<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: andrewmcwatters</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=andrewmcwatters</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:16:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=andrewmcwatters" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Microsoft refuses to deliver legitimate emails to hotmail.com addresses so I tell clients how it is.<p>I’m not jumping through hoops when I’m not doing anything wrong. SPF, DMARC, DKIM, IP address not on a blacklist, and I send zero spam. Only human-written client communications 1:1.<p>So, my clients with hotmail.com addresses don’t get emails from me. I can call them, they can call me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:38:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792778</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792778</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suspect they strip the SynthID for these specific cases to prevent exfiltration of the steganography.<p>I appreciate you pointing it out, but this account is banned. Thank you for vouching though!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:36:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710493</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710493</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47710493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We're actively collecting pure black and pure white images generated by Nano Banana Pro to improve multi-resolution watermark extraction.<p>Oh hey, neat. I mentioned this specific method of extracting SynthID a while back.[1]<p>Glad to see someone take it up.<p>[1]: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169146#47169767">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169146#47169767</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:51:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709868</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709868</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47709868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They already refuse to comply with CPRA, instead electing to replace your username with a random 6(?) character string, prefixed with `_`, if I remember correctly.<p>I know, because I've been here since maybe 2015 or so, but this account was created in 2019.<p>So any PII you have mentioned in your comments is permanent on Hacker News.<p>I would appreciate it if they gave users the ability to remove all of their personal data, but in correspondence and in writing here on Hacker News itself, Dan has suggested that they value the posterity of conversations over the law.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:50:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428931</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428931</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "Things Linux Can Do That Windows Still Can't"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One that people don't seem to mention enough to me is that neither macOS nor Windows have ANY feature remotely close to the magic SysRq key.[1][2]<p>Not even Control-Alt-Delete is remotely the same.<p>ALT-SysRq-f, which will "call the oom killer to kill a memory hog process, but ... not panic if nothing can be killed," should truly be available on every modern operating system, but nope, only Linux has it.<p>[1]: <a href="https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/sysrq.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/sysrq.html</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:52:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402361</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402361</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "DHS Contracts Explorer – Hacked data from the Office of Industry Partnership"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>International Business Machines…<p>Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company<p>General Mills<p>General Motors<p>American Telephone and Telegraph Company…<p>You seem to have it backwards. Companies being called Poopity Scoop is a modern phenomenon.<p>Companies have otherwise been named like this for centuries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:07:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345904</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345904</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "United States leads dismantlement of one of the largest hacker forums"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve always been curious what the ramifications are for security researchers who openly have accounts on such forums in order to track the dissemination of leaks.<p>You’re not buying anything. You’re just watching.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:20:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319652</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because everyone and their mother sends spam. It doesn't take a genius to figure out why. No, I don't want emails about the new product you're releasing. No I don't want your newsletter.<p>I have to actively fight to keep my inbox empty, and free of crap. And while I'm ranting, notifications I actually want on my phone are co-opted by advertisements, which Apple and Google should actively prevent, but they won't because they use push notifications to commingle advertising to you with important, sometimes time-sensitive notifications.<p>Everyone thinks they have something worth sharing. Over three nines of the time, people don't. I will happily be apart of the 0.1% who sends your crap straight to the spam filter for Gmail to train.<p>It's spam. It's almost all spam. Even the transactional stuff for logging in, I don't want. Just use an email, password, and TOTP. Stop sending me emails.<p>Stop it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:57:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254537</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "Let's discuss sandbox isolation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sharing my 5 cents on the matter: in another world, gaming, where embedding scripting languages is done for modding, I hope to see WASM take off as a way for modern modders to get into game development.<p>I've seen smaller developers experimenting with this, but haven't heard of larger orgs doing it, possibly because UGC took the place of modders as well, and I come from an older world where what developers of my time 20 years ago would have had their hands on was an actual SDK that wasn't a part of a long microtransaction pipeline.<p>In my org's case, where we built an entire game engine off Lua, and previously had done Lua integration in the Source Engine, I would have loved to have had sandboxing from the start rather than trying to think about security after the fact.<p>To the article's point: even if you were to sandboxing today in those environments, I suspect you'd be faster than some of the fastest embedded scripting languages because they're just that slow.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:47:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186865</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "SynthID: A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder how it stands up to feature analysis.<p>"Generate a pure white image." "Generate a pure black image." Channel diff, extract steganographic signature for analysis.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:13:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169767</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169767</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47169767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "Keep Android Open"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got downvoted heavily about a year ago saying we need to abandon Android and the industry needs to pivot back to just putting GNU/Linux on a phone already.<p>Of course, now Google is doing what Google was always going to do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 01:15:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096376</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096376</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47096376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems like it's the cheapest way to access Claude Sonnet 4.5, but the model distribution is clearly throttled compared to Claude Sonnet 4.5 on claude.ai.<p>That being said, I don't know why anyone would want to pay for LLM access anywhere else.<p>ChatGPT and claude.ai (free) and GitHub Copilot Pro ($100/yr) seem to be the best combination to me at the moment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:56:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937306</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937306</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46937306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "GitHub Agentic Workflows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a lot of hate in this thread, but there are plenty of engineers chomping at the bit for autonomous workflows, because browser-use isn't there yet, and cloud expenses from major providers are also unappealing with so much relatively powerful local compute.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:44:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935966</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935966</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're absolutely joking if you don't think when this goes to crap Microsoft won't hoover up more share of OpenAI.<p>I wouldn't be surprised if they're banking long-term on its failure and got in early so they had equity preference.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:57:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46928540</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46928540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46928540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "The Waymo World Model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It feels intellectually negligent to me that models like those used by Openpilot have no auditable concept of what a car, or a sign, or a person is.<p>Just where lines are and when a car should accelerate or break. The rest of the latent state is "based on pixels."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:40:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915802</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915802</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your back-seat moderation is annoying and contributes to the wank of the site, too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:51:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904235</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if legislation like this will bisect 3D printers before and after in the same way that ink printers use printer tracking dot steganography.<p>Or maybe 3D printers already do this in a way we don't see.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:23:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873032</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://archive.is/W0AWn" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/W0AWn</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:10:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852657</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852657</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple has broken Time Machine enough times that I would never consider using it at all anymore. Once upon a time, it was really neat, had great integration with Mac OS X, and an amazing user interface and experience, but it's now clearly technology that Apple will probably eventually drop entirely in favor of something less impressive all together, like telling you to buy more iCloud Storage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:56:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848845</link><dc:creator>andrewmcwatters</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848845</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrewmcwatters in "Giving up upstream-ing my patches and feel free to pick them up"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is an inverse relationship with respect to the size of an organization or project and its authors or maintainers willingness to review and merge pull requests.<p>The smaller a project, the more willing an author is to write the entire feature for you based on a plain request.<p>Go help smaller projects, the big ones don't care that you've submitted any work at all.</p>
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