HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

xena

10,077 karma · joined July 24, 2014

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/xeiaso.net Blog: https://xeiaso.net email: hackernews@xeserv.us

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/xena; my proof: https://keybase.io/xena/sigs/FQWG1-ZoMRV-4vq1h8x0Vs0EK2VKP5QsRsECud4v7Zw ]

xena.at.hn

I'm starting to discontinue use of Hacker News. Please contact me over email if you want to catch up.

submissionscomments
xena··on Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
Hacker News marketing skills tell people to leave a context comment on Hacker News. Don't complain about it too much, that is our way of figuring out who is lazy in an obvious way!
xena··on Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
How do you plan to handle bad actors creating biblical amounts of servers dynamically and then spamming at line rate from all of those servers?
xena··on Microsoft drops Copilot+ branding from its new laptops
How much do you want to bet?
xena··on Self-Hosting on the Dark Web
Website impersonation/fronting is a big problem in onionland, this at least makes fronters need to take more effort.
xena··on Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]
Contact me at the email address in my HN account and we can arrange for a human with a soul and feelings to write the docs from scratch assuming you have a price in mind that values the nature of my talent and experience.
xena··on You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
I'm the author and content lead at Tigris. My policy for the team is "do not self post to hacker news".
xena··on Show HN: Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product?
As someone that works for a company that gets a 100% score on ax-check, all the effort I've put into making it accessible for agents has not 10xed the growth numbers like I was told it would.
xena··on An update on Wayback Machine access
They don't read robots.txt anyways so it doesn't matter.
xena··on An update on Wayback Machine access
Yes. It's impossible to tell which because the split is residential proxies, dataset curators, and AI companies all being separate actors. However I fucking guarantee you it's out there and people are too cowardly to be honest about it so they don't get sued out of existence.
xena··on An update on Wayback Machine access
AI bros think they should be exempt from robots.txt. Administrators of big services beg to differ. No solid consensus has arisen. I bet it's gonna take a lawsuit or two to see how it shakes out.
xena··on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
I did that too! The update servers are hammered as is tradition.
xena··on Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
Nope, leading.
xena··on Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
No I think it's one of my IP range blocks against specific US states in protest of them advocating against people that exist in the same conditions as me backfiring. I'm gonna go nuke that firewall rule.
xena··on Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
I think you accidentally a word. Did you mean:

> I've yet to have a logical discussion with anyone who thinks the "AI Safety" people should be in charge and I think they just truly don't [know] that what most them actually want is to be the one holding the keys to power.

xena··on Object storage is all you need
I've occasionally pitched the idea of exposing transactions for object storage based on bucket forking. I think the idea is finally starting to land, but it's a really "out there" usecase that is likely hard to conceptualize until it's usable in some form.
xena··on We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person
No, there is soul in this that a soulless automaton cannot replicate. It is the difference between making something to be consumed and something to be felt. This is something to be felt.
xena··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
Please submit a fix to cgit then.
xena··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
This is exactly what I've been working on. For obvious reasons around it not being done yet, I don't have anything else to say.
xena··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
If you don't disable browser features for fun and/or sport, Chrome as of version 120 or later (or another browser of that vintage) will use the optimized flow.
xena··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
Anubis does this. Happy Eyeballs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs), IPv6 privacy extensions (https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-01-15-ipv6-privacy-exte...), and devices migrating between home and mobile IP addresses as the person moves have all caused issues with this. Fixing this is hard, but I have been trying.
xena··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
It's in the range of 32-40Ki before compression. After compression it gets to be completely negligible.
xena··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
I assume that SIMD acceleration is usable with WebCrypto, but I have no evidence either way. It's also not part of WebAssembly so there's that to consider too lol
xena··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
Not only is it an example, it specifically is one of the first things I use to test experimental features so I get data back instantly.
xena··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
I don't mean to be rude, but please search "wasm2js" in the article.
xena··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
Look, if you're going out of your way to break expected behaviour on websites you shouldn't be surprised when people code to the most common denominator and then you have weird subtle breakage as a result.
xena··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
This is why there's the meta refresh challenge as an option: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challeng...

Turns out that in practice there's some bots that implement support for this but not JavaScript.

xena··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
Oops, there's your proof I didn't write this with AI! Fixing, sorry.
xena··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
Refresh, the Anubis docs site regenerates its cookie secret on every deploy as part of the "holy shit did I break everything?" verification step.
xena··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
One of the standard library rules enables robots.txt passthrough by default. I can't control people not choosing to use it.
xena··on It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
I want to do this eventually, but it's hard to split things into the micro-tasks that would be required to make this work on Anubis. One of the ideas I'm throwing around is a world where Anubis helps fuzz old games to find timesaves in tool-assisted speedruns. It's harder than you think.
Page 1 of 34Next →