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New comment by _blk in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

_blk — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:35:40 +0000

The whole premise doesn't make much sense (to me) if the app doesn't have an inherent benefit over a website. Don't tell me that all the app first people would rather have a web wrapped app for every website they visit? Seems to be more of a "we can get more metrics out of app users than website users" thing so they intentionally break the mobile website to aggressively push an app. #LinkedIn #Facebook

New comment by _blk in "The future of code search is not regex – 100x faster than ripgrep"

_blk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:57:02 +0000

It's O(1) with a correctness of O(0)

New comment by _blk in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

_blk — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:47:31 +0000

The replies here suggest that many of us have been on both sides and that Apple's behavior it's a great way to trade bug triaging time on the org side for a few frustrated reporters on the customer side. The problem is it frustrates the most diligent of bug reporters who put time into filing high quality issues resulting in overall lower bug submission quality.

A good compromise might be select high quality bugs or users with good rep and disable auto-closing for them. In the age of AI it shouldn't be too hard to correlate all those low quality duplicates and figure out what's worth keeping alive, no?

New comment by _blk in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

_blk — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:14:25 +0000

Not yet ;)

New comment by _blk in "Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome"

_blk — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:46:15 +0000

I don't know much about all this but skimming the article, I doubt that that the author has treated his acute TDS. I know this is a rather left leaning crowd but I can't believe that smart people like here all believe Trump leads a fascist regime.. Please enlighten me ar what makes this article so popular?

New comment by _blk in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

_blk — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:08:41 +0000

...and just like parking tickets they shouldn't exist on govt property

New comment by _blk in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

_blk — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:04:35 +0000

"Result: 100% accuracy on integer arithmetic" - Could someone with low-level LLM expertise comment on that: Is that future-proof, or does it have to be re-asserted with every rebuild of the neural building blocks? Can it be proven to remain correct? I assume there's a low-temperature setting that keeps it from getting too creative.

The creative thinking behind this project is truly mind boggling.

New comment by _blk in "Don't become an engineering manager"

_blk — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:34:16 +0000

I'm a freelance interim EM and I do it for the same reason the article explains: I genuinely enjoy it.

I love engineers and I love tech. I still code daily but I'm not the guy that delivers at the pace of some of the amazing engineers that I had the privilege to work with. I love putting others ahead of myself wherever I can and it's never cost me anything, so I'm not afraid to do it again. I love telling the engineers how what they do actually matters because they're too focused on the work to sometimes see why changing goals doesn't mean their work and efforts were wasted and I also love shielding them from the corporate mess upstairs (that I somewhat masochistically don't even dread being part of)...

So, yeah, I really love my job and if one of my guys (or gals) wants that too, the more of a joy it is to me to mentor them into that process.

New comment by _blk in "NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed"

_blk — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 03:31:19 +0000

Absolutely but I stop YouTube consumption if it's not through NewPipe, so a little productivity boost here and there is not too bad ;)

New comment by _blk in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

_blk — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:45:09 +0000

I was gonna tip the developer but it feels like losing now

New comment by _blk in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

_blk — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:28:23 +0000

Seems like a good idea then

New comment by _blk in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

_blk — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:27:52 +0000

I agree in general and that should be the position but it's probably more nuanced than this in practice: who published it when it's a dev that writes a script that just spits junk into the wild or reinforces someone else's troll-speech?

New comment by _blk in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

_blk — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:25:07 +0000

Yup. Or like "necessary cookies" that aren't all that necessary when it works just fine without.

New comment by _blk in "Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train"

_blk — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:49:04 +0000

"Good luck" [in Russian accent]

New comment by _blk in "Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train"

_blk — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:47:30 +0000

No, only Skynet

New comment by _blk in "Starlink updates privacy policy to allow consumer data to train"

_blk — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:45:37 +0000

Take your RV for an extended stay at the National Parks. RV parks are full of Starlinkers and I *love* the service. Roadtrips with kids are so much better too. The residential dish's in-motion performance is phenomenal and it's not even made for that.

New comment by _blk in "Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites"

_blk — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:34:24 +0000

.onion might be exempt but while the TLD "." is anycast worldwide for the actual DNS service, Verisign still signs the cert. Isn't that a show-stopper for dependencies on dns-over-https or https altogether or do .cn, .ru, .ir etc all add/replace with their own independent signatures ?

New comment by _blk in "Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites"

_blk — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:27:56 +0000

This is more of an attempt at a political stunt. The CCP's website gets a perfect score, admin.ch also gets a perfect score while Switzerland is most-definitely not in the EU.. non-US is more accurate than EU but you only see that when stars start flying.

IMHO: Just scrap the politics and show what regional deps a site has - that'd actually increase value quite a bit.

New comment by _blk in "Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager"

_blk — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:32:19 +0000

As a leader, it's important to provide not just the meat but also the veggies. What people end up eating is up to them, but serve the full course! If as a ME, I start deciding who needs to know what, information will be perceived as incomplete because people always talk and engineer are often smart enough to read between the lines. So the transparent umbrella is a great analogy. Communicate bad news as fast and coherently as possible - group meeting with open questions works well for me but be ready to address the potential fears: "In my current assessment, that's not going to be a problem, I'll let you know if that changes." and of course "Thanks for asking, I didn't consider that and I don't know yet. I'll clarify" is a valid answer, if you do indeed clarify.

If you're genuinely stressed with that, talk to your lead about it and they'll find a way to filter a little more while not giving you the feeling of being left out.

New comment by _blk in "Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered"

_blk — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:46:58 +0000

Thanks, that's good to know. I suspect WhatsApp's "we're fully E2E encrypted" would be similar too.