Hacker News: SamuelAdams

New comment by SamuelAdams in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

SamuelAdams — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:25:49 +0000

It noticed a flooding area due to low grass by the walkout door. It noticed mixed 15 and 20a receptacles on the same circuit. It noticed warped siding and recalled circuit breakers still in use.

New comment by SamuelAdams in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

SamuelAdams — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:27:40 +0000

Similarly, I used gen ai to review a real estate purchase. I provided Zillow listing photos and serial numbers of all appliances, the electric panel, and a few additional not pictured areas that I took during the walk through.

I prompted the AI to write a report as if it were a home inspector and it actually did a better job and identified some issues the paid 750 usd inspector missed.

New comment by SamuelAdams in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

SamuelAdams — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:41:42 +0000

It is useful if you automate generating release notes. Then your notes are grouped by new features first, then bug fixes after. This makes it a little easier for non-technical uses to read.

New comment by SamuelAdams in "Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS"

SamuelAdams — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:02:25 +0000

I use Optery for about two months a year, seems to do a good enough job for most of the data brokers. There are also discounts or promo codes to lower the price as well.

https://www.optery.com/

HN Launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30605010

Promo codes: https://www.optery.com/optery-promo-codes/

New comment by SamuelAdams in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

SamuelAdams — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:12:52 +0000

You should add an Easter egg in your cli program: dagger attack, which prints out a favourite Top Gun quote.

New comment by SamuelAdams in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

SamuelAdams — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:52:43 +0000

The other advantage with bash is that most developers can run it locally to validate what it is doing and debug issues. With GitHub Actions you need to always commit and push, slowing down the DX.

New comment by SamuelAdams in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

SamuelAdams — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:01:19 +0000

LMS’s are a lot like programming languages. There’s the ones people complain about and the ones no one uses.

New comment by SamuelAdams in "ShinyHunters claims data theft from 8,800 schools (Instructure/Canvas)"

SamuelAdams — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:20:37 +0000

It depends on what you pay for. If you need FedRamp or IL4+ compliance you are likely on dedicated infrastructure. Everyone else uses multi tenancy.

New comment by SamuelAdams in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

SamuelAdams — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:16:56 +0000

VSCode has this too: chat.disableAIFeatures

Sources:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501220

https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_104#_hide-and-disab...

New comment by SamuelAdams in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

SamuelAdams — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:29:36 +0000

I wonder what will happen to the entire legal system. It used to be fairly difficult to create convincing photos and videos.

AI can probably fool most court judges now. Or the defense can refute legitimate evidence by saying “it’s AI / false”. How would that be refuted?

New comment by SamuelAdams in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

SamuelAdams — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:47:20 +0000

Say what you about the Anna’s Archive Spotify scrape: it made me realize how much music exists and how much music was never listened to.

New comment by SamuelAdams in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

SamuelAdams — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:33:04 +0000

CLI is great because now I can tell my AI agent to do it. “Fix all dependabot security issues (copy logs) and run tests to validate functionality. Create each dependency as its own stack (or commit) so that contributors may review each library update easily.”

Wait 10 minutes and you’re done.

New comment by SamuelAdams in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

SamuelAdams — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:24:39 +0000

Am I the only one that uses a thunderbolt dock and a keyboard + mouse + monitor setup? The Macbook itself is always closed in clamshell mode.

The only time I ever use a Macbook as a proper laptop is during meetings, and even then it is brief - looking up materials or taking notes - not nearly enough time to encounter long-term strain in the wrists.

If you are working on a computer for 6+ hours a day professionally, you owe it to yourself to get a proper workstation setup. Hunching over a laptop for hours a day is terrible for your posture and health.

New comment by SamuelAdams in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

SamuelAdams — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:35:21 +0000

My favorite MacOS update was when the removed the need for Rectangle, Mos, and Unnatural ScrollWheels.

New comment by SamuelAdams in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

SamuelAdams — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:44:34 +0000

So if this is free to use on linux, what is to stop someone from doing what Colima did to Docker? Aka make a tiny Linux VM on MacOS and package Little Snitch within that?

New comment by SamuelAdams in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

SamuelAdams — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:32:33 +0000

It could also be that they have more customers / clients now, or offer more capabilities.

New comment by SamuelAdams in "Apple Business"

SamuelAdams — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:27:32 +0000

So do enterprises still need Jamf [1]? For context, Jamf is one of the most common MDM tools for organizations.

[1]: https://www.jamf.com/

New comment by SamuelAdams in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

SamuelAdams — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:38:59 +0000

It’s also hard to hire for. Candidates for job openings must be between the ages of 21-31 years old. Yes they are legally forbidden from hiring anyone older.

https://www.faa.gov/air-traffic-controller-qualifications

New comment by SamuelAdams in "Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service"

SamuelAdams — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:38:26 +0000

It feels a lot like the FAA and NTSB moving safety checks of the Max 8 to Boeing engineers. Like of course they’re going to OK it…

New comment by SamuelAdams in "FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms"

SamuelAdams — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:20:05 +0000

Modern vehicles make disabling data collection fairly difficult. And even if it is disabled, there is no guarantee data is not being sent despite your user settings.

I would love for investigative groups to target the auto industry’s data collection practices and have meaningful legislation created and implemented as a result.