Hacker News: y7

New comment by y7 in "Cryptography in Home Entertainment (2004)"

y7 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:51:57 +0000

The link to cryptanalysis details is no longer working. Here's an alternative: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/FrankStevenson/analysis.ht...

New comment by y7 in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

y7 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:44:47 +0000

That's also CalRobert's post, so it refers to the same person.

New comment by y7 in "Anyone have experiences with Audio Induction Loops?"

y7 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:24:06 +0000

Why is Auracast not ready yet?

New comment by y7 in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

y7 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:57:57 +0000

> The obvious solution is to make it tax-deductible.

Or make employer paid health insurance count as income and therefore not tax-deductible.

New comment by y7 in "Does my key fob have more computing power than the Lunar lander?"

y7 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:08:54 +0000

I guess even a disposable vape has more computing power than the Lunar lander. (I don't know if that's more or less ridiculous than a key fob, but at least a key is not so disposable.)

New comment by y7 in "Signal Secure Backups"

y7 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:59:05 +0000

Without paying for remote backups, can I just manage my own backup on my own hard drive, and restore it when I want to?

New comment by y7 in "The issue of anti-cheat on Linux (2024)"

y7 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 08:37:38 +0000

> Honestly I feel like you should only use kernel anticheat on a dedicated machine that's kept 100% separate from any of your personal data. That's a lot to ask of people, but you really shouldn't have anything you don't consider public data on the same hardware.

Yes, and at that point, you may as well use Windows for that machine.

New comment by y7 in "What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)"

y7 — Mon, 19 May 2025 06:51:21 +0000

Also, "extremely rich" is like "extremely successful in life" to a lot of people. But for the latter, emotional connections are also important.

New comment by y7 in "Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers"

y7 — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 16:54:03 +0000

Are you sure? Because last I checked OpenSnitch used different techniques from namespaces, that seemed more brittle to me.

New comment by y7 in "Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?"

y7 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:16:48 +0000

Is the Japanese diet so full of ultra-processed foods?

Couldn't quickly find a source for Japan, but this meta-study [1, see Table 1] gives a list of the percentage of UPFs per national diet. It lists Korea (25.1%) and Taiwan (19.5%), which may be relatively close. Anyway, the US comes in at 58%, clearly a big difference.

1: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8538030/

New comment by y7 in "Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos"

y7 — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 11:25:09 +0000

I have built and used this setup before, and I would consider buying this anyway just to for the smoother UX.

New comment by y7 in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

y7 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:14:43 +0000

I guess, from a Western-European perspective, the problem is that with the choice of Democrats and Republicans you get the choice between right-wing and ultra right-wing. Having right-wing politics that funnel money from the poor to the rich, or the tenants to the landlords, is in the interest of the financial backers of both parties. Messaging-wise, the Democrats have always been "more honest" (low bar, it's hard to be more dishonest/convoluted than Trump anyway), so maybe that's why Trump seems to come out ahead there.

New comment by y7 in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

y7 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:05:20 +0000

What I don't get is how the bar for the Democrats seems to be so much higher than for Trump. Sure, "the typical man" is more easily validated by Trump than Harris, but at the same time Trump says much worse things about women than Harris about men. I can see how the Harris seems more "elitist" in a way than Trump, but to me that seems like a subtle negative versus Trump's long list of very obvious flaws.

How does the hatred for the Democrats get so big?

New comment by y7 in "M4 MacBook Pro"

y7 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 21:48:40 +0000

When it stops working great. My 2014 Macbook is about due for an upgrade, mostly due to the GPU struggling with a 4K screen.

New comment by y7 in "Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms"

y7 — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 16:21:43 +0000

Synthetic data can never contain more information than the statistical model from which it is derived: it is simply the evaluation of a non-deterministic function on the model parameters. And the model parameters are simply a function of the training data.

I don't see how you can "bootstrap a smarter model" based on synthetic data from a previous-gen model this way. You may as well well just train your new model on the original training data.

New comment by y7 in "Meritocracy at Scale"

y7 — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 12:08:52 +0000

The interesting question is not the choice between diversity and merit, but how you attract and select the most meritorious candidates in a setting where your company overwhelmingly skews towards one demographic, given that people are more likely to hire others that are similar to them (and conversely, potential candidates are not likely to join companies when there are no people similar to them).

New comment by y7 in "Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products"

y7 — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:11:56 +0000

I don't think this is a matter of merely re-shipping the same products. For example, if you look at poultry, the Netherlands imported 240 M€ worth of live poultry and exported 2300 M€.

https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2021/25/the-netherlands-is-the...

New comment by y7 in ""PayPal took $80k from me and banned me""

y7 — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 11:10:04 +0000

Punitive damages are not a thing in a large part of the world. In particular in the European countries where Paypal or some of its subsidiaries reside.

New comment by y7 in "I Stopped Using Passwords. It's Great–and a Total Mess"

y7 — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 10:09:31 +0000

The reason you're getting downvotes is because your comment is irrelevant. The point of the article is the transition of passwords to passkeys. Minimizing the number of accounts you have has absolutely nothing to do with that. If the point of the article was about optimizing your online security posture, and passkeys as a method for that, then your comment would be more relevant.

The reason no one replies and just downvotes, is because we don't want to clutter up the discussion with even more irrelevant comments. Usually I'd do the same, but for the chance that you are really commenting in good faith and not a troll, I thought I'd present you with a learning opportunity.

New comment by y7 in "Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly"

y7 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 07:05:33 +0000

Amazon Prime Video is even worse, on Linux they only serve 480p. Any pirated file is much better quality.