Hacker News: Sander_Marechal

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site"

Sander_Marechal — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:21:59 +0000

Perhaps add "Tectonic" as a puzzle type? It's the same as Ripple Effect but it disallows diagonal repeats.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

Sander_Marechal — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:44:36 +0000

The problem with history is that you need to know when to look. If you're looking for some old code that you know existed but you don't know exactly what it was, you can't just browse to go and find it.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "I’ve banned query strings"

Sander_Marechal — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:52:17 +0000

There is no reason you can return that "no items matched your selection" with a 404 HTTP response code instead of a 200.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

Sander_Marechal — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:05:10 +0000

For all intents an purposes it is, especially face ID. Also, courts in most countries can compel you to provide biometrics. But many cannot compel you to reveal passwords.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

Sander_Marechal — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:03:24 +0000

I'm just using Bitwarden instead. My work still uses 1password for now, but we're in the process of moving to Bitwarden.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

Sander_Marechal — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:12:50 +0000

145XXX and I am on the other side of the world, no connection to SV at all

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

Sander_Marechal — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:29:47 +0000

I can't globally disable that "autofill" also hits "submit". I want to review what it autofills before I submit. I consider this a security risk. I can disable submit only on a login-by-login basis, and my coworkers are able to reenable it again. I can't globally disable it for myself.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

Sander_Marechal — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:13:15 +0000

I have been telling people for years that biometrics (face, fingerprint, voice) is your username, not your password. But people are easily swayed by convenience.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

Sander_Marechal — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:29:00 +0000

Same. Sometimes I will play a givewayway game on EGS and like it enough to e.g. buy the DLC. In that case I'll buy the game on Steam, just to buy the DLC there too.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "“Your frustration is the product”"

Sander_Marechal — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:22:32 +0000

> It's like buy a $2000 TV and discovering ads on the homescreen, ContentID to sell your viewing habits, etc.

Have you bought a TV recently? This is exactly what is happening already. I had to pi-hole my entire network to get rid of the ads in my "switch source" menu on my Samsung TV that did not have ads when I bought it and for the first 3 years after that.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "CVE-2026-3888: Important Snap Flaw Enables Local Privilege Escalation to Root"

Sander_Marechal — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:18:47 +0000

I second Debian. All the good bits of Ubuntu have long since been ported back to Debian, and it has much more timely releases now.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

Sander_Marechal — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:56:02 +0000

What's the software stack? Did you write an app for it? Jailbreak it?

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

Sander_Marechal — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:36:00 +0000

The difference is that with financing you're stuck with it (and your credit rating drops, at least in the EU here). You're not stuck with a subscription. If your income changes and you can't afford it anymore then you can cancel your subscription.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention"

Sander_Marechal — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:33:40 +0000

The MRSP for those GPUs is already inflated. There's a reason Nvidia is going to start making more RTX 3060 GPUs. Because people (and system builders) can't afford 40XX and 50XX GPUs.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?"

Sander_Marechal — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:00:26 +0000

Even idiot investors eventually want their money back. And they will ruin you in the process with their idiotic ideas.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "O'saasy License Agreement"

Sander_Marechal — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:12:02 +0000

> Even though it may seem harsh to apache 2.0 the code, no one will steal it since you are maintaing it

But that's evidently not true. Amazon has co-opted plenty of open source projects and put the squeeze on the original maintainer's SaaS offering.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

Sander_Marechal — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:59:15 +0000

I love Projectivity Launcher on my Google Streamer, but I can't figure out how to really replace the built-in launcher. Sometimes the device falls back to the default launcher until I press the "home" button on my remote.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription"

Sander_Marechal — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:41:38 +0000

It also exist for e.g. radio. It's called compulsory licensing and people have been doing it for decades.

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch"

Sander_Marechal — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:19:07 +0000

No problem. The parent had it the wrong way around. OMZ will use main if it exists, master otherwise. So a bad move still works!

New comment by Sander_Marechal in "Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?"

Sander_Marechal — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:26:35 +0000

At work we recently moved from Jira to Linear. It it fully keyboard navigatable and has shortcuts for pretty much everything. It's great! For me the only downside is that al that keyboard greatness clashes with my Vimium browser extension. Oh well...