Hacker News: danielmeskin

New comment by danielmeskin in "Chopping up books when they're physically too big"

danielmeskin — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:12:55 +0000

What do you do with the pages of the book once you’ve scanned it?

New comment by danielmeskin in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

danielmeskin — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:36:16 +0000

The issue, I suspect, is payment processing and KYC. To operate at their scale requires not only the cooperation of various PCI partners (who are not obligated to cooperate) it also involves massive liability. A better question to ask is for whom would the investment of building a new Shopify be worth it. I suspect the answer is “not anyone who is using Shopify”.

New comment by danielmeskin in "Deflock Casa Grande"

danielmeskin — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:28:40 +0000

Making a list of the tells you have will only serve to have them prompted against.

New comment by danielmeskin in "Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents"

danielmeskin — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:03:50 +0000

Why limit to language and SDK? Have the LLM write machine code.

New comment by danielmeskin in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

danielmeskin — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:11:50 +0000

Who exactly are "they"?

New comment by danielmeskin in "Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus"

danielmeskin — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:56:28 +0000

They say they have leaders but don’t need them

New comment by danielmeskin in "Show HN: Pulpie – Models for Cleaning the Web"

danielmeskin — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:29:09 +0000

Well allbirds is an AI company now so I guess that makes sense

New comment by danielmeskin in "πFS"

danielmeskin — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:31:07 +0000

I suspect this would have an effect similar to early internet worms that caused significant strain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_(computer_virus)

New comment by danielmeskin in "Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras with Trash Bags"

danielmeskin — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:22:05 +0000

Yes, and the IR light they emit when they use it can allegedly identify them: https://github.com/Noflock/Flock-IR-Detection

New comment by danielmeskin in "Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment"

danielmeskin — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:32:42 +0000

Reminds me a bit of Futurama S3 E7, “the day the earth stood stupid”

New comment by danielmeskin in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

danielmeskin — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:51:47 +0000

It is still maintained, but I believe the maintainer is employed by Bitwarden now, and is working on projects in addition to Vaultwarden.

New comment by danielmeskin in "Writers are fleeing the Substack Tax"

danielmeskin — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:27:18 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

New comment by danielmeskin in "I built my own hair electrolysis machine"

danielmeskin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:39:18 +0000

Yep! I don’t comment unless I have something useful to add to the conversation.

New comment by danielmeskin in "I built my own hair electrolysis machine"

danielmeskin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:02:00 +0000

This account was made solely to leave this comment, for what that’s worth to the non-bad-faith users on here.

New comment by danielmeskin in "Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor"

danielmeskin — Fri, 14 May 2021 03:46:16 +0000

Does Skype no longer do POTS calls?

New comment by danielmeskin in "Ask HN: My dentist prescribed me a toothbrush that wants to track me forever"

danielmeskin — Thu, 13 May 2021 02:44:55 +0000

This is correct. My gums unfortunately receded and * my teeth are extremely sensitive * the area is sore constantly * I will need a graft from elsewhere in my mouth to correct it.

New comment by danielmeskin in "The global chip shortage is starting to have consequences"

danielmeskin — Sun, 09 May 2021 15:25:42 +0000

How much of that is the APU? I’d imagine the bottleneck would lie with manufacturers using the cheapest panels and digitizers they can.

New comment by danielmeskin in "Show HN: A portfolio website simulating macOS's GUI using React"

danielmeskin — Sat, 08 May 2021 11:48:07 +0000

Worked for me, what did you `cat`?

New comment by danielmeskin in "Playlist for iOS"

danielmeskin — Fri, 07 May 2021 11:39:22 +0000

I dislike it because chromium is almost a monoculture and Google controls it. I’m not diametrically opposed to chromium based browsers but I might be more hesitant to switch.

New comment by danielmeskin in "Playlist for iOS"

danielmeskin — Thu, 06 May 2021 22:22:57 +0000

Sorry if this was asked already but is Synth chromium based?