Hacker News: OptionOfT

New comment by OptionOfT in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

OptionOfT — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:14:53 +0000

I agree. PR merges for me are bisect points. That's when changes are introduced. Individual commits don't even always build.

And I don't rebase or squash because I need provenance in my job.

New comment by OptionOfT in "Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)"

OptionOfT — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:59:26 +0000

I have the feeling a lot of people take Macs because the other option is a locked down Windows, and Linux is not offered.

New comment by OptionOfT in "Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate"

OptionOfT — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:19:20 +0000

I specifically don't update the version in Cargo.toml in the codebase. I patch it in just before cargo publish, otherwise all other PRs now need to change.

New comment by OptionOfT in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

OptionOfT — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:03:05 +0000

> That's on app developers (I suspect mobile game developers are not the most competent of the bunch). My entire iPhone's backup is 4.6 GB, and my YouTube downloaded videos alone are way more than that.

While it's the app developers that need to make the change, it should be enforced by Apple. After all, that's why there is a walled garden, and that is the premium we pay for when using Apple.

But for Apple to enforce this means less popups on screens telling people that storage is full, which means less sales.

And again, we get to Goodhart's law.

New comment by OptionOfT in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

OptionOfT — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:45:31 +0000

But there is a way to do this encrypted, so that when the notification is received on your iPhone, the process itself needs to decrypt it.

Except you need an entitlement for that, because it requires that your app has the ability to receive a notification without actually showing it (Apple checks this).

Your app gets woken up, decrypts the message, and then shows a local notification.

New comment by OptionOfT in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

OptionOfT — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:40:39 +0000

Apple also by default backs up your apps to the cloud.

But it backs up the WHOLE package / folder / whatever terminology they use, including cached and redownloadable data. So if you have a game that has 10GB of cached data, it WILL upload that. Edge for me was >3GB.

And then they have the following user-hostile 'features':

    1. They offer a paltry 5GB. Hasn't changed since inception, but app sizes have ... tripped? I have 2GB of health data now. 
    2. They don't tell you that you're backing up data that can be retrieved elsewhere.
    3. The popup when storage is full shows only 'buy more' or ignore (no link/mention to disable individual app like described above)
    4. No way to backup to a NAS
    5. No way to backup to a computer automatically. You have to provide you passcode every time.

New comment by OptionOfT in "One item purchased, ten emails"

OptionOfT — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:40:25 +0000

I've been getting an email from Jessica at BMW for last 30 days after inquiring about a car.

New comment by OptionOfT in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

OptionOfT — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:02:47 +0000

The web version would be a-ok if it wasn't artificially blocking me from consuming it when on mobile, like Yelp.

Or it's full of annoying popups to use the app, looking at you, Google.

New comment by OptionOfT in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

OptionOfT — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:46:25 +0000

Can't even reproduce it when setting location to Belgium, or CA or AZ.

I must be missing something.

New comment by OptionOfT in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

OptionOfT — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:14:24 +0000

That's the thing. I didn't ask it about how to get to the width of the string.

It came up with a plan and I tried it.

New comment by OptionOfT in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

OptionOfT — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:12:25 +0000

Well, then how did I get a mortgage with the whole thing being empty?

W2s are perfectly fine.

New comment by OptionOfT in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

OptionOfT — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:45:07 +0000

I'm filling out the form there. I genuinely don't know why I would ever generate a salary key so I can let someone know how much money I made.

Also, to prevent them from sharing the information, you need to give them even more information. Disgusting that this is allowed.

New comment by OptionOfT in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

OptionOfT — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:52:07 +0000

Case in point after Edge updated this morning:

https://imgur.com/a/dWp5Ohj

Did they even try to make it look like the new context menus?

New comment by OptionOfT in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

OptionOfT — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:50:46 +0000

Yesterday I had it get the length of a word in characters by doing `word.len()`. In Rust. In 2026. Using Opus.

This again showed me that I can't go in YOLO mode. Things like this are disastrous if left to fester in a codebase.

New comment by OptionOfT in "Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message"

OptionOfT — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:24:14 +0000

I refuse to play games where you pay real money for consumables.

New comment by OptionOfT in "Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses"

OptionOfT — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:23:33 +0000

Yes ma'am, my email address really is bofa.com@.com

No I'm not trying to hack you.

Which in hindsight is also what a hacker would say. I can't win...

New comment by OptionOfT in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

OptionOfT — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:42:52 +0000

The same thing happens with in-app purchases.

A friend of mine worked at Disney, and it is insane how much data they capture on their players/spenders and how they use it for the sole purpose of triggering a popup at the right time, at the right price, that would maximize spending/gambling on loot boxes.

New comment by OptionOfT in "Async Python Is Secretly Deterministic"

OptionOfT — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:50:20 +0000

The good old Workflow XKCD matches this perfectly: https://xkcd.com/1172/

New comment by OptionOfT in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

OptionOfT — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:40:16 +0000

That's the point.

New comment by OptionOfT in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

OptionOfT — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:02:39 +0000

Given the sheer amount of logging that happens in Claude Code based on the leak, I'm not surprised. This isn't about load, this is merely about cost.

Claude Code is subsidized because of data collection.