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New comment by camkego in "Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see"

camkego — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:36:16 +0000

This. This is why everyone who wants to fingerprint and collect tons of data on end users pushes them hard on installing an app. The amount of valuable data is 10x what’s available in the browser

New comment by camkego in "Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux"

camkego — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:33:13 +0000

Pin threads to cores, and make sure threads different cores aren’t writing to the same 64 or 128 byte block. Lookup “false sharing”

New comment by camkego in "Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code"

camkego — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:19:38 +0000

Maybe I am cynical, but I read this as "We were not able to meet our deadline of making you pay API rates for -p and the Agent SDK, but it's coming. We will let you know"

If I've got it all wrong, please let me know.

New comment by camkego in "Asciline – real-time ASCII video rendering engine"

camkego — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:06:04 +0000

They are certainly playing loose with the truth: README says "Standard codecs (H.264/VP9) require dedicated hardware decoders"

New comment by camkego in "LLMs Will Replace 8-Track Duplication Engineers"

camkego — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:52:25 +0000

Thanks to this article, I learned that the 70's Sticky Finger jeans brand were named after a Rolling Stones album. Don't know how I missed that all this time.

New comment by camkego in "Claude Corps"

camkego — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 04:18:18 +0000

Well, according to Sonnet, the term "staging" refers to assembling troops and equipment at an intermediate location before moving forward into an operation.

I really didn't know, but was curious, so I used an LLM to research it.

New comment by camkego in "Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock"

camkego — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:33:42 +0000

The article contains the passage below twice. I mean how does that happen? No proofreading? Cut and paste editing. I am always surprised when I see this in professional new sources.

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That the amendment died quietly does not erase what its introduction signals: opposition to police LPR programs is reaching higher levels of the political agenda, and Flock is increasingly at the center of it.

New comment by camkego in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

camkego — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:59:11 +0000

Maybe I am wrong about this, but I think Zed will run the npm stuff on the dev-container if you are using dev-containers. That can be your isolated virtual machine image or docker instances. But I believe you do need to use Zed (stdio or ssh) dev containers to get that security isolation. I know it’s a pain, but for me, I am going to pay the logistics price for security until a better solution comes along.

New comment by camkego in "No way to parse integers in C (2022)"

camkego — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:37:50 +0000

This would be kind of a fun challenge. If you are handling random numbers, well you are limited by disk or memory size. But if the numbers are compressible ala LZ77 or Gzip, then there are ways to use the value’s compression trees to sum the numbers from the least significant digits using the LZ77 style compressed value tree representation. If you go that route, and the numbers are compressible (not random) then the question is whether the compressed input and output trees fit in memory or disk.

New comment by camkego in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

camkego — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:51:46 +0000

The security model, or almost lack of any whatsoever in VSCode drove me to only install MSFT extensions, then use Code Server in a docker container, but I decided I didn’t like using my editor in a browser.

Finally I have decided to start using Zed, which isn’t perfect on the security front, but much better IMHO. The combination of WASM extensions, and the ability to put language servers, etc, in dev-containers seems like a great step forward.

I hope Zed continues to improve their extension and language server security model. Actually I hope VSCode does too, but honestly, I am not optimistic.

New comment by camkego in "AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]"

camkego — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:46:05 +0000

Supposedly, in 1990, there was somewhere between 132,000 and 270,000 travel agents. Consider that.

New comment by camkego in "Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators"

camkego — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:05:04 +0000

It would be fascinating to know where the remote drivers were located that were remotely controlling these vehicles. Wasn’t there a big hubbub about using remote staff in the Philippines a while ago? This can change the reliability profile quite a bit. (Internet quality)

New comment by camkego in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

camkego — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:09:07 +0000

If you look at the start of that episode, there is another crazy thing in there, a device which allows you to "see" the bits on a credit card track.

Apparently something called "magnetic viewing film" can allow you to see the bits on the magnetic stripes of credit cards.

I had never heard about this before.

Link to video time: https://archive.org/details/bbc-connections-1978/Connections...

New comment by camkego in "Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function"

camkego — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:19:46 +0000

Why? Because of LLM vibe coding?

New comment by camkego in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"

camkego — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:38:42 +0000

The way I read the Anthropic docs, it seems the term plan is to block the usage of OAuth credentials with the "Claude Agent SDK".

This URL: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview

Says this: "Unless previously approved, Anthropic does not allow third party developers to offer claude.ai login or rate limits for their products, including agents built on the Claude Agent SDK. Please use the API key authentication methods described in this document instead."

Again, it seems Anthropic prefers to bill API token rates (long run), not subscriber effective token rates.

New comment by camkego in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"

camkego — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:31:31 +0000

It seems clear that Anthropic wants users pay API rates for tokens when use in a programatic way, and not subscriber rates for tokens when used from code. As a user, I want to pay the subscription rates with -p, but it seems they want to block that.

New comment by camkego in "San Francisco Solved Metro Vandalism with One Neat Trick"

camkego — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:56:51 +0000

I don't claim to understand the factors which cause this, but a lack of security and exposed valuables at unlocked-doors, pre-opening mall in Shenzhen China without issues at 8am in the morning is very curious.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TZMXdR5fDrw

It seems pretty foreign to me, a PNW US citizen.

New comment by camkego in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

camkego — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:27:47 +0000

I totally buy this as someone located in the US, but what is everybody else using? It can’t be WhatsApp? Is everyone sending all their connection graphdata to Meta?

Paris redesigned itself to be a city of bikes–not cars

camkego — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:29:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/91509506/how-paris-redesigned-itself-to-be-a-city-of-bikes-not-cars

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597558

Points: 5

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New comment by camkego in "Show HN: Crust – A CLI framework for TypeScript and Bun"

camkego — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:23:57 +0000

This looks useful. But, it's interesting how the backend-world and front-end world keep diverging. I must admit, I had no idea what this was from the title. "CLI framework"? But in backend-land, these would typically be called "argument parsers" or "command line argument parsers". But maybe I am missing some of the functionality.