Hacker News: SquareWheel

New comment by SquareWheel in "Apple's AI Can Now Change Your Passwords. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?"

SquareWheel — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:32:37 +0000

I know that an uncommon name needed to be chosen, but something about the hyphenated /.well-known/ just turns me off.

I'd have really preferred another term: registered, reserved, defined, meta -- or really anything else.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

SquareWheel — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:08:00 +0000

Yep, they solve the same problem. I built my blog on Harry Roberts' ITCSS paradigm some ten years ago, and found it extremely easy to migrate to cascade layers. They're an underutilized solution to addressing growing specificity.

They're admittedly less useful if you're already using component-based design. That's closer to something like BEM in hyper-targeting each element.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

SquareWheel — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:27:17 +0000

Personally, I forget syntax all the time. There's always a warm up period after I switch languages, and it takes me longer to be start writing good, idiomatic code.

Like sure, I can probably write some python, but will it be pythonic? I might still be Java-minded for a while, trying to OOP my way into solutions.

Earlier today I needed to write some PHP and couldn't remember if it used length, count, or size. I had to look it up. I've been doing this for 20 years.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Googlebook"

SquareWheel — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:03:21 +0000

Sure, and Microsoft acquired DOS, and Adobe acquired Photoshop. At a certain point though, after 20+ years of development, you need to give some credit to the new owners for making it into what it is today.

New comment by SquareWheel in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

SquareWheel — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:04:33 +0000

> Did vibe coding the business page inject it into ChatGPT's training data?

No, at least not directly. Inference does not train models. It is possible that OpenAI may separately collect the chat data, clean it, and feed it back into the model for future iterations. Or they could have extracted URLs for future indexing.

More likely though, I suspect, is your site just managed to be indexed naturally, and LLMs are very efficient at matching obscure data to relevant queries.

New comment by SquareWheel in "DeepSeek v4"

SquareWheel — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 06:52:17 +0000

"Open source" as a term has evolved due to its success. It wasn't some malicious attempt at redefining things from the technical elite. It was a natural shifting of language, as happens with all words, as it entered more common usage.

It's entirely reasonable that this colloquial understanding would be applied to new categories such as AI models. I'm sure it'll be applied to many other things that don't fit the OSD either. That's just language for you.

New comment by SquareWheel in "DeepSeek v4"

SquareWheel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:21:51 +0000

Sorry, too busy "stealing code" to answer right now.

New comment by SquareWheel in "DeepSeek v4"

SquareWheel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:28:54 +0000

This is a pretty banal comment at this point. Open source is the term used in the LLM community. It's common and understood. Nobody is going to release petabytes of copyrighted training data, so the distinction between open source vs weights is a rather pointless one.

New comment by SquareWheel in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

SquareWheel — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:02:16 +0000

Well, yes, but that's why it's behind an about:config flag and users should not enable it without understanding its effects.

New comment by SquareWheel in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

SquareWheel — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:50:13 +0000

Single Page Applications use the History API to create a working back/forward history within the SPA. This will cause you to navigate away on use, and potentially lose data.

New comment by SquareWheel in "JSON Formatter Chrome Plugin Now Closed and Injecting Adware"

SquareWheel — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:35:07 +0000

Chromium does include an ad blocker for "intrusive ads". ie. Those using many resources, flashing, auto-playing sounds, or otherwise behaving badly.

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/7632919

New comment by SquareWheel in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

SquareWheel — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:31:12 +0000

Manifest 3 explicitly enables ad blocking through the declarativeNetRequest API. It's trivial to do so, and many blockers exist in the Chrome Web Store.

New comment by SquareWheel in "VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion"

SquareWheel — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:14:07 +0000

Removing film crew, boom mics, and missed props from a scene would surely be useful to studios. It may even enable some shots that previously would have been impossible due to the positioning of cameras, etc.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

SquareWheel — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:10:12 +0000

Windows has a native (cloud-based) dictation software built-in[1], so there's likely less demand for it. Nonetheless, there are still a handful of community options available to choose from.

[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-voice-typing...

New comment by SquareWheel in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

SquareWheel — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:34:41 +0000

Bazzite KDE picked up my 8BitDo controller immediately, with no prior configuration. I didn't even have to manually pair the Bluetooth. I was very impressed.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

SquareWheel — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:15:34 +0000

Many people will likely be watching this show for the first time based on this thread. Please don't spoil major plot events for them.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Animated AVIF for the Modern Web"

SquareWheel — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 19:55:08 +0000

Just in case you missed it, your quote was referring to encoding requirements. Decoding (eg. Netflix users) will have a different set of requirements. The situation will also improve over time as dedicated hardware encoders and decoders become available.

For the moment, I don't really mind if it requires more GPU power to encode media, since it only needs to happen once. I expect it will still be possible on a weaker card, but it would just take longer.

New comment by SquareWheel in "The HTML Element"

SquareWheel — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:08:23 +0000

Contextual permissions are a big improvement over early and uncertain prompts. I will never agree to grant my permission when first loading a page, however, I may do so if intentionally activating a map widget. At least then I understand the context by which it's being asked, and can make a more informed decision.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Meta announces nuclear energy projects"

SquareWheel — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:56:54 +0000

Well, because it means that other energy generation sources like oil, gas, and coal aren't being used there instead. Since they cause far, far more harm than nuclear waste does, it's a net win.

New comment by SquareWheel in "Claude in Chrome"

SquareWheel — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:35:12 +0000

Thanks for clarifying. It looks like I needed to refresh my memory of the browser APIs.

Reading further, this API only works remotely for CSS via chrome.scripting.insertCSS. For JS, however, the chrome.scripting.executeScript JS needs to be packaged locally with the extension, as you said.

It seems the advanced method is to use chrome.userScripts, which allows for arbitrary script injection, but requires the user be in Dev Mode and have an extra flag enabled for permission. This API enables extensions like TamperMonkey.

Since the Claude extension doesn't seem to require this extra permission flag, I'm curious what method they're using in this case. Browser extensions are de facto visible-source, so it should be possible to figure out with a little review.