Hacker News: yaris

New comment by yaris in "Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory"

yaris — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:45:58 +0000

In my experience any software system (not just operating system) after crossing a certain limit on complexity and age looks exactly as hodgepodge of code pieces thrown together, sometimes from different sources even if developed by one org. All major OSs have long crossed those limits, I believe.

New comment by yaris in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

yaris — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:29:00 +0000

I imagine that if a company really denied a customer due to disagreement on some views there would be similar flood of comments like "my views is my problem, I pay you money you must do business with me". Maybe I'm wrong though

New comment by yaris in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

yaris — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:09:16 +0000

They got 43.9% in what Wikipedia marks as "semi-free yet questionable election". Also more correct question IMHO would be "was the NSDAP extreme in 1933?" and the answer is probably "no as much as by today's standards".

New comment by yaris in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

yaris — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:38:59 +0000

A thought experiment:

Let's think of the other extreme as well: exactly the same excellent VPN service, is run by an almost-the-best-person-in-the-world who has just one small quirk that makes them not 100% perfect for you (they pat kittens not as often as you'd like them to do). Obviously there is a border between your extreme and mine, which border defines "use" and "no use" cases for you. And now: wherever this border is - should it be the same for everyone?

New comment by yaris in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

yaris — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:22:41 +0000

According to polls[0] the party gets ~20% votes in their region. IMHO 20% of voters can't be "extreme" [0] https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/orebro/orebropartiet-nast-... (swedish)

New comment by yaris in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

yaris — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:01:40 +0000

This sounds a bit irrational. Where does "wealthy" start? Mullvad co-CEO donated ~ $500K, would him donating $100K have the same effect? What about $10K? What if a Mullvad _employee_ donated $500K?

New comment by yaris in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

yaris — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:41:04 +0000

I try to turn it other way in my head, like if Mullvad got to know somehow political views of some of their customers and say "We don't like what you say, so we decide to end our business with you. We don't want our infra to be used to spread opinions like yours."

New comment by yaris in "Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party"

yaris — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:56:54 +0000

The quote is taken out of context. The sentence starts with "Youngsters that are criminals - they should get out". And before "walk over corpses" he says that "they got swedish passports but have not become swedish [culturally]. They are not interested in it".

New comment by yaris in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

yaris — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:45:29 +0000

He says what is quoted when talking about criminals with immigrant roots. "Those [criminals] - they should get out, even if they were born in Sweden, because they do not have a connection to Sweden. They received a swedish passport but they have not become swedish [as belonging to swedish culture]. They are not interested [in becoming swedish] and here I'm ready to go on corpses...". Overall his stance on immigration (taken from this video) is not as extreme as one can imagine reading HN comments. It is extreme but not to the extent that he's ready to push out anyone whos granddad was not Andersson.

New comment by yaris in "What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?"

yaris — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:10:03 +0000

From all I've read or heard about birth rate rise the measures that sociologists see as the most effective are: provide cheap housing and pay much more to families (i.e. mostly to women) with children to compensate for their loss of potential career. The latter has a twist that the payment should start (or significantly increase) with the birth of the second child (and continue to rise with the third etc). Paying for the first child does next to nothing to the birth rate. Some countries already do that, but the amount of money poured into this should increase by order(s) of magnitude to achieve the replacement level. Or we can go full medieval - completely deprive women of education possibilities and financial independence, like Taliban does.

New comment by yaris in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

yaris — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:50:49 +0000

Works of Shinichi Mochizuki immediately come to mind. He is not AI but provides very good examples of math that is useless because it is incomprehensible by (other) humans.

New comment by yaris in "Protestware for coding agents"

yaris — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:12:08 +0000

In the RN for the latest release it states: Breaking Changes Use of jqwik >= 1.10 with coding agents is strongly discouraged. Jqwik’s output to stdout may confuse AI-based agents.

So to me it is malware as much as the "rm" command is malware - if used without understanding and reading docs it can wipe all your data.

New comment by yaris in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

yaris — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:16:33 +0000

Yes, nothing and the facts that these are government services, they use BankID and they updated their websites with "maintenance work" announcements for tomorrow, Saturday. For kronofogden.se there was no maintenance planned just half an hour ago. Knowing swedish tendency to plan things months ahead I would _guess_ that this maintenance work has been rushed due to some circumstances.

New comment by yaris in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

yaris — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:37:45 +0000

Knowing swedish people's mindset I'm not surprised at all by the breach. What can be mildly surprising is that no major e-gov service has expressed concerns on their websites. Only on skatteverket.se, which is Swedish Tax Service website, there is a vague note on "maintenance work" planned for coming Saturday. Maybe totally unrelated though.

New comment by yaris in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

yaris — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:30:19 +0000

I would guess that skatteverket.se, polisen.se, kronofogden.se are among those affected by the leak.

New comment by yaris in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

yaris — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:27:02 +0000

As if it ever happened that a breached company admitted immediately that they've just been fucked.

New comment by yaris in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

yaris — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:00:37 +0000

The Internet is _not_ for talking to people across the globe. The Internet allows that, but not only that - one can have a Whatsapp chat with someone in the same bus, this is both legal and technically possible. The bitchat app serves the niche where talking face to face is not an option and talking across the globe is not needed. And the app explicitly states "infrastructure independence" as one of its design goals: "the network remains functional during internet outages", which cannot be served by internet-based apps by design.

New comment by yaris in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

yaris — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:41:22 +0000

It depends on the country you're in, obviously. I've been to countries where protests are illegal (even 1-man protests with a blank sheet of paper).

New comment by yaris in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

yaris — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:24:21 +0000

Any situation when mobile internet cannot be used. That is not only protests, but also legal gatherings, i.e. street concerts, or places where mobile coverage is poor in general.

New comment by yaris in "Provenance Is the New Version Control"

yaris — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:19:17 +0000

What is conceptually different between prompts and code? Code is also not always what the computer will do, declarative programming languages are an example here. The only difference I see is that special precaution should be taken to get deterministic output from AI, but that's doable.