Hacker News: yangm97

New comment by yangm97 in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

yangm97 — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:19:56 +0000

Should’ve used Monero or something lmao

New comment by yangm97 in "Ferrari Luce"

yangm97 — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:59:47 +0000

Looks like a sneaker with wheels.

New comment by yangm97 in "Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads"

yangm97 — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:24:00 +0000

The comparison doesn’t even make sense. Reddit is a centralized platform, not a protocol. I won’t say it’s impossible to censor something like nostr but good luck with that.

New comment by yangm97 in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

yangm97 — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:55:52 +0000

I’m using nix for managing npm dependencies in a project and it seems like I accidentally got some protection from these attacks because of the nix sandbox. Looks like I got more than I begged for.

New comment by yangm97 in "Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads"

yangm97 — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:58:57 +0000

Oh I see plenty of people complaining but only a few are willing to try another platform like nostr or mastodon or whatever else.

“I don’t want a solution, I want to be mad”

New comment by yangm97 in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

yangm97 — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:17:11 +0000

If AI writes your code, why use frameworks?

New comment by yangm97 in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

yangm97 — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:40:48 +0000

If people spent 5 minutes googling decentralized alternatives to stuff they would realize they don’t need to build anything, just pick something and use.

New comment by yangm97 in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

yangm97 — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:37:25 +0000

No, email is federated, what he described is clearly p2p.

New comment by yangm97 in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

yangm97 — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:36:00 +0000

Have a look at Keet, it’s a p2p IM app, works on mobile and desktop, behind NAT and all. To be honest it’s not even the only app in this game.

It just seems like nobody cares about these things until the frog already boiled.

New comment by yangm97 in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

yangm97 — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:25:10 +0000

Siri fell behind because the bean counters at Cupertino didn’t want to spend on it, this is well documented and has nothing to do with privacy.

New comment by yangm97 in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

yangm97 — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:20:50 +0000

It should be possible, they issue CPF numbers even for tourists if you want.

New comment by yangm97 in "Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely"

yangm97 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:07:13 +0000

Video interview with the Salmon in question https://youtu.be/dDj7DuHVV9E

New comment by yangm97 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

yangm97 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:39:16 +0000

Unrelated note but, cheap/midrange phones are a scam, you almost always get better value purchasing a second hand premium one.

New comment by yangm97 in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

yangm97 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:13:56 +0000

Guess it’s a bit of both.

Whenever I said “this is a website, not an app” I would get confused looks from designers.

UX people fight some of the BS, but “looking pretty” usually wins over “being useful”.

New comment by yangm97 in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

yangm97 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 05:49:50 +0000

That’s because designers stopped caring about following each platform’s guidelines because they want to spread “brand recognition” or some shit like that.

New comment by yangm97 in "Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference"

yangm97 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:12:46 +0000

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New comment by yangm97 in "Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day"

yangm97 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:05:32 +0000

That doesn’t answer the point I’m making. If the instance your account was made on explodes, YOU lose your social graph, wether some of your posts survive cached elsewhere is not relevant, your account is gone, and so are your connections.

You have no way to prove an account made after the original instance went down belongs to someone, that’s the issue with federated systems.

As for content moderation, in nostr relay operators such as nostr.build handle legal takedowns on a daily basis, SSB is a little trickier since it’s mostly p2p but pubs are still able to control what flows through them to some degree.

New comment by yangm97 in "Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day"

yangm97 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:40:21 +0000

This is half true. If mastodon.social goes down every single one of the accounts made on that instance go down as well. In truly decentralized protocols you own your identity and can take it elsewhere, for instance, in Nostr and SSB, a relay/pub going down is no big deal since you can connect to other servers and maintain communications.

New comment by yangm97 in "Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day"

yangm97 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:28:44 +0000

Nostr has the highest count of AI boosters per square meter I’ve ever seen, yet nobody seems to be DDoS’ing that.

New comment by yangm97 in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

yangm97 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:04:46 +0000

The reason: Skill issue.