the choices Apple makes:

- Sharp edges eat into my forearms.

- Glossy screen makes it hard to see when it's light out.

- The keys have a real hard stop when you press on them which tires out my hands.

- An arrogant desire to obsolete ports.

I don't understand the appeal of the machine, it feels like style over function everywhere.

New comment by vvpan in "EFF is leaving X"

vvpan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:23:58 +0000

"Extreme leftist ideology", I actually wish they had that, sadly pronouns have little to do with economic inequality and faulty markets.

New comment by vvpan in "EFF is leaving X"

vvpan — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:56:41 +0000

Why does that trigger a red alert?

New comment by vvpan in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

vvpan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:49:36 +0000

From "Loving-Kindness (Metta) Sutta" of the Buddhist Pali Canon:

In gladness and in safety,

May all beings be at ease.

Whatever living beings there may be;

Whether they are weak or strong, omitting none,

The great or the mighty, medium, short or small,

The seen and the unseen,

Those living near and far away,

Those born and to-be-born —

May all beings be at ease!

New comment by vvpan in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

vvpan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:21:48 +0000

I do not understand what it is about Cloudflare. Especially for a blog post - won't pretty much anything do?