Hacker News: RobMurray

New comment by RobMurray in "Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update"

RobMurray — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:44:35 +0000

I've never used it once. don't even see the point. normal ssh works fine over Tailscale.

What is the advantage? Why would I want to swap the well tested auth in ssh for auth managed by tailscale?

New comment by RobMurray in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

RobMurray — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:42:09 +0000

Which is probably why they will merge it. You can get a lot done in chat mode, especially if you connect custom MCPs to it. I can't see that continuing.

New comment by RobMurray in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

RobMurray — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:12:03 +0000

What makes Christians more worthy of empathy?

New comment by RobMurray in "The Rise of Audio AR (2024)"

RobMurray — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 23:14:51 +0000

The article kind of dismissed Microsoft Soundscape as a failure, but for blind people who want awareness of what is around I still don't think there has been anything that beats it. I work on one of it's successors, Soundscape Community [0]. It is based on the code Microsoft released as open source when they shut down the project.

[0] https://github.com/soundscape-community/soundscape/

New comment by RobMurray in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

RobMurray — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:43:07 +0000

I wouldn't trust them. I have seen screen time over 24H at least twice.

New comment by RobMurray in "Pandas Should Go Extinct"

RobMurray — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:25:04 +0000

> If you were interested in whether cash usage declined during the Pandemic, it sure did. However, correlation !== causality, so please don’t draw any meaningful conclusions from this.

I think we can be certain that reduced cash use didn't cause the pandemic, and a common cause for both is also hard to imagine. That only leaves the pandemic causing a reduction in cash use. Am I missing something?

New comment by RobMurray in "Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content"

RobMurray — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:59:44 +0000

Can we maybe blame the people who use them irresponsibly instead of blaming the technology? These glasses have been a life changer for so many visually impaired people.

New comment by RobMurray in "Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA"

RobMurray — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:50:16 +0000

clearly not true. the weights are the preferred form for making modifications. Do you really think people should be downloading hundreds of TB of training data and running make to build the model on their own cluster of GPUs?

New comment by RobMurray in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

RobMurray — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:09:58 +0000

Why are you being so hostile?

New comment by RobMurray in "Codex Micro"

RobMurray — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:07:35 +0000

It also, and I would say more commonly, means a round thing that can be turned. I've never heard of anyone avoiding the term.

New comment by RobMurray in "How working with a blind client revealed invisible accessibility gaps"

RobMurray — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:58 +0000

latency would be the killer. a very tiny delay between pressing a key and hearing a response can make a screen reader feel unresponsive.

New comment by RobMurray in "Swift Package Index joins Apple"

RobMurray — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:22:32 +0000

Yes, I have a passport which is accepted by every other company I have had to verify id with. Apple doesn't offer it as an option for UK accounts for some reason.

New comment by RobMurray in "Swift Package Index joins Apple"

RobMurray — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:20:02 +0000

I agree, but I just created anew Apple id, and got a developer subscription straight away on the web without it asking for id. I suppose they will probably require id if I submit to the app store, but the fact that I already paid should carry more weight I hope.

New comment by RobMurray in "UN commission of inquiry says Israel committing genocide by targeting children"

RobMurray — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:08:56 +0000

because it is Israel doing all the fucking mass murder of innocent people?

New comment by RobMurray in "Swift Package Index joins Apple"

RobMurray — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:48:52 +0000

I tried to get a personal developer account (I'm already a developer through an organisation). The app required a Driver's license as the only accepted ID. I don't drive because I'm blind. They did a screen share and talked me through applying on the web site. It failed. They never gave a reason and ignored me when I asked for one. They just said

"Hello Robert, Thank you for your patience while I awaited a response from our operations team.

Upon review, we have found that we can’t verify your identity with the Apple Developer app or provide further assistance with the Apple Account for Apple developer programs.

You can still take advantage of great content using your Apple Account in Xcode to develop and test apps on your own device. Learn more about Xcode development.

I do apologise that I was not of more help to you in this situation but wish you the best of luck for the future. "

They will destroy the developer experience when they add identity and signing.

New comment by RobMurray in "Identity verification on Claude"

RobMurray — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:34:03 +0000

It can trigger it's self, when it decides it needs to try lots of different options to get clicks into an installer running as admin. There's basically nothing you can do to prevent it.

New comment by RobMurray in "Identity verification on Claude"

RobMurray — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:21:08 +0000

I didn't know this. Looks like I dodged a bullet - being totally blind meant the chance of issues was high but luckily it worked. It triggered the id check while trying to get computer use to work for an installer running as admin on windows. Actual reverse engineering I got it to do in the past didn't trigger it.

New comment by RobMurray in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

RobMurray — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:57:29 +0000

Apple could simply be ordered to include a hardware backdoor, and legally be prevented from talking about it. Everything else in the architecture could work exactly the way they claim in the PCC paper.

New comment by RobMurray in "Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize 70% of Gaza Strip, violating ceasefire"

RobMurray — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:47:30 +0000

wow! are you really saying that Palestinian children should have no rights because of something their ancestors did? Should people get to violently remove them from their homes and land because of something written in history books?

It's honestly shocking to me that there are humans in the world who are comfortable defending such evil with some perceived amusing fact from history. This is happening today! The killing of people in their thousands based on their ethnicity is happening today. There is no defence for that. It's not war, it is genocide.

That isn't some wild internet conspiracy theory, it is a consensus of genocide scholars.

But I guess you will go on with being "amused" at any argument about stolen land, even though there isn't a human on earth who's ancestors haven't done terrible things.

We should be better than that in the 21st century.

New comment by RobMurray in "Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

RobMurray — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:18:11 +0000

No need to issue a recall, they could just release a firmware update that disables unauthenticated firmware updates over BLE.