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nikolay
8,836karma·4,512submissions·March 16, 2007
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Un provocateur extraordinaire.
A blatant cynic.
Unorthodox Orthodox Christian.
Opinions are my own.
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Interests: AI/ML, Cybersecurity, DevOps, Entrepreneurship, Hacking, Healthcare, Mobile Development, Open Source, Philosophy, Programming, Remote Work, Research, Science, Space Tech, Startups, Technology, Web Development
recent activity (4,512 total)
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5,000 domain names at $10+/domain... They still give me the best price, plus their domain brokerage service is the best.
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GoDaddy stole several domains from me. And they've acknowledged it. It was through an Afternic exploit. They still haven't fixed it, even though I've disclosed it. They returned the two…
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Yes - GNU/Linux [0] as Linux is just the kernel. [0]: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html …
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Me, too! I first thought it was just clickbait, but then I realized it was the author's genuine thought, which is sad. I wonder why the popular Linux distro ranking site DistroWatch [0] is not ca…
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Yours is a distro. Period. When you create your own kernel, then you can make bold claims like "I created an OS," when you haven't. Be humble, and you'll be more successful. Linus …
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It's behind an invite wall with a shady X scheme to repost and comment and get somebody else to steal your invite. But then you will keep posting comments to get new invites.
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Why did you remove the source code?
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Calling a custom Linux build a brand-new OS is like a car tuner claiming they built a new car. You didn't build the engine or the chassis; you just tuned it and gave it a custom paint job. It…
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Current drones, without modifications, are vulnerable, but it's cheap and easy to modify them. Plus, this doesn't work in humid weather either. It's another "wonder weapon" th…
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This is a Linux distro, not an OS!
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This is Hacker News, and launches here are taken seriously - you don't release too early, that's it! Do you even know what the concept of MVP is?! Go post on Facebook to get positive "f…
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So, there's not even a login feature! You start creating a new profile, and then you can associate an Apple account, and then it overwrites everything! There's no way to search for people an…
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It's not even a good iOS app, to be honest. I can vibe-code this in an hour and get a more visually-pleasing app with Android support, too. They only have a good domain with plenty of nostalgia, …
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A nice and familiar domain with tons of nostalgia, but the app isn't even an MVP! You can vibe code something way richer in less than a day, to be honest! If this took you months, then, wow!
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Let me take this back - you are probably grandfathered into having Claude Code in your Pro plan though! Now I feel sorry I upgraded to Max as I could've kept Pro, just in case, but now I will jus…
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It was all over the Hacker News, but they do have a $100/mo Max plan. But so does OpenAI now, too. I guess companies assume people are willing to cough up hundreds of dollars per month, and we ar…
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Plus, I don't like Anthropic allowing "chosen people" to access models - OpenAI would offer anything to anybody who's willing to pay for it, and that's a real business. Anthro…
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Yes, even 5.4 was better.
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I can agree. ChatGPT 5.5 made this a no-brainer choice. Anthropic are idiots removing Claude Code from the Pro plan. They need to ask Claude if what they did was a natural intelligence bug! Greed kill…
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It was beyond the obvious since the moment they announced it, but I guess people love miracles.
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No support for browser profiles, so sticking with alternatives... for now.
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They didn't launch an app per se - they've released the source code of such app. So, let's be more precise on the terminology, please!
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Absolutely ridiculous. Their shoes business was going in the wrong direction - they started to offer plasticwear - and recently had to return a lot of merchandise as they didn't bother to put on …
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It's mostly a marketing hype...
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I am fully aware of that. Rewriting commits of code already pushed to production with container images, etc., is just crazy. And GitHub charges an arm and a leg for Advanced Security. And it ignored m…
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So, suddenly, you see, open-source projects, which thousands of hackers have been trying to hack for decades, are gonna get hacked by an LLM. I need to see at least one such mitigation by Mythos, then…
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Yup! It's so scary good we're not gonna sell it - change our minds... by investing gazillions of dollars. Well, one thing is for sure: if it exists, Palantir will be using it!
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The only security incident I've had in my career was due to Git Butler - it committed temporary files into GitHub without me explicitly approving it! Of course, it was a private repository, but s…
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I didn't know, and I thought only @dang was working on HN. You must agree that at least some basic features, like a dark theme and indicators for new comments, could be easily handcrafted or impl…