<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ajdude</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ajdude</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:48:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ajdude" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "Hackers Used Meta's AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know that HN requests that we don't editorialize the titles, but I feel like the article title for this thread better expresses what's happened at a glance than the "goofy exploit" article.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:12:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361990</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just do what Kagi does and turn on AI mode only if there's a "?" At the end of the query.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 18:47:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298669</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48298669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "Someone Shared a Real Monet Painting as AI and Asked for Critiques"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Original source is [dup] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134400">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134400</a><p>Albeit the original source was flagged.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:21:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159147</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Windows phone still had the best ux of any smartphone, I just wish the ecosystem was there. To this day nothing even comes close to smart tiles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:19:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159139</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48159139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instructure Paid the Ransom]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.instructure.com/incident_update">https://www.instructure.com/incident_update</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110119">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110119</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 15:58:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.instructure.com/incident_update</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "The PSP feels surprisingly present right now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For years one of my best friends growing up didn't have Internet, and my only communication with him was when he would walk to the McDonald's for the Wi-Fi with his PSP. We would chat over MSN.<p>I recently got a PSP (along with a special cable that I can use to hook it up to my TV); there is a pretty strong aftermarket ecosystem for them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 04:36:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104226</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104226</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "I keep tripping over "true, false, true""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is why I continue to advocate for using Ada. It's not just about memory safety but conscious effort was put into readability.<p>Calling the procedure in the article in ada would simply be:<p><pre><code>   createUser (user, isAdmin => True, sendWelcomeEmail => False, skipValidation => True);</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 17:03:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097618</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "Killed by Apple"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple has done a much better job at maintaining their stuff compared to Google. Even this list is mostly just old hardware that fell out of service.<p>And even then, I can still sync my 20+ year old firewire ipod with the most recent Apple Music (formally iTunes) on my m4 MacBook with the right converter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 15:05:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095991</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Google's reCAPTCHA is planning an approach where they use Privacy Pass on Apple hardware, their own approach on Google Mobile Services Android devices and a QR code scanning system to require an iOS or Google certified Android device for Windows and other systems<p>I wonder if we'll get something similar happening with cloudflare</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 20:46:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087821</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087821</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48087821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think it's more like if you owned a blogspot site, and you're gdpr'ing the list of users who visited your site (given Google logged every single user who visited, and associated that visit specifically with you).<p>Linkedin is recording every person who visits your profile and keeps that in your user records, and they are already selling it back to you. The argument is that you have a right to that data.<p>Linkedin is arguing that this data needs to be protected for the privacy of those visiting your profile and the argument is that if they really believed that, they wouldn't sell it back to you, compromising that privacy anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:38:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048666</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'll give this a try!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:32:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048593</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I try to stay far away from shorts in general- YouTube plays them at maximum volume on my desktop and they suck attention , I feel like they're actively harmful.<p>Though for content that i follow, Almost every one of these shorts end up just being a snippet of a video they already posted, usually being used as a glorified ad for that existing video. It's just a waste of time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:30:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048574</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Nobody asked for shorts in their feed<p>This has been a big issue for me. I currently use RSS exclusively to view the YouTube channels that I'm subscribed to -- currently about 75 channels (and 27 nebula channels) -- and over half of my YouTube feeds are filled with several shorts (sometimes multiple ones by the same creator per day).<p>Looking for hashtags in the title and marking those videos as read is essentially muscle memory at this point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 04:09:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032067</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>[Dupe] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939579</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:51:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947046</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947046</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Australia: Social media ban for youth has little effect]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.heise.de/en/news/Australia-Social-media-ban-for-youth-has-little-effect-11275244.html">https://www.heise.de/en/news/Australia-Social-media-ban-for-youth-has-little-effect-11275244.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947010">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947010</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:48:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.heise.de/en/news/Australia-Social-media-ban-for-youth-has-little-effect-11275244.html</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm glad they dropped the ban on HN readers[1]. That was my very first impression of Asahi Linux that I ever encountered and it's unfortunately what I think of every time I see it show up here.<p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/AsahiLinux/AsahiLinux.github.io/commit/e0484c04ade0e7e5ec3e07179545afabd0ffa765" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/AsahiLinux/AsahiLinux.github.io/commit/e0...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:24:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910137</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910137</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "Flickr: The first and last great photo platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I explained it here back when their forum was still open: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157714720744427/page27/#reply72157722724199360" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/72157714720744427/pa...</a><p>They have bbcode and html embed, with dynamic width and automatic linking back to the page with alt text, but nothing for markdown.<p>I can use HTML for my blog but my blog is written and marked down and I would rather just stick to markdown, plus many forums have switched to markdown and won't accept an HTML embed.<p>My current solution is to convert the following by hand from something like<p><pre><code>   <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/uname/1234/" title="My Title"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/1234/abcd.jpg" width="1024" height="768" alt="My Alt Text" /></a>

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To:<p><pre><code>    [![My Alt Text!](live.staticflickr.com/1234/abcd.jpg "My Title")](www.flickr.com/photos/uname/1234)
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For every photo I like to share which can be a lot when I am blogging...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:55:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908928</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "Flickr: The first and last great photo platform"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been a pro member for many years, with about 35k photos uploaded. I am grateful that they have never chased the engagement bait. Some people like to complain about the Pro features but I found them to be absolutely fair and I wanna do everything I can to support this platform.<p>All of my photos are automatically synced to Flickr via the Auto uploader, and getting things from my camera to Flickr is as simple as transferring the data from the dslr to my phone, and the auto uploader takes care of the rest.<p>From there I can go through the photos, decide which ones I wanna make public, and organize them into my albums to share with others.<p>My single complaint with Flickr is simply that they won't provide a markdown embed code that works exactly like HTML embed, but that's pretty low of a complaint.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.adacore.com/blog/formally-verified-hashed-sets-in-ada-spark">https://www.adacore.com/blog/formally-verified-hashed-sets-in-ada-spark</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862120">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862120</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:36:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.adacore.com/blog/formally-verified-hashed-sets-in-ada-spark</link><dc:creator>ajdude</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ajdude in "Scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in quality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to receive a catalog every quarter for an audiophile magazine. They sold some very very expensive gold plated toslink cables. The gold planting was supposed to be for superior conductivity.<p>Toslink is an optical audio format, and a pair of fishing line would've even worked identical quality.</p>
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