Hacker News: Izmaki

New comment by Izmaki in "I Stored a Website in a Favicon"

Izmaki — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:42:59 +0000

Wait 'til the author discovers that you can use ping (ICMP) to transfer data, too! :)

New comment by Izmaki in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

Izmaki — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:42:27 +0000

I've wanted to love Zen for a while, I really have, but every time I start using it, it just feels... I don't know... foreign? Too new for comfort?

I think it's one of those "once you get used to it, you never go back" technologies, but I also think it takes a bit of time to get used to it. Thoughts?

New comment by Izmaki in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

Izmaki — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:41:05 +0000

In my experience they're sometimes a little too aggressive and I have to disable the "shields" for the page to function correctly. I have never seen an add while using Brave and that's after 1.5 million trackers blocked and 50 gb bandwidth "saved".

The only browser I would switch to away from Brave is one that, as was described by another user in here, sandboxes all pages/domains and ensures that no data leaks outside unless you are actively allowing it. Think Qubes OS but for browsers. I imagine a nice "drag this domain-box into the Facebook domain blob of a tree structure to allow linking and sharing of data" would be a cool feature. That would make it easy to select and confirm which FAANG company gets your data on which domain.

New comment by Izmaki in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

Izmaki — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:08:22 +0000

Say what, now?

Anonymity and encrypted communication are two very, very different things. Have one but not the other and you're essentially handing off your private data incl. passwords to whoever that has a tap on the communication between you and the server can fetch them, too. Have the other but not the one and everyone will know who you are, but they can't eavesdrop.

New comment by Izmaki in "Siri AI"

Izmaki — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:30:45 +0000

I wonder if the language support is the voice part of the assistant? It took a while (years) for Siri to speak my native language back then.

New comment by Izmaki in "Zig Zen Update"

Izmaki — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:03:37 +0000

I'm wondering the same: why is this change significant enough to reach the frontpage on Hacker News?

New comment by Izmaki in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

Izmaki — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:25:34 +0000

This sounds amazing until something needs replacement. Until data centers on earth has a 99.99% (or higher) level of autonomous operation with very minimal requirements to maintenance and part replacements, they're not sending anything into orbit...

New comment by Izmaki in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

Izmaki — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:06:22 +0000

I didn't know about https://duckduckgo.com/settings at all, thanks. I really liked the customization of "Startpage".

I'm also REALLY happy to see that you can actively disable not just adds but also suggestions to install tools/apps and newsletter requests. Thank you!

New comment by Izmaki in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

Izmaki — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:50:06 +0000

I imagine that the companies that earn money from input and output tokens really, really like excessive skills because of the sheer amount of potentially pointless constraints and instructions being sent back and forth ("don't store passwords as plaintext", "always check for syntax errors" and other obvious guidelines).

New comment by Izmaki in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

Izmaki — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:43:20 +0000

I'm curious: what is your use-case for a search engine that justifies Kagi over free search engines? Are you not finding your results on page one, first try, with other engines?

New comment by Izmaki in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

Izmaki — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:46:07 +0000

By your logic it's also better if Ray-Ban and Oakley don't publicly state that UV light is dangerous and that people should use sunglasses if outside.

That sounds silly.

New comment by Izmaki in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

Izmaki — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:44:32 +0000

They also advocate for if not enforce HTTPS. Would this be bad if they were also a trusted CA selling signed TLS certs to companies?

New comment by Izmaki in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

Izmaki — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:42:31 +0000

I think North Korea is attempting to do this, for example by punishing not only the criminal but also their immediate family to a life-sentence in working camps, if the person commits severe enough crime.

I don't think it's as successful as it sounds on paper, from the comfort of our western society homes.

New comment by Izmaki in "Forking the Web"

Izmaki — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:14:08 +0000

My moustache filter says I'm above 13, thankyouverymuch.

New comment by Izmaki in "Forking the Web"

Izmaki — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:33:22 +0000

"Dillo Browser" was not what the first thing I read and wondered if me clicking the link was even a good idea... xD

New comment by Izmaki in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"

Izmaki — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:32:05 +0000

It’s 01:30 in the night you cannot just drop lyrics like that, I’ll have the song stuck in my head for hours.. :(

For this, you just lost The Game.

New comment by Izmaki in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

Izmaki — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:16:22 +0000

A "limited subset of customers" could be 99% of them and the phrase would still be technically true.

New comment by Izmaki in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

Izmaki — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:27:01 +0000

I still haven't found an actual, useful scenario where something like OpenClaw would be a benefit to me. I don't regularly order arbitrary airplane tickets and I don't have a cluttered Desktop that I need AI to organize into folders. I don't run a YouTube channel with a "need" to do research on competitors and I don't get emails in a volume so large that I need automation to filter and summarize it, instead of just spending literally 10 seconds to delete my newsletters that I never read anyway.

I also don't trust AI which hallucinates answers 4/5 times that I ask it, for my technical work, thus I can't use it for PR reviews even if my company was OK with me feeling company property to it.

I also don't go grocery shopping random items and thus don't have a need to ask an assistant for "an inspiring and tasty recipe using the following ingredients".

I feel that OpenClaw and other similar "agentic" solutions are catered to me. But I also feel that I don't need any of it, because at the end of the day, it all just feels like a bunch of "Hello World" quality examples that cannot be applied to everyday life.

...heck, even a "get ready for work" assistant would be pointless, because I don't wake up and get ready with 20 minutes to spare, for some AI assistant to "recommend me the ideal time to leave my home, to arrive in time". Who does that? Who would sit around and do nothing for 10-15 minutes just because an AI agent told them that they didn't need to leave early?

OpenClaw & Friends feel quite useless.

New comment by Izmaki in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

Izmaki — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:26:37 +0000

They already have the data and much more of it. This has nothing to do with “Big Corp” wanting to know how old their users are.

New comment by Izmaki in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

Izmaki — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:02:26 +0000

What a useful "my hello-world script is faster than your hello-world script" example.