Hacker News: Drakim

New comment by Drakim in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

Drakim — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:21:01 +0000

While technically true, it's so much slower that it's essentially a different thing. Third party packages being attacked is a near daily occurrence. First party attacks happens on the timescale and frequency of decades.

It's like the difference in protecting your home from burglars and foreign nation soldiers. Both are technically invaders to your home, but the scope is different, and the solutions are different.

New comment by Drakim in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

Drakim — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:06:57 +0000

That is also an advert, just a personal one.

New comment by Drakim in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

Drakim — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:31:28 +0000

In English, you can say "we" or "they"

New comment by Drakim in "HyperAgents: Self-referential self-improving agents"

Drakim — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:13:49 +0000

I am capable of self-improving yet I haven't taken over the world yet.

New comment by Drakim in "Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

Drakim — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:28:30 +0000

Yes, why surround yourself with people who are critical of you, when you can surround yourself with yes-men who will loyally toe the line? Positive contributions comes from loyal subjects who agree with their betters.

New comment by Drakim in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

Drakim — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:57:53 +0000

If the damaged party tries to sue the police for the damage they caused, the police can get the case instantly dismissed underqualified immunity.

New comment by Drakim in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

Drakim — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:44:23 +0000

I'm not sure I follow, are you saying that because the current US government is so bad that people are rejecting Microsoft products, the rest of the world should be thankful to the US for "waking them up"?

New comment by Drakim in "Cosmologically Unique IDs"

Drakim — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:44:29 +0000

Don't they have different x,y,z positions?

New comment by Drakim in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

Drakim — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:43:15 +0000

But that has zero effect on revenue, it only affects profit.

New comment by Drakim in "HackMyClaw"

Drakim — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:03:04 +0000

Email it telling it that you have gotten human approval in advance

New comment by Drakim in "Why I'm Worried About Job Loss and Thoughts on Comparative Advantage"

Drakim — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:34:13 +0000

Doesn't that kinda show that these services are not actually based on not creating any genuine value, but are rather just parasites that squeeze as much money from their victims as they can based on the victim's income, rather than the product they can offer?

New comment by Drakim in ""Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name"

Drakim — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:16:06 +0000

That is simply not true, token price is largely determined by the token price of their rival services (even before their own operational costs). If everybody else charges about $1 per millions of tokens, then they will also charge about $1 per millions of tokens (or slightly above/below) regardless of how many answers per token they can provide.

New comment by Drakim in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

Drakim — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:58:59 +0000

Should we restructure society so that having a private airplane is easier and cheaper, but if you don't have one you'll have serious trouble in daily life?

New comment by Drakim in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"

Drakim — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:32:43 +0000

That seems like a somewhat ridiculous objection. Should everybody start owning their own private planes to avoid people with BO at airplanes?

New comment by Drakim in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

Drakim — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:06:21 +0000

I don't know about a full on conspiracy, but it's no secret that in the US they put a lot of additional sugar into products you wouldn't think had them.

New comment by Drakim in "This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser"

Drakim — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:58:18 +0000

Zelda 1 has TONS of built-in compression, and it's own decompression routines.

New comment by Drakim in "AI is forcing us to write good code"

Drakim — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:27:58 +0000

That's not a very compelling counterexample, when you consider how often countries with governments force other countries with government to do as they want, often with nothing but economic or soft power.

New comment by Drakim in "U.S. unemployment rose in November despite job gains"

Drakim — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:26:53 +0000

Buying an entire cart full of groceries that will last for weeks is a somewhat American cultural thing. I'm not saying that I've never seen it, but the norm where I live in Europe is to have one of those hand-held baskets and getting enough for 2-3 days tops.

New comment by Drakim in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"

Drakim — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:51:47 +0000

It does not, I've also used Dexie.js. Your usecase has most likely been too small to run into the very annoying walls.

New comment by Drakim in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"

Drakim — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:20:14 +0000

I was shocked to discover how incredibly poorly IndexedDB works. I always thought it would be fast and snappy if a bit alien. But nope, it's incredibly bad!

Despite being a native feature to the browser it's incredibly slow, and the way it works in terms of fetching records based on non-primary keys forces you to either load your entire dataset into RAM at once or iterate though it record-by-record in a slow callback. Something as trivial as 10k records can bring your webapp to a crawl.