Hacker News: bstsb

New comment by bstsb in "Find Chicago Parking Cops"

bstsb — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:06:22 +0000

seems like a very similar idea to a site made by walzr, previously posted to HN. i’ll find the link somewhere

New comment by bstsb in "Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript"

bstsb — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:50:45 +0000

for me on chrome (stable), all that’s needed to install my own extensions is enable Developer Mode in chrome://extensions, then load an unpacked folder as an extension

New comment by bstsb in "Ask HN: Crooked Timber showed showed me a virus captcha, What now?"

bstsb — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:29:24 +0000

this is wildly complex, way more so than a traditional ClickFix attack. it's fetching JS scripts from a Ethereum/Base contract and executing them - i've never seen something like this before

New comment by bstsb in "Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped"

bstsb — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:25:25 +0000

> Google search is on the way out. I don't know any of my peers who use it anymore.

bear in mind we're on Hacker News. Google's market share is still above 90% - in almost any other market this would be a ridiculous monopoly.

New comment by bstsb in "Minecraft Java raises recommended memory to 16GB ahead of Vulkan transition"

bstsb — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:45:08 +0000

don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, they gave legacy users literal years to migrate

New comment by bstsb in "Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents"

bstsb — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:01:37 +0000

+1 on infisical. brilliant self-hosted offering, i love their CLI and it works well with CI pipelines

New comment by bstsb in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

bstsb — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:19:06 +0000

different people work in different ways. just because you hate it doesn't mean it won't be helpful for others.

also if you're buying used books, expect them to be used!

New comment by bstsb in "Apple Private Cloud Compute SoC 3 audit reports"

bstsb — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:30:50 +0000

the page keeps 301ing to the home page for me - could be a region issue

https://archive.ph/JYC9B

New comment by bstsb in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

bstsb — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:15:54 +0000

then every casual user would switch instantly to Gemini, or the most convenient alternative

New comment by bstsb in "Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown"

bstsb — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:29:22 +0000

> The default applies only to version updates. Security updates still open immediately, so critical fixes are never delayed.

does this require a real vulnerability report, or CVE? if the package is compromised would they just be able to push a false "critical update" that bypasses this wait?

New comment by bstsb in "Show HN: YouTube Guitar Tab Parser"

bstsb — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:27:57 +0000

as far as i remember only the Pro tabs are paywalled (the ones created professionally)? the community tabs are all freely available on web, and carry little restrictions on mobile

New comment by bstsb in "GPT‑Live"

bstsb — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:20:54 +0000

people have been mistaking AI conversations with reality since the very first text-based models came into the public view with ChatGPT. i'm sure with each incremental improvement to outputs like this, though, more people will get convinced of its "humanity"

(see https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/)

New comment by bstsb in "Better Auth is joining Vercel"

bstsb — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:00:13 +0000

can Vercel give any assurance that they won’t add a reliance on their closed-source cloud offering for the package? especially given their ownership of next-auth too

i really loved better-auth’s DX but the nature of their database adapters means it’s relatively easy to switch over to another provider/library

New comment by bstsb in "Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC"

bstsb — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:44:57 +0000

i think the point is that one actually burns disk space, while the other is just a nuisance for people on plans with limited data

New comment by bstsb in "Hi, I am a 10 years old kid and made a Cool app"

bstsb — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:37:29 +0000

i remember making my first HTML app when i was your age - my teacher let me use the computers after i finished my work, and i used JSFiddle to learn the fundamentals. if it weren't for the supportive adults around me i would never have got into the field of computing today!

good luck with making more projects :)

New comment by bstsb in "Meta is adding rate limits and soft paywall to smart glasses"

bstsb — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:20:10 +0000

i think honestly it’s the opposite. it still confuses me why meta invested so much in their pointless experiments (think any of their AR ventures) when their main source of revenue was, and continues to be, their boring advertising on consumer apps

New comment by bstsb in "Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack"

bstsb — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:57:06 +0000

wow, this is actually a really impressive attack - a far cry from the obfuscated postinstall hooks seen a million times before.

the only real long-term solution to node-based attacks like this is to run any remote code in a container, or even a VM?

New comment by bstsb in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

bstsb — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:30:20 +0000

> […] the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.

completely unsurprised, given the state of online papers publishing. if you don’t have an subscription or aren’t an organisation member, the fees are insane

New comment by bstsb in "Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them"

bstsb — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:12:26 +0000

the actual base64 email itself is an HTML document, with a bunch of filler text about metal magnets!

> Hi there, A magnetic domain is a region within a magnetic material in which the magnetization is in a uniform direction. This means that the individual magnetic moments of the atoms are aligned with one another and they point in the same direction [...]

they sign off the email with a zero-width space set to "font-size: 0" for some reason

New comment by bstsb in "Pact: Anonymous Credentials for the Web"

bstsb — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:19:31 +0000

interesting - this looks quite promising. anything that reduces captchas or client blocks while using a VPN is welcome in my books.

i’m not sure what they mean about agents, however. would this mean a human generates legitimate traffic, and that goodwill can then be utilised by a browser agent? and will it be possible to host your own Moderator?