Hacker News: 6031769

New comment by 6031769 in "Running out of disk space in production"

6031769 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:44:45 +0000

Please name and shame those filesystems so that we will all be forewarned.

New comment by 6031769 in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

6031769 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:13:12 +0000

Welcome to the wonderful world of commodities trading.

New comment by 6031769 in "Reinventing the pull request"

6031769 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:46:48 +0000

Lucky you. Blog.js fails for me with a TypeError and I'm disinclined to debug someone else's javascript on a whim, so I don't get to see any of the content at all.

To the OP: JS is for enhancements. If you are using it in such a way that it becomes a potential blocker for all of the content then you are not going to reach the audience that you otherwise would. If you are on somebody else's platform/framework then by all means pass this up the chain.

New comment by 6031769 in "New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds"

6031769 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:33:31 +0000

My life is just fine without Mark Bezos, thanks. Never heard of him. Is he some relation of Elon Zuckerberg?

New comment by 6031769 in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

6031769 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:47:00 +0000

Then the business was already screwed and this makes little difference?

New comment by 6031769 in "Molly guard in reverse"

6031769 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:07:19 +0000

Certainly sounds like he pitied the fool.

(sorry)

New comment by 6031769 in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

6031769 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:43:29 +0000

Unless they are Ricky Jones, of course.

New comment by 6031769 in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

6031769 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:45:54 +0000

It's not even "arguably" for me. Of course DNS should be left to the O/S otherwise I'm going to spend half my time diagnosing why the browser is going to the wrong destination.

New comment by 6031769 in "LLMs can be exhausting"

6031769 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:05:30 +0000

This was not the article that I expected. The headline is correct in both cases but I assumed that it would be about fighting against the army of LLM scrapers, which is the source of my exhaustion in relation to them. Perhaps that is one for me to write instead.

New comment by 6031769 in "Show HN: Knock-Knock.net – Visualizing the bots knocking on my server's door"

6031769 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:41:27 +0000

> Some providers just don’t care.

And they should be shunned by everyone. We should all be naming and shaming such providers and those of us with any conscience at all will avoid using them. This is the only way to stop the tsunami of bad actors.

New comment by 6031769 in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

6031769 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:07:19 +0000

That is charitable of you. The alternative viewpoint is that they are vague about it because they have no idea what they are doing.

New comment by 6031769 in "Text Is King"

6031769 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:22:13 +0000

With the rise of AI, all audio, images and video is now also suspect.

New comment by 6031769 in "Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes""

6031769 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:53:52 +0000

He has been a KCB since 2014:

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/60728/supplement/3...

New comment by 6031769 in "Just the Browser"

6031769 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:51:11 +0000

Of course it is. But there's no point trying to put policies into a directory in a tree which doesn't exist and by extension which Firefox won't be reading.

In Linux (and in any sane system) there is no need for elevated privileges just to alter your browser settings.

New comment by 6031769 in "Just the Browser"

6031769 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:22:18 +0000

I have firefox installed on Linux. There is no /etc/firefox/policies/ dir, nor indeed even an /etc/firefox/ dir. Therefore, no need for sudo.

New comment by 6031769 in "Is Firefox Firefucked?"

6031769 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:44:06 +0000

Pale Moon is actively maintained. https://www.palemoon.org/

New comment by 6031769 in "Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)"

6031769 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:34:29 +0000

So an LLM says that a technique used to foil LLM scrapers is ineffective against LLM scrapers.

It's almost as if it might have an ulterior motive in saying so.

New comment by 6031769 in "Noclip.website – A digital museum of video game levels"

6031769 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:00:23 +0000

Nor in Pale Moon: "CompileError: wasm validation error: at offset 35: too many returns in signature"

Firefox seems happy enough, though.

New comment by 6031769 in "Blogging in 2025: Screaming into the Void"

6031769 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:52:34 +0000

And if that puts a nail in the coffin of LLMs then I'm all for it.

New comment by 6031769 in "CSS now has an if() conditional function"

6031769 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:32:38 +0000

If we've learned anything from the history of CSS, JS and the semantic web it is that 99% of the time a feature will be used in ways that were not intended. There is no reason to suppose that this will be any different.