Hacker News: xeonmc

New comment by xeonmc in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

xeonmc — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:30:07 +0000

"Practice safe vibecoding, stop the cycle of infections!"

New comment by xeonmc in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

xeonmc — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:12:50 +0000

"Implementation details are left as exercise for the reader.

When in doubt refer to the public API as specified in Revelations 13:15-17"

New comment by xeonmc in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

xeonmc — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:09:09 +0000

I often also wonders if ideological zealots ever thinks of this passage while pushing their agenda for control:

    ...and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast could even speak and cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
    Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,
    so that no one can buy or sell who does not have the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.

The Economist Who Solved the Free-Rider Problem

xeonmc — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:43:10 +0000

Article URL: https://developingeconomics.org/2025/06/24/the-economist-who-solved-the-free-rider-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48449593

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by xeonmc in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

xeonmc — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:54:47 +0000

just be sure do it in that order and not the other way around

New comment by xeonmc in "India's surprise baby bust"

xeonmc — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:05:41 +0000

So support should be provided for incentivizing younger parenthood then, like guaranteed tuition assistance per children born?

GitHubDesktopPlus: Fork of GitHub Desktop for alt. git hosts & better UX

xeonmc — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:06:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/pol-rivero/github-desktop-plus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403192

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

A Mathematician's Lament (2002) [pdf]

xeonmc — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:32:10 +0000

Article URL: https://worrydream.com/refs/Lockhart_2002_-_A_Mathematician%27s_Lament.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390400

Points: 110

# Comments: 11

New comment by xeonmc in "Shopify Is Down"

xeonmc — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:46:49 +0000

Slopify

New comment by xeonmc in "He Blew the Whistle on DOGE. Then His Brakes Were Cut"

xeonmc — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:28:32 +0000

So what you're saying is, we need to abolish ICE and go electric?

New comment by xeonmc in "Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

xeonmc — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:20:28 +0000

See also the debacle with Razer gaming mice giving you root access just by plugging in, which I think takes the cake for clownshoe software practices almost rivalling Riot Games (though not with the latter's degree of self-congratulatory Dunning-Kruger gusto.)

New comment by xeonmc in "Coreutils for Windows"

xeonmc — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:48:38 +0000

Hopefully these do not require a PhD to be implemented.

Comparing Tim Berners-Lee's Solid to ATProto's PDS (2025)

xeonmc — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:30:52 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.solidproject.org/t/comparing-solid-to-atproto-pds/9461

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48366432

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by xeonmc in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

xeonmc — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:19:59 +0000

Plot twist: in a few years all the indie and counterculture web appropriates .xxx domains to evade AI crawling and legislative interference.

New comment by xeonmc in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

xeonmc — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:06:08 +0000

The two are indistinguishable for all intents and purposes.

New comment by xeonmc in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

xeonmc — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:54:52 +0000

aerospace is operating at the absolute limit of what can be asked of known materials science

New comment by xeonmc in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

xeonmc — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:18:25 +0000

Or being forced into homelessness by Microsoft

New comment by xeonmc in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

xeonmc — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:41:24 +0000

Not "good enough", but rather "close enough". Very different connotations.

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

xeonmc — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:49:13 +0000

Is that the new "Designed by Apple in California" equivalent of "Made in China" euphemism but for vibecodes?

New comment by xeonmc in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

xeonmc — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:00:08 +0000

    Because democracy basically means, government, by the people, of the people, for the people. But the people are...

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