Hacker News: combyn8tor

New comment by combyn8tor in "Cloudflare Drop"

combyn8tor — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:44:42 +0000

Well according to the people in this thread it was previously impossible for bad actors to host a website, and CloudFlare has now given them this unique ability.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants"

combyn8tor — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:04:54 +0000

People don't want to live in a mansion when it's on fire.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Iroh 1.0"

combyn8tor — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:48:44 +0000

> VPNs do not allow you to connect two devices directly, they have to go through the VPN

Not true. Depends on the VPN protocol.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

combyn8tor — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:40:54 +0000

Rust kernel development.

New comment by combyn8tor in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

combyn8tor — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:06:26 +0000

I think that holds true for any industry where the consequences of failure are no more than loss of money.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

combyn8tor — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:54:45 +0000

> risk appetite, motivation, grit, and patience.

This is the moat. It was before AI and still is.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Thoughts on People and Blogs"

combyn8tor — Fri, 22 May 2026 01:15:10 +0000

Maybe I'm missing something, but it appears he is irritated that people aren't giving him their time? Why does he have that expectation?

New comment by combyn8tor in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

combyn8tor — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:08:44 +0000

Go and Rust is not really a type of work though. What tasks are you throwing at them?

New comment by combyn8tor in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

combyn8tor — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:06:44 +0000

Same experience for me. I think people need to start providing context for the type of work they're doing when repeating the local model hype. Maybe they're working with a cookie cutter React app and it does the job fine.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Zed 1.0"

combyn8tor — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:34:22 +0000

They seem to have stopped developing GPUI (or maybe just the public version)?

One of the staff forked it into a community edition https://github.com/gpui-ce/gpui-ce

Does anyone have more details about the state of it?

New comment by combyn8tor in "Year of the IPv6 Overlay Network"

combyn8tor — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:49:36 +0000

What is a wsl mirrored network?

New comment by combyn8tor in "Claude Code Routines"

combyn8tor — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:54:06 +0000

In my experience Opus and Claude have declined significantly over the past few weeks. It actually feels like dealing with an employee that has become bored and intentionally cuts corners.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

combyn8tor — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:18:49 +0000

I had to check the date on my phone as I was sure it was an April fools joke. After the absolute onslaught of negative feedback and the new term "Microslop", they put out an article saying you can now adjust the position of the taskbar. Unreal.

New comment by combyn8tor in "The wild six weeks for NanoClaw's creator that led to a deal with Docker"

combyn8tor — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:45:15 +0000

"In researching a hiccup with performance, he stumbled across a file where the OpenClaw agent had downloaded all of his WhatsApp messages and stored them in plain, unencrypted text on his computer. Not just the work-related messages it was given explicit access to, but all of them, his personal messages too."

Now the agent can do the same thing, but it's in a container and it's doing it with a Rust binary, so you know it's safe. /s

Edit: It's not Rust.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

combyn8tor — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:10:39 +0000

The process is called "webview2" on windows. From memory my Tauri app process is about 6mb memory and the webview2 is about 100mb.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

combyn8tor — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:34:04 +0000

> I don’t see how the average engineer has the energy or motivation to even understand these tools, never mind meaningfully compare them

This is why I use the copilot extension in VS code. They seem to just copy whatever useful thing climbs to the surface of the AI tool slop pile. Last week I loaded up and Opus 4.6 was there ready to use. Yesterday I found it has a new Claude tool built in which I used to do some refactoring... it worked fine. It's like having an AI tool curator.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does"

combyn8tor — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:49:52 +0000

How do you accept crypto payments? Is there a Stripe style service that provides an API and/or payment portal? Id like to implement something for my SaaS but generally can't be bothered with crypto.

New comment by combyn8tor in "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"

combyn8tor — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:09:50 +0000

I have three OS installs. Windows install for games. Another Windows for development (I have to for windows dev). And a Ubuntu install for anything not games/work. The windows drives use bitlocker and they can't access each other's files. It's not perfect.

Although with the amount of crap I have to install for windows development I'm starting to wonder if a base VM image that is used as a start point for each project would be cleaner.

New comment by combyn8tor in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

combyn8tor — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:20:05 +0000

Curious how you manage licensing?

New comment by combyn8tor in "Hard Rust requirements from May onward"

combyn8tor — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 21:46:21 +0000

Wow that was an interesting read. I find it amusing that nobody seems to really know who he is or what his motives are, yet his code is run on millions of machines every day.