Hacker News: andreygrehov

New comment by andreygrehov in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

andreygrehov — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:40:56 +0000

> And the commenter aren't wrong when they blame the administration. They wouldn't be wrong to blame previous administrations either. But the previous administrations aren't in power right now

They are wrong. The current administration did not make a call to widen the permissions or make it intentionally overly broad.

> This pretty much insinuates Biden (and Trump v1, and Obama, and Bush) didn't fix it.

Why do you believe the president is responsible? Could be just a lazy contractor.

New comment by andreygrehov in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

andreygrehov — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:46:58 +0000

Given that all other apps follow the same pattern, I insist that it has nothing to do with any sitting administration.

New comment by andreygrehov in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

andreygrehov — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:38:04 +0000

Fox News is not popular on HN.

New comment by andreygrehov in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

andreygrehov — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:37:17 +0000

Where in my comments did I say “but Biden didn't fix it”? What I say is the majority of commenters are wrong blaming the administration.

New comment by andreygrehov in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

andreygrehov — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:59:27 +0000

No. That narrative is driven by mass media, which shapes the perception of opinions posted on HN.

New comment by andreygrehov in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

andreygrehov — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:55:46 +0000

So where was that outrage before the current administration? The comments in this submission mostly blame the administration. I verified older versions of the apps and found that the wide permissions were there prior to Trump, and now suddenly it’s "hey, but he did not fix it!" This is hilarious, don't you think?

New comment by andreygrehov in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

andreygrehov — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:42:26 +0000

The apps have nothing to do with the current administration. All these permissions were already in place before the current administration. It’s easy to verify this by looking at previous versions of the apps. HN has created a narrative that everything the current administration does is bad.

New comment by andreygrehov in "MIT 15.393 – Nuts and Bolts of New Ventures (2026)"

andreygrehov — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:50:13 +0000

Is there a recording or is this just a course agenda accessible to MIT students only?

Edit: here is a better link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bj65xjfI-Q

New comment by andreygrehov in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

andreygrehov — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:49:01 +0000

Can we unwind? How and by whom was this project started such that now it has to be cancelled?

New comment by andreygrehov in "Show HN: Atomic – Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base"

andreygrehov — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:27:37 +0000

Great work, but your macOS build cannot be opened. You need to sign the app through Apple Developer Program.

New comment by andreygrehov in "Linux Applications Programming by Example: The Fundamental APIs (2nd Edition)"

andreygrehov — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:43:23 +0000

https://www.manualslib.com/products/Lamborghini-Urus-1030536...

This one is good as well.

New comment by andreygrehov in "Linux Applications Programming by Example: The Fundamental APIs (2nd Edition)"

andreygrehov — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:46:47 +0000

What’s the purpose of this submission?

New comment by andreygrehov in "Have a fucking website"

andreygrehov — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:13:50 +0000

Yes, I'm familiar. Don't know if you checked my profile, but I joined HN 12+ years ago.

New comment by andreygrehov in "Have a fucking website"

andreygrehov — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:16:48 +0000

It likely gets physically deleted after 3-5 years, whereas on HN I can neither delete nor archive a comment or post I made yesterday.

New comment by andreygrehov in "Have a fucking website"

andreygrehov — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:08:26 +0000

+1 I can’t even delete my old stuff on HN. I don’t own my comments here. In contrast, I can go ahead and delete any of my Facebook posts or comments from 10 years ago. In a way, HN is more hostile than Facebook.

New comment by andreygrehov in "Marketing for Founders"

andreygrehov — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:39:39 +0000

Where can i learn more about it?

New comment by andreygrehov in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

andreygrehov — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:45:45 +0000

Building a tool that automatically generates living infrastructure diagrams from your cloud anccount and turns them into real-time incident dashboards. Think Figma meets Datadog - beautiful visualization that updates during outages to show you exactly what's failing and how to fix it.

New comment by andreygrehov in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

andreygrehov — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:53:41 +0000

> I don’t want to see HN becoming twitter, which is full of bots

There are barely any bots on Twitter. There were thousands of thousands of bots before 2023, because the API was free. These days running a bot on Twitter is expensive.

Fun fact: a company I worked for in the past had access to an undocumented partners-only API that allowed us to register unlimited number of accounts. I was personally tasked to handle the integration.

New comment by andreygrehov in "Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function"

andreygrehov — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:23:45 +0000

Many people do not smoke weed.

New comment by andreygrehov in "Cannabis usage in older adults linked to larger brain, better cognitive function"

andreygrehov — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:22:55 +0000

Yea, I should sell my house, move my kids to a different school, find another job and al that just because of some weed addict, right?