<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: andrewjf</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=andrewjf</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 19:33:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=andrewjf" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewjf in "Omarchy Is Not A Distro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quality in general seems to be going downhill, too.<p>Frequently the desktop app and the safari extension won't be in sync and missing a recently added password, or doesn't show up on my other devices hours later.  I still have no idea how the extension vs desktop app actually work together, or if they do at all.<p>Sometimes 1password (safari extension) is "locked" - but the desktop app isn't locked? and No amount of clicking the little 1password icon, that's supposed to unlock it does anything.  Just a completely no-op button.  Quitting safari _and_ the desktop app seems to be what's required to fix it.<p>I've been thinking about just moving back to native macOS keychain, but I haven't bothered to check on linux+windows support.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 16:43:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258810</link><dc:creator>andrewjf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258810</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewjf in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You don't need other people anymore to find security issues, you can do it yourself with AI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:55:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116133</link><dc:creator>andrewjf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewjf in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think that's relevant.  You can still find security issues in software nobody uses.<p>The question is a matter of impact because of how used the software is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:11:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115802</link><dc:creator>andrewjf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115802</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewjf in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree with what OOP said.  But it’s not my intent to “shut sites down.” I have this view to try to increase diversity of media consumption and break people out of echo chambers.  If your business model is so shit you have to exploit weaknesses in human brains to keep people viewing ads and can’t adapt, then that’s your problem.<p>If you have an algorithm whose sole purpose is to “engagement” with your own platform (by intentionally and purposely pushing clickbait, ragebait, and media that keeps reinforcing your clicks) you should no longer get section 230 protections - you are no longer a neutral party.  These algorithms exist to create echo chambers and keep you clicking so you can consume more ads.<p>I would love to hear other ways of solving the problems of social media.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 13:38:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48108130</link><dc:creator>andrewjf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48108130</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48108130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewjf in "Commenting and approving pull requests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's two kinds of reviews in my experience:<p>1. Does it work? Then ship it.  This is great for early on, high-velocity where the goal is to get something working in the wild.  AI and AI proponents love this option.  It's easy to spot obvious problems, but very unlikely to lead to feedback on structural changes to abstractions and architecture to increase overall _long-term_ velocity.<p>2. We assume this works, but is it "correct"?  This is where long-term code maintainability is created.  The quality and effort put into a review like this is obviously far more involved than option 1.   People working long term on a code base love this option.<p>We've been biased towards #1 for a long time, but I feel like we dont have enough people capable of doing #2.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:45:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902747</link><dc:creator>andrewjf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902747</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47902747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewjf in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If only the American Colonies would just have petitioned King George just a few more times…</p>
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<p>I would be very happy to do so if we had working infrastructure, education, and health care not coupled to the generosity of your employer.<p>Isn’t it the case anyway that if you add state, federal, local, property, capital gains, and sales taxes, add the money that you and your employer pays for healthcare, that you’re basically paying slightly more in taxes all-in?</p>
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<p>Sources on the first paragraph? I can’t tell what you’re even trying at say.<p>DACA (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_...</a>) was an exec order specifically because those individuals were brought over (as children, with no agency over their fate) after they were born, not before, so of course they weren’t citizens via the 14th.  You’re correct that It wasn’t a law passed by Congress, but it’s irrelevant. I’m not sure what you’re saying, talking anything about DACA in this context is irrelevant.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:56:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622749</link><dc:creator>andrewjf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622749</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewjf in "False claims in a widely-cited paper"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fair point!  Makes complete sense.<p>But I wouldn't exactly call "professionals trying to make high brow media" exclusive alternative to Reddit, Youtube, Twitter, TikTok.<p>A lot of the propaganda (and sane washing) is coming from mass media, too.  I feel like the only "legit" media outlets are like Reuters, AP, and some international ones, I guess.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 03:00:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526189</link><dc:creator>andrewjf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewjf in "False claims in a widely-cited paper. No corrections. No consequences"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's really root cause in everything, isn't it?<p>- The consolidation of media (& social media in general) is about making money from outrage (emotions)<p>- Anti Vax (& other) movements is about people only receptive to people saying what they already feel (feelings)<p>- Accountability is gone because people care about being on the winning team and being "right".<p>Reason, Logic, and Evidence seems completely replaced by propaganda and mistrust of experts (fueled by the propaganda), but it's all rooted in comfort in people's own emotional validation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:23:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525981</link><dc:creator>andrewjf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewjf in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>being "hard-over on privacy" and regularly using google services is an astounding level of cognitive dissonance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:05:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102016</link><dc:creator>andrewjf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewjf in "Clean Coder: The Dark Path (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Author argues against strong typing systems and language features to prevent classes of bugs and instead encourages developers to "writing lots of tests" for things that a type system would prevent.<p>The authors thesis seems to be that it's preferable to rely on the programmer who wrote bugs to write even more bugs in tests in order to have some benefit over a compiler or type system that can prevent these things from happening in the first place?<p>So obviously it's an opinion and he's entitled to it, but (in my own opinion) it is so so so, on-its-face, just flat out wrong, I'm concerned that that it's creating developers who believe that writing so many tests (that languages and compilers save you time (and bugs) in writing) is a valid solution to preventing null pointer defeferences.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/01/11/TheDarkPath.html">https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/01/11/TheDarkPath.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46887665">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46887665</a></p>
<p>Points: 46</p>
<p># Comments: 68</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:16:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/01/11/TheDarkPath.html</link><dc:creator>andrewjf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46887665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46887665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewjf in "How ICE knows who Minneapolis protesters are"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Propaganda.<p>The actual videos do not support this conclusion at all. You’re being lied to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:31:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824842</link><dc:creator>andrewjf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824842</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46824842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewjf in "Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You describe a world where human skill is required to prevent these class of bugs, time and time again we've proven that people are people and bugs happen.<p>Systems must be _structurally architected_ with security in mind.<p>Security is layered, using a random key with 128-bit space makes guessing UUIDs infeasible.  But _also_ you should be doing AuthZ on the records, and also you should be doing rate limiting on API so they can't be brute forced, either.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:57:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45630294</link><dc:creator>andrewjf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45630294</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45630294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewjf in "Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have two moonlanders but wound up giving up because I just couldn't adapt to it.  And when writing code, finding the symbols like {, =, }, and other common coding ones was just too difficult to retain muscle memory.  I tried many layouts, I tried to make my own, and at the end of the day it was just too different.  I wish I had a better experience.<p>Any recommendations?</p>
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<p>What do you mean “separate from google”? Golang’s success is directly and exclusively based on google envy back in 2009-2012.</p>
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<p>> Idiocracy.<p>At least President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho cared about things enough to make things better for his people, hired the smartest person he knew and genuinely tried to fix things.</p>
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<p>I don't like the Tidbyt v2.  I hated it from the minute I unboxed it, would not recommend.  The pixels are very blurry and the image is not crisp at all.  The v1 was pretty good, looks more like a dot oriented board (far less resolution).  more discussion: <a href="https://discuss.tidbyt.com/t/gen2-blurry-screen/6654" rel="nofollow">https://discuss.tidbyt.com/t/gen2-blurry-screen/6654</a><p>I replaced the tidbyts with a Dakboard, specifically a <a href="https://shop.dakboard.com/products/pixeltoptech" rel="nofollow">https://shop.dakboard.com/products/pixeltoptech</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 18:37:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44138850</link><dc:creator>andrewjf</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44138850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44138850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewjf in "Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly, now they're out of other peoples money.</p>
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