Hacker News: xxpor

New comment by xxpor in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

xxpor — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:24:45 +0000

It was on my machine at least, I remember I had to do an additional install to activate that tab...

New comment by xxpor in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

xxpor — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:21:33 +0000

No remotely western company will risk US sanctions violations or whatever other regulatory burden by using US technology where it can't be used. Even Chinese companies depending on how state backed they are might not be willing to risk it.

New comment by xxpor in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

xxpor — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:50:02 +0000

Do you really think the EU wants to sign up for PR that’s essentially “the US is being too mean to Russia” right now?

New comment by xxpor in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

xxpor — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:47:18 +0000

The RISC-V move was laughable. It’s still US tech, developed largely with DARPA funds.

New comment by xxpor in "I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab"

xxpor — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:50:14 +0000

I've been interested but the idea of SPI flasher recovery has always meant I've not bothered actually trying. Maybe I will finally on one of these old boards I have lying around..

New comment by xxpor in "I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab"

xxpor — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:50:19 +0000

Part of the problem is the absolute crap that most vendors throw on an AST2600 is even worse.

I will say iDRAC has been a lot more reliable for me, but the chance I'll ever buy a Dell server for home use is basically 0.

New comment by xxpor in "Serving Netflix Video Traffic at 400Gb/S and Beyond (2022) [pdf]"

xxpor — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:23:26 +0000

Stops Comcast from seeing the metadata and knowing exactly what their mutual customers are streaming.

New comment by xxpor in "Claude Platform on AWS"

xxpor — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:25:55 +0000

I've always wondered how this plays out in practice. I might certify that I have signing authority but I most certainly do not. What happens in the US (in Delaware?) when there's a dispute?

New comment by xxpor in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

xxpor — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:45:48 +0000

Half the point is that you should always assume that there exists a complete LPE bug.

But yes, micro VMs are a great idea!

New comment by xxpor in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

xxpor — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:44:35 +0000

Technically yes. Practically, I disagree.

New comment by xxpor in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

xxpor — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:27:28 +0000

Linux is a single user system and should be treated as such. Run your services as root. Don't rely on unix user primitives for security.

New comment by xxpor in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

xxpor — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:18:32 +0000

Oh, looks like Marvel came out with one too. I assume it'll work fine.

New comment by xxpor in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

xxpor — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:06:16 +0000

Yeah, the new ones have gotten much cheaper it seems. About a year ago they were ~2x.

New comment by xxpor in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

xxpor — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:46:14 +0000

Unfortunately the blog didn't link to the SFP+ module they're using, but everyone should know there's effectively 2 different generations of 10gbit sfp+ to ethernet^H10BASE-T modules. The old gen, labeled as 30 meters, draws ~3 W, and gets extremely hot (to the point it'll usually cause link flaps), and the newer gen, usually labeled as 100m or 80m, draws ~1.5 W, and runs much, much cooler.

Example of the new gen: https://www.amazon.com/Wiitek-Transceiver-Compatible-UF-RJ45...

Old gen: https://www.amazon.com/10Gtek-SFP-10G-T-S-Compatible-10GBase...

Typically the old gen uses a Marvell AQR113C, and the new gen uses a Broadcom chip that I forget the number of off hand.

New comment by xxpor in "Refuse to let your doctor record you"

xxpor — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:40:46 +0000

>For example, when the German healthcare system launched its central electronic patient record, I opted out. One more system that, once hacked, won't have anything on me stored in it.

I'll be sure to say a prayer at your funeral when you died due to an unknown drug interaction because of the lack of knowledge of your medical history in the emergency department of the random city you happen to be traveling through and get in a car accident.

I don't think people are good at estimating tail risks, let alone the 2nd order effects of them. If you opt out of the AI transcription, do you think the doc will spend a bunch of time doing it by hand for free? No, you'll just have a worse record.

New comment by xxpor in "Refuse to let your doctor record you"

xxpor — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:17:38 +0000

This was extremely unconvincing for me. The site is now 500ing for me, so I can't fully quote it, but the arguments about privacy just fall flat. You don't know about Epic's, or GE's, or Philips' security either. You have to trust the institution of HIPPA et al overall to at least make things right.

I really don't care if my recording becomes training data.

I would rather be spoken to like I'm not an idiot. Use technical terms please. I want precision.

Calling the US healthcare system underfunded might be the most wild part of the whole thing. We spend 5.3 trillion dollars a year. That's 17% of the entire economy.

New comment by xxpor in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

xxpor — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:28:38 +0000

No one's saying 100% of code will be LLM generated starting in June this year either though (at least if you're not named Dario or Sam).

New comment by xxpor in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

xxpor — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:27:07 +0000

>they are to some degree lossy compressors

Is this even a controversial statement? Seems very clearly correct to me.

My original point wasn't worried about the copyright though. I'm completely ignoring it for now because I do agree it's a problem until Congress says something (lol) or courts do.

New comment by xxpor in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

xxpor — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:17:14 +0000

Sure, a lot of people are incompetent. But the world generally works. Which is of course, the problem. The only time anything really gets questioned is when you start having a GitHub like 0 9s situation.

New comment by xxpor in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

xxpor — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:32:46 +0000

While I agree with this intuitively, I also just can't get past the argument that people said the same thing when we switched from everyone using ASM to C/Fortran etc.