Hacker News: The_Blade

New comment by The_Blade in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"

The_Blade — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:37:35 +0000

i didn't know it was OAuth related. when did that hit the front page here?

in fact, the sparse details had Barbara warming up her vocal chords

New comment by The_Blade in "NASA had to train Apollo 11's astronauts to not use profanity (2019)"

The_Blade — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:42:46 +0000

your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries

New comment by The_Blade in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

The_Blade — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:30:45 +0000

just wait until you get to the subject of tanking in the NBA

is there a tech equivalent? like you do a crappy job with your series A on purpose which helps you get a better series B. although there is the notion of a big round of layoffs to secure further investment

New comment by The_Blade in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

The_Blade — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:26:45 +0000

Browns fan in. We're owned by a criminal (truck stop-related fraud) who was convinced by a homeless person to draft Johnny Manziel. trust me, we want to put him (and Paul Dolan) into graveyard orbit. but it's not like Vercel where you can just go use AWS or Cloudflare or whatever; and it's not like switching makes you weak, you stand by your team through the hard times!

plus, what is an NFL fan going to do, stop watching football? hahahahahaha

New comment by The_Blade in "The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker"

The_Blade — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:55:34 +0000

thanks and i don't know why i got downvoted. there is a corporeal world. plus one of my critters figured out how to quasi open a cabinet she thinks can access food way above. just wait until she develops opposable thumbs

New comment by The_Blade in "The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker"

The_Blade — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:47:54 +0000

this is exactly what i needed to read when i am starting a mini project to turn empty Chewy and Amazon boxes into a new cat maze for my bonded pair of shelter fearsome beasts

can i do something with a v1 raspberry pi and myriad idle laptops and gadgets. both Opus 4.7 and i have had enough of each other for a Caturday

New comment by The_Blade in "Chess in SQL"

The_Blade — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:35:29 +0000

very cool, you got the classic games as well :)

i once published a "translation" of the Opera Game (chess annotation as a literary device) after reading too much Lautremont so it is disgusting

New comment by The_Blade in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

The_Blade — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:52:30 +0000

I finished my assignment in advanced 8th grade Math real quick, busted out MAD Magazine. Relatively quickly it was taken by Mr. P-------. Not missing a beat, aloud in class I said, "thanks a lot... asshole."

I got suspended for three days, and also the enmity of his best friend the advanced social studies teacher. Yet, somehow I didn't get kicked off the basketball team. And I actually got a girlfriend, who punched me at the wrestling match, then we kissed behind the school during the dance.

I learned a valuable lesson that day.

New comment by The_Blade in "What does it mean to be thirsty?"

The_Blade — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 07:41:06 +0000

∑ Quanta Thirst

New comment by The_Blade in "LLM function calls don't scale; code orchestration is simpler, more effective"

The_Blade — Wed, 21 May 2025 23:11:14 +0000

good stuff!

i just broke Claude Code Research Preview, and i've crashed ChatGPT 4.5 Pro Deep Research. and i have the receipts :), so i'm looking for tools that work

New comment by The_Blade in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

The_Blade — Wed, 21 May 2025 19:32:35 +0000

this doesn't sound like it was written by an actual human being. or even a cat

New comment by The_Blade in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

The_Blade — Wed, 21 May 2025 19:21:51 +0000

that is more useful than more or less anything else that AI has practically achieved

New comment by The_Blade in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

The_Blade — Sat, 10 May 2025 21:44:49 +0000

if you put a Carlin word (at least my favorite McNulty / Bunk one) in front of your search, it bypasses Gemini AI results

for a pristine moment you get to be in a club and they AIn't in it

New comment by The_Blade in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

The_Blade — Sat, 10 May 2025 21:39:30 +0000

i'm a rageaholic! i just can't live without rageahol!

New comment by The_Blade in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"

The_Blade — Sat, 10 May 2025 21:37:18 +0000

somehow, after the ATT, Microsoft, Standard Oil, or American Tobacco antitrust suits, the constituent parts and country soldiered on

New comment by The_Blade in "Fleurs du Mal"

The_Blade — Fri, 09 May 2025 23:19:32 +0000

as a Siene (and many other rivers in faraway lands) of techies everyone can understand the concept, Baudelaire felt, of being and then creating alone in a crowd

to try to be together with something or someone

New comment by The_Blade in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

The_Blade — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:26:20 +0000

> The average person is really bad at system administration

the average person doesn't even understand the basic concept of what the average HN reader considers system administration, and we're wrong anyway eh

New comment by The_Blade in "Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones"

The_Blade — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 00:15:20 +0000

don't let facts and data get in the way of rabble rabble rabble rabble

if the worst thing is someone else's code then someone else's hardware

New comment by The_Blade in "Rippling sues Deel over spying"

The_Blade — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:15:19 +0000

Fontaines H.C.

New comment by The_Blade in "Rippling sues Deel over spying"

The_Blade — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:01:49 +0000

never spy on your competition using your company email

hilarity ensues