Hacker News: Starlevel004

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server"

Starlevel004 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:30:33 +0000

It's the staccato sentences

New comment by Starlevel004 in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

Starlevel004 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:43:08 +0000

Megafauna did not have steel skin and could bleed

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

Starlevel004 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:23:36 +0000

Luckily they don't come with a built-in fist filter.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

Starlevel004 — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:05:51 +0000

If they made a shower you could walk in, every single problem facing humanity would be solved in three weeks.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

Starlevel004 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:50:06 +0000

They were actually eaten (in the early modern era) or ground up for paint.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Servo is now available on crates.io"

Starlevel004 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:19:05 +0000

The standard library has a whole bunch of tools to let them test and evolve APIs with a required-opt in, but every single ecosystem package has to get it right first try because Cargo will silently forcibly update packages and those evolution tools aren't available to third party packages.

Such a stupid state of affairs.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Binary obfuscation that doesn't kill LTO"

Starlevel004 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:29:53 +0000

Security through obscurity is an excellent first-line defense, as long as you have other real defenses at the next layer.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

Starlevel004 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:29:25 +0000

I think more people should take AI advice for personal problems, and especially for medical issues. This would solve a lot of problems in society fairly quickly.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon"

Starlevel004 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:43:18 +0000

The old system was nonfunctional and any base that used lots of fluids (like modded ones, or new space age ones) were constantly running up against nonsensical mechanics.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

Starlevel004 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:19:36 +0000

Rust is also design-by-committee.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages"

Starlevel004 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:25:13 +0000

"Not just X -- it's Y" is one of the more irritatingly common signs, especially for sentences like that one which absolutely do not need it.

The Wikipedia article on detecting AI writing is a big help if you need to calibrate your sensors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

New comment by Starlevel004 in "The most-seen UI on the internet? Redesigning turnstile and challenge pages"

Starlevel004 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:20:41 +0000

> Designing a product with billions of eyeballs on it isn't just challenging — it requires a fundamentally different approach.

I'm not reading this.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Gentoo on Codeberg"

Starlevel004 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:06:35 +0000

Person who pays for AI: We should make everything revolve around the thing I pay for

New comment by Starlevel004 in "I fixed Windows native development"

Starlevel004 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:58:50 +0000

Real humans don't speak in LinkedIn Standard English

New comment by Starlevel004 in "ai;dr"

Starlevel004 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:35:12 +0000

I laugh every time somebody qualifies their anti-AI comments with "Actually I really like AI, I use it for everything else". The problem is bad, but the cause of the problem (and especially paying for the cause of the problem)? That's good!

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

Starlevel004 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:17:23 +0000

> I've heard, but haven't confirmed, they also detect you opening developer tools using various methods and remove your auth keys from localstorage while you have it open to make account takeovers harder. (but not impossible)

You can open the network tab, click an API requesst, and copy the token from the Authorization header.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Why is the sky blue?"

Starlevel004 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:00:50 +0000

When is that going to be?

New comment by Starlevel004 in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

Starlevel004 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:05:36 +0000

The Fourth Amendment only applies to places flying a flag with gold fringes

New comment by Starlevel004 in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

Starlevel004 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:54:10 +0000

Every single post here is written in the most infuriating possible prose. I don't know how anyone can look at this for more than about ten seconds before becoming the Unabomber.

New comment by Starlevel004 in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

Starlevel004 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:00:30 +0000

I've found that libadwaita apps tend to look at least decent outside of their native environment, whereas QT apps near-universally look terrible outside of KDE.