Hacker News: abujazar

New comment by abujazar in "Apple Watch for Your Kids"

abujazar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:07:42 +0000

Workouts for kids? Surveillance sold as «independence»? This is dystopian stuff, a few years ago I wouldn't think of Apple to sink this deep.

New comment by abujazar in "There's still no point in gigabit broadband"

abujazar — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:33:31 +0000

That's due to your ISP's peering, not the server.

New comment by abujazar in "There's still no point in gigabit broadband"

abujazar — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:31:18 +0000

This is like Bill Gates' 640 kB of memory quote. Lack of fiber and Gbps+ adoption is the reason why video meetings still suck and streaming has visible compression artifacts.

New comment by abujazar in "Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training"

abujazar — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:34:05 +0000

That's the in-house preprocessing hardware, not what they're training on.

New comment by abujazar in "CBP Directive 3340-049B: Border Search of Electronic Devices"

abujazar — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:48:52 +0000

That's exactly what European governments and corporations will have to start doing. Adding the US to the same list as Russia, China, Israel, Iran etc.

New comment by abujazar in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

abujazar — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:29:04 +0000

Agreed. As Simon Willison points out, November 2025 was a a critical months because that's pretty much when coding agents became «good enough», eliminating most of the problems pointed out in this study.

New comment by abujazar in "What is a Demand Coop"

abujazar — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:34:18 +0000

The post is written like as if consumer coops is a radically new idea (spoiler: they're everywhere in Europe). Unfortunately they have long since succumbed to the same mechanisms as their competitors and have a tremendous power concentration in top leadership, with directors making ridiculous salaries. On paper though, e.g. Coop with a 25 % market share in Norway is owned and controlled by about 1 million of its customers.

New comment by abujazar in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

abujazar — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:02:24 +0000

By now it should be common knowledge that telling an LLM not to do something is not a «safeguard». Access control is.

New comment by abujazar in "GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty"

abujazar — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:06:22 +0000

This looks like some kind of marketing. Also, the equivalent of spec work. The NDA/secrecy also means any time spent on this is completely meaningless to the participants unless they win the lottery, because results can't be published.

New comment by abujazar in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

abujazar — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:18:47 +0000

I have no problems using my AirPods across two Macs, an iPhone and Windows. I have to manually reconnect on Windows if I have an active Apple device nearby which I recently used the AirPods with, but apart from that it's quite seamless. This worked fine in 2020 already.

New comment by abujazar in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

abujazar — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:12:13 +0000

I've seen A LOT of public sector projects starting out with loads of Azure services and >$3000 montly bills for applications that could've easily run on a single VM.

New comment by abujazar in "Filing the Corners Off MacBooks"

abujazar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:09:03 +0000

Sure, but comfort != abuse :D Apart from the filing, I can't think of ways to make such a recent Mac look like this. Did it suffer a plane crash? Acid attack? Thermite fire?

I appreciate the customization, but would probably make an effort to make it not look like (another) accident.

New comment by abujazar in "Filing the Corners Off MacBooks"

abujazar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:48:18 +0000

Yea, that's ugly. I'm sure it could've been done more gracefully with 15 minutes more effort. But judging from the general wear and tear on this poor Mac I guess they don't even consider the resale value.

New comment by abujazar in "The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine"

abujazar — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:35:18 +0000

What a great way to not get any traffic at all.

New comment by abujazar in "Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories"

abujazar — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:05:16 +0000

You're talking about a subset of ASCII then. Unicode is supposed to support different languages and advanced typography, for which those characters are necessary. You can't write e.g. Arabic or Hebrew without those "unnecessary" invisible characters.

New comment by abujazar in "Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories"

abujazar — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:14:14 +0000

Invisible characters are there for visible characters to be printed correctly...

New comment by abujazar in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

abujazar — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:25:00 +0000

Most people using Slack, Teams etc. and especially those making purchase decisions have no idea what XMPP is and what it's capable of. Heck, even Facebook used to federate XMPP until they decided to go proprietary. Not in the interest of their users, but because it makes the most money for its shareholders.

New comment by abujazar in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

abujazar — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:13:20 +0000

What's next, bribing Trump with gold bars and donations to "charity"?

New comment by abujazar in "MacBook Neo"

abujazar — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:05:39 +0000

Sloppy memory management is what uses memory. But those apps are in a class of their own, along with Electron apps.

New comment by abujazar in "Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives"

abujazar — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:51:31 +0000

Sales tax is actually very different beacuse it is usually either cumulative and added to each part of the chain, or only the last one; whereas VAT is deducted in all but the last part of the chain.