Hacker News: ItsABytecode

New comment by ItsABytecode in "The Website Specification"

ItsABytecode — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:38:39 +0000

Some of this is pretty good stuff, but I hope standardizing on a 128 item checklist doesn't discourage people from making websites

New comment by ItsABytecode in "[dead]"

ItsABytecode — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:15:18 +0000

Heading says "no sintering". Text says "...lasers. Metal powder in, metal parts out"

New comment by ItsABytecode in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

ItsABytecode — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:41:59 +0000

I don't really understand the distinction here. Are you saying that it's not possible to harm someone by damaging their property?

Sure I destroyed their car and they weren't able to go to work and got fired, but I didn't physically attack them so no harm done.

New comment by ItsABytecode in "Valetudo: Cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation"

ItsABytecode — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 20:49:32 +0000

I had a hard time parsing the title at first. I was like “I’m pretty sure vacuum robots have to be locally deployed”

New comment by ItsABytecode in "GitHub pull requests were down"

ItsABytecode — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:56:14 +0000

I didn’t think the code I just merged was that bad

New comment by ItsABytecode in "First chip-based 3D printer is smaller than a coin with no moving parts"

ItsABytecode — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:47:26 +0000

I think still need some moving parts for the build plate if you want to cure more than 1 layer of resin

Edit: from the MIT article, it sounds like the goal is to eventually use a hologram to cure the entire print at once. Related video: https://youtu.be/Ha0QA7iLGy8?si=wWSqex16ybyUDWxE

New comment by ItsABytecode in "Show HN: I built a tool to send 10k emails for $1 via AWS"

ItsABytecode — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 16:31:18 +0000

AWS is pretty aggressive about banning senders with high bounce/report rates. I know from working in an industry where customers had terrible email systems

New comment by ItsABytecode in "Show HN: I built a tool to send 10k emails for $1 via AWS"

ItsABytecode — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 16:27:33 +0000

This looks pretty neat. When I used SES at a previous company we had to do a lot of stuff like bounce tracking and monitoring ourselves so I definitely see the value.

One recommendation would be to use have customers create an IAM role and use cross-account role assumption to access SES on their behalf. That way you don’t have to deal with handling long-lived credentials

New comment by ItsABytecode in "Beeper – Moving Forward"

ItsABytecode — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:32:18 +0000

I think iMessage is a great example of “Embrace, Extend”. Apple didn’t build a standalone chat app because everyone (in the US) was already using SMS on their phones and “hey if you happen to be SMSing another iPhone user you get these extra features”

New comment by ItsABytecode in "Beeper – Moving Forward"

ItsABytecode — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:21:10 +0000

This hacking is more DMCA than CFAA

New comment by ItsABytecode in "Beeper – Moving Forward"

ItsABytecode — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:00:26 +0000

By “private API” do you mean undocumented public API?

New comment by ItsABytecode in "Beeper – Moving Forward"

ItsABytecode — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:56:50 +0000

So no 3rd party client software unless the company running the service gives explicit permission?

No 3rd party batteries in devices or 3rd party ink cartridges either

New comment by ItsABytecode in "Cautionary tale about letting big companies on federated communication protocols"

ItsABytecode — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 22:04:04 +0000

I feel like “email is dead as a decentralized protocol” is paradoxically a meme among Gmail users. Counter-anecdote: I haven’t touched Gmail in years and I still send and receive email fine

New comment by ItsABytecode in "Can we deter tech monopolies through reformed open source software development?"

ItsABytecode — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:52:07 +0000

I’ve never really understood the difference between a gift economy with the expectation of reciprocity and a regular non-gift economy

New comment by ItsABytecode in "Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future"

ItsABytecode — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 23:43:58 +0000

“From a content discovery standpoint, I’m really interested in how we can seed conversations and seed experiences with really high-quality content — certainly, editorial publisher content”

I’ve been waiting so long for my mastodon conversations to be seeded with high quality editorial publisher content

New comment by ItsABytecode in "Encrypted traffic interception on Hetzner and Linode targeting Jabber service"

ItsABytecode — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:56:49 +0000

> Also, Let's Encrypt security is a joke - they issued fake certificate without serious checking. Using unencrypted HTTP for confirmation is a vulnerability

They can’t use HTTPS if you don’t have a certificate yet

New comment by ItsABytecode in "WordPress Core to start using SQLite"

ItsABytecode — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:39:30 +0000

They’re probably thinking of shared hosting environments that don’t have the SQLite library for PHP installed. That seems like a concern you could raise about any database connector, though

New comment by ItsABytecode in "Amstrad Emailer, the UK’s first smartphone"

ItsABytecode — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:45:42 +0000

I do love telling users to RTFM as soon as they open the box. In some way I'd prefer that to today's "What manual? You don't need a manual"

New comment by ItsABytecode in "Rust Is the Future of JavaScript Infrastructure (2021)"

ItsABytecode — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 18:35:01 +0000

Wait, to install this python package I have to have a working c, rust, and fortran compiler?

New comment by ItsABytecode in "AI teaches itself to use an API"

ItsABytecode — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 23:50:55 +0000

I can't really infer much from this demo since the documentation it reads and the API it calls aren't public

edit: I was wrong. The site just doesn't have a http -> https redirect

https://sampleapis.com/api-list/wines