Hacker News: abraham

Migrating the GitHub Copilot Runtime to Rust, Using Copilot

abraham — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:12:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/migrating-the-github-copilot-runtime-to-rust-using-copilot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49735238

Points: 23

# Comments: 8

HexOS Buddy Backups

abraham — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:47:54 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.hexos.com/blog/2026-09-09

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49635692

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits

abraham — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:40:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/a-secretive-dhs-predictive-policing-unit-is-analyzing-americans-financial-habits-and-pulling-them-over/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610988

Points: 366

# Comments: 334

New comment by abraham in "Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account"

abraham — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:52:59 +0000

Yay for daily cat apps! I run daily.cat

New comment by abraham in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"

abraham — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:47:34 +0000

Just a note that the 12GB nerf only applies to the base storage version of the pros.

New comment by abraham in "Antigravity 2.0"

abraham — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:46:20 +0000

Antigravity 2.0 was released in May

https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravi...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196838

New comment by abraham in "How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)"

abraham — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:47:30 +0000

> Google’s obviously fake excuse for killing their RSS reader (declining usage)

What's obviously fake about that?

New comment by abraham in "How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)"

abraham — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:46:27 +0000

I liked Google Play Music a lot but like any Google product it had a lot of issues. Still way better than YouTube Music.

New comment by abraham in "Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law"

abraham — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:38:09 +0000

> You wrote this in the passive voice

I used the language of the link.

> The explicit tube site Pornhub is now blocked in 25 U.S. states

I had assumed that the states were blocking Pornhub but reading between the lines in the linked article it does imply it's not the states are not applying technical blocks.

New comment by abraham in "Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law"

abraham — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:25:08 +0000

According to this pornhub is blocked in 25 states including Texas.

https://mashable.com/article/pornhub-blocked-states-2025

New comment by abraham in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

abraham — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 04:57:18 +0000

By default cookies are sent for cross-origin requests. The SameSite cookie flag that lets sites control this was only shipped in Safari the year before this blog post was written so it would have been hard to depend on it yet.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Coo...