Hacker News: Ghoelian

New comment by Ghoelian in "They Shouldn't Know It's a "User" Interview"

Ghoelian — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:21:03 +0000

Substack, no thanks.

New comment by Ghoelian in "SQRL wan't wrong, it was early"

Ghoelian — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:33:25 +0000

The security implications are one thing, but another issue to me with email codes is that you now have to wait for an email to arrive. At worst this can take a few minutes, at which point I'm no longer interested in logging in, unless it was for something I absolutely have to do. At best I have to open my mail client or log in to the webmail, while with a password or passkey all I need is Keepass running.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open"

Ghoelian — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:19:04 +0000

The one thing I know Anker for is that they were uploading the feeds of their doorbell cameras without encryption (even though they claimed e2ee), and iirc they were also uploading thumbnails of these cameras to a publicly accessible S3 bucket, and consistently lying about it all.

So no, I don't think they're very reputable at all.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Executable Emoji"

Ghoelian — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:40:06 +0000

Apple doesn't keep their emoji list up to date. Apple invents new emojis, implements them, and once enough people are using it, unicode will pretty much have to incorporate it. They're pretty much to emojis what google is to web standards.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

Ghoelian — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:02:42 +0000

What do you mean "I'd say"? It's obviously a fact. Github copilot uses an llm for its autocomplete, so obviously it falls under llm generated code.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

Ghoelian — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:01:17 +0000

AI auto complete is still generative AI, why would that be any different? Unless you're talking about regular intellisense-like auto complete, which of course does not use generative AI at all, which would obviously be fine.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)"

Ghoelian — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:24:41 +0000

idk, they probably tried to get people on DC's as close to their location as possible. Using your phone number's country code might seem like a good way to do this at first, and they probably didn't give it much more thought before building the whole thing on this idea.

New comment by Ghoelian in "The new HTTP QUERY method explained"

Ghoelian — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:14:01 +0000

Yes, but existing software has already been built around the scenario of only accepting request methods you actually handle.

New comment by Ghoelian in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

Ghoelian — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:25:09 +0000

Yes. They want to get rid of immigrants for example.

New comment by Ghoelian in "The new HTTP QUERY method explained"

Ghoelian — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:53:03 +0000

The point is that if you do that, you end up with lots of undefined behaviour in existing software that has not been patched yet.

If you make it a whole new request method, existing unpatched software should just respond with "Method not allowed".

New comment by Ghoelian in "macOS Container Machines"

Ghoelian — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:16:05 +0000

It's free for personal use, and for a company 96/year is absolutely nothing, I'd hope.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Hear your agent suffer through your code"

Ghoelian — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:51:17 +0000

The agent is instructed to execute this Python script: https://github.com/AndrewVos/endless-toil/blob/main/plugins/...

So looks like it's mainly looking for FIXME/TODO etc comments, deep nesting, large files, broad catches, stuff like that.

New comment by Ghoelian in "LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions"

Ghoelian — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:58:32 +0000

I don't think that's the case. I have the Earth View extension installed which shows a random google earth image.

I have this set as my homepage in Firefox as moz-extension:///index.html, and this has not changed since installing the extension. The page still works.

New comment by Ghoelian in "A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet"

Ghoelian — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:16:33 +0000

According to the article, they did have a human verify the images before sending the alert. Apparently they and the school still think they made the right call.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri"

Ghoelian — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 08:42:45 +0000

> A typeface is the design; a font is its specific instance. This is basic knowledge, taught to children, houseplants, and most domesticated goats.

I didn't know this, and this explanation isn't really helping. (I did know there's a difference between typeface and font, but no idea what).

Why would this be basic knowledge when all most people ever have to deal with is the font options in Word?

New comment by Ghoelian in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

Ghoelian — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:05:19 +0000

What are you talking about, e-ink is much nicer for things like this. An OLED produces actual light, and uses way more power. I wouldn't want an oled display on 24/7 in my living room.

Everyone defaults to it because it's really nice actually.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

Ghoelian — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:04:46 +0000

I just want to be able to save the image to a folder and copy it to my clipboard when taking a screenshot. iirc in KDE Plasma's Spectacle, these options are checkboxes, you can enable as many at once as you like.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs"

Ghoelian — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:07:32 +0000

The convention at every company I've worked at was to use DTO's. So yes, JSON payloads are in fact validated, usually with proper type validation as well (though unfortunately that part is technically optional since we work in php).

Usually it's not super strict, as in it won't fail if a new field suddenly appears (but will if one that's specified disappears), but that's a configuration thing we explicitly decided to set this way.

New comment by Ghoelian in "OS Malevich – how we made a system that embodies the idea of simplicity (2017)"

Ghoelian — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:36:21 +0000

> This is a key difference between RTOS and Linux, where operations wait in an execution queue. And this is one of the reasons why Linux isn’t used in professional security systems.

Linux also has a realtime kernel available. It would have been nice to know why they didn't go with that, but it wasn't even mentioned.

New comment by Ghoelian in "Atuin’s New Runbook Execution Engine"

Ghoelian — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:27:33 +0000

I had the same feeling. It looks like a super cool product, and I'd love to do something with it. I just have no idea what.