Hacker News: chuckadams

New comment by chuckadams in "NIST gives up enriching most CVEs"

chuckadams — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:34:56 +0000

https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductDetails?sku=2782&cclcl=en...

Who doesn't love a jar of Industrial Sludge?

New comment by chuckadams in "Show HN: PanicLock – Close your MacBook lid disable TouchID –> password unlock"

chuckadams — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:07:42 +0000

Bringing up the shutdown screen (hold lock and either volume button) will also do it.

New comment by chuckadams in "PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations"

chuckadams — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:30:23 +0000

Or FrankenPHP, or hell, there's still even good old Apache. Or avoid the SAPI interface entirely with servers in PHP like Workerman, AMPHP, or Swoole. FPM is entirely too fussy for me to bother with: its error handling is atrocious (restarting in an infinite loop with no backoff is common), and no one really knows how to tune it.

New comment by chuckadams in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

chuckadams — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:59:03 +0000

Three decades of deflation will do that. That ended a few years ago, but there's clearly lingering effects.

New comment by chuckadams in "Do you even need a database?"

chuckadams — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:06:10 +0000

Transactions are one thing I want the most, and that's not going to happen on S3. Sure, I can reinvent them by hand, but the point is I want that baked in.

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

chuckadams — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:28:00 +0000

Got me an Osprey ~12 years ago. Light as a feather, tough as nails. But it's not the kind of thing you can just sling over your shoulder like my old North Face bag (which was stolen). But yeah, the moral of the story is, as always, "If you want durable, don't buy it from Wal-Mart" (or Target, or Kohls, or Amazon)

New comment by chuckadams in "Do you even need a database?"

chuckadams — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:40:11 +0000

I need a filesystem that does some database things. We got teased with that with WinFS and Beos's BFS, but it seems the football always gets yanked away, and the mainstream of filesystems always reverts back to the APIs established in the 1980s.

New comment by chuckadams in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

chuckadams — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 20:14:44 +0000

I don't think it's sad to admit that we may never know the answer. I'd like to be surprised, but the laws of physics make it pretty unlikely. Besides, maybe the other species are worse than us.

New comment by chuckadams in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

chuckadams — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:06:38 +0000

That's like telling a punk to use a proper sewing machine for their jacket patches.

New comment by chuckadams in "Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons"

chuckadams — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:41:09 +0000

House rules are part of the appeal of the game. RPGs are supposed to be something that you make your own, to whatever degree you want. D&D did have some really incoherent rules that accreted over time though... I grew up with AD&D (the gold book), and I don't think anyone ever used all the rules from that.

New comment by chuckadams in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

chuckadams — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:10:51 +0000

> I know everything is vibeslopped nowadays, but how does one even end up shipping something like this?

The first part of your question answers the second. No one is left who cares. People are going to have to vote with their feet before that changes.

New comment by chuckadams in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

chuckadams — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:07:22 +0000

The YouTube app does the exact same thing on Android. I ran into this just yesterday on my gf's phone, as I'd just added her to my family plan, tried to verify the settings on her phone, and it trapped me on an upsell screen for YT Premium that I had to kill the app to get out of.

New comment by chuckadams in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

chuckadams — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:54:50 +0000

But I don't like Copilot!

New comment by chuckadams in "No One at Waffle House Remembers FEMA Official Who Says He Teleported In"

chuckadams — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:23:07 +0000

Had he just come from John Malkovich's head?

New comment by chuckadams in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

chuckadams — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:03:28 +0000

Apple got out of the server game long before they adopted aarch64, so that's a trillion worth of server hardware they never would have sold anyway. And probably not actually a trillion.

New comment by chuckadams in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

chuckadams — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:17:38 +0000

When it comes to a governing board that's interested in all the intimate details of an office software suite, I strongly suspect you're not going to find anyone under 30.

New comment by chuckadams in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

chuckadams — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:44:40 +0000

Possibly they don't want corporations on the board that are actively sandbagging an initiative that competes with that corporation's products. But much like the RubyGems fiasco, all the decisions seem very opaque, so I can't say whether that's actually the case.

New comment by chuckadams in "Delve allegedly forked an open-source tool and sold it as its own"

chuckadams — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:04:15 +0000

In the long list of Delve's misdeeds, this is probably the least of them.

New comment by chuckadams in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

chuckadams — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:21:36 +0000

ICANN doesn't do that, individual registrars do. ICANN can suspend a registrar's accreditation if they don't act on spam/scam domains brought to their attention, which is something they do at the dizzying frequency of never.

New comment by chuckadams in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

chuckadams — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:09:39 +0000

WPE never forked a thing. They were a successful company after he backed out of an investment with them, he resented the success, blackmailed them for 8% of their top-line revenue, then threw a tantrum when they told him to pound sand.