Hacker News: LikesPwsh

New comment by LikesPwsh in "Brexit Ten Years On: The Economy"

LikesPwsh — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:24:31 +0000

Brexit harming the growth of both UK and EU is another perfectly valid interpretation of those numbers.

I'm sure there's a little truth to both, and noise from all kinds of other factors.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

LikesPwsh — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:20:38 +0000

Rather than telling the LLM "loop through these files", tell it "write a script to loop through these files", then hard-code that script somewhere.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "Arm AGI CPU"

LikesPwsh — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:28:58 +0000

The same people who abbreviate "generative" AI in a way that misleadingly conflates it with "general" AI.

Fraud is just the default lifestyle of marketers.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "Keep Android Open"

LikesPwsh — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:43:39 +0000

YouTube on Firefox is a much better experience than the official YouTube app, so you can drop one from the list.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

LikesPwsh — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:56:12 +0000

.net, dynamics, power, 365, azure, fabric, copilot.

There's always some pointless name change going on.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

LikesPwsh — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:23:51 +0000

"IBM for i" is up there

New comment by LikesPwsh in "Sabotaging Bitcoin"

LikesPwsh — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:32:38 +0000

Making up a bigger fraction doesn't mean that transaction fees will increase over time.

For L1 fees to actually increase over time, we need increased L1 throughput. Without that, increased demand for transactions causes more batching of transactions (mostly between exchanges).

Given the failure of BCH for pseudo-religious reasons I don't have much hope.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates"

LikesPwsh — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:33:57 +0000

Skiddies targeting an individual site are a drop in the ocean compared with the industrial scale LLM scraping, so blaming them for it is in bad taste.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

LikesPwsh — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:33:26 +0000

Most token holders use exchanges, where freezing accounts and just keeping the tokens is a daily occurrence.

That's not something solved by cryptocurrency in its current form.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits"

LikesPwsh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:09:47 +0000

That's infamously known as the "Oracle Problem".

Blockchain can't handle external state.

Smart contracts abstract it a bit by having a trusted third party or an automated pricing mechanism, but both are fragile.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"

LikesPwsh — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:25:35 +0000

The stated purpose of RTO may be more-nimble-whatever.

In practice it makes more sense if you always assume the intended purpose is to thinly veil constructive dismissal.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "Red Alert 2 in web browser"

LikesPwsh — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:01:58 +0000

The original release came with separate Allied/Soviet discs. You could put one in your buddy's computer.

Keygen was also easily available.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "Red Alert 2 in web browser"

LikesPwsh — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:58:16 +0000

Forge is a good modern equivalent

New comment by LikesPwsh in "Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres"

LikesPwsh — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 08:37:46 +0000

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/s...

This one is a classic for MSSQL, most of it is applicable on postgres.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "SQL Anti-Patterns"

LikesPwsh — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:46:51 +0000

"Dimension table" is the name for lookup tables in a star or snowflake schema.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "SQL Anti-Patterns"

LikesPwsh — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:43:45 +0000

Some well known docs on the topic- https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/where-clause/obfuscation

New comment by LikesPwsh in "ASP.NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability"

LikesPwsh — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:56:16 +0000

Yes

New comment by LikesPwsh in "User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality"

LikesPwsh — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:16:41 +0000

Anyone can generate an NFT, including IP you don't own or existing collections.

Hundreds of wallets might contain a the same monkey picture (or same hash and IPFS link to nitpick).

What matters is that Opensea says you have the "real" one.

Their database is the real list of who owns what, the blockchain is a distraction.

You can see it in their anti-theft systems. NFTs get hidden and blocked from trading after a police report, even if it's still there on the chain.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality"

LikesPwsh — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:04:09 +0000

To clarify, I don't see users ever leaving centralised exchanges.

That means classic claims like "bitcoin is scarce" or "transactions don't require anyone's permission" or "transactions can't be censored" or "nobody can seize your bitcoin" are generally false in practice.

Even if a person only trades via bags of cash in dark alleyways and never touches exchanges, they're affected by all this "paper" bitcoin.

If they need to touch an exchange at any point, even if holding in a cold wallet 99% of the time, that exchange can still take 100% of their tokens.

New comment by LikesPwsh in "User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality"

LikesPwsh — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:25:58 +0000

The users could reject exchanges and trade entirely on-chain, but that's expensive/complicated/risky.

It is a serious concern for cryptocurrency that most users don't even get the touted benefits because of reliance on exchanges.