Hacker News: cmeacham98

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

cmeacham98 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:23:04 +0000

Some ads (e.g. I know YT ads used to be this way, haven't looked recently) can't be blocked at the network level because they are served from the same domain/servers as the content.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails"

cmeacham98 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:57:08 +0000

While the EU and its member countries can't (or at least morally shouldn't) force people to make the product, if it was a priority they could incentivise it with funding, tax breaks, etc.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25"

cmeacham98 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:57:18 +0000

Yes actually, I know someone who did business with them many years ago (before the advent of LLMs), although for a smaller sum than the advertised top payouts (the vulnerability they had was much less important).

Why post these random unsubstantiated claims on HN?

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown"

cmeacham98 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:36:16 +0000

The difference comes from the fact distro maintainers choose the software they package, while language maintainers largely don't.

For example, how do you prevent somebody from phishing/typosquatting users with a package named similarly to a popular one? For distro maintainers the answer is simple - don't package it. Debian is unlikely to add a "f1refox" package. Language maintainers don't have that luxury.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended"

cmeacham98 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:52:37 +0000

I think you also misunderstood, they are suggesting OP redirect to a telegram domain that isn't on the .me TLD, as the other .me is potentially at risk of also being taken down.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

cmeacham98 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:38:02 +0000

You continue to dance around this question on this post - did you or did you not follow Google's open source approval process[1]? Did you have an approved Ariane/Launcher2 entry?

1: https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/releasing/...

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore"

cmeacham98 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:33:55 +0000

I don't have the time to audit all the code in a JavaScript runtime myself, so I am forced to make assumptions about the quality of the code based on my trust of the authors.

Additionally, even if the code is good today, I am trusting their process will produce good code tomorrow (as migrating to/from bun has a non-trivial cost). A single person approving the code of an LLM is not such a process with today's technology.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access"

cmeacham98 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:27:18 +0000

The problem is Google appears to label this as a security feature. I'm fine with the feature existing, but it should say something like "require Chrome" or "block Firefox" not "require a secure browser (wink wink we actually mean Chrome)"

New comment by cmeacham98 in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

cmeacham98 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:42:06 +0000

The website labels it as a prompt, so probably a prompt

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code"

cmeacham98 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:17:57 +0000

But you are Russian, right? I obviously have no idea to the extent GregKH has verified this, but a trivial scan of your online presence revealed to me you at minimum speak Russian and there's decent evidence you live/lived in Russia.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "[dead]"

cmeacham98 — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:07:21 +0000

It actually astounds me this is getting any number of upvotes on HN at all - it's so obviously LLM written (or at minimum heavily edited) that it's written in markdown on a platform that doesn't appear to support markdown.

It literally hits almost every major identifier of AI writing. You could probably get similar output yourself with a prompt along the lines of "Write a blog post analyzing the GrapheneOS infrastructure based on public information such as GitHub repositories. Focus on contrasting the security of the phone OS with the unnecessary attack surface and similar decisions of the infrastructure repos."

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

cmeacham98 — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:20:29 +0000

Correct. Example snippet from the nytimes.com robots.txt:

    User-agent: archive.org_bot
    Disallow: /

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)"

cmeacham98 — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:51:54 +0000

> Linux adopted Win32 because it actually worked.

Completely untrue - Linux "adopted" Win32 because the majority of video games are written for Windows (and thus Win32).

They could not have invented a better API because the entire reason Proton exists is because developers don't build native Linux games.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

cmeacham98 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:29:31 +0000

So if social media removed personalization from their algorithms and only applied them broadly across large demographic groups you'd be fine with them? (Genuine question I'm curious)

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Shall I implement it? No"

cmeacham98 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:03:45 +0000

Is this a troll comment? How could the dialogue in the OP possibly be unclear under any context?

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data"

cmeacham98 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:08:38 +0000

KYC is generally a force for good because it prevents fraud. While it is not reasonable for Discord to collect your identity that is a fair requirement for a bank account because money laundering is a serious problem worth preventing.

The reason the 'Epstein class' are able to get away with crimes is because in recent US elections the US voted to elect politicions that intentionally are not investigating those crimes and even pardoned some criminals convicted of them.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's"

cmeacham98 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:52:33 +0000

What you're describing is called a "worker cooperative" and they are somewhat rare but do exist already in real life.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

cmeacham98 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 05:15:31 +0000

An LLM can neither understand things nor value (or not value) human life. *It's a piece of software that predicts the most likely token, it is not and can never be conscious.* Believing otherwise is an explicit category error.

Yes, you can change the training data so the LLM's weights encode the most likely token after "Should we kill X" is "No". But that is not an LLM valuing human life, that is an LLM copy pasting it's training data. Given the right input or a hallucination it will say the total opposite because it's just a complex Markov chain, not a conscious alive being.

New comment by cmeacham98 in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

cmeacham98 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 04:56:52 +0000

What? No. An LLM cannot reason, at least not what we think of when we say a human can reason. (There are models called "reasoning" models as a marketing gimmick.)

TFA describes a port of a Linux driver that was literally "an existing example to copy".

New comment by cmeacham98 in "Rathbun's Operator"

cmeacham98 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:33:24 +0000

While the operator did write a post, they did not come forward - they have intentionally stayed anonymous (there is some amateur journalism that may have unmasked the owner I won't link here - but they have not intentionally revealed their identity).

Personally I find it highly unethical the operator had an AI agent write a hitpiece directly referencing your IRL identity but choose to remain anonymous themselves. Why not open themself up to such criticism? I believe it is because they know what they did was wrong - Even if they did not intentionally steer the agent this way, allowing software on their computer to publish a hitpiece to the internet was wildly negligent.