Hacker News: yonatan8070

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Ask HN: Are most of you using HN Replies? Or what else do you use?"

yonatan8070 — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 04:30:09 +0000

I use Hacki [0], it shows a red dot next to the profile button when there are replies I didn't read yet.

[0] https://github.com/Livinglist/Hacki

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Ask HN: I'd like to request Microsoft open source Windows XP"

yonatan8070 — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 04:27:21 +0000

And I'd like to request 5 billion dollars be transferred to my account

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator"

yonatan8070 — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:15:51 +0000

> we don't have to miserly conserve every single bit and cycle.

Have you seen the memory prices recently? I'd say this attitude is what got us to a point where just loading up the OS takes 2-4GB.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth"

yonatan8070 — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 16:48:39 +0000

I'm just imagining some poor person getting a call about 100,000$ that's been transferred to their account without any idea how or why.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "The case of the 9 bit AES key"

yonatan8070 — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:34:35 +0000

On Linux you can just read from /dev/random, do other OSes not provide this?

What drives developers to reinvent these wheels? It's both more effort and worse.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "The case of the 9 bit AES key"

yonatan8070 — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:19:37 +0000

> Because very few 'end user' people know how to use en/decryption

That's the point, rather than PDF viewers implementing this, it should be an OS-wide UX, so that you could click any encrypted file and have a unified password prompt, regardless of whether it's a PDF, PNG, DOCX, etc.

And the same goes the other way, rather than having your PDF viewer implement the encryption UX, you should just have an "Encrypt with password" entry in your file manager's context menu.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates"

yonatan8070 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:09:57 +0000

My apologies. Thanks for the correction

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates"

yonatan8070 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:23:03 +0000

Exactly, I do this all the time for doing out-of-office demos with our company's robots.

I just set up my phone's hotspot to be the same SSID and password as the network the robots already know from the office, and I'll have the robots, a couple phones, and a laptop connected in 10 seconds.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates"

yonatan8070 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:18:47 +0000

Exactly, I've been to public places where the Wi-Fi password is on the wall and the router's admin password is "admin".

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates"

yonatan8070 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:07:26 +0000

TIL rouge means red in French

Either way, I mean rouge in the sense of an AP that uses the same SSID and password as the AP of a coffee shop or office to have devices automatically connect to it without their users noticing.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates"

yonatan8070 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:05:17 +0000

Even a simple rouge AP is enough to become a MITM for this.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "There are now 5 inference providers for abliterated DeepSeek"

yonatan8070 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:15:53 +0000

Not refusing requests doesn't mean they are zero-alignment. They could still have preferences for or against things that you might not agree with.

New comment by yonatan8070 in "How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed"

yonatan8070 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:18:41 +0000

SSH keys are great, and you should absolutely use them

But you should also just listen to the big warning that says "IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!"

New comment by yonatan8070 in "OpenBSD 8.0"

yonatan8070 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:46:57 +0000

Yes, all the way up to 6.19 in fact!

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Linux 7.3"

yonatan8070 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:00:46 +0000

How is that different from putting an app in a chroot jail or container?

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Linux 7.3"

yonatan8070 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:59:09 +0000

The kernel doesn't follow conventional semver practices, meaning that the major number incrementing has no effect beyong the minor number got too large. So there's nothing inherently different in a 7.X release from a 6.X release.

Either way, an LTS appears to be released ~every 6th version, 6.18 is the newest LTS, so after that there's 6.19, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 maybe LTS?

kernel.org has a nice FAQ about this topic.

https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions"

yonatan8070 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:06:13 +0000

Or just sending it a tiny zip bomb, or even just some sh*t right out of /dev/random

New comment by yonatan8070 in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

yonatan8070 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:30:09 +0000

> Traditional Judaism has this really weird (to me, a goy) emphasis on finding loopholes in rules.

As an atheist Jew, it's weird to me as well...

> stay "indoors" on, I think it was, the Shabbat

Can't say I'm familiar with that one. What I'm generally familiar with is that you're not allowed to "work" on Shabbat, and the definition of work is extremely broad. For example, lighting a fire is considered work, turning a light switch on creates a tiny spark between the contacts, that counts as fire, so it's work.

This extends to pretty much every electrical device, so for those who observe Shabbat, using a computer or phone, turning the AC on or off, is all disallowed.

As a result there are many workarounds as you've described, timers, non-Jews (though you can't ask directly! You can say "it's hot in here", but not "Please turn the AC on"), fridges without a light bulb inside, and more.

> they do this with all things, from a young age.

Religious families do, to varying degrees. But I've met plenty of extremely talented programmers and hackers who do not follow any of the Jewish law.

Edit: Just noticed your username, I also want to say I really like your projects on YouTube!

New comment by yonatan8070 in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

yonatan8070 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:12:55 +0000

Israel is not just one homogeneous people, there are some orthodox jews who study biblical texts, treat women as birthing machines, and (personal opinion) contribute little to our society.

Yes, orthodox jews are a significant part of the population (~1.4 million in 2025 [1]), and I wouldn't go there looking for modern ideas like women's rights, but go a couple km in any direction and you'd find completely different people, living modern lives just like in the rest of the western world. Schools, research universities (Tel Aviv University, Waitzmann Institue of Science, Technion), tech companies, startups, makerspaces, and many more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haredi_Judaism

New comment by yonatan8070 in "Tesla Roadster"

yonatan8070 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:13:27 +0000

The air tank has a feature called "only making like 10 of them... probably" which will significantly reduce the potential damage that could be caused.

Or, if I'm making up stuff as I go along, you can't crash, the car can just auto-takeoff to dodge whatever you were about to hit.