Hacker News: aaron_m04

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

aaron_m04 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:01:01 +0000

Yes, but do these enthusiasts care at all if it meets some need for the users? I suspect that they do.

And how can they find out how well it meets that need other than receiving (respectful!) feedback?

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

aaron_m04 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:52:00 +0000

> it's a non-profit (well, a for-profit owned by a non-profit) that needs to make a big profit in a short amount of time.

Can you please elaborate on this need to make a big profit? Where does the need come from?

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Vibe coding: Empowering and imprisoning"

aaron_m04 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 02:49:43 +0000

Why do you say it's almost certainly untrue? Capital is well known for trying to suppress wages.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing"

aaron_m04 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:08:36 +0000

Depends on the business.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Chuck Moore: Colorforth has stopped working [video]"

aaron_m04 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:49:43 +0000

I could've sworn I saw something in the last month or two about BITBLT or DirectX changes on Windows.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Keep Android Open"

aaron_m04 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:01:54 +0000

Google is a step ahead of that, with their device attestation technology. Now apps can make sure they are only running in an approved environment.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers"

aaron_m04 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:53:03 +0000

This article feels a little suspect. They beat the AI drum a bit hard. So I go to https://workweave.dev and of course their business model is tied up with LLMs.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "The allure of new languages vs. the necessity of problem-solving"

aaron_m04 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 02:58:52 +0000

> IME people an incredibly warped view of just how subtle and easy it is to introduce a memory safety bug.

Agreed, and I think part of the reason is because they take it personally when someone claims programmers (in general) can't consistently write memory safe C/C++.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "The allure of new languages vs. the necessity of problem-solving"

aaron_m04 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 01:58:49 +0000

Who specifically is saying this?

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office"

aaron_m04 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:54:30 +0000

50 miles is a very long way to commute daily!

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Signal Secure Backups"

aaron_m04 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:38:26 +0000

#1 does suck very much.

My solution for #2 is an sshd I start up in Termux when I need to backup. I just rsync the file onto my computer.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "'Make invalid states unrepresentable' considered harmful"

aaron_m04 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:31:28 +0000

> With foreign key constraints, you have to delete all related records when a parent record is deleted.

I've also seen good advice that you should never delete anything from your DB, but rather put rows in a different soft-deleted state...

New comment by aaron_m04 in "The world has a running Rational R1000/400 computer again (2019)"

aaron_m04 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 03:30:59 +0000

This link doesn't really tell me anything.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Nest 1st gen and 2nd gen thermostats no longer supported from Oct 25"

aaron_m04 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 04:45:43 +0000

I feel so good about never connecting the previous owners' Nest to my WiFi.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "GNU Artanis – A fast web application framework for Scheme"

aaron_m04 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 21:24:36 +0000

Projects using it is 404.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State"

aaron_m04 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 03:03:50 +0000

Ok, how would you ensure this is right in the law without creating a loophole?

New comment by aaron_m04 in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

aaron_m04 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:08:14 +0000

It's true that there could be other more impactful actions. I'd love to hear your thoughts on what else can be done.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

aaron_m04 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:07:27 +0000

> This sounds a bit like bailing out the ocean.

If it's one individual doing this, sure. I am posting this in the hopes that others follow suit.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

aaron_m04 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 23:37:01 +0000

Yes, and it's even worse: if you think LLMs may possibly make the world a worse place, you should not use any LLMs you aren't self-hosting, because your usage information is being used by the creators to make LLMs better.

New comment by aaron_m04 in "Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)"

aaron_m04 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:43:49 +0000

That is what I meant, yes.