Hacker News: CodeWriter23

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

CodeWriter23 — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:08:22 +0000

If you're gonna go there, this is obligatory https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

CodeWriter23 — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:05:08 +0000

I get the microservice to ensure this. But 3 people dedicated to it? I guarantee you they spent their days trudging dungeons, playing CoD and ping pong.

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth"

CodeWriter23 — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:31:00 +0000

That assertion is based on the practice of immediate clamping common in Westernized Medicine, hence the delayed clamping movement.

Have you ever had a child? Have you and your wife significantly studied these matters?

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

CodeWriter23 — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:50:04 +0000

I think this all turns on, did the original author assert "Addtional Terms" under GPL v3 7e:

e) Declining to grant rights under trademark law for use of some trade names, trademarks, or service marks; or

If he did not, it would appear to this non-lawyer that he released the icon and branding under the GPL.

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

CodeWriter23 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:09:21 +0000

This guy brings the receipts https://x.com/markkaplan20/status/2048350831096090749?s=61&t...

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

CodeWriter23 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:24:01 +0000

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Get curious

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

CodeWriter23 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:46:58 +0000

Actual Scientists are calling it Type-3. But these are the same scientists that are actually reversing Type 2 diabetes without expensive drugs. Of course they exist outside the pharma narrative, and they don't have any uncurious attack dogs willing to defend their narrative-busting results.

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Linux 7.1 Removes Drivers for Bus Mouse Support"

CodeWriter23 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:42:32 +0000

The old-fashioned way, build your own kernel with the driver included.

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

CodeWriter23 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:57:55 +0000

Incorrect. See also: NetWare, Stoned.

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

CodeWriter23 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:57:20 +0000

Was quality even an issue at 480i?

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "WireGuard VPN developer's Microsoft account locked"

CodeWriter23 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:07:45 +0000

Microsoft VP comments on this: https://x.com/shanselman/status/2041977121686585396?s=46

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general"

CodeWriter23 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:49:27 +0000

14th Amendment: 'wherein they reside', residency is a legal state indicating an immigration process per the law has been followed.

And though your point about not having agency is significant, the law and the Constitution says DACA recipients should have been deported. We allowed a rogue President to override that.

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

CodeWriter23 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:06:50 +0000

So. Does this methodology mean someone can surreptitiously boot up a Linux VM running Wireguard in your browser and be inside your firewall via chrome.sockets API?

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

CodeWriter23 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:01:59 +0000

You run old operating system in browser as a gateway.

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general"

CodeWriter23 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:54:19 +0000

The genesis of the Fourteenth Amenedment was to deny citizenship to any circumventing said jurisdiction, as the Confederate states had done. As illegal aliens have all done. Seems pretty cut and dry to me, especially considering SCOTUS previously ruled American Indians were not under the jurisdiction of The United States after the Fourteenth was ratified, requiring Congress to enact a law granting them citizenship.

DACA is another example, The Obama Administration could not get legislation passed to grant citizenship to those individuals, so drafted an Executive Order to not enforce the law (as he had previously sworn an Oath to do, I might add). And now many of those individuals are facing deportation.

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general"

CodeWriter23 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:03:15 +0000

Also with Swallwell becoming aware the FBI had him under investigation. And he and Bondi are buds.

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

CodeWriter23 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:01:24 +0000

It's fine if you ignore supply chain attacks on npm packages.

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

CodeWriter23 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:22:15 +0000

The lede everyone is burying: "Every EmDash site has x402 support built in — charge for access to content"

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

CodeWriter23 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:19:32 +0000

8 years later and now I'm getting the 4 1's joke.

New comment by CodeWriter23 in "Apple at 50"

CodeWriter23 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:54:18 +0000

No acknowledgment of the Apple ][ ಠ_ಠ