<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: WatchDog</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=WatchDog</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:16:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=WatchDog" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "Tailwind and slop apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For all the complaints like this that I see about AI generated websites, the complaints rarely come with counter examples of what a good human generated alternative should look like.<p>The authors blog design is perfectly functional, and I'm not suggesting that it needs any changes, but it also isn't a particularly impressive piece of web design.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:01:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499376</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499376</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48499376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "Why are there an increasing number of outright unhinged high karma users on HN?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Building up karma only requires that on balance one's contributions are popular.<p>Many accounts will contribute constructively on topics that are technical or objective, but then become more antagonistic on controversial or political topics.<p>So long as they don't severely break site rules, it's unlikely that they will be subject to major moderator action.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:51:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485694</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "Why are there an increasing number of outright unhinged high karma users on HN?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Those that spend all day posting on HN aren't always the most hinged.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:34:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485596</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485596</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "macOS Container Machines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do these containers share a common kernel? Or are they each ran in a separate VM?<p>Edit: It's a VM per container. <a href="https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/technical-overview.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/technical-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:32:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470144</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470144</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lot's of countries already require this but it's trivially by-passable just by using a roaming capable SIM from a country that does not require it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:55:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469446</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469446</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"First run" certainly exists in web apps, it's just running JS in a browser rather than a shell script on a developer or CI machine.<p>There is plenty of malicious stuff you can do from the browser.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:36:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469279</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469279</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48469279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "Expanding Project Glasswing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> disparate projects as Valkey and Lua<p>Lua is often heavily used in Redis/Valkey, if you are interested in porting Valkey, it makes sense to also port Lua, they aren't "disparate".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:47:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378244</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378244</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>By the same token, you aren't entitled to see the website content.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 22:59:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350597</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350597</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "Use boring languages with LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your theory about token density seems reasonable, but your data doesn't seem to really match it.<p>Very little difference between TypeScript and JavaScript, which are essentially the same language, just one has more tokens.<p>Functional languages like Clojure and OCaml are pretty dense, I would have expected them to feature lower.<p>Kotlin is in some ways a more token dense version of Java, yet Kotlin leads, and Java is almost last.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 03:56:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48289433</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48289433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48289433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it's absurd to pretend like you can know how a stranger thinks.<p>If I had to predict either way, I would guess that it is significantly AI generated, but that isn't the same thing as being sure.<p>Almost every link submitted to HN has a comment about the content being AI generated, many of which are not, I would rather talk about the "tells" rather than make confident assertions that I can't prove.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 03:12:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48289111</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48289111</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48289111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "Erin Brockovich made a map to track data centers around the country"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It might be, I'm not sure.<p>The code is interesting though, it's not minified, it's very readable, and nicely indented with lots of comments.<p>The curated data center list is just some inline JSON.<p>The javascript uses var instead of let or const, I'm not sure if this is just style choice, or there is some code post processing.<p>It doesn't use react, AI seems to almost always opt for react for front end design, unless told otherwise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 02:12:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288621</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "The worst job interview I ever had"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> ...I never will do is cross the "just business"/"personal" line with anyone I may or am working with.<p>Just in an interview situation, or you will just never be open to a personal friendship with anyone you ever work with?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287648</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you want LLMs to have knowledge of the Norwegian language, wouldn't the most obvious thing to do be to build a good training dataset and make the dataset widely available? Why go to the expense of training your own model, especially when it will be inferior to state of the art models.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 22:42:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272746</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any kind of radio control should be discounted when attacking a US carrier fleet, they will just be jammed.<p>Autonomous optically guided missiles/drones would fare better, but those are still vulnerable to being blinded by laser systems like HELIOS[0], and of course being shot down by anti air missiles or CIWS.<p>[0]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Energy_Laser_with_Integrated_Optical-dazzler_and_Surveillance" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Energy_Laser_with_Integra...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 06:19:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189875</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189875</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48189875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the suggested political impact of this music is to be believed, the music might be one of the biggest environmental disasters of all time.<p>Germany has been pretty widely criticized for decommissioning it's nuclear power program, only to replace it with Russian oil.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 00:06:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116220</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There a million ways that malware can persist without root.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 02:52:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103649</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their main DNS is 1.1.1.1 but their secondary is 1.0.0.1 not 1.1.0.0, so close but not quite.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 00:54:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057133</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What coding agent(ideally CLI) have people found works well with this?<p>Occasionally I go and try different agents with openrouter models, but nothing seems to really get close to the proprietary ones like claude-code.</p>
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<p>Would like to see what the internals of this look like, how many flash packages and PCBs are in that tiny chassis?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 06:29:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032961</link><dc:creator>WatchDog</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by WatchDog in "DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, you have to use the same session, I guess you could load up a bunch of context, then fork the session into a few different tasks, although I haven't tried it.</p>
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