Hacker News: wmf

New comment by wmf in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

wmf — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:38:39 +0000

Are we supposed to just shrug at the idea of businesses paying 10x more for raw materials than consumers? How long can this go on?

New comment by wmf in "Ask HN: Why don't we see ARM laptops from China?"

wmf — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:46:45 +0000

Are people in China mostly using Windows? ARM Windows laptops have been pretty poor value.

New comment by wmf in "The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here"

wmf — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:35:43 +0000

They should really invest in an SLA printer. Everything on their site looks terrible.

New comment by wmf in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

wmf — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:17:04 +0000

The article makes the case that RISC-V achieved code density the wrong way. Instead of compressed instructions, ARM has fixed-size instructions with richer semantics.

New comment by wmf in "Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness"

wmf — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:18:51 +0000

If SA's losses were around $30B does that mean Jane Street owned half?

New comment by wmf in "Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP"

wmf — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:33:53 +0000

When/if IPv6 is wholeheartedly embraced, then dual-stacking is obsolete. ...dual-stacking is an administrative pain and possibly the source of some really crazy connectivity bugs. A dual-stack system is unnecessarily complex.

I don't think anybody really disagrees with this but it's kind of pointless to mention because there is no alternative. IPv8 would also require a period of dual-stacking.

T-Mobile is already running 99% single-stack IPv6-only so I would say the transition works; it's just a matter of doing it.

New comment by wmf in "Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations"

wmf — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:57:49 +0000

The first generation was around $500K; due to the DRAM shortage the second generation is probably $1M or more.

New comment by wmf in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

wmf — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:38:14 +0000

Better than x86 is a low bar when ARMv8 exists.

New comment by wmf in "Don't Wipe Your Phone at the Airport [video]"

wmf — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:26:50 +0000

That's theoretical since no mobile OSes support it. And unless your decoy partition has a full life of data in it they will easily tell that it's fake.

New comment by wmf in "Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP"

wmf — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:01:47 +0000

IPv6 never had flag days and was specifically designed for gradual deployment. In retrospect, overly conservative "ships in the night" routing increased costs and delayed IPv6 deployment though.

New comment by wmf in "Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP"

wmf — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:54:57 +0000

NAT64 is transparent and requires no support on the client side. The client does need a CLAT to use 464 for apps that connect to IPv4 addresses without using DNS.

New comment by wmf in "Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP"

wmf — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:00:08 +0000

a protocol or scheme by which an IPv6-only device can seamlessly access IPv4-only devices

NAT64 which is used extensively in cellular networks.

New comment by wmf in "Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP"

wmf — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:32:07 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_9

New comment by wmf in "Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP"

wmf — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:54:22 +0000

For one thing, RIRs are not businesses. If they have less work to do they can have less staff. Worst case they could receive government funding like in the old days.

New comment by wmf in "How Obama's BlackBerry got secured (2023)"

wmf — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:31:33 +0000

I think the NSA just isn't willing to take Trump's phone away.

New comment by wmf in "Tether Completes the Largest Inaugural Financial Audit in History"

wmf — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:41:23 +0000

They made enough money from interest in the last few years to cover the losses from earlier.

Is this hack-back or cyber letters-of-marque? No, but maybe

wmf — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:03:05 +0000

Article URL: https://cybersect.substack.com/p/is-this-hack-back-or-cyber-letters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292409

Points: 9

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New comment by wmf in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

wmf — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:53:25 +0000

Node.js has been boring for a while.

New comment by wmf in "Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations"

wmf — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:17:40 +0000

You would use Oxide if you hate Dell/HPE/Lenovo/Supermicro. Also most people won't run k8s on bare metal because they want to dynamically provision a bunch of clusters.

New comment by wmf in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"

wmf — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:08:26 +0000

Michael Jackson is the ultimate case study for this.