Hacker News: cbxyp

New comment by cbxyp in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

cbxyp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:14:41 +0000

This is a ridiculous argument "zero chance" that completely discounts the possibility (or in all likelyhood, probability) that the creator may be compelled to stay silent, in jail, etc.

New comment by cbxyp in "Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work"

cbxyp — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:24:59 +0000

Nice and innovative which I love to see on an IDE feature, innovation. Boom.

New comment by cbxyp in "SQLook – A free online SQLite database manager with a Windows 2000 interface"

cbxyp — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 01:47:56 +0000

Strange how people are always so negative. Always with the nitpicking. Functionally of course 90s style UX and desktop productivity has always been far higher. Palantir's blueprint UI doesn't even specifically target mobile.

New comment by cbxyp in "LINQPad 8 for macOS"

cbxyp — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:41:51 +0000

Very excited to check this out. Linqpad has always been a preferred scripting tool of mine.

New comment by cbxyp in "After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant off shelves"

cbxyp — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 06:28:32 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex_folliculorum is also highly responsive to oral ivermectin. Which makes it very good for treating rosacea. https://www.jaadcasereports.org/article/S2352-5126%2824%2900...

I also suspect that the much maligned "fish tank cleaner" hydroxychloroquine remains effective-as-ever for many issues, which "more targeted" in-patent drugs are on the market for.

New comment by cbxyp in "After decades, FDA moves to pull ineffective decongestant off shelves"

cbxyp — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 04:42:02 +0000

Better to have taken it when (and if) you knew you were exposed. It was always considered to be a prophylactic more so than a treatment. And in that capacity it did seem to work for me. (Having never tested positive for COVID, despite numerous tests, numerous exposures and no shots)

New comment by cbxyp in "Automat"

cbxyp — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 02:53:51 +0000

Reminds me a little bit of widget workshop from the 90s

New comment by cbxyp in "Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?"

cbxyp — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:45:33 +0000

Having the assets made in house for IT is only going to grow the value of your company. The software ends up being worth more than the sales of the business. t. former logistics company partner, sold to vanguard for IPI shipment rating software alone.

New comment by cbxyp in "A personal music streaming server that works"

cbxyp — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 09:28:40 +0000

Koel is an awesome product and a great base for any music streaming app or home media server. I see people complaining about the app "costing" as much as a cup of coffee at Starbucks (it can be easily compiled freely yourself https://github.com/koel/player) or how it stacks up to Jellyfin which has a very lackluster interface for music files. Koel does a great job replicating the functionality of Spotify or iTunes with your music library. It is well written, easily customizable and extensible. Nothing even comes close to Koel when it comes to the self-hosted music server category in terms of UX. It may lack some features of Ampache but it's certainly preferable to use when compared to that solution. Music players aren't extremely complicated a ground-up rebuild in this area often makes sense.

New comment by cbxyp in "Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts"

cbxyp — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 18:54:00 +0000

Nixon confirmed not a Crook! "When a president does it, it's not illegal" - Richard Nixon (1979)

New comment by cbxyp in "Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code"

cbxyp — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:42:58 +0000

because the tooling for VS code extensions to be part of the VS code UI is lackluster. It shoehorns people and prevents the development of something like a fully integrated SQL workbench. Or a form editor. Or reusable property panes, editor widget UI. If vscode had those things, it would be a proper IDE. Take for example this outline view: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eclipse-theia/theia/master... - not something that would be easy to integrate into VS code as an extension. Very nice work. Why VS code doesn't have it is probably related to cannibalizing other MS products.

New comment by cbxyp in "Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code"

cbxyp — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:25:18 +0000

Used this a few years ago in early stages before VS code remote was a thing. It's very useful to add some interface extensibility components into VS Code's framework. I suspect microsoft made some intentional design decision to make this harder to do in VS code's apis, totally eschewing any real editor extensibility in favor of a "apps in the editor, not extending the editor" design vs Atom's much more open ended allowance for modifications. For example, if you wanted to make a form builder in VS code for VS code extensions - that would not be usable outside of the Webview tab functionality without modifying the editor source. Glad eclipse foundation recognized this and is providing some groundwork to make a real IDE out of VS code. Theia was also the first to provide support for running vscode-as-a-platform and run via web browser, at least support that was functional and working.

New comment by cbxyp in "So you want to build a browser engine"

cbxyp — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 23:45:24 +0000

interesting how oldpersonintx's comment "thinly-veiled passive-aggressive swipe at Ladybird" was dead'd here when that accurately reflects the authors comments (as roc-robert o'callahan) here on LWN.net: https://lwn.net/Articles/977625/

New comment by cbxyp in "Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash"

cbxyp — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 11:12:56 +0000

God blessed him to be able to die doing what he loved at the ripe old age of 91. Prayers for his family or foundation to be able to keep the flying heritage museum well maintained in his honor.

New comment by cbxyp in "The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)"

cbxyp — Fri, 10 May 2024 07:26:29 +0000

I guess the most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (referring of course to Signal Desktop's usage of React's __dangerouslySetInnerHTML to render user-supplied messages in a Node.js privileged context) is below the technical authors paygrade. (https://thehackerblog.com/i-too-like-to-live-dangerously-acc...) - CVE-2018-11101

New comment by cbxyp in "Show HN: Convert your Containerfile to a bootable OS"

cbxyp — Wed, 08 May 2024 02:46:03 +0000

And we've come full circle almost.

New comment by cbxyp in "House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure"

cbxyp — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 18:41:09 +0000

Fitting and ironic that it's shoved in with the fund Israel and Ukraine bill. Which is the real reason that the government gives a single shit about controlling TikTok in the first place. (Read what the ADL has posted about TikTok and that point becomes extremely clear, the US government does not give a shit about the safety and security of ITS citizens, only questionable foreign policy)

New comment by cbxyp in "BlackCat ransomware group implodes after apparent payment by Change Healthcare"

cbxyp — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 07:15:46 +0000

You're being naive. Cybercrime and ransoms happened before cryptocurrency was a thing. Criminals do real life criminal things, and that goes especially for intelligence agencies, mobsters and ransomware agencies. If they couldn't sell it for crypto, this data would end up in the hands of such people. Sounds like someone trying to make an argument for shutting down the future of finance, which is far less criminal than the existing system of finance, on the basis of "cybercrimes occur"

No thanks.

New comment by cbxyp in "Ask HN: Why do people care about Satoshi Nakamoto's identity?"

cbxyp — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:58:34 +0000

Craig Wright is a fraud and there are numerous instances where people have caught him directly contradicting the opinions and factual assertions about code Satoshi wrote. Like a patent troll without any patent.

New comment by cbxyp in "Open Letter to Tim Cook, Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible"

cbxyp — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 10:35:12 +0000

The problem for me is that it's yet another thing that allows Apple (and other in the EU soon to be commonly installed app stores) to censor content they don't like. Telegram is forced to censor channels that Apple/Google don't like. There are no porn apps on the app store. No gab.com apps anywhere (there was a massive effort to censor them up to and including banning Mastodon clients when they produced a compatible Mastodon instance) The effects on political censorship are heavy.