Hacker News: Habgdnv

New comment by Habgdnv in "Tell HN: Chrome says "suspicious download" when trying to download yt-dlp"

Habgdnv — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:15:12 +0000

Actually that is what they want you to believe. Behind the scenes, secretly Chrome is mostly "a tool to upload files to Google's servers" but because it does not require any actions from the user to do that, many people miss that part.

New comment by Habgdnv in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"

Habgdnv — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:51:02 +0000

Or even better, open the on-prem AI portal and type something like "I just got a suspicious call from client X, but I am on a lunch break. Call him and use a fake video of me. Ask him if what he said is true..."

New comment by Habgdnv in "A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp"

Habgdnv — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:33:05 +0000

I just woke up this morning and I am amazed. I am taking all my nasty words back and I starred the project and followed the author who reacted so fast to my dull negative feedback and this reaction shows how much he cares about the project.

New comment by Habgdnv in "What Does the Viral Afroman Trial Have to Do with Section 230?"

Habgdnv — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:24:27 +0000

Just my personal thoughts:

Section 230 is the reason for the current situation. It allows youtube to host many videos and the internet became centralized. Then they decide that they will censor someone or some topic they don't like.

If tomorrow they remove section 230, and youtube cease to exist as is right now and everyone starts to self-host it will become quite impossible to deplatform anyone.

New comment by Habgdnv in "A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp"

Habgdnv — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:33:53 +0000

I saw it, it is NOT spyware. It just sends a random UUID. It is just a personal disappointment for the fact that it is something so simple as a console player and yet connects somewhere. But that's just me. I grew up in other times.

Also I just compiled mp3blaster and I am listening to it again. So cool!

New comment by Habgdnv in "A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp"

Habgdnv — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:14:18 +0000

I remember with nostalgia the mp3blaster. I spent years listening to it in my terminal. At one point I used only cli without graphical desktop on slackware and one of my TTYs was dedicated to it.

Turns out these times are forever gone - never to come back. The huge disappointment when I tried this on the first run to play a mp3 file from my local disk and it initiated outbound connection. Why a local CLI player needs outbound TCP connection to play a local file from my local disk?!?! The answer was in the source. It is called telemetry. Back then when I used mp3blaster we used to call this spyware, but the times had changed since then.

New comment by Habgdnv in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

Habgdnv — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:05:49 +0000

Few years ago a huge NRA database was left public with admin/1234 or similar by the Bulgarian NRA. They government fined itself some non-trivial amount, then in the source/destination IBAN they put the same value and paid the fine. They managed to find someone to blame and it was not the person who left the database but the person who found it. Turns out that if you leave the PII of a whole country open to the public it is not your fault and you get to keep your cozy job. It is already unlawful to access that, so if someone access it - it is his fault - he broke the law.

Edit, i checked the facts: The Bulgarian government said that the it should pay too much to itself, and appealed the fine for few years until it somehow expired. And the guy (20 year at that time) they accused was later acquitted after they tried to ruin his life.

New comment by Habgdnv in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

Habgdnv — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:48:09 +0000

At least you think that this is satire, until the author receives a DMCA from one of the big corps saying that he leaked the transcript of their last meeting

New comment by Habgdnv in "Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's"

Habgdnv — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:30:57 +0000

Linux users are still behind on this innovation. Big corporations with money can move much faster. The closest I got on Fedora was a "donate to the author" button in a game launcher I installed last week. I saw it once. That pretty much exhausts my "modern platform" experience for the past few months.

Still waiting for the copilot button in cat | grep.

New comment by Habgdnv in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

Habgdnv — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:11:16 +0000

I bought my PC like 2 weeks ago and ran my ram at 5800 to test its limits and forgot to lower it. After few strange crashes of my fedora desktop - super strange behavior, apps refuse start/stop, can't even escape to the console... I ran memtest today and it lit all red in the first 2 minutes! Then I log in to my stable desktop at 5200 MT and I see this in the front HN page! What are the chances?!!

New comment by Habgdnv in "Never buy a .online domain"

Habgdnv — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:17:54 +0000

I am 100 percent certain that one of my domains i registered before and now I am still looking for lawyer to help me sue my government for blocking my domain for something I never commit and refusing to remove the block - just be cause they can. short .com domain! I even paid it for 2 years because I was willing to commit.

New comment by Habgdnv in "Amazon would rather blame its own engineers than its AI"

Habgdnv — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:13:40 +0000

Now it is easy to blame AI for any mistakes, I remember back in the days we had to convince our PM that notepad++ was at fault for the bad code and the whole team should keep their jobs.

New comment by Habgdnv in "The RCE that AMD won't fix"

Habgdnv — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:03:20 +0000

I was in the shop for new PC today and decided on 9950x3d but I don't know how I opened HN just before the checkout and now I am a happy owner of intel 14900!

New comment by Habgdnv in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

Habgdnv — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:10:07 +0000

In Bulgaria we have a similar speed reduction strategy but we are a bit ahead of Sweden: We use medium-radius but very deep potholes. If you lose attention for even a split second, you are forced to a full stop to change a tire. Near schools it gets more "advanced": they put parked cars on both sides of the road, and the holes positioned so you can't bypass them. For example, two tire-sized holes on both sides of the road right next to the parked cars. You have to come to a complete stop, then slowly descend into the hole with the front wheels, climb back out, and repeat the process for the rear wheels. Occasionally, even though we (technically) have sidewalks, they are covered in mud or grass or bushes, so pedestrians are forced to walk in the middle of the road. This further reduces driving speed to walking pace and increases safety in our cities. Road markings are missing almost everywhere and they put contradicting road signs so drivers are not only forced to cooperate but also to read each other minds.

New comment by Habgdnv in "US administration to require app, social media, possibly DNA for travelers"

Habgdnv — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:55:38 +0000

I came here to ask exactly the same question - i use temp addresses for lots of scammy-looking services. I don't even care to read what the email or domain is. I guess there is no way to enter the US?

New comment by Habgdnv in "UK Appeals court state RuneScape gold counts as property and can be stolen"

Habgdnv — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:56:01 +0000

Does that mean that finally some Ubisoft executive can have jail time when they shut down the servers and I no longer have access to my fancy hat I bought few years ago? The case would be even more clean because there would be real world money involved. - Just thinking...

New comment by Habgdnv in "Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]"

Habgdnv — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:13:55 +0000

I use the Monday personality. Last time I tried to imply that I am start, it roasted me that I once asked it how to center a div and to not lose hope because I am probably 3x smarter than an ape.

Completely different experience.

New comment by Habgdnv in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"

Habgdnv — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:20:44 +0000

And also it would be good to limit the ban duration with a law. For example manslaughter can be 5 years in prison. So if google decide to ban your account because you send your doctor a photo of your son for medical purposes, they are not allowed to ban you for more than 5 years and then they must restore full access to your account.

New comment by Habgdnv in "YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries"

Habgdnv — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 05:42:20 +0000

An amateur tip that I sometimes use after I reencode something to check what i lost:

ffmpeg -i source.mkv -i suspect.mkv -filter_complex "blend=all_mode=difference" diff_output.mkv

I saw these claims before but still have not found someone to show a diff or post the source for comparison. It would be interesting.

New comment by Habgdnv in "Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack"

Habgdnv — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:35:58 +0000

The problem is a bit wider than that. One can frame it as "google gemini is vulterable" or "google's new VS code clone is vulnerable". The bigger picture is that the model predicts tokens (words) based on all the text it have. In a big codebase it becomes exponentially easier to mess the model's mind. At some point it will become confused what is his job. What is part of the "system prompt" and "code comments in the codebase" becomes blurry. Even the models with huge context windows get confused because they do not understand the difference between your instructions and "injected instructions" in a hidden text in the readme or in code comments. They see tokens and given enough malicious and cleverly injected tokens the model may and often will do stupid things. (The word "stupid" means unexpected by you)

People are giving LLMs access to tools. LLMs will use them. No matter if it's Antigravity, Aider, Cursor, some MCP.