You know that's not what he meant. the world is always changing. it was designed in 1998 by networking gear companies, with their own company needs in mind. It wasn't engineered with end user, or even network administrators and app developers in mind.
The only reason it's around is because of sunken cost fallacy and people stuck in decades old tech-debt. A new protocol designed today will be different, much the same as how Rust is different than Ada. SD-WAN wasn't a thing in 1998, the cost of chips and the demand of mobile customers wasn't a thing. supply/demand economics have changed the very requirments behind the protocol.
Even concepts like source and destination addressing should be re-thought. The very concept of a network layer protocol that doesn't incorporate 0RTT encryption by default is ridiculous in 2026. Even protocols like ND, ARP, RA, DHCP and many more are insecure by default. Why is my device just trusting random claims that a neighbor has a specific address without authentication? Why is it connecting to a network (any! wired,wireless, why does it matter, this is a network layer concern) without authenticating the network's security and identity authority? I despise the corporatized term "zero trust" but this is what it means more or less.
People don't talk about security, trust, identity and more, because ipv6 was designed to save networking gear vendors money, and any new costly features better come with revenue streams like SD-WAN hosting by those same companies. There are lots and lots of new things a new layer-3 protocol could bring to the scene. But security aside, the main thing would be replacing numbered addressing with identity-based addressing.
It all comes down to how much money it costs the participants of the RFC committees. given how dependent the world is on this tech, I'm hoping governments intervene. It's sad that this is the tech we're passing to future generations. We'll be setting up colonies on mars, and troubleshooting addressing and security issues like it's 2005.
> it was designed in 1998 by networking gear companies
That's false. Firstly, rfc1883 was published in 1995 which means work started some time before that, and the RFC process included operating system vendors and RIR administrators. The primary author of rfc1883 worked at Xerox Parc, and the primary author of rfc1885 worked at DEC. Neither were networking gear companies.
No, I think proposed, draft and internet standard all have specific meanings we don't need to debate over. Your claim that IPv6 was first proposed in 1995 is correct, as is my claim that it was first accepted in 1998. No one actually uses a proposed standard, but when it is draft people start implementing it and giving feedback over issues until it is fully ratified is my understanding (correct me if that's wrong please).
>There are lots and lots of new things a new layer-3 protocol could bring to the scene. But security aside, the main thing would be replacing numbered addressing with identity-based addressing
I don't know much about MPLS and only know IP routing, but that quote above sounds very hand-waving. How do you route "identity based addressing"?
Not to mention authenticated identity-based routing would mean embedding trusted centralized authorities into even deeper network layers. That is such a mess for TLS, after CAs started going rogue we've basically ended up with Google, a shitty ad company, deciding who should be trusted because they control Chrome.
Not at all, it doesn't even need to be PKI. But if it was, your routers would be the CA. Or more practically, whatever device is responsible for addressing, also responsible as the authority over those addresses. Your DHCP server would also be the CA for your LAN. Even a simple ND/ARP would require a claim (something like a short byte value end-devices can lookup/cache) that allows it to make that "the address x.x.x.x is at <mac>" statement. Smarter schemes might allow the network forwarder (router) to translate claims to avoid end devices looking up and caching lots of claims locally (and it would need to be authorized to do so).
You wouldn't need TLS. this scheme i just thought would actually decentralize/federate PKI a lot more. If you have a public address assigned, your ISP is the IP-CA. I don't want to get into the details of my DNS replacement idea, but similar to network operators being authorities over the addresses they're responsible for, whoever issued you a network name is also the identity authority over that name (so DNS registrars would be CA's). Ideally though, every device would be named, and the people that have logical control over the address will also be responsible for the name and all identity authentication and claims over those addresses and names. You won't have freaking google and browsers dictating which CA root to trust, it will instead be the network you're joining that does that (be it your DHCP server, or your ISP is up for debate, but I prefer the former). Ideally, your public key hash is your address. How others reach you would be by resolving your public key from your identity, the traffic will be sent to your public key (or see my sibling comment for the concept of cryptographic identity). All names would of course be free, but what we call "DNS" today will survive as an alias to those proper names. so your device might be guelo.lan123.yourisp.country but a registrar might sell you a guelo.com alias that points to the former name.
The implications of this scheme are wild, think about it!
Rogue trust providers will be a problem, but only to their domain. right now random CA roots can issue domains for anything. with the scheme I proposed, your country can mess with its own traffic, as can your isp, as can you over your lan. You won't be able to spoof traffic for a different lan, or isp using their name.
It wouldn't be a good idea to spell out an entire protocol in a comment section, but the key part is that it would cost a lot.
It is far from hand-waving. Right now we have numeric addressing, where routers look at bits and perform ASIC-friendly bitwise (and other) operations on that number to forward a lot of traffic really fast for cheap.
Identity and trust establishment won't be part of the regular data flow, but at network connection time, each end-device will discover the network authority it has connected to, and build trust that allows it to validate identities in that network, including address assignments, neighbor discovery, name resolution and verification, authorized traffic forwarders (routers) and more.
After the connection is established and the network is trusted, as part of the connection establishment, the network authority designates how addressing should be done. If Alice's Iphone wants to connect to Bob's server, it will encrypt the data, and as part of a very slim header designate Bob's server's cryptographic identifier, destination service identifier, and its own cryptographic identifier for the first packet. To reduce overhead, subsequent traffic can use a simple hash of the connection identifers mentioned earlier.
When devices come online in the network, their cryptographic identifers will become known to the entire network, including intermediate routers. Routing protocols work with the identity authority of the network to build forwarding tables based on cryptographic identifiers, and for established sessions, session ids.
"Cryptographic identifier" is also not a hand-wavy term. what it means must be dynamic, so as to avoid protocol updates like v4 and v6 over addressing. V6 presumed just having lots of bits is enough. An ideal protocol will allow the network itself to communicate the identifier type and byte-size. For example an FQDN, or an IPv4 address alike could be used directly, or a public key hash using a hash algorithm of the network's choice can be used. So long as the devices in the network support it, and the end device supports it, it should work fine.
Internet addressing can use a scheme like this, but it doesn't need to. IPv6 took the wrong approach with NAT, it got rid of it instead of formalizing it. we'll always need to translate addresses. But the internet is actually well-positioned for this, due to the prevalence of certificate authorities, but it will require rethinking foundational protocols like DNS, BGP, and PKI infrastructure.
But my original point wasn't this, it was that tech has come far, our requirements today are different than 30 years ago. Even the OSI layered model is outdated, among other things.
This is just my proposal that I just thought of as I'm typing this, smarter people that can sit down and think through the problem can think of better protocols. I only proposed it to demnostrate the concept isn't hand-wavy or ridiculous.
IPv6 was relatively rushed to meet the address shortage issue of IPv4 while at the same time solve lots of other problems. The next network layer protocol (and we do need one) should have the goal of making networking as a whole adaptable to new and unforeseen requirements (that's why I suggested the network authority be the one to dictate the addressing scheme, and with it, be responsible for translating it if needed). We're being held back, not just in tech but as a species, because of this short-sighted protocol design! exaggerated as that statement might sound, it is true.
I'll reserve further discussion on the topic for when it is required, but I hope this prevents more dismissive responses.
I think it's better to just adapt to this. A lot of people write the content their own way, and get AI to rewrite it so that it is more readable, and free from errors. Content over appearance and all. I think the problem is you consider this auto-completion tool insincere. many do as well, because they anthropomorphize LLMs, it feels like a different sentient entity wrote it than the person posting it. but in reality, that isn't the case; it's more like a spellchecker that helped the person communicate their idea.
The purpose of language is to communicate meaning and intent, not to sound or feel a particular way, unless you're reading for entertainment or enjoyment.
This is the second post I'm commenting on within a span of like 30 minutes where someone did some really good work and shared it, but the top comments are complaining about AI usage.
Either LLM-assisted content needs to be banned entirely (might be), or complaining about it should be considered a breach of etiquette at sites like HN that are tech-centric.
Appearance and style is content, and it always was. The way you write is fundamentally a part of how a reader interprets meaning and intent.
Calling it a spellchecker is simply wrong if you give an LLM some bullet points and then instruct it to write an article. I find it more insincere because it's an extra layer between the author and the reader which substantially affects every aspect of the piece of writing, not just the spelling of individual words, or Microsoft Word nagging you to avoid passive voice.
If OP is not a native English speaker and is using an LLM to create a reasonable prose, then it might be the best way for them to try and communicate their ideas. It's probably better than Google translate. It affects how the reader interprets the writing, though.
My other point, which I also stand by, is that I find the default writing style of current LLMs exhausting to read. It feels like a college student has submitted an assignment on engaging writing and decided to use every technique they could find in their textbook, because they want to get top marks. It just feels forced to me.
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As an example, I asked claude to make my argument more "clear". See how it wrote it:
Style isn't separate from content — it is content. The way something is written shapes how a reader interprets its meaning, and that's always been true. Calling an LLM a "spellchecker" only holds if it's catching typos. The moment you hand it bullet points and ask it to produce an article, it's not correcting your writing — it's replacing it. That's a fundamentally different thing.
I'll grant one exception: if someone isn't a fluent English speaker and uses an LLM to bridge that gap, that's a legitimate trade-off, even if it still changes how the reader experiences the piece.
But my broader complaint stands independent of that debate: current LLMs produce a recognizable, exhausting prose style. Every sentence is engineered to be "engaging." Every paragraph hits the expected beats. It reads like someone who learned to write from a listicle about writing — technically compliant, but hollow. The effort to sound compelling ends up undercutting any sense that a real person with a real perspective is behind it.
> If OP is not a native English speaker and is using an LLM to create a reasonable prose, then it might be the best way for them to try and communicate their ideas. It's probably better than Google translate. It affects how the reader interprets the writing, though.
That's just crazy, do you think people don't get discriminated because of that? they'll probably get flagged and blacklisted from HN just because of sharing a post riddled with grammar mistakes, it will look like spam to many. If they get lucky, the top comments would be correcting their grammar mistakes, not about the content.
If you didn't talk to me before today, you don't know how I talk. You don't know what sincere is like. the term you're looking for is authentic not sincere. questioning the sincerity of the OP is just wrong. You don't like people having control over how what they have to say is conveyed to others, because you have some irrational bias against the usage of a particular tool.
You argue and even use AI (you don't mind being insincere? I'd like to get your own original arguments, how about that?) to dismiss content because of style, thereby justifying the need for people to be careful of the style of the post they share. Have you considered that had they not used AI, you or others would be dismissing their post for other style-related reasons? because you care about style so much.
But you're right, style is content, it was wrong of me to claim otherwise. What I meant was probably "meaning". The writing style affects how you read the content, in this case you don't like how it forces you to read it, but the meaning OP is trying to communicate (what I meant by "content") is being glossed over.
The take away for me from this discussion, is people need to use better prompts, and better models, not that they shouldn't use an LLM, because even when their grammar and spelling is wrong, they get nitpicked against this way.
> The effort to sound compelling ends up undercutting any sense that a real person with a real perspective is behind it.
That's a fault and a bias by the reader, in my opinion. I didn't even think it was LLM written, I wasn't looking for it (we tend to find what we're looking for?). My focus was on what was done, validating the claims made, and analyzing the implications. I didn't care how they sounded, because I was able to actually read the content, and understand what they were saying. If it was the other way, and I was the OP, I would want people to focus on what I was saying, and appreciate that I took some action to ensure my post is readable.
I think they can use better prompts to make it sound and feel better, but it's a real shame that they have to. It is this sort of an interaction that makes me wish we had more LLMs making decisions instead of humans out there. Things like accents, writing styles, even last names, and spelling mistakes decide the fate of many today. The real value people bring, the real human potential is dismissed (not in this case, just making a general observation), cosmetic and performative factors override all else.
> it's not correcting your writing — it's replacing it. That's a fundamentally different thing.
It is my writing, in that I agreed the meaning of the rewritten content is what I intended to communicate. People get to have agency on how their meaning is conveyed. You don't have any say over that. Your criticism over how it feels, although I disagree, is legitimate, but your criticism based solely on the fact that AI rewrote the content is entirely invalid.
Let's imagine OP had a human copy write for them, editing and rewriting the entire content, would that change anything? If not, why are we talking about LLMs instead of the specifics of what bothered you uniquely, so that people reading this thread can use better prompts to avoid those annoying pitfalls?
I didn't even pick up on this being AI rewritten, I'm only taking yours and others' word for it. My biggest concern these days is that kids are growing up interacting with LLMs a lot, and their original work will be dismissed by older people because it sounds like an LLM. There are many cases of students having their work and exams dismissed, even facing disciplinary actions leading up to lawsuits, where teachers/academics claimed wrongly it was LLM generated content (and why I keep feeling that perhaps LLMs should replace those biased academics and teachers if possible).
LLM usage isn't going away, perhaps prompts and models will improve, but more likely than not, it is more economical and practical for humans to be forced to adapt one way or the other, to regular LLM usage by other humans. If you skip in 50 year increments and read books or news stories, you'll also see how the writing style and "feel" is very different. There is a very distinctive "feel" to how people on HN write, compared to reddit, gaming discord servers, twitter, bluesky, or the comments section of some conservative site. You'll see some groups use terms like "bro" and "bruh" a lot, others end everything with "lol", others yet include emoji in everything. All this will feel very weird and inappropriate to someone from the 1800s. I am not saying all that to dismiss your observations, but to say that this stuff isn't all that important. If you didn't think the cause of the annoying writing style was an LLM, I doubt you would have commented on it, so don't comment at all about it is my suggestion. There was no egregious writing style offense that was so serious that we need to talk about it, instead of the actual work OP is sharing.
auditing the code is fairly straightforward if it isn't obfuscated. so long as it doesn't execute dynamic code that is. but the big issue is you can't control when the extension itself gets an update (to my knowledge). and it isn't uncommon to sell browsing data, or the extension itself to someone more shady than the original author down the road.
I don't know, to me your sentiment sounds a lot like how back in the day they used to say "you can't just use a calculator all the time, use your brain and show the work on pen and paper".
humans have been using tools to communicate since pre-history. language itself is one tool of communication invented to supersede body-language and grunting and noises. the thought and idea is theirs, it was communicated. Would it be that much different if they used a spellchecker extensively to edit their work?
I get why you're annoyed but is it really such a big deal? random people aren't to blame for whatever other annoyances "AI slop" has created.
Calculators have never been the medium in which we communicate our human experience and knowledge transfer. Calculators aren't part of the social fabric or culture. Very 2d extrapolation that somehow resulted in an alleged parallel. Language is woven deeply into civilization and our histories & been a part of our species literal survival against the most unforgiving odds/environments. Using what is effectively a ghost writer nukes trust. You cannot ascertain anything about the person behind the blog if it's clear they used AI to write it. And without that there's no way to infer expertise, rule out hallucinations, falsehoods presented as matter of fact, and the whole broad set of things LLM's get wrong because of their limitations as a technology. I have literally nothing to go off of that would prove this person knows what they are talking about. Why would anyone want to consume that?
Would it kill anyone at all to add a preamble that is forthcoming about using AI to write something? A chance to say these are my ideas and I've used claude to help me state it eloquently because <english is not my first language / i dont write well / claude said it better than i ever could> etc ? Not doing that, presenting as more capable/knowing than one probably is, is what destroys trust immediately the moment it's sniffed out that AI was used to write something.
It's irresponsible, a self-nerf, and it's annoying. Venn diagram there is basically a circle. We're all familiar with how vibe coding appears to weaken your ability to write code, like skipping the gym and expecting good muscle density. All I'm saying is people shouldn't be skipping the gym for literally communicating with each other because there's gonna be a lot of times in life where you're not gonna be able to whip out chat jippity to continue a real conversation with another person. Ceding that turf means you're willingly trading your ability to deal with real life scenarios with other human beings for short term gain. It's funny how the universe tends to find balance. Yeah, being well read and expressing ideas well is a skill, it takes work.
It's not that deep man, it's just a blog post about some software library. There's no civilisational communication going on here, relax. This whole thing will become irrelevant in a few decades before the end of our lifespans. It's just never that deep.
Why does it matter if it's their thought or not. If you currently care about GPU inference from webassembly on apple silicon, you can use this article. That's really about it.
Now if you care about GPU inference from wasm on apple silicon, and you found problems with this articles content, then great, comment about it. If you say that the problem with the content is due to the usual surface level slop LLMs belt out, then great complain about LLMs. But your comment didn't say anything about gpu inference from wasm on apple silicon.
> language itself is one tool of communication invented to supersede body-language and grunting and noises
That's a pretty utilitarian view of language. How would it feel if everyone spoke and wrote like a PR representative? This is what an article written by an LLM is starting to sound like.
I'm even willing to argue that the way in which you convey your ideas is as important as the idea itself. Like we could all be eating soylent for our daily nutritional requirements but we don't. The taste of the food we eat is important. It's the same with writing for me
> the thought and idea is theirs, it was communicated
Are they? I don't know how much they used AI, the entire article could be written from a one sentence prompt and so I'd argue that the thoughts and ideas are not their own.
This isn't like using a spell checker, it's like using a ghost writer.
sounds like you're focusing on the wrong billions, the war on iran alone could provide housing to all homeless in the US.
It's not for a lack of money people are homeless in the US (which is launching this). it's for a lack of political will, because voters don't want to provide free housing to homeless people. They're more concerned about being able to buy instead of rent a house (less apartments, more houses) or protect the value of their house ("no homeless people near me, and certainly an abundance of housing reduces prices for my house investment").
Hey, at least those issues won't be a problem, if homeless people can charter a flight to Mars, if these efforts pan out.
Nuremberg was only possible because Germany was invaded succesfully by allied forces.
All this war crime talk is nonsense. Either talk about sending your own children to war against Israel, or criticize them in other real terms. There are no war crimes against countries who don't recognize the ICJ, and even then, unless the judiciary of the country is consenting, a war crime charge isn't pursued.
It isn't a competition, but I hope you're neither an American nor a Russian, because if you are, clean your own house first before talking about how dirty someone else's is.
if you are american, cleaning your house involves going head to head with the zionist lobby which works for israel's interests. so i'm afraid the matter of israel can't be avoided here.
> Isn't it precisely the anti-zionist sentiment you eschew that resulted in the Oct 7 attacks by Hammas
Bringing this up in 2026 when it's abundantly clear there's zero chance the IDF had no idea about the planning of Oct 7, and didn't just let it happen, means there's no point having a conversation. When it's so well known that Israel is the one who have propped up Hamas.
> In an interview with Politico in 2023, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that "In the last 15 years, Israel did everything to downgrade the Palestinian Authority and to boost Hamas." He continued saying "Gaza was on the brink of collapse because they had no resources, they had no money, and the PA refused to give Hamas any money. Bibi saved them. Bibi made a deal with Qatar and they started to move millions and millions of dollars to Gaza."
> “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.” - Benjamin Netanyahu
> Gershon Hacohen, former commander of the 7th Armored Brigade and an associate of Benjamin Netanyahu, said in 2019 in an interview: “Netanyahu’s strategy is to prevent the option of two states, so he is turning Hamas into his closest partner. Openly Hamas is an enemy. Covertly, it’s an ally.”
I don't think so. at best, it proves that the current israeli government supported hamas to isolate them from palestinians in gaza. it doesn't support a claim that the oct 7 attacks were perpetrated by israel's own government (which is insane, since it took thousands of random arabs to actually carry out the attack). If your position is israel shouldn't exist, then it is you who is supporting Bibi's view that he needs to isolate palestinians and keep them in check (or worse) so that your wish of israel's non-existence won't come true.
The zionist goal is already acheived as i understand it, there is no need to fund zionism. israel doesn't need "funding" to sustain itself either, it's so prosperous on its own, even here on YC you'll see many startups based in Israel.
zionism isn't synonymous with gaza or west bank expansionism, or any act of violence. I keep seeing these types of arguments and i can't help but ponder if you're just repeating some disinformation campaign to prop-up and legitimize the anti-semitic reasoning used by the very same people fighting wars to supposedly prevent it (with some degree of legitimacy).
If you said zionism to enable the concept of a jewish state is reasonable, and even it wasn't historically, it is impractical to fight against it, and that israel has the right to exist. But the recent wars and harm against civilians is abhorrent, then you would be criticizing them in a way that actually makes sense, and can be used to actually do something to stop them. but your (and others') agenda only helps one side, and it is neither palestinians, their plight for justice, nor the side of peace.
The hypothetical “right to exist” is typically juxtaposed against its adversaries’ rights/efforts/privilege to wipe them off the face of the earth.
If a nation-state, or ethnoreligious group, has rights, then efforts to destroy it would not gain popular support.
Do ethnoreligious groups have a right to survival without suffering genocide? Does the international community, or Security Council, have a duty to prevent genocide, or the extinction of any particular nation-state?
You confuse nation state and people in this question. Yes the international community has an obligation to prevent genocide, and the destruction of a nation state if that coincides with the destruction of its people, but these things are not necessarily the same. The Security Council has no obligation to prevent a peaceful union of two states that would make one or both of them cease to exist. Nation states do not have rights, people have rights.
> Yes the international community has an obligation to prevent genocide, and the destruction of a nation state if that coincides with the destruction of its people
No, it does not. That's not how sovereignty works. nation states' obligations are only towards their own nation. Even honoring of treaties is expected only in so far as it is in the best interest of their nation to do so. There is no grand human coalition that has an obligation to intervene on behalf of the innocent being harmed by wars and genocide. it's a nice idea, but consent of the governed and all. Those people would have to first get their government to consent to participating under organizations like the ICJ.
In the sense that humans as a species exist, and nation states exist on the same planet, I suppose there is. But sovereign nationhood means a nation isn't subject to any higher earthly organization. Each nation does whatever it wants more or less. A community implies participation in a shared social structure. Even the UN is at best a diplomatic organization, not an organization that is an extension of its member states. Typically, when you hear about the "international community" that means the US and certain western European nations using that diplomatic cover to justify something. It isn't Paraguay and south Sudan chipping in their troops to take some action, or funding some effort.
In simpler terms, for any supposed international community to be valid, similar to governments, it needs the threat of violence to enforce its will. That means you have to volunteer yourself or your children to enforce that community's will. The rest is just details, I'm sure you'd want to have a say in exactly what the agreement is over the specifics of the "international community's" will would be, and therein lies the obstacle.
In the 90's there was some post-soviet political capital and overall good will credited to the US and its allies as a result of a new era of hope and prosperity and all that soft power stuff. That's why bombing Serbia and things like war crimes for milosevich and his pals was a thing. It was NATO, not the international community then. same as Afghanistan. There has never been any actual "international community" that did anything but pass resolutions at the UN. There has never been even so much as a truly international peace keeping force deployed anywhere by the UN.
It all just comes down to whether this supposed community has the right to do anything over other non-participating nations' sovereign real while maintaining any semblance of legitimacy. interference is interference, whether the US is kidnapping a dictator, or bombing one, or assassinating another, it can be done, but not with any legitimacy, and it is usually the US that's the arm that swings the sword.
"not only can these people not enforce it, the politicians they support think like them, and get in the way of actual meaningful peace. you're telling Israel they can't exist, while at the same time telling them to stop committing atrocities in the name of self-preservation, how does that make sense. It's like their entire view is "Israelis should sit quietly and die" or something. Even if you ask them where Israelis should go, they won't tell you. I think in their mind the Israeli's can move to brooklyn or something, it's insane."
not only can these people not enforce it, the politicians they support think like them, and get in the way of actual meaningful peace. you're telling Israel they can't exist, while at the same time telling them to stop committing atrocities in the name of self-preservation, how does that make sense. It's like their entire view is "Israelis should sit quietly and die" or something. Even if you ask them where Israelis should go, they won't tell you. I think in their mind the Israeli's can move to brooklyn or something, it's insane.
I mean, I'll take being allowed to boycott israel and call their genocide a genocide in my supposedly sovereign country, without getting arrested over it.
What makes you think I don't? I can (and do) boycott these and more, UAE for example is a nono for working with or using products and services of. The difference is, I am not allowed to do the same for israel, which is magnitudes worse than any of those you've listed so far. There is nothing in modern history that matches israeli depravity.
compared to whom? how does one measure that purity? certainly Hammas is more pure in those terms, not that it is a competition (but you're alluding that it is).
They all suck. There are no good polities in the Middle East. At this stage into the genocide-counter-genocide cycle, there are no clean hands left.
We need to switch to renewables asap, and just withdraw completely from the Middle East. They all want to kill one another for fanatical or ethnic reasons, and we clearly have no capacity to stop them. We should insulate ourselves from the region and restrict any involvement to humanitarian assistance.
> Theocracies oppressing their own people while aiming for expansion, particularly, must be dealt with.
> Else, they will eventually oppress the entirety of humanity.
We poured trillions of dollars into Afghanistan trying to do just this. It failed. It is not within the power capability of any state to bring liberty to people that do not want it.
The era of global internationalism you're alluding to is receding. If the Iranians and the Saudis want to nuke one another, that is very sad, but we will not be able to stop them in the long run. The best we can do is to keep as far away from any such conflict as possible.
The world are not children, to be minded by us. They're autonomous humans with agency, many of whom sadly happen to be blood-thirsty fanatics, chomping at the bit for a chance to do some genocide. As demonstrated by the last fifty years of Western policy failure in the third world, we do not have the capacity to fix this and it is folly to try.
it's a bit too late, might even make things worse when all the petro-states start going hungry and desperate. I suspect in the timeframe it takes to wean off of oil as fuel source, there will be other resource issues arising such as water and climate-driven migration.
They could use passiveradar.com to advertise their product I guess, but they don't have to. I see no shenanigans here. I'm glad to be better informed about passive radar.
Another feature request. Why not have a nice webui interface to this? Obviously could just vibecode something on top of what you did but putting it out there that that would be cool
The goal was a fast terminal tool, and I'm not ruling it out, but considering how hard it would be to compete in the SERPs with other whois sites, I don't think I'd spend the time on it right now
Why would you care about competing with other whois sites? I don't think it's going to be a money making venture in any case, and you could easily host it for free on fly.io
This was really just a personal tool I built because I got tired of parsing default whois output. Don’t have the bandwidth for a web UI right now, maybe down the road.
It’s not about making money. It’s more that there’s no real way for people to discover it by competing for visibility on whois-related searches against established sites.
The link doesn’t load for me FYI. A web version would be in Go, reusing the TUI internals. All doable, just not where I want to spend my time right now. I’ll likely get to it at some point.
Just kidding. Honestly, the best ideas out there are low-tech. Anything where as you put it is "crowded" with tech people don't want, but is also of good build.
Or if you must add an LLM and a touch screen to everything, do it in a way that respects user consent and boundaries.
One thing I wanted to get into but can't due to time is sub-150ms responsive LLM for use with drones and bots. Faster response time than a human brain. Multiple LLMs running on dedicated hardware to preempt and predict response for various stimuli.
A drone you can't shoot-down with an arrow, and a robot you can't beat at dodgeball.
Now imagine the implications of that!? But the first problem I'd like to solve is remotely piloted work. if that LLM and response-time combo works, you would be able to safely work alongside a remotely piloted robot in a hazardous construction site better than you would with a human (it could even improve safety for humans). At all times it is getting audio/sonar, lidar, infrared and visual (image processing) input and several of these really fast LLMs (not just, LLMs aren't great at certain tasks, so naturally other types of ML and predefined routines would also be running) will be preparing if/else decision trees in case a potential condition is met. Sees a ladder just leaning there? what if it randomly slips, how would it react? plan is in place under 150ms while other plans are being formulated for other things as well.
The only reason it's around is because of sunken cost fallacy and people stuck in decades old tech-debt. A new protocol designed today will be different, much the same as how Rust is different than Ada. SD-WAN wasn't a thing in 1998, the cost of chips and the demand of mobile customers wasn't a thing. supply/demand economics have changed the very requirments behind the protocol.
Even concepts like source and destination addressing should be re-thought. The very concept of a network layer protocol that doesn't incorporate 0RTT encryption by default is ridiculous in 2026. Even protocols like ND, ARP, RA, DHCP and many more are insecure by default. Why is my device just trusting random claims that a neighbor has a specific address without authentication? Why is it connecting to a network (any! wired,wireless, why does it matter, this is a network layer concern) without authenticating the network's security and identity authority? I despise the corporatized term "zero trust" but this is what it means more or less.
People don't talk about security, trust, identity and more, because ipv6 was designed to save networking gear vendors money, and any new costly features better come with revenue streams like SD-WAN hosting by those same companies. There are lots and lots of new things a new layer-3 protocol could bring to the scene. But security aside, the main thing would be replacing numbered addressing with identity-based addressing.
It all comes down to how much money it costs the participants of the RFC committees. given how dependent the world is on this tech, I'm hoping governments intervene. It's sad that this is the tech we're passing to future generations. We'll be setting up colonies on mars, and troubleshooting addressing and security issues like it's 2005.
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