Hacker News: brainzap

New comment by brainzap in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

brainzap — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:10:35 +0000

spotify should do this

New comment by brainzap in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

brainzap — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:52:58 +0000

my book was one by Terry Real. The excersise to find love for myself was life changing

New comment by brainzap in "Splinter Cell veteran says realistic modern lighting has screwed up stealth game"

brainzap — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:55:35 +0000

a new james bond game was just released, which is based on the hitman stealth style

New comment by brainzap in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

brainzap — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:09:37 +0000

I was there when entertainment became available. 1 or 2 kids dissapeared inside, watching or playing on the new PS1/N64. Slowly more and more got PCs. Playing online.

New comment by brainzap in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

brainzap — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:26:08 +0000

thats cool, I have the problem alot because I switch languages multiple times per day

New comment by brainzap in "GitHub RCE Vulnerability: CVE-2026-3854 Breakdown"

brainzap — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:43:51 +0000

it is too noisy, we just run a custom pipeline which scans with osv-scanner/trivy for critical

New comment by brainzap in "Your Backpack Got Worse on Purpose"

brainzap — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:08:24 +0000

its the normal cycle of sports gear

New comment by brainzap in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

brainzap — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:51:26 +0000

Actually pretty good. I wish it would not minimize applications when switching. (a sick workaround would be to hide single window applications)

New comment by brainzap in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

brainzap — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:37:54 +0000

does wifi work yet? last year it didnt for me

New comment by brainzap in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

brainzap — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:51:11 +0000

extensions create so many bug reports, I would do the same

New comment by brainzap in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

brainzap — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:54:52 +0000

apple SDK already can return underage/adult

New comment by brainzap in "Python Type Checker Comparison: Empty Container Inference"

brainzap — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:56:06 +0000

In early typescript I was too lazy and just set an inital value and then zero the list

New comment by brainzap in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

brainzap — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:53:45 +0000

the AI datacenter built for 180B are used for surveillance and control

New comment by brainzap in "Open Source Endowment – new funding source for open source maintainers"

brainzap — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:10:21 +0000

lets try something new

New comment by brainzap in "How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013)"

brainzap — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:37:00 +0000

you can observe Microsoft Gaming fall apart over the next 12 month.

New comment by brainzap in "Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware"

brainzap — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:50:01 +0000

I am shocked to hear that over these years it was possibl to extract data from a locked iphone. (hardening mode off)

I trusted apple.

New comment by brainzap in "Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?"

brainzap — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:54:27 +0000

I think its cool, so I can who is in the office for lunch.

Currently I manually check device IPs.

New comment by brainzap in "I rebooted my social life"

brainzap — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:48:37 +0000

friendships are strengthed by shared hard and painful experiences. online friendships just don't feel the same

New comment by brainzap in "Linux is good now"

brainzap — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:04:48 +0000

When I got a steamdeck I open excel and started playtesting a few games, to many bugs, so I sold it

New comment by brainzap in "UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating"

brainzap — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:43:55 +0000

sadly cheating software can be found on github, easy to install. for example https://github.com/sohzm/cheating-daddy