Hacker News: TowerTall

New comment by TowerTall in "Creepy Crawlies"

TowerTall — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:03:25 +0000

What if you make MFA mandatory. Normal users should have little issues with that despite the increased friction but bots would struggle with this.

New comment by TowerTall in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

TowerTall — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:59:55 +0000

"[...] Since 1953, the US Department of Justice has defined the border to be anywhere within 100 miles of the actual national limits.[...] According to the American Civil Liberties Union, about two-thirds of the people in the US live within 100 miles of a border. So in theory these 200 million border zone dwellers could have their phones seized and searched at any time by CBP agents without a warrant.[...]"

From the register (2023)

https://www.theregister.com/security/2023/06/01/us-court-fin...

New comment by TowerTall in "GitHub degradation affects Cursor Origin, its new Git platform"

TowerTall — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:30:44 +0000

I just opened cursor and was presented with a modal dialog with a "Try Origin" button and zero option to dismiss it. Had to nuke the cursor process to get it to go away. At least they didn't show it again at relaunch.

New comment by TowerTall in "A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week"

TowerTall — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:40:19 +0000

https://archive.md/OjVF3

New comment by TowerTall in "Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts"

TowerTall — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:56:11 +0000

Google's AI just created its own universal 'language' (2016)

https://www.wired.com/story/google-ai-language-create/

New comment by TowerTall in "You paid me, a long-time Linux user, to use Windows 11 exclusively for a month"

TowerTall — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:30:28 +0000

Raymond Chen on "Why is Windows Compressed Folders (Zip folders) support stuck at the turn of the century?"

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180515-00/?p=98...

New comment by TowerTall in "Half-Baked Product"

TowerTall — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 12:40:44 +0000

I used to have two dishwashers. One for clean. One for dirty.

New comment by TowerTall in "How to get your first customers [video]"

TowerTall — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:15:21 +0000

There is related post from a year ago. 354 comments. Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43970837

Access begins rollout of Big Forms for Modern Monitors feature

TowerTall — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:18:58 +0000

Article URL: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/accessblog/access-begins-rollout-of-big-forms-for-modern-monitors-feature/4529559

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48647326

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by TowerTall in "Salvager, Undo for AI agents that edit your files"

TowerTall — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:59:43 +0000

What's wrong with git?

AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking

TowerTall — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:27:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/06/13/aws-rolls-the-dice-for-faster-more-efficient-networking/5253248

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539743

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by TowerTall in "Rethinking Monorepos in the Age of Agents"

TowerTall — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:31:20 +0000

i have a parent repo that has git submodules for each area of my app (backend, frontend, docs, etc).

i have all the benefits of having multiple repos eg different c/i pipelines, but the agent sees it as a monorepo and so can I if i open the parent repo in my ide.

New comment by TowerTall in "Fear of the SaaSpocalypse is tormenting techland"

TowerTall — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:06:40 +0000

https://archive.md/zms71

New comment by TowerTall in "Open source AI must win"

TowerTall — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:20:37 +0000

And it will, but be patient. I took linux 25 years to conquer the world.

One day an open source model reaches "good enough" level. Maybe around the level the current frontier has and most people will use that

New comment by TowerTall in "Linux Memory Had One Maintainer for 26 Years. He Just Quit. Now What?"

TowerTall — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:13:35 +0000

https://archive.md/9NXXM

New comment by TowerTall in "About Technical Debates (2010)"

TowerTall — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:05:58 +0000

Original url (Too long):

About Technical Debates (and ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC debates in particular)

About Technical Debates (2010)

TowerTall — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:05:06 +0000

Article URL: https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/about-technical-debates-both-in-general-and-regarding-asp-net-web-forms-and-asp-net-mvc-in-particular/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147570

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6

TowerTall — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:02:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/05/12/veteran-network-architect-proposes-ipv8-to-improve-ipv4-not-leapfrog-v6/5238474

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104755

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by TowerTall in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

TowerTall — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:47:04 +0000

The linked article only seems to cover Google and Android devices. Microsoft also have their take on this.

> "Microsoft Pluton security processor is a chip-to-cloud security technology built with Zero Trust principles at the core. Microsoft Pluton provides hardware-based root of trust, secure identity, secure attestation, and cryptographic services."

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/hardware-...

New comment by TowerTall in "Show HN: Unofficial real-time tracker for the MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak"

TowerTall — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:37:42 +0000

hanta virus reminds me of this scene from the x-files

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vwquoiLAZlE