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New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE"

BadBadJellyBean — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:23:13 +0000

I have full control over the inputs for hugo and the output is pure static HTML. It's better if there are no CVEs but I really don't sweat these. My Hugo template runs 100% pure CSS and no JS.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Why MCP Was Always a Bad Idea"

BadBadJellyBean — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:09:00 +0000

It doesn't need to be. The service creds can be on another host entirely.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Everybody's Lost Their Minds"

BadBadJellyBean — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:14:31 +0000

Exactly this!

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Everybody's Lost Their Minds"

BadBadJellyBean — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:41:32 +0000

I don't want to deny that. I mean I am using it. And if works well it's great. If it doesn't though it's exhausting. And if it produces bad code, it can do that at a speed that is overwhelming.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Everybody's Lost Their Minds"

BadBadJellyBean — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:37:07 +0000

I feel like humans don't switch between being an idiot and a genius quite as fast as LLMs do. But yeah I have been thinking about my future and I am not sure I am cut out for the role of manager.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Everybody's Lost Their Minds"

BadBadJellyBean — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:32:37 +0000

I never liked telling people what to do or watching people do something. Using AI is exclusively like telling someone to do something who is either super smart or dumb as a brick and you never know which persona you will. The only thing you can be sure of is that it will produce whatever it produces very fast with 100% confidence. Also I care for code style, consistency and overall maintainability because I don't want to be locked into using LLMs and I can only really do that when I proof read everything. I don't want a huge project that will take a full rewrite for a human to understand it.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Everybody's Lost Their Minds"

BadBadJellyBean — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:42:54 +0000

I feel this post. I am tired of "directing" agents when in reality it feels more like trying to herd a group of toddlers.

Sure they can mostly write better code than a toddler but this constant nudging and reminding and reiterating and stopping them from using the token budget of the whole company for a one off script. It gets tiring and I feel like I am losing brain power while doing it. Maybe it's faster but explosive diarrhea is also a faster way to produce shit.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents"

BadBadJellyBean — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:09:44 +0000

Not in the US. Europe on the other hand is more open to bigger fines.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

BadBadJellyBean — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:03:42 +0000

I like occasionally watching movies. I will rarely watch a movie twice. Streaming would be the best option for me, but I will not subscribe to more than one service. Get your shit together. Do cross licensing. Split production from distribution. Until then I will not be paying for any streaming service.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

BadBadJellyBean — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:27:21 +0000

I haven't used that platform in years and I am still well enough informed. Don't be scared of not knowing everything. The important info will probably reach you. It's not like other platforms don't have people taking about interesting and important things.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "What's the Scam?"

BadBadJellyBean — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:18:16 +0000

That would be a good guess but the post says:

> All Gmail. None of the addresses has actually subscribed to Crypto-Gram. They could; whoever is sending the emails could easily have confirmed the subscription.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Adding 4 more 2.5GbE interfaces to the GMKtec NucBox G9"

BadBadJellyBean — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:33:33 +0000

I was so annoyed by the gimmick where I had to hover over the image to see what is on it that I didn't finish the post.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

BadBadJellyBean — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:24:36 +0000

It forces some kind of modularity. Maybe that is a good thing. We don't have all features of X11 in Wayland but we also have features in Wayland that are missing in X11. I have been on Wayland for a while now and I can't say I am really suffering. There are some tings I'd like improved further but the protocol is evolving all the time. I think we'll get there. Also the decision is already made by the big distros anyways. They seem to be mostly happy.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Xorg-server 26.1.0 rc1"

BadBadJellyBean — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:06:28 +0000

Exactly. Just think about how much work it was to move from X to Wayland, how Nvidia didn't want to play ball, how different the architectures are, in a world where ossification is very much a thing. AND STILL there was enough momentum to get all the major players on board. I have never done any X programming but it must have been bad when people would so readily jump ship and put all that work in. Same for systemd.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost"

BadBadJellyBean — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:21:53 +0000

I volunteer at the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) and we recently did some navigation training. We have to be prepared for a situation when we don't have access to GNSS. I recently moved to the place where I currently live and I don't have a car. Navigating someone to places you have never seen before by map was a really fun challenge.

I can proudly say that I have not lead us astray.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us"

BadBadJellyBean — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:08:18 +0000

You wouldn't even need a dongle if your license wasn't permanently bound to one account. It's not hard to transfer a license, but it's very undesirable for Sony, Microsoft, Valve, etc...

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Exploiting System Management Mode with a very long interrupt"

BadBadJellyBean — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:50:45 +0000

Do you think a short instruction is okay or does it need to be long? The instructions were a bit unclear in that regard :D

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Terafab"

BadBadJellyBean — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:43:20 +0000

At one point people stop believing in these grandiose marketing stunts. I hope the time is now.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "Bugtraq is back"

BadBadJellyBean — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:06:17 +0000

> Secondly, could everyone who wants to make comments about AI text in submissions please consider re-reading the comments section of the Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html - I'm not sure these comments are in the spirit of the HN community. We should stop this in the same way we try and stop "HN is just turning into Reddit" noise.

Thank you! I am so sick of these comments under EVERY POST.

New comment by BadBadJellyBean in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

BadBadJellyBean — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:19:50 +0000

Did the US just have the same fate as Russia where they where feared for their military until they used it?