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New comment by ahdanggit in "Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware"

ahdanggit — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 01:51:18 +0000

and/or someone "renting" a bare metal server from such a provider too.

New comment by ahdanggit in "Meshtastic 64 – A meshtastic radio for the Commodore 64"

ahdanggit — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 12:43:22 +0000

I appreciate you pointing that out. I've been curious about meshastatic and wondered how well the encryption was being handled.

New comment by ahdanggit in "Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system"

ahdanggit — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 16:18:28 +0000

Rust doesn't run on all of their platforms so this is a good example of where git may not be viable for OpenBSD long-term (if they were to switch from CVS one day, which is a big IF)

New comment by ahdanggit in "Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system"

ahdanggit — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:36:34 +0000

Rust doesn't support as many CPU architectures as C does (SH4 for example, though there's likely many more better examples.)

This might make a much more interesting case for GOT than before https://www.gameoftrees.org/

New comment by ahdanggit in "Why do we keep gravitating toward complexity?"

ahdanggit — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:32:07 +0000

> The simple alternative is just around the corner: sprinkle vanilla JavaScript where it’s needed and don’t build your identity around a framework. That mindset is hard to swallow, though (especially when companies have spent millions convincing developers their stack is the only way forward).

I worked with a front-end developer (React) who needed help integrating with a payment processor. I looked at the docs and hopped on a video call with them to get them unblocked. I ended up having to explain how to POST hidden inputs via an HTML form to them, and their reply was something along the lines of "Oh, HTML is obsolete." They didn't understand the basics because they only new React.

New comment by ahdanggit in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

ahdanggit — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 02:38:23 +0000

HARD AGREE!

It just takes the minimal amount of discipline, and some conventions. I know it can be done because I did it, lots of people did it just a few years ago (some of those apps are STILL running today.)

New comment by ahdanggit in "Use One Big Server (2022)"

ahdanggit — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:46:29 +0000

I used a colo once a few years ago at a small datacenter in the midwest, I was shocked at how unprofessional everything was, machines laying in the hallway, a guy was sleeping in one of the offices. They let me setup my server and was left unattended several times, I could have just poked the power button on a nearby server or moved a cable or whatever. It was a 1.5 hour drive away, and I wasn't running anything serious so I just went with it but pulled my stuff out after my 1 year subscription was up.

New comment by ahdanggit in "Use One Big Server (2022)"

ahdanggit — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:43:04 +0000

> until my girlfriend moved in with me

lol, why was this the defining moment? She wasn't too keen on hearing the high pitch wwwwhhhhuuuuurrrrrrr of the server fans?

New comment by ahdanggit in "Bear is now source-available"

ahdanggit — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:31:01 +0000

> We're entering a new age of AI powered coding, where creating a competing product only involves typing "Create a fork of this repo and change its name to something cool and deploy it on an EC2 instance".

I've been curious about how LLMs would impact open source, I have some theories and this is not the only one.

New comment by ahdanggit in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

ahdanggit — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:49:47 +0000

In the Philippines everyone uses Facebook because you can use Messenger for free without data charges.

New comment by ahdanggit in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

ahdanggit — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:44:29 +0000

I really wanted to like Librem and almost bought a phone until I saw this video by Louis Rossmann: https://youtu.be/wKegmu0V75s?si=NzevsJgHD188bRkT

New comment by ahdanggit in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

ahdanggit — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:34:50 +0000

Got tired of this with a few extensions I made too. It felt like every year or so they'd completely break some API and I'd have to go switch to the new one, then they wanted a privacy policy, then justification for permissions, etc etc. Wasn't worth the trouble eventually and I just let them die.

New comment by ahdanggit in "Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?"

ahdanggit — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:30:05 +0000

Roughly, yes. Customers (or more often, their IT department) runs our installer which installs the server as a windows service.

New comment by ahdanggit in "Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?"

ahdanggit — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:16:42 +0000

The company I work for has a legitimate service that runs on the loopback (it provides our web apps APIs for some device integration) hopefully its just as simple as the user accepting the prompt else we'll be drowning in support. We had to go the path of the local service because they killed NPAPI. I've been thinking about using web serial as an alternative but Firefox doesn't support it.

That being said, I think this is an overall win, hopefully Firefox implements it in a consistent manner as well.

New comment by ahdanggit in "Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?"

ahdanggit — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:12:56 +0000

my bank did this on the site they sent me to in order to activate my new card.

New comment by ahdanggit in "Setting up shop as self employed in the US"

ahdanggit — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 11:17:20 +0000

I would strongly suggest speaking with a human accountant. I did this recently after doing some contracting on-the-side for a couple years and I should have done it sooner. It cost me something like $50 for an hour of their time and had I done it sooner I'd easily have saved $5000 in taxes. They can help you understand things like how to pay estimated quarterly taxes so as to avoid the penalty of not doing so. What you can and can't deduct (there was a TON of things I could have deducted) and how to track and log it.

New comment by ahdanggit in "Ask HN: Are developers sad about AI writing more of their code?"

ahdanggit — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:35:20 +0000

I'm tired of getting thrown AI slop, but I think its a people problem not an AI problem.

"Hey, I made this doc, can you just make sure it looks OK, maybe add a couple things to it?" - Only to find out its completely useless AI slop and barely any details are correct and everything essential is absent.

Same situation with:

- "Hey, can you take a look at this script to see if it's ok"?

- "Hey, do you know why this code isn't working?"

- "Hey, I created that diagram..."

slop, slop, slop. Low effort people will put in low effort with these tools. I bet there's lots of people I work with that use AI and I don't know because they're high effort people.

And in all cases I've fixed the problems and helped them but I've realized two things and stop doing that recently:

When these folks use AI to generate artifacts, they take even less accountability "I dunno, that's just what the AI did..."

The also have no interest in learning. They get AI to do the thing they don't want to learn, then when that fails just try to get someone else to do it for them.

New comment by ahdanggit in "Instant responsiveness in user interfaces is annoying"

ahdanggit — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:49:51 +0000

crates.io suffers from this on huge crates (e.g. the windows crate) the first time I experienced it I thought something was broken.

New comment by ahdanggit in "Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford"

ahdanggit — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:26:45 +0000

I wonder if the increase has anything to do with the post-COVID lack of interest in commercial property?

New comment by ahdanggit in "Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford"

ahdanggit — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 00:21:38 +0000

Using single family homes as an investment vehicle is the weirdest thing to me.