Hacker News: ycombinatrix

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs"

ycombinatrix — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:42:22 +0000

Web of trust required a lot of work by users and was pretty bad in practice. This isn't that.

This would effectively be the same "root CAs come pre-installed" but they would be notaries rather than root CAs, with a predefined trust policy (maybe minimum of 2 notaries per leaf certificate)

Users would still just see a green lock icon same as before, no action needed.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case"

ycombinatrix — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:40:44 +0000

The rest of them presumably wanted to continue doing business in the UK & did not want to IP-block the entire country.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Go will reject certificate chains containing eight distrusted SPKIs"

ycombinatrix — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:43:23 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_(SSL)

shame it wasn't adopted. rent seeking CAs would never go for it.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

ycombinatrix — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:23:27 +0000

Depends on the type of bankruptcy.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)"

ycombinatrix — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:24:39 +0000

Wow you weren't kidding. It is really well done.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

ycombinatrix — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:24:53 +0000

There are projects that do this already e.g. https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate

New comment by ycombinatrix in "A single license fee of £100k.00"

ycombinatrix — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:02:07 +0000

You can still get arrested for it in Missouri: https://missouriindependent.com/2022/02/11/prosecutor-isnt-p...

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage"

ycombinatrix — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:56:46 +0000

That's such an insane response from the government. Why the hell are they printing, cutting and photocopying emails?

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Show HN: Google Maps Scraper MCP"

ycombinatrix — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:09:40 +0000

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?"

ycombinatrix — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:03:02 +0000

I don't get spam from a variety of languages.

The only foreign language spam I got was from Pokemon Go after I played it while visiting France & Spain. I received French and Spanish emails from them for years.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "192GB Framework Desktop open for pre-order"

ycombinatrix — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:59:31 +0000

Wow. Having to disassemble & reassemble your entire laptop for that sounds annoying as hell.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "192GB Framework Desktop open for pre-order"

ycombinatrix — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:58:42 +0000

What was the laptop debacle? I know people were upset over sponsoring DHH.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?"

ycombinatrix — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:45:22 +0000

Doesn't explain why the email was in German.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips"

ycombinatrix — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:52:09 +0000

like what Android shows when the bootloader is unlocked

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

ycombinatrix — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:52:03 +0000

How did it become sluggish?

New comment by ycombinatrix in "IPFS Maintainers Winding Down"

ycombinatrix — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:46:06 +0000

developers, not end users

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

ycombinatrix — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:37:14 +0000

>Anyone can build a custom extension to do anything an extension is allowed to do

Yes, that's why google moved to manifest v3 and extensions can't do as much.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

ycombinatrix — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:24:05 +0000

run a redlib instance, bots hit these hard: https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search"

ycombinatrix — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:34:07 +0000

No, I saw you take the $5. Good luck convincing the police you didn't.

New comment by ycombinatrix in "Web Scraper Bright Data Sets $1M 'Bug Bounty' as Industry Scrutinized"

ycombinatrix — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:03:46 +0000

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