Hacker News: bithammerthunde

New comment by bithammerthunde in "Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity"

bithammerthunde — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:35:05 +0000

Oh the schadenfreude. Oracle sipping it's own medicine.

New comment by bithammerthunde in "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"

bithammerthunde — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:40:40 +0000

Misguided post, as you can see when you consider what VSCode and SSH are for.

New comment by bithammerthunde in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

bithammerthunde — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:36:22 +0000

Why put it in 'quotation marks'. It's ads, not 'ads'.

New comment by bithammerthunde in "MCP was always a bad idea?"

bithammerthunde — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:12:12 +0000

Summaries aren't a bad idea though.

New comment by bithammerthunde in "The Secret Life of Circuits"

bithammerthunde — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:41:43 +0000

Looks like a brilliant book. If you ever write another I think a "hands-on experiments" would be a great follow up

New comment by bithammerthunde in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"

bithammerthunde — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:25:54 +0000

Google - be evil.

New comment by bithammerthunde in "Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite"

bithammerthunde — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:31:20 +0000

I asked mum. I'm not going to type in what she said, otherwise my comment will get flagged.

New comment by bithammerthunde in "Let's make quality the norm again"

bithammerthunde — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:40:41 +0000

> One big problem

This is THE biggest problem for me. I'm happy to pay for quality when I need quality. But there's almost sorcery involved in finding quality.

New comment by bithammerthunde in "Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite"

bithammerthunde — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:37:36 +0000

> hosting it somewhere on the web, which is not that hard to do these days.

Tell any non-tech person that.

New comment by bithammerthunde in "Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite"

bithammerthunde — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:35:29 +0000

Do you know the reason for that? The File System API does seem to be well supported on Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...

New comment by bithammerthunde in "Chopping up books when they're physically too big"

bithammerthunde — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:55:11 +0000

Are AI companies trying to poison the search index?

Like Boris Johnson did when he had fun times with a model on the campaign bus, then did a bizarre interview when he claimed he made model buses!

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/26/mesmerising...

New comment by bithammerthunde in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

bithammerthunde — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:32:02 +0000

Link missing?

Account Deactivated Due to Biological Research

bithammerthunde — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:34:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1wd5kpp/account_deactivated_due_to_biological_research/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704423

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bithammerthunde in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

bithammerthunde — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:00:48 +0000

Can we please stop normalizing this behavior. It's not wild it's reckless.

If I let out rats in the canteen, no one is blaming them when people get sick.

There are actual people behind these agents and in previous cases people knew they were "going rogue" and did nothing. This should be reported to the police like any other crime.

New comment by bithammerthunde in "How to write an effective software design document"

bithammerthunde — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:40:15 +0000

Not what he meant, but for an outsider it could be hilarious to watch the company tumble because of that rule.

New comment by bithammerthunde in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

bithammerthunde — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:30:55 +0000

I think XCancel should use their momentum and set up their own social media network, instead of scrapping the domain.

New comment by bithammerthunde in "Audacity 4.0"

bithammerthunde — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:00:31 +0000

I don't know, but I once ran strace on version 3 and was horrified by the number of files it touched at startup. Then tried accessing the internet.

New comment by bithammerthunde in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

bithammerthunde — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:30:08 +0000

> strategic ties with the US

Yeah, that isn't really a thing anymore.

Trump suggests cattle ranchers could bypass USDA-inspected meat plants

bithammerthunde — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:42:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/28/trump-suggests-allowing-ranchers-bypass-usda-inspected-meat-plants/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484587

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by bithammerthunde in "The turbulent AI era is here"

bithammerthunde — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:50:43 +0000

> In all likelihood it will probably fall in the middle

AI era has been called the new industrial revolution. I'd just like to point out that the industrial revolution created the British Empire. That's wasn't exactly "in the middle".