Hacker News: bootsmann

New comment by bootsmann in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

bootsmann — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:49:11 +0000

We notably teach people how to do arithmetics by hand before we hand them calculators.

New comment by bootsmann in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

bootsmann — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:38:43 +0000

The problem is that a lot of users of OpenClaw use a chatbot to set it up for them so it has a habit of killing safety features if it runs into roadblocks due to user requests. This makes installations super heterogeneous.

New comment by bootsmann in "Proton Meet isn't what they told you it was"

bootsmann — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:13:06 +0000

Yeah this same site did an article on some minor ubuntu bootloader drama some weeks ago and when I recognized the design I just stopped reading. If you have something to say don’t go out of your way to make it hard to parse.

New comment by bootsmann in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

bootsmann — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:39:34 +0000

Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages - Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/7cab4ec7-4712-4137-b602-119a44f77...

New comment by bootsmann in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

bootsmann — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:53:36 +0000

Most popular product on the planet acquires a random python packaging org for mindshare? What am I not seeing here?

New comment by bootsmann in "Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech"

bootsmann — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:44:55 +0000

The Swiss eID is designed the way it is to comply with the EUs digital ID proposal so I wouldn't doom this early.

(this one: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eudi-regul...)

New comment by bootsmann in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

bootsmann — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:22:13 +0000

There is a clip embedded within the article that corroborates what the journalist wrote.

New comment by bootsmann in "US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike"

bootsmann — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:44:53 +0000

Ukraine has been sinking Russian warships in their harbor using underwater drones for at least a year now.

New comment by bootsmann in "US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike"

bootsmann — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:22:23 +0000

Yes but as one of the other commenters pointed out, its a charged term when it comes to Ukraine so its worth mentioning to people that use it accidentally.

New comment by bootsmann in "US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike"

bootsmann — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:02:59 +0000

It’s Ukraine, no “the”.

New comment by bootsmann in "US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike"

bootsmann — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:01:48 +0000

Oil markets are global, you cannot hike prices for China while enjoying cheap oil yourself.

New comment by bootsmann in "US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike"

bootsmann — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:50:55 +0000

Noone could’ve seen this coming, how were they supposed to know that the strait of hormuz is so important!

New comment by bootsmann in "How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform"

bootsmann — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:35:02 +0000

Idk how big your team is of course but imo try to hire a technical writer (they’re really cheap now), it pays dividends for a long time as consistent style and keywords build up SEO reputation. This article is making the rounds, some bigger papers picked it up, it is very valuable to land it well.

New comment by bootsmann in "Amazon holds engineering meeting following AI-related outages"

bootsmann — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:16:35 +0000

This wouldn't happen if they used my CLAUDE.md of course!

New comment by bootsmann in "Ask HN: Would you use a job board where every listing is verified?"

bootsmann — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:59:22 +0000

Imo it might be worthwhile creating a job board that solves the “company-side” issue with the current recruitment process where 200 people will spam AI generated slop CV to every post that opens up. Some kind of account coupled with a ratelimit and you should already deliver some value to people recruiting.

New comment by bootsmann in "UUID package coming to Go standard library"

bootsmann — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:45:16 +0000

Really? Doesn’t v4 locally make the inserts into the B-Tree pretty messy? I was taught to use v7 because it allows writes to be a lot faster due to memory efficient paging by the kernel (something you lose with v4 because the page of a subsequent write is entirely random).

New comment by bootsmann in "A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines"

bootsmann — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 08:43:36 +0000

Holy hell you’re right, scrolling through the post history of this “person” is crazy wtf.

New comment by bootsmann in "What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state"

bootsmann — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:48:02 +0000

This is why we moved a lot of our concurrent python project to golang. There were a couple of cases where some engineer built the system by implicitly relying on the assumption that some coroutine would run blocking until a certain point was reached (avoiding a potential data race) that was then later broken by another change. At least in go we know we cannot rely on this so the concurrency safety has to be considered at all times, leading to better code.

New comment by bootsmann in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

bootsmann — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:48:50 +0000

> is the friction with all the alternatives you mention in getting something working

Have you tried to run openclaw? Their own docker container (apparently a compose now (???)) doesn't work for half the versions and the docs are probably the least informative thing you'll ever read.

New comment by bootsmann in "The whole thing was a scam"

bootsmann — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:18:54 +0000

This has already happened, its a key reason why the dollar is down 15% since the new admin took power.