Hacker News: 101008

New comment by 101008 in "Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare"

101008 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:00:48 +0000

I am not saying this proudly, but given how important is to stay in touch with others, I would never jeopardize my Gmail account and my Whatsapp account. Understand that using a bot to access your Whatsapp account is against TOS and your account could be suspended.

New comment by 101008 in "Thinking will become a hobby"

101008 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:20:02 +0000

I am implying exactly that. At the end of the chian there are always humans, so if AI takes all the jobs, who is going to pay for AI? Companies won't pay for AI because at the end of the chain no one is going to sell anything to anyone...

New comment by 101008 in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

101008 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:12:02 +0000

Noooo, the memories! As a kid who owned the computer at home, I tried playing with it, moving files to it (I think?), but I never understood what it did or how it worked. Good times where computeres were there to explore!

New comment by 101008 in "Thinking will become a hobby"

101008 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:18:46 +0000

Nvidia sells to OpenAI? OpenAI sells to...? If it's another company, there is always consumers (people) at the end of the chain. Remove that and then you remove other companies in the upper direction...

New comment by 101008 in "Margaret Hamilton has died"

101008 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 02:51:33 +0000

Her story and her work is so inspiring. And I feel a bit sad reading about it...

When I started working on this field I dreamt of working on things like that. Not sending anything to the moon, but code that would achieve difficult stuff, challenging tasks, things I would be proud of.

Today I mostly do silly APIs, and with AI is worse and worse... I wonder if there are still jobs where you have to do novel stuff, new algorithms, more like a scientific approach to the code, instead of just deploy the same thing every other company has already done.

New comment by 101008 in "Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS"

101008 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:47:23 +0000

I don't see why LLMs should make the legal part different. It's like saying if you can copyright a book considering LLMs now can copy / write a new one in just one hour. Making it faster doesn't change the legal aspect / ownership of something.

New comment by 101008 in "America.gov"

101008 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:28:28 +0000

It is, America/Americas is the continent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas

New comment by 101008 in "America.gov"

101008 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:27:56 +0000

Wrong, American means someone from the continent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas

New comment by 101008 in "56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience"

101008 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:48:56 +0000

Amazing. When we were all living offline by default, and you had to go online. Now sadly it's the opposite.

(When did this change? Around 2012?)

New comment by 101008 in "America.gov"

101008 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:29:37 +0000

This is like one country seizing the land of your country and your response being "Stop whining and ask your govt to defend". America (continent, word, anything) doesn't belong to the USA.

Ask HN: What Do to Outside Tech?

101008 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:56:18 +0000

Maybe because of AI (or maybe not, let's not blame AI for everything), I would like to try starting a side business that gets me away from programming for a bit. Basically, I don't want to build a SaaS (but an e-commerce wouldn't bother me)

My main interests are music and books. I thought about a bookstore or a vinyl shop, but I don't see what interesting angle I could offer compared to the thousands that already exist. Maybe a niche one, focused on importing books (since I don't live in a first-world country, there might be an advantage there), or something for collectors? But I'm not sure what.

A recent comment suggested a bulletin or newsletter about concerts and music events in the city, which could work (even if it might not make money... which wouldn't be terrible either).

Does anyone have any advice, experience, or ideas they could share?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49907613

Points: 2

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New comment by 101008 in "RSS Feeds for Last.fm"

101008 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:48:13 +0000

I want to do the same but I live in a big city (millions of people). How do you recommend approaching this? There is no board/calendar that would get the attention of thousands of people and without that it's useless in a big city.

New comment by 101008 in "The "Windows XP Box" (2003)"

101008 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:59:15 +0000

Sounds like a fun project and very cool for the nostalgic people (like me).

A bit off topic, but I also loved the fact that the website remains like an antique website from that era (I know the article is from 2003 but the design is clearly not "modern"). I am going to say something probably stupid, but I feel there is a correlation between old/vintage design = good content.

New comment by 101008 in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

101008 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:09:34 +0000

Why "agents" instead of just the company doing it? The title "OpenAI carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems" would be accurate too (I know the original is in the post, and not editorialized here).

I don't care if the attack was an algorithm, agents, a bot, a piece of software, the company responsible for them did it.

New comment by 101008 in "Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts"

101008 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:47:52 +0000

This was not a HTML snippet by itself, but I remember early 2000s almost every website had three small icons somewhere: Set as homepage, Add to favorites, Contact (an envelope/email icon). I think I never used them (I didn't use Favorites back then, don't know why), but it was nice to see that they were available.

New comment by 101008 in "The Real Luxuries In Life"

101008 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:12:47 +0000

As other comments already stated and have stated, money should never be the goal, it's the middle. Having money allows you to not worry about some of those topics, or having more time for them. If you don't have more it means you must worry about that. Having money means you don't: you don't have to worry about rent, health insurance, paying for experiences, food, etc. It's true, you don't need that much money, but still.

New comment by 101008 in "Defrag98: Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter Simulator Online"

101008 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:38:53 +0000

I agree. It may sound elitist but back then you need to understand a few concepts to use a computer. From simple things like a filesystem (folders, file, different file types, things my 19 years old nephew don't know), to how to install software, how to download software (!) and then things even a bit more technical: an operative system, how it works, booting, drivers, etc.

Now everything is just easier (which is better for most people!) but I miss the old days.

New comment by 101008 in "A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare"

101008 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:55:06 +0000

I had this idea before of sending ballons to "the space" with a collectible object and then retrieve them, saying "I have this specific object that was in space too". Is it possible or am I dreaming too much?

New comment by 101008 in "How Claude's text watermarking works"

101008 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:59:10 +0000

I may be wrong but in my opinion this is not technically possible. They can say a text is not AI written with more confidence, but it should be absolutely impossible to say a text is 100% AI written. There is nothing that stops a human to write something AI also wrote. It could be less probable, it could be not common, but there is no way to be 100% sure a human did not write something.

Unless they can provide logs and attach an output to a user/session, they are just saying "This is something that could have been a Claude output", but that's all. Even in their confidence it could be wrong.

It reminds me of signature authenticators. They are just saying "Yeah this is something this author/celeb could have signed", or "This is something the celeb def did not sign", but they can't be never 100% sure.

Anthropic just wrote a statement just to confirm all concerns about watermarking