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denkmoonon The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

Of course, they are miraculous. Nor would I consider hand washing the majority of my clothes. Not everything is machine suitable though :(

denkmoonon Firefox Enterprise

It's absolutely insane to me that more orgs aren't rolling out things like uBlock Origin. In fact, at my bigbrain sillycunt valley job I am forbidden by policy from installing it (though no technical control in place). It's the simplest, highest ROI protection you can use on the web imo.

denkmoonon Redesigning source control at Anthropic

Don’t let adversarial agents work on your code?? What is protecting an ADR against adversarial agents going to solve if they can just embed a highly advanced, obfuscated ‘rm -rf windows32’ anyway

denkmoonon AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers

Claude's gonna love my 256mb raspberry pi!

denkmoonon Thinking will become a hobby

Maybe. This reminds me of the Asimov short story "It's Such a Beautiful Day". Teleportation became so normalised in this fictional society that using a regular door and going outside is seen as deviant.

denkmoonon Thinking will become a hobby

Can't speak to the UK experience but in Australia, the nature of in-branch assistance has changed but IMO for the better. No more standing in line waiting for Nanna to get her pension out. I book an appointment online, rock up, get my limit raised or whatever, bam done.

denkmoonon Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?

DD-WRT specifically includes drivers/firmware blobs that OpenWRT can't/doesn't. Mostly broadcom stuff afaik.

denkmoonon Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis

That the rich don't want to be taxed, obviously. and manage to convince a voting plurality that they shouldn't.

denkmoonon The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

Using AI for everything digital, I end up going and doing chores while waiting for the LLM to do its thing. What an insane world, where knowledge work (dreary and uninspired as it is) is automated while I am consigned to scrubbing dishes and waiting for the machine.

denkmoonon New gTLD Application for .lan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_domain

Your DHCP/SLAAC RA tells clients "here is a list of search domains, when you attempt to query a bare name, also look for the name plus any suffixes listed in the search domain list". So on a system with "home.arpa" in the search domains, you can do something like 'ping myhost' and your system should attempt to resolve 'myhost.home.arpa'.

denkmoonon New gTLD Application for .lan

Wake up to what? The fact ICANN have failed in their governance responsibilities by not encoding a widely used defacto private namespace into the reserved namespace RFC and considering delegating it publicly?

denkmoonon New gTLD Application for .lan

or we could just not publicly delegate a defacto private space?

Search domain is handy but it's ambiguous.

denkmoonon New gTLD Application for .lan

ICANN _are_ the DNS police? They author DNS RFCs, they manage namespace delegation.

Community groups can make their own competing DNS hierarchy and governing body and perhaps should but I don't think saying ICANN aren't responsible here is reasonable.

denkmoonon New gTLD Application for .lan

The character count. lan is 3 char, home.arpa is 9. Subjectively, tt is also aesthetically unappealing.

I can't fucking _wait_ to type bender.home.arpa instead of bender.lan. Hyped.

denkmoonon Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

I use the frontier openai/anthropic models at work but exclusively open weight models (on cloud/hosted inference) for personal stuff and I think about it like this; 1) I don't see any reason GLM and DeepSeek won't eventually be as good as Claude, it's just a matter of time and 2) the open models are well and truly capable enough for most of what I'd want to do. I don't need nor want an LLM chewing away on a horrible enterprise spaghetti codebase, my employers can pay for that privilege.

denkmoonon Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

You don't need separate VLANs, wifi isolation and firewalls. You need to reconsider putting a coffee machine on the internet lol.

denkmoonon Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

PowerDNS so I have direct control over my public namespace.

Xray proxy so my BYO phone can get to the internet through work's BYO wifi.

HTTPS so I can share screenshots, images and files without relying on some other schmuck's computer.

denkmoonon New gTLD Application for .lan

Same. An I use .lan internally. I'm tilted.

denkmoonon New gTLD Application for .lan

not putting lan in the most recent update to the reserved private namespace was a massive miss. It is defacto a reserved private namespace.

denkmoonon Ask HN: How would you feel if we nationalized Google?

So Mozilla suits can piss it up the wall buying Pocket and making snake oil VPNs?

denkmoonon Ask HN: How would you feel if we nationalized Google?

The problem is the monopoly not the private nature of the enterprise. Bust that trust.

denkmoonon Web Search API

1. Become monopolistic "guardian" of the internet

2. Make it so other bots can't load pages

3. Offer service for "verified" bots which can load pages

4. ???

5. Profit

Don't use cloudflare.

denkmoonon Dear Software Makers

"The algorithm" is quite powerful. Most of my view time comes from long form content, between 30 minutes and 2hrs. Sometimes it can be a struggle to get it to show me a 10 minute video I can watch over breakfast or something. What Youtube pushes people towards is not uniform

denkmoonon Homebrew 7.0.0

I’ve really been enjoying nix as my package manager on macos. It’s on a separate volume so feels even more isolated from clobbering my macos and has, in my uninformed opinion, better sandboxing and reproducible builds

denkmoonon Splash-free urinals (2025)

I don’t care if my bare thighs were coated in the most potent prophylaxis known to man, I am not sitting on another man’s piss and or shit.

denkmoonon Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

cool, thanks :)

denkmoonon Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

yeah I wouldn't be able to put food on the table if my employer didn't have exclusive license to the glue we use to stick together all that open source code we rely on. Which we now generate exclusively using AI, products of which are of unclear copyright status.

Modern IP law inhibits productivity more than it helps, imo. LLMs have fundamentally changed our line of work, and they have done so by completely ignoring the existing legal framework for IP. We should not defend the current implementation just because some people might suffer reduced earning potential.

denkmoonon Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?

Excuse me for being dense but I'd love to know more, if you can share. So you offer a voice agent for checking appointments and orders and stuff, is that through your app or website or something? So you make a button in your app which says "talk to our AI", and you've got the button set up so that it can send the customer's input query, along with a bit of text saying "our MCP is here, use it to answer the query", to any one of the voice agent providers? then you get some audio data in return that you play to the user?

denkmoonon Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

Exactly. Without Claude and GPT, we'd be limited to Grok. A lot of ink has been spilled telling us exactly how to use Sonnet, Opus, Sol or Luna in certain scenarios, Grok hasn't ever been recommended by our pointy haired friends even once.

denkmoonon Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

>They get rewarded because they appear to move fast, eventually become management, and the whole thing gets worse as time goes on.

We've got a winner. Devs respond to the incentives set by management, and the message I have received loud and clear, my entire career, despite protestation, is that I should ship faster and not worry about bugs so much, big or small.

That I take pride in what I do is the only reason motivating me to not ship bugs. That and the thought of being the cause of an incident makes me physically ill, even though we have "blameless culture".