Hacker News: badatnames

New comment by badatnames in "Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary"

badatnames — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:01:23 +0000

This is not the Vercel ad they think it is.

New comment by badatnames in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

badatnames — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:28:05 +0000

Half of Europe does, it's just that everyone talks about the US like it's a special case because those searches happen routinely. It's legal to search a phone without reasonable suspicion at airports in the UK under the Terrorism act 2000 (pre-9/11!)

New comment by badatnames in "My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page"

badatnames — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:43:45 +0000

Getting this right is hard, speaking as someone who has ARP poisoned an exposed ethernet connected to some cheap switches to monitor cameras in whole buildings before. The problem is the endpoint itself, adding layers on top doesn't solve things. Ideally I'd like a device that could be connected to public wifi and still be robust. For example including padding any data it's transmitting to avoid observable compression side effects being usable as a proxy for motion detection (which is a cool trick you can try even without a working wifi key)

New comment by badatnames in "My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page"

badatnames — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:41:38 +0000

Huh, it was working an hour ago. The outdoor 8MP variant was around the 85 euro mark.

New comment by badatnames in "My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page"

badatnames — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:25:47 +0000

Worthy thread to ask: is there such a thing as a white label IP camera (or similar) with a supported open firmware? Not asking for open source, but something close to plug and play that nonetheless has a way of stripping the rootfs as desired for bespoke use in a manufacturer-supported way.

I have looked around before but I only found genuinely dev-oriented kits that weren't even in a shell, and crazy priced.

edit: seems there are some options now (or I missed them before), e.g. https://www.goodcam.io/#for-independent-developers

New comment by badatnames in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

badatnames — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:45:26 +0000

Very much looking forward to news of the first lawyer fired for a vibed court submission with a fleshlight ad buried in the middle of it

New comment by badatnames in "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making"

badatnames — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:41:46 +0000

You mean the software that marketed trials of itself in the hopes you'd pay for it?

New comment by badatnames in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"

badatnames — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:34:28 +0000

I have almost completely stopped writing real in my own output as a direct consequence of this. Maybe next year they'll catch up with my alternative wordings and I'll end up switching back