Hacker News: commandlinefan

New comment by commandlinefan in "Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates"

commandlinefan — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:55:19 +0000

It seems like we've all just... given up on certificate revocation? CRLs and OCSP were designed for exactly this sort of thing, but they both seen to have been abandoned as unworkable with no replacement.

New comment by commandlinefan in "I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27"

commandlinefan — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:06:36 +0000

Right - the only way we'll ever get a truly uncensored internet is if it's actually impossible to censor rather than some "gentlemen's agreement" that we'll censor this stuff for the Greater Good but not this other stuff.

New comment by commandlinefan in "I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27"

commandlinefan — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:05:22 +0000

That's the definition of censorship, so yes.

New comment by commandlinefan in "Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name"

commandlinefan — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:02:50 +0000

From what I can tell, the best she can possibly hope for is to be set free after a few hundred thousand dollars in legal fees. I see this as a consequence of increasingly out of control automation.

New comment by commandlinefan in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

commandlinefan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:50:50 +0000

Has she openly opposed Trump? I don't recognize the name, and the linked article is pretty vague.

New comment by commandlinefan in "Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason"

commandlinefan — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:18:43 +0000

But neither do the vast majority of humans.

New comment by commandlinefan in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

commandlinefan — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:57:51 +0000

But the horses themselves got the better end of the deal - they spend all their time in the field eating hay rather than pulling carts.

New comment by commandlinefan in "Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated"

commandlinefan — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:10:47 +0000

I can't quite tell from the linked article - are the accusers themselves anonymous here? I'm not sure there's anybody to actually pursue.

New comment by commandlinefan in "Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated"

commandlinefan — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:52:56 +0000

> not a primary part of the conversation for accusations of other crimes like arson, theft, embezzlement

I've never heard of anybody's life being ruined over an accusation of arson that was dropped for lack of evidence (or even later proven to be false). As long as the consequences of the accusation are greater, the scrutiny will be, too.

New comment by commandlinefan in "Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening"

commandlinefan — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:17:51 +0000

And if you want to use the (safety oriented!) CarPlay functionality, you HAVE to enable Siri, even if you'd rather not have the damned thing listening to you all the time.

New comment by commandlinefan in "Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue"

commandlinefan — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:29:25 +0000

Is this a problem with Claude updating code that a human wrote, though? Would Claude do better on code that it started on its own? Humans have a bad tendency to write unmaintainable code (usually at the behest of managers breathing down their necks to HURRY UP even when it doesn't matter). If the code had been designed with good coding practices from the beginning, I wonder if Claude would have struggled so much with it.

New comment by commandlinefan in "The Twelve-Factor App (2025)"

commandlinefan — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:41:33 +0000

Is it devs that haven't internalized this? Or management? Because I'd love to do this, but I always report to people who demand that everything be done in "a few days".

New comment by commandlinefan in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

commandlinefan — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:51:22 +0000

I live in an HOA. The only place they post information (like when trash pickup schedules change) is on Facebook.

New comment by commandlinefan in "AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds"

commandlinefan — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:31:35 +0000

And if they don't, what then? What does a post-job society look like? I'm skeptical of communism, but I'm skeptical because it doesn't work in a society where some people need to do something (like raise crops) but aren't incentivized to do so. But if there's actually nothing humans need to do? The question is, will we reach logical conclusions peacefully or violently?

New comment by commandlinefan in "AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds"

commandlinefan — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:26:53 +0000

I remember when I was in 2nd grade or so (so, around 1982 or so), our teacher read us a passage from a book predicting the future: "and in the future, robots will do all the work so that people don't have to!" Even at 8 years old, I could see the problem with that: who decides who gets to live in the big house at the top of the hill and who has to live where I live?

New comment by commandlinefan in "HTML Can Do That"

commandlinefan — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:32:38 +0000

> often think they're not baseline yet

I'm not an LLM, but that was my immediate thought - how new does a browser have to be to support these and which browsers am I excluding by using these features?

New comment by commandlinefan in "Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation"

commandlinefan — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:03:30 +0000

> from workers to the parasite class

I hope to retire some day - to do that, I'm going to have to save up enough money in a brokerage account that it generates enough money for me to live off of. Will that make me a member of the parasite class? I'm willing to be a worker for as long as I can, but at some point I will be too physically old to keep doing it (plus which, nobody really wants to hire old people).

New comment by commandlinefan in "Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory"

commandlinefan — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:58:19 +0000

Nearly a quarter of it is checking for necessary prerequisites, too.

New comment by commandlinefan in "Delivery workers made $104M more in tips after NYC began enforcing new law"

commandlinefan — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:31:18 +0000

Bonus points for tip after the order _is_ the norm in every other context, like in restaurants where it actually makes sense.

New comment by commandlinefan in "Software development with AI is starting to feel like cooking steak"

commandlinefan — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:37:10 +0000

Yeah really, cooking steak well is hard as hell. I sure haven't mastered it yet.