Hacker News: 946789987649

New comment by 946789987649 in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

946789987649 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:51:19 +0000

Are you happy with the final decision on Cloudflare?

New comment by 946789987649 in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

946789987649 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:50:23 +0000

That's a pretty big stretch. I'm a very competent backend developer and product owner, but a bang-average front developer. It's okay to lean on AI for your weaknesses.

New comment by 946789987649 in "Java 27"

946789987649 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:47:41 +0000

Right, but doesn't take away from the fact that Java maintains backwards compatibility and so all these legacy decisions will generally forever exist.

New comment by 946789987649 in "Java 27"

946789987649 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:26:53 +0000

but still has all the historic bad decisions of itself

New comment by 946789987649 in "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"

946789987649 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:58:04 +0000

Incredibly useful for our SaaS. We are a niche CRM and it's very useful for our non-technical users to be able to connect our platform's data to Claude/Copilot which they then combine with other MCPs.

Advantages over our normal API: - Much easier to provide LLM-specific explanations and descriptions to all of the tools and parameters - None of our clients know what a CLI is - We re-use our MCP for our own platform's agent which gives it a neatly defined list - It handles the full OAuth flow in the application

I'll admit though it is VERY similar to a REST API, and I could see them merging at some point.

New comment by 946789987649 in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

946789987649 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:08:22 +0000

Out of interest when did you last use the desktop app? I am a huge daily user of it and apart from very minimal bugs, it works perfectly for me. Wasn't always the case, so they've definitely made improvements

Sharing Linear's growth with the people building it

946789987649 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:00:18 +0000

Article URL: https://linear.app/now/sharing-growth-with-the-people-building-linear

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448340

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by 946789987649 in "Incident with Github.com"

946789987649 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:49:48 +0000

Are you sure? We have enterprise and I couldn't even access our repo briefly.

New comment by 946789987649 in "How to ask for help from people who don't know you"

946789987649 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:55:26 +0000

Note: This may not work on students

New comment by 946789987649 in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

946789987649 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:18:38 +0000

You don't need that stuff for setting up a company, I've only come across those if we are going through due diligence with a (B2B) client.

New comment by 946789987649 in "Midjourney Medical"

946789987649 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:55:46 +0000

In a sea of AI products, the brand is still powerful though. Would I have clicked this if not for the Midjourney name? Probably not

New comment by 946789987649 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

946789987649 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:11:21 +0000

As in the changes its made? You can do that on Claude Code but by having it do it on a worktree and just checking out that worktree. Then you can see the change file(s) in your preferred IDE

New comment by 946789987649 in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

946789987649 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:55:39 +0000

My mum doesn't know how to use a cli.

New comment by 946789987649 in "How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works"

946789987649 — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:38:57 +0000

I'm afraid it's not available as it wasn't published. To be honest there wasn't much more than what I posted there, it was quite a practical thesis and really more of a market analysis and practical implementation of a potential consumer product.

Currently doing a different startup, but certainly an idea for a future one.

New comment by 946789987649 in "How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works"

946789987649 — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:57:38 +0000

Unfortunately no, as most uni students my code was utterly terrible and the app itself was more of a PoC. This was 10 years ago though and it's been on my mind since then, so i'll surely pick it up some point, perhaps after my current start up.

New comment by 946789987649 in "How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works"

946789987649 — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:01:07 +0000

My masters thesis was on this! I created an app where you can store your data across all the common data storage providers (dropbox, google drive, onedrive, etc.) and used the secret sharing to aid with the encryption. The benefit was that:

- They could no longer read your data

- Additional redundancy (as you only need 2 to be available)

- Compared to other secure storage apps which rely on a master password, which if you forget, you are screwed, you could still use all the usual account recovery methods.

New comment by 946789987649 in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

946789987649 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:35:44 +0000

Likely the person didn't know they were part of YC (I didn't).

New comment by 946789987649 in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

946789987649 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:49:04 +0000

because there isn't one and people still paid for it.

My clients demand one, so there is one.

New comment by 946789987649 in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

946789987649 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:35:43 +0000

Why can code even go in with breaking tests? They shouldn't even have the power to do that.

New comment by 946789987649 in "Prism"

946789987649 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:25:36 +0000

Do a lot of people know that Prism is the name of the program? I certainly didn't and consider myself fairly switched on in general