Hacker News: Jleagle

New comment by Jleagle in "Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions"

Jleagle — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:12:38 +0000

Isn't your prediction a good thing? People prefer humans currently as they are better but if AI is just as good, doesn't that just mean more good PRs?

New comment by Jleagle in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

Jleagle — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:18:40 +0000

I think you're misunderstanding how small the chance of creating the same wallet as someone else is.

There are 2^256 wallets. There are 2^72 grains of sand on earth.

The chance of your bank screwing up is a lot higher, by trillions.

New comment by Jleagle in "Imgur's community was in revolt"

Jleagle — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:18:22 +0000

I don't think any of the porn on Reddit is illegal.

New comment by Jleagle in "Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative"

Jleagle — Thu, 15 May 2025 12:59:38 +0000

AI's scrape data from web pages just like anything else does. I don't think their existence makes a difference.

New comment by Jleagle in "Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative"

Jleagle — Thu, 15 May 2025 12:47:04 +0000

So it's the same as a sleep()

New comment by Jleagle in "Lightweight open source reCaptcha alternative"

Jleagle — Thu, 15 May 2025 10:37:19 +0000

Can someone explain why a robot would not be able to calculate the PoW?

New comment by Jleagle in "Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll"

Jleagle — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:29:35 +0000

I see a preview on the linked page, but still odd instructions can only be emailed to you.

New comment by Jleagle in "Mozilla Firefox Removes "Do Not Track" Feature Support"

Jleagle — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:44:21 +0000

As a web developer i don't think i have ever supported this feature, but only because i never remembered to. It's a pretty easy feature to add, but unless browsers can force it, you're better off with uBLock.

New comment by Jleagle in "Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction"

Jleagle — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:01:30 +0000

How about not getting a bonus? Last year he got around $1M in bonuses.

New comment by Jleagle in "Show HN: qrframe – generate beautiful qr codes with javascript code"

Jleagle — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:00:58 +0000

While I do agree, one can be done almost instantly in your browser, one takes hours of rendering.

New comment by Jleagle in "Show HN: Cronexpr, a Rust library to parse and iter crontab expression"

Jleagle — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 10:15:51 +0000

This sounds great, if i could trust it to get it right 100% of the time.

New comment by Jleagle in "Sony announces PS5 Pro, a $700 graphics workhorse available Nov. 7"

Jleagle — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:23:56 +0000

You need a quick reaction time for lots of games, many people have high ping times because of their internet provider or rubbish wifi.

Ad for owning games, if you buy the game on disc, you can sell it, if you download it, you cant, that's on you.

New comment by Jleagle in "Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana"

Jleagle — Sun, 05 May 2024 19:27:49 +0000

I think this was supposed to be a reply to one of the Home Assistant threads

New comment by Jleagle in "Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says"

Jleagle — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:03:35 +0000

You can already do this, when you buy a car you own it and manufacturers don't stop you changing the car however you like.

New comment by Jleagle in "Pornhub Blocked in Texas"

Jleagle — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:01:39 +0000

What would a version without adult content contain?

New comment by Jleagle in "Crypto 'mixer' convicted of money laundering on Bitcoin Fog"

Jleagle — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 17:24:47 +0000

Similar argument to bittorrent. Using it is perfectly legal, using it to download movies is illegal.

New comment by Jleagle in "Could Modified Gravity Kill Planet Nine?"

Jleagle — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 13:34:44 +0000

Wikipedia: `Rebecca Smethurst, also known as Dr. Becky, is a British astrophysicist, author, and YouTuber who is a junior research fellow at the University of Oxford. She was the recipient of the 2020 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship, awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society, as well as the 2020 Mary Somerville Medal and Prize, awarded by the Institute of Physics. In 2022, she won the Royal Astronomical Society's Winton Award "for research by a post-doctoral fellow in Astronomy whose career has shown the most promising development".`

New comment by Jleagle in "The hovercraft's time might have arrived"

Jleagle — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 10:01:06 +0000

Living in Portsmouth UK, I see a huge hovercraft all the time, maybe the largest in the world for passengers, taking people to the Isle of Wight. I sometimes forgot that they are pretty rare. They are great for kids as they really feel like an experience.

New comment by Jleagle in "Cleaning up my 200GB iCloud with some JavaScript"

Jleagle — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:37:10 +0000

Must be bad compression if the files are getting larger?

New comment by Jleagle in "A clickjacking vulnerability in WhatsApp that enables phishing attacks"

Jleagle — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 13:47:46 +0000

It's an Electron app, they also have a native one in beta you can download