Hacker News: bstsb

New comment by bstsb in "Claude for Small Business"

bstsb — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:03:34 +0000

while there are some tools available for the web UI, like building small React apps or making diagrams, it doesn't have the same loop as Claude Code in terms of iteratively building or fixing

New comment by bstsb in "eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible"

bstsb — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:27:41 +0000

alternate link: https://archive.ph/rsC6e

New comment by bstsb in "Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years"

bstsb — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:34:12 +0000

it’s a fake Cloudflare interstitial, actually using reCAPTCHA. seems like the owner has some sort of vendetta against Cloudflare after the DNS stuff

New comment by bstsb in "Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years"

bstsb — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:31:03 +0000

i would agree if it weren’t for his presence on live TV! at that point it seems too awkward and late to mention something

New comment by bstsb in "Let’s Encrypt – Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident"

bstsb — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:09:33 +0000

in other news, Digicert's Secure Site Pro certificates are down to only $5,880.00 yearly for one wildcard domain!

New comment by bstsb in "Utilyze measures how efficiently your GPU is doing useful work"

bstsb — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:35:27 +0000

i hate this method of installation:

  iex (curl.exe -L https[://]systalyze.com/utilyze/install.ps1 | Out-String)

it gives you absolutely no insight into what you’re about to run - even worse when the README instructs you to disable Defender on the install directory!

New comment by bstsb in "Do_not_track"

bstsb — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:14:16 +0000

the original creator calls everyone implementing their standard a “scumbag” for having any form of analytics, which seems a bit of an overreaction

New comment by bstsb in "Do_not_track"

bstsb — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:47:27 +0000

i can't think of a single CLI that is possibly collecting analytics for ads

New comment by bstsb in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

bstsb — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:45:28 +0000

> CLI builds were affected [...]

> Bitwarden’s Chrome extension, MCP server, and other legitimate distributions have not been affected yet.

New comment by bstsb in "Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns"

bstsb — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:54:00 +0000

yeah lots of these are used by AI because they're good. i use Space Grotesk for headings on my current project, rotheme, with Instrument Sans in the body, and my link shortener project uses Geist.

maybe i'm an LLM too

New comment by bstsb in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

bstsb — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:15:13 +0000

this won't actually change anything right?

> the operators of the site remain unidentified. The judgment [...] orders Anna’s Archive to file a compliance report within ten business days, under penalty of perjury, that includes valid contact information for the site and its managing agents

New comment by bstsb in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

bstsb — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:53:49 +0000

if you can’t access the page through region blocks:

https://archive.ph/I5cAE

New comment by bstsb in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

bstsb — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:36:21 +0000

then you have the bot picking Xbox-esque usernames like BluePanda72 instead

New comment by bstsb in "4D Doom"

bstsb — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:16:37 +0000

this is visually interesting, but crucially it's also actually fun to play.

i managed to kill three enemies before succumbing to my fate

New comment by bstsb in "Android Developer Verification"

bstsb — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:20:02 +0000

from https://9to5google.com/2026/03/30/android-developer-verifier... -

> Starting in April, Android Developer Verifier will be installed on devices.

so they're rolling out a system app that will call home to check whether any sideloaded apps have been "verified" with the developer's government ID? and this process will happen regardless of whether the user has enabled the "advanced flow" in Developer settings?

New comment by bstsb in "purl: a curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment"

bstsb — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:59:46 +0000

i don't love the HTML response for "payment required" endpoints, not least because it just asks the agent to install an arbitrary NPM package for "full wallet connection and payment UI". seems so easy to exploit maliciously - what's to distinguish genuine payment instructions with crypto stealers

New comment by bstsb in "Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM"

bstsb — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:14:40 +0000

looking good! getting red/inverted video flashes on Firefox, M4 Pro. could be an issue with canvas anti-fingerprinting though, not sure its root cause

Vercel will now use code from Hobby plans for AI training by default

bstsb — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:04:39 +0000

Article URL: https://vercel.com/changelog/updates-to-terms-of-service-march-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446057

Points: 1

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New comment by bstsb in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

bstsb — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:27:21 +0000

what’s the license? “do whatever the fuck you want with the data as long as you don’t get caught”? or does that only work for massive corporations

New comment by bstsb in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

bstsb — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:27:09 +0000

excellent story, it was both interesting and mildly terrifying. to think that one day software could be malleable seems so wrong to me - you would think having deterministic results is important for programming - and yet with "vibe coding" that really seems to be where it's going.