Hacker News: Gander5739

RWR: Onlooker Alert

Gander5739 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:03:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/revocx35/RWR

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50164402

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Gander5739 in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

Gander5739 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:44:02 +0000

Without wanting to sound too critical, that sounds like you're trusting vibes over statistics.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Passkeys are not a trap"

Gander5739 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:56:52 +0000

> Right now I see no compelling reason to switch from regular OTP codes. Change my mind.

The phishing potential?

New comment by Gander5739 in "Passkeys Are Not a Trap"

Gander5739 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:51:20 +0000

Well, KeePass is self-hosted, and I hadn't heard of strongbox before, but it says on the website:

> Store your data anywhere you like, online or offline. Sync with every major cloud storage provider or your own server over WebDAV or SFTP. Use your Strongbox database with any KeePass compatible client on any platform.

New comment by Gander5739 in "I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google"

Gander5739 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:38:02 +0000

> Bounties exist to make it nominally more economical for researchers to report exploits than it is to resell them.

Is this really true? After all, reselling the exploit would be illegal, and most people don't want to break the law to earn income.

New comment by Gander5739 in "People are rejoicing about the removal of Russian bots from social media"

Gander5739 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:11:33 +0000

Surely at least some part of this is confirmation bias?

New comment by Gander5739 in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

Gander5739 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:46:14 +0000

These are known as contronyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym

New comment by Gander5739 in "I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google"

Gander5739 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:31:23 +0000

For the uninitiated: https://xkcd.com/378/

New comment by Gander5739 in "Scraping TikTok's Mobile API"

Gander5739 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:46:28 +0000

The database is available on HuggingFace: https://huggingface.co/datasets/datasocial/tiktok-5.6B-video...

Scraping TikTok's Mobile API

Gander5739 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:11:00 +0000

Article URL: https://datasocial.ai/writing/scraping-tiktoks-mobile-api

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003963

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by Gander5739 in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

Gander5739 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:35:23 +0000

I believe the image would need to be present in the full size image, so I think that would limit to some extent the attack vector, but I don't know how far you could push it.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

Gander5739 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:19:16 +0000

How would that work in an attack?

New comment by Gander5739 in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

Gander5739 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:16:25 +0000

But Google is responsible for jxl-rs. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/jpeg-xl-in-chrome#safety_f...

New comment by Gander5739 in "Japan officially overhauls permanent residency rules"

Gander5739 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:21:03 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49858810 [Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners] (4 days ago, 666 comments, 206 points)

New comment by Gander5739 in "Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners"

Gander5739 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:37:48 +0000

Thank you, that comment told me everything I wanted to know.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners"

Gander5739 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:03:04 +0000

> according to available statistics

I appreciate you basing your argument in statistics, but if you have them to hand, could you link to them?

New comment by Gander5739 in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

Gander5739 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:20:55 +0000

It's not that well known, but mpv supports playing youtube videos. I think you need yt-dlp installed.

New comment by Gander5739 in "F-Droid 2.0"

Gander5739 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:33:43 +0000

What features does the wireguard app have that alternatives like WG Tunnel or KabelWacht lack?

New comment by Gander5739 in "F-Droid 2.0"

Gander5739 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:29:56 +0000

I've found Droid-ify more reliable at doing background updates, though it still only manages it sometimes (possibly due in some way to how I installed the apps). Hopefully Fdroid's app will be better at this.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Tokens too cheap to meter"

Gander5739 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:13:03 +0000

What is considered a good metric?