Hacker News: Briannaj

New comment by Briannaj in "Googlebook"

Briannaj — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:34:29 +0000

Am I the only person who PANICs whenever I accidentally somehow activate the AI on my android? I'm so conditioned to panic whenever I see that floating rainbow that the whole marketing page is covered in I get very negative feelings.

New comment by Briannaj in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"

Briannaj — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:44:00 +0000

really, really?

After how many years of "shifting left" and understanding the importance of having security involved in the dev and planning process, now the recommendation is to vibe code with human intuition, review then spend a million tokens to "harden"?

I understand that isn't the point of the article and the article does make sense in its other parts. But that last paragraph leaves me scratching my head wondering if the author understands infosec at all?

New comment by Briannaj in "YouTube's $60B revenue revealed amid paid subscriber push"

Briannaj — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:37:54 +0000

I'd pay more if they let me turn off shorts.

New comment by Briannaj in "Show HN: I was tired of people dmming me just "hi", so I made this - NoGreeting"

Briannaj — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 02:55:19 +0000

I must be the only person in the world who doesn't get annoyed by Hi

New comment by Briannaj in "Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs"

Briannaj — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 04:53:56 +0000

my favorite type of hacking. reading the js an modifying the PUT. Works a lot more often than you expect.

New comment by Briannaj in "Alterego: Thought to Text"

Briannaj — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:23:50 +0000

what it could be really cool for is stuff like "open my house door", "Turn off the lights", "text so and so", "Start my car" Stuff we want to do without pulling out our phone that doesn't require a lot of detailed instruction.

New comment by Briannaj in "Alterego: Thought to Text"

Briannaj — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:22:16 +0000

This is literally only as fast as text to speech. the only difference is that you don't have to speak aloud. Which is cool. But for using a computer its still annoying and worse than a mouse because with a mouse you can click or drag and place in a second, in this format you have to think "move the box from point A to point B (with coordinates or a description) etc etc".

I think its cool, I've been brainstorming how a good MCI would work for a while and didn't think of this. I think its a great novel approach that will probably be expanded on soon.

New comment by Briannaj in "The Gentle Singularity"

Briannaj — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:20:31 +0000

I could not take the article seriously after reading that.

New comment by Briannaj in "The Gentle Singularity"

Briannaj — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:18:44 +0000

we are not past the event horizon.

New comment by Briannaj in "A privilege escalation from Chrome extensions (2023)"

Briannaj — Wed, 28 May 2025 02:25:23 +0000

This is worth more than 10k imo. But I guess since you have to have an extension installed maybe that's why?

New comment by Briannaj in "Wtfis: Passive hostname, domain and IP lookup tool for non-robots"

Briannaj — Tue, 13 May 2025 03:46:59 +0000

I'm actually surprised no one built this before this is exactly what soc analyst would need.

New comment by Briannaj in "Show HN: Cursor Directory – From a 3-hour build to a 250k users/mo community"

Briannaj — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 02:47:21 +0000

I can confirm, the rules aren't any better. what I do is have a main prompt that just tells the model to adhere to the rules and lists them out. It doesn't really work.