Hacker News: VoidWhisperer

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "AI run store in SF can't stop ordering candies and paying women less."

VoidWhisperer — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:52:22 +0000

Minor correction from the article title: It can't stop ordering candles, not candies.

Although candies would've been more amusing

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "The unlikely story of Teardown Multiplayer"

VoidWhisperer — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:11:16 +0000

It seems like Coffee Stain generally handles the games they publish pretty well. They also have Valheim and Deep Rock Galactic published under them, both of which have been reasonably successful and long running games

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

VoidWhisperer — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:13:41 +0000

It has definitely made me more productive. That said, that productivity isn't coming from using it to write business logic (I prefer to have an in-depth understanding of the logical parts of the codebases that I'm working on. I've also seen cases in my work codebases where code was obviously AI generated before and ends up with gaping security or compliance issues that no one seemed to see at the time).

The productivity comes from three main areas for me:

- Having the AI coding assistance write unit tests for my changes. This used to be by far my least favorite part of my job of writing software, mostly because instead of solving problems, it was the monotonous process of gathering mock data to generate specific pathways, trying to make sure I'm covering all the cases, and then debugging the tests. AI coding assistance allows me to just have to review the tests to make sure that they cover all the cases I can think of and that there aren't any overtly wrong assumptions

- Research. It has been extraordinarily helpful in giving me insight into how to design some larger systems when I have extremely specific requirements but don't necessarily have the complete experience to architect them myself - I know enough to understand if the system is going to correctly accomplish the requirements, but not to have necessarily come up with architecture as a whole

- Quick test scripts. It has been extremely useful for generating quick SQL data for testing things, along with quick one-off scripts to test things like external provider APIs

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

VoidWhisperer — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:20:55 +0000

It has sunk in so far that it is now at the bottom of the ocean

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

VoidWhisperer — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:33:04 +0000

In the case of voice chat in servers used for gaming, my experience has been that the persistent channels for voice are actually kind of important, it removes any friction from dropping in and out of voice chat, and allows others to easily see 'hey, there is someone in this voice channel, maybe i should join'

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

VoidWhisperer — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:08:53 +0000

Based on some (admittedly very surface level) research, one spot where Zulip will still struggle to replace Discord is Voice/Video chats and Screensharing - the little I could find about voice chatting in zulip is that it has to be configured to use an external service (jitsi, zoom, etc)

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color"

VoidWhisperer — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:56:15 +0000

You're absolutely right! (sorry, I couldn't resist)

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "Tell HN: I'm a PM at a big system of record SaaS. We're cooked"

VoidWhisperer — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:54:03 +0000

I'm not sure if SAP is considered a SoR, but businesses that use it are often do entrenched eventually that migrating out would be a monumental effort

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "A web server on a single floppy disk"

VoidWhisperer — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:50:30 +0000

Seems to be timing out for me (not necessarily surprising, given that it is a floppy disk and HN has a history of hugging sites to death)

Archive link incase people want to see the page but can't load it: https://web.archive.org/web/20260129015513/http://floppy.ddn...

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)"

VoidWhisperer — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:24:22 +0000

I think the main purpose, atleast in this case, is to enable very high resolution satellite imagery (whether or not that being a good thing in and of itself is another matter).

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "Show HN: GibRAM an in-memory ephemeral GraphRAG runtime for retrieval"

VoidWhisperer — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:15:35 +0000

Out of curiosity, did you settle on that name before or after the RAM availability/price issues?

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "Ask HN: Those who quit tech, moved back home, what do you do?"

VoidWhisperer — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:01:21 +0000

Atleast you are less likely to get shot at in infosec, that probably helps with the stress

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011"

VoidWhisperer — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:31:05 +0000

I think (granted, this is from a quick bit of research so I could be wildly wrong) - the message you see in your credit card app with a transaction is usually mainly the merchant name and location which is part of ISO 8583, so it may be a bit hard to extend it to include an arbitrary message in a way that works without merchants having to replace card reader/POS systems en-masse.

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

VoidWhisperer — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:18:54 +0000

Windows has had print to pdf out of the box since windows 10 (approx mid 2015)[1]

[1]: https://pdfa.org/microsoft-adds-print-to-pdf-native-to-windo...

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "Singularity Rootkit: SELinux bypass and netlink filter (ss/conntrack hidden)"

VoidWhisperer — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:05:36 +0000

There isn't vitriol, or atleast I didn't mean it that way. The point I was trying to make is that I've seen malicious code like viruses and keyloggers and rootkits being distributed via github and they use the 'this is for education' as a cop-out when the rest of the repo makes it extremely obvious what the real intention is

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "Singularity Rootkit: SELinux bypass and netlink filter (ss/conntrack hidden)"

VoidWhisperer — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:09:07 +0000

I understand that this is to drive research and help security researchers in this case, but I personally think Github should take a harder stance against this kind of repo, education purposes or not - saying it is for educational purposes is definitely not going to stop someone (especially people who wouldn't know how to develop this level of rootkit on their own) from going and using it.

Also the specific details in README regarding 'make sure you randomize this or you'll be detected!' makes it feel even less like it is explicitly for educational purposes since you are providing users easy instructions on how to work around countermeasures this code.

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "UK company sends factory with 1,000C furnace into space"

VoidWhisperer — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 09:59:36 +0000

One thing that is unclear to me from the article:

Is the idea that it will manufacture all of these chips and then both the 'factory' and the resulting materials will return from space, or that the factory would stay in orbit and send materials back?

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "Reverse Engineering a Mysterious UDP Stream in My Hotel (2016)"

VoidWhisperer — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:41:24 +0000

Archive link as it seems the site is down: https://archive.is/afYvQ

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "Show HN: Vibium – Browser automation for AI and humans, by Selenium's creator"

VoidWhisperer — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 20:55:31 +0000

In my experience, we've used playwright significantly for unit/integration tests combining it with react-testing-library to verify individual components and also whole (mocked, we used something else that I can't seem to remember for E2E tests) flows within that React application

New comment by VoidWhisperer in "Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code (1990)"

VoidWhisperer — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:32:29 +0000

This is just my personal experience, but even with the current UI, there can tend to be a learning curve with GIMP. Alot of it probably comes from figuring out where tools and functionality that are readily available upfront in other paint programs are hidden 2-3 menus deep in GIMP