Hacker News: adam_hn

New comment by adam_hn in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"

adam_hn — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:25:21 +0000

This would be a Booby Trap and is illegal, so it's not worth it for that chance of going to prison no matter the value in the safe, if you are a billionaire. It would be hard to find someone willing to help you.

New comment by adam_hn in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

adam_hn — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:46:38 +0000

You can't leave it on a cliffhanger like that. Why does he end up a driver? Or provide more details. This seems like an interesting story.

New comment by adam_hn in "Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ"

adam_hn — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:01:54 +0000

You would be surprised, I have never seen anyone who doesn't work in tech in my life who even knows that this is an option.

New comment by adam_hn in "Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ"

adam_hn — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:00:40 +0000

Yes, but in that case, it will be less likely to be blocked because the people requesting the blocking are not competent enough to ask for it.

Don't get me wrong, I wish this were not the case, but why let the perfect be the enemy of the good enough?

New comment by adam_hn in "Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords"

adam_hn — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:14:50 +0000

The most common human trait ever.... laziness

New comment by adam_hn in "‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]"

adam_hn — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:32:00 +0000

This is a widespread misunderstanding; there is no border anymore between Gaza and Egypt, as it was occupied by the IDF in the first year of this war. So unless Egypt went to war, there was nothing they could do.

And even before this war, the peace treaty gave Israel big control over the Rafa crossing. They have a camera and watch everything going in and out, and can ask for extra searches if they don't like what they see. And in all, it's just for individuals, not cargo. Whatever cargo goes through, there is just a limited amount that requires prior approval from Israel.

So Egypt really doesn't have any power over the situation unless they are willing to risk a war, which they can't win.

New comment by adam_hn in "Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork"

adam_hn — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 23:18:28 +0000

I'm sorry but why? Your government can use this data to actually hurt you and put you on the no-fly list, or even put you in prison.

But a foreign government is limited to what it can do to you if you are not a very high-value target.

So I try as much as possible to use software and services from a non-friendly government because this is the highest guarantee that my data will not be used against me in the future.

And since we can all agree that any data that is collected will end up with the government some way or another. Using forging software is the only real guarantee.

Unless the software is open source and its server is self-hosted, it should be considered Spyware.

New comment by adam_hn in "TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]"

adam_hn — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:53:52 +0000

You're making an excellent case for using AI during the interview. If you can actually code and do the work, you're hurting no one by using tools to get past these arbitrary barriers during the live interview. The system is clearly flawed when someone demonstrably skilled gets rejected over trivia.

I actually created a tool to help myself get through the live interviews, specifically by listening to the questions and giving me real time answers to things I couldn't recall under that kind of pressure. It's not about not knowing the material, it's about the ridiculous expectation to perform perfectly on demand.

New comment by adam_hn in "I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone"

adam_hn — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:10:45 +0000

Maybe your coworker searched for backpack zipper?

New comment by adam_hn in "I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone"

adam_hn — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:52:07 +0000

But would you use it to show ads if you have access to such a backdoor? That's an easy way for your backdoor to be found out. Something like this, if it exists, would be too valuable to be used en masse.

New comment by adam_hn in "Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms"

adam_hn — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:49:03 +0000

same here, sometimes my understanding of a message doesn't make sense, but when gpt4 gives me the same understanding, it feels like we can't both reach the same conclusion by mistake. of course, that's not true, but in most cases, it's good enough.

New comment by adam_hn in "Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial"

adam_hn — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 07:24:05 +0000

In the anthropic console, there is a "Generate a prompt" section, which does what you are doing but better, I guess.

It takes normal text and generates a well-structured prompt.

New comment by adam_hn in "French court orders Google, Cloudflare, Cisco to poison DNS to stop piracy"

adam_hn — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 11:58:55 +0000

Also, Yandex search is the best for certain search queries that google and American companies want/forced to remove.