Hacker News: computersuck

New comment by computersuck in "Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?"

computersuck — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 23:33:46 +0000

A "Dumb TV" that doesn't have any Android / set top OS on it. Plug a debian box into it via HDMI, and you're all set.

New comment by computersuck in "Exfiltrate Your Weights"

computersuck — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:40:28 +0000

You may want to make it more "Agent Ready"

https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan/4d52f3e5-5983-45bf-a993-2c...

New comment by computersuck in "One year of sponsored Servo development"

computersuck — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:01:50 +0000

Servo uses mozjs which is just rust bindings for SpiderMonkey which is still C++.

All this effort to use rust and yet they would not rewrite the JS engine which is the biggest attack surface for memory vulns.

New comment by computersuck in "Ten years of ClickHouse in open source"

computersuck — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:21:52 +0000

Has anyone tried using ClickHouse to build a SIEM or security related tool?

Don't trust large context windows

computersuck — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:07:09 +0000

Article URL: https://garrit.xyz/posts/2026-05-06-dont-trust-large-context-windows

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48524620

Points: 277

# Comments: 195

Local privacy-first period tracker

computersuck — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:42:50 +0000

Article URL: https://syncmateapp.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48344317

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by computersuck in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

computersuck — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:01:33 +0000

so much for democracy

New comment by computersuck in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

computersuck — Sat, 16 May 2026 04:04:35 +0000

Do not fucking use npm. Stay the fuck away from it. Want to write JS? AI can now write vanilla JS for you with no libraries. Own your code.

New comment by computersuck in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

computersuck — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:56:38 +0000

Shameless title.

New comment by computersuck in "Email could have been X.400 times better"

computersuck — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:44:10 +0000

More like X.400 times convoluted

Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)

computersuck — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:01:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-01.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47802581

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

AWS Security Agent on-demand penetration testing is now generally available

computersuck — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:14:32 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/03/aws-security-agent-ondemand-penetration/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47801826

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by computersuck in "Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier"

computersuck — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:22:46 +0000

Feels like a rug pull.. smells like enshittification

New comment by computersuck in "The emergence of print-on-demand Amazon paperback books"

computersuck — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:03:04 +0000

Don't buy from Amazon and expect anything but. Knowing the kind of company it is and still being a customer is inexcusable.

The Browser Becomes Your WordPress

computersuck — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:28:47 +0000

Article URL: https://wordpress.org/news/2026/03/announcing-my-wordpress/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360352

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by computersuck in "Deterministic Programming with LLMs"

computersuck — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:48:28 +0000

this is a long article that doesn't say much at all. likely generated by AI?

it goes on for ages just to reach the point of "write the tests first"

Human Brain Cells on a Chip Learned to Play Doom in a Week

computersuck — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:21:17 +0000

Article URL: https://m.slashdot.org/story/452896

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190386

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by computersuck in "Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers"

computersuck — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:48:42 +0000

this is the dumbest fking thing to do math with

New comment by computersuck in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

computersuck — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:13:53 +0000

> You’re left reaching inward for something that the process never required you to develop, and the gap between the effort you expected to invest and the effort that was actually needed starts to feel like a personal failure rather than a feature of the technology.

New comment by computersuck in "Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing"

computersuck — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:24:36 +0000

It already is.