Hacker News: archerx

New comment by archerx in "ArcBrush – Node-based 2D image editor"

archerx — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:46:10 +0000

Interesting. I’m in the process of making a node based image editor myself so I’ll see what this does right and what points of friction still remain. The main reason I want to do is to make automating tasks easier, batch processing in photoshop is ok, but it could be so much better.

New comment by archerx in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

archerx — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:50:25 +0000

What if you forget the passphrase after not using it for many years and you suddenly need a file on the drive?

New comment by archerx in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

archerx — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:49:15 +0000

My data is mundane and mostly my art projects and photography. I don’t believe I am important or interesting enough for someone to do anything with my data if they somehow managed to get it also I don’t have emails, saved passwords, banking info or that kind of sensitive info on my computers so meh I guess.

New comment by archerx in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

archerx — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:46:07 +0000

That’s not true. I’ve had many computers that refuse to turn on and I was able to recover the files by removing the drive and loading it into a USB hard drive reader and recover the files.

New comment by archerx in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

archerx — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:12:02 +0000

Maybe I’m an outlier but I don’t want my drives encrypted at all. I rather have all my data be accessible if things go catastrophic, I.E. having to pull the drive out of a broken computer and put it in another computer to access the files. I just want it to be plug and play.

New comment by archerx in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

archerx — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:20:40 +0000

To be fair Blender’s UI is very unintuitive and not as good as other 3D modeling software. Between 3Ds max, Maya, Houdini, XSI, Modo, Milkshape and others only Blender has felt painful to use.

New comment by archerx in "Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]"

archerx — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:38:37 +0000

What are the changes that are rubbing fans the wrong way? I feel like the latest videos have been interesting.

New comment by archerx in "Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]"

archerx — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:36:26 +0000

What’s wrong with veritasium?

New comment by archerx in "Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE"

archerx — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:48:48 +0000

That was interesting almost like a weird little modern art gallery. I’m surprised that the BF16 one looks so bad…

New comment by archerx in "Facebook Has a Health Scam Problem"

archerx — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:39:16 +0000

Yet they have no problem flagging legit stuff. Back in 2019 I remember a pair of shorts (part of procedurally generated street ware fashion project) got flagged as offensive for some reason and my campaign got suspended. I reached out to Facebook and actually got a human and they unsuspended my account but the experience also made me stop buying ads from them.

New comment by archerx in "Your Terminal Is Burning Battery Like It's Mining Bitcoin"

archerx — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:35:24 +0000

I’m sorry that you have to deal with that. I think if I ever get into a similar conversation I will just answer “but I don’t have Claude…”

New comment by archerx in "Your Terminal Is Burning Battery Like It's Mining Bitcoin"

archerx — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:53:12 +0000

Have they not discovered event based rendering yet? Something changed, render! Nothing has changed, don’t render anything and keep the previous frame.

New comment by archerx in "Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary"

archerx — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:39:49 +0000

I used Claude to help me with a function once and it added a memory leak, it wouldn’t have been noticeable to most people but I saw. I still write my own code and find LLMs frustrating because they almost get it right and it’s just more efficient for me to just write the code correctly instead of having an LLM write something that’s almost correct and me fixing it after the fact.

I can’t wait for all the future vibe coded projects to be exploited by the black hats waiting in the shadows for things to reach a critical state. I don’t believe in anthropic because they love to lie.

New comment by archerx in "EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted"

archerx — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:34:19 +0000

Maybe the biometric and photos of id and possibly selfies not being deleted properly?

New comment by archerx in "PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations"

archerx — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:00:49 +0000

I’ve been using PHP for over a decade and have never used FPM.

“Using a single language for both frontend and backend with (largely) the same availability of tooling and the ability to share code”

Is a negative I went backend world and front end world to be different because they do very very different things.

“But more than that... it's just less used? The PHP ecosystem is noticeably smaller and has way less happening.”

That’s not true, PHP is less resume driven development and actually about productivity. I’m really happy narcissist hate PHP and don’t burden it with their garbage and slopworks.

New comment by archerx in "Anastasia (1997) live action reference material"

archerx — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:30:45 +0000

You can install ublock origin lite as an extension on Safari iOS ;)

New comment by archerx in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"

archerx — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:15:51 +0000

So how is this supposed to convince me to give YouTube money directly or indirectly by buying a subscription and disabling my ad blocker? Stories like this reinforce my decision to never give YouTube a single cent.

New comment by archerx in "Show HN: Moon simulator game, ray-casting"

archerx — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:33:43 +0000

The controls are very awkward on iOS safari. The thrust plus 3 direction buttons are on the top row and one direction button is on the bottom row.

New comment by archerx in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

archerx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:41:18 +0000

What if it was the size of a credit card and it had stuff like your name, date of birth and even a picture of your face. I want to name this invention an ID card…

New comment by archerx in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

archerx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:16:01 +0000

Or someone could be getting kickbacks on the down low.