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dsl

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About dsl

It is very likely you will use at least one product or service today that I played a key role in.

This is my HN account where I can share my thoughts anonymously. You can email me at my HN specific account: dsl @ fea.st

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    Comment #49160910

    > but are they functionally useful or helpful to anyone currently? I've been building a SaaS that deals with data that can't be distributed to third parties. Some of the useful AI …

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    Comment #49091824

    Seeing as Apple is sunsetting a program that is far superior as a consumer, the two are not unrelated.

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    Comment #48910377

    General compute is also the worst solution to the problem. Nvidia's entire business is dependent on Google not being able to make TPUs fast enough.

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    Comment #48887662

    Put simply government officials created a scheme to buy up a bunch of unused water rights, then use state and federal dollars to pay themselves incentives to continue not using the…

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    Comment #48887046

    Here is your easy solution: Per employee tax = $0.20 * commute_miles * 2 * (commute_miles / 10)^2 * mandated_office_days_per_year * (1 + 2 * share_of_workforce_over_10_miles)^2 Tec…

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    Comment #48769448

    THIS IS A GRIFT. Joel Ferry, the executive director of Utah's DNR retooled state laws to allow water right leasing and promoted HB187 which allows you to hold water rights without …

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    Comment #48769176

    Criminal prosecution isn't even an issue because it does not extend to the executives. PG&E somehow keeps paying fines to resolve murder charges. https://liberationnews.org/pges-ra…

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    Comment #48539783

    A webpage cannot provide a system I/O device (camera, microphone, speaker, etc.). That requires a signed driver on MacOS.

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    Comment #48539709

    Heh. I built "Fusion" a few months ago as an MCP using OpenRouter. The idea was to give Claude a "panel of experts" to go talk to when it got stuck. After extensive testing and ben…

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    Comment #48486905

    TLDR: Adafruit found out Flux was being dishonest about their user numbers. They also found and responsibly disclosed that they could get their Firebase keys by opening up Chrome's…

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    Comment #48467269

    > pretty sure this is stems from the insane US legal requirement to not export SSL technology to enemy countries This is most likely OFAC. Lets Encrypt could apply for a license to…

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    Comment #48455263

    That is like saying you can't get a virus on your computer because Facebook doesn't allow viruses to be posted to the internet. Differential parsing is a whole class of security bu…

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    Comment #48406572

    You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become Akamai. The reason everyone came running when Cloudflare first started was obviously the "burn VC money to gain ma…

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    Comment #48367915

    > Yeah, but Google has the money for this. They are quite literally the most profitable company in the world. "Alphabet announced that its 2026 capital expenditures are expected to…

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    Comment #48366101

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    Comment #48123681

    Compelling Microsoft to turn off your Office 365 at least requires Microsoft to be complicit. Sovereign infrastructure didn't protect Venezuela or Iran.

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    Comment #48123511

    Which is just wildly backwards. It is the same mindset of the cyberpunk "privacy advocates" of the early 2000s, move your stuff to Sealand or Switzerland. The fundamental flaw with…

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    Comment #48118794

    gLinux already exists. Its meh. ChromeOS was honestly the best they could do.

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    Comment #48101051

    The internet worked for so long because people responsible for each little island did what was for the most part in the best interests of the rest of the islands. If you didn't, ot…

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    Comment #48010364

    Yes. At this layer the OS has no say in the matter.

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    Comment #48006596

    > The first is what a cellular network does for tracking a user. It's not returning a set of GPS coordinates. From the perspective of someone working on the RF side of cellular net…

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    Comment #47972025

    It is missing the most important function. If the first tile you build is a lobby in the bottom left corner, it is supposed to double your starting money. :)

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    Comment #47886491

    Not exactly. Security patches aren't like bugs or features where you can just roll a new version. Often patches need to be backported to older versions allowing software and librar…

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    Comment #47858789

    I never doubted for a second that someone at the DoJ wrote a bunch of words. Unfortunately we have good cause to call them into question.