Hacker News: danlitt

New comment by danlitt in "“I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT"

danlitt — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:32:52 +0000

Adult male Catholics, surely?

New comment by danlitt in "Scrcpy v4.0"

danlitt — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:44:48 +0000

I had to read this three times before I could see this was not somehow a release of strcpy.

New comment by danlitt in "“I applied to be pope”: Losing grip on reality while using ChatGPT"

danlitt — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:41:42 +0000

This is the most hilarious JS fail I've ever seen. The entire article renders properly, all the text and styling, then the entire screen is replaced by

"Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)."

It's easy enough to fix, just hammer the refresh button to prevent JS from running.

New comment by danlitt in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

danlitt — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:12:16 +0000

Likewise, I will not even consider paying for games (or music) that don't have an unencumbered download option. If the game is open source I will usually buy it without even thinking very hard about whether I'll play it.

New comment by danlitt in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

danlitt — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:04:48 +0000

How are the game companies supposed to determine that it adds negative value? Speak to the alternative universe where the same game wasn't bundled with it?

New comment by danlitt in "Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores"

danlitt — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:52:25 +0000

> The point of pricing water to that level is...

No, the point is to selfishly profit-maximise. I'm not trying to be difficult in saying that. The thing you describe is not the intent, it's the hypothetical effect. It may or may not do that (I don't think it typically does, take toilet paper during COVID for example).

New comment by danlitt in "Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores"

danlitt — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:28:58 +0000

Dynamic pricing based on personal data is not even a market, let alone a perfectly competitive one. Temporal dynamic pricing can mean almost anything, so might be ok (early bird lunch deal) or pure evil (bottled water now costs $100 because there is lead in the tap water).

New comment by danlitt in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

danlitt — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:22:53 +0000

Not if people don't get notified!

New comment by danlitt in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

danlitt — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:40:57 +0000

Rather than the current situation, where they can pwn machines after the exploit is made public?

New comment by danlitt in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

danlitt — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:59:48 +0000

I probably agree with you but what on earth are phones and cars doing in this list? They solve obvious physical problems not caused by a company.

New comment by danlitt in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

danlitt — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:54:47 +0000

I do wear clothes (all JS code runs in a sandbox).

This is a bit like saying "you should lock the door to your house" and therefore refusing to prosecute someone who steals from a house with a broken window frame. I did lock my door, and it's still a crime regardless!

New comment by danlitt in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

danlitt — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:53:12 +0000

Implement what? The internet?

New comment by danlitt in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

danlitt — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:52:12 +0000

Yes, my point is that this does not mean it is an "opt in checkbox". I appreciate that it allows people to be nasty, it just isn't a "please be nasty" toggle.

New comment by danlitt in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

danlitt — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:12:50 +0000

I have had hundreds of tabs open for many months in the past. The bottleneck is usually the OS crashing rather than firefox.

New comment by danlitt in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

danlitt — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:07:14 +0000

Ridiculous comment. People should not have to choose between functionality and privacy.

New comment by danlitt in "Some secret management belongs in your HTTP proxy"

danlitt — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:29:19 +0000

Rewriting the URL sounds like it would also allow hitting a dummy server in tests. But how does the rewrite actually happen? If you have the literal URL in your code, then fine, but what if you don't?

New comment by danlitt in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

danlitt — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:49:37 +0000

It may not work for you, I don't know. But it absolutely does work in general!

New comment by danlitt in "Show HN: Saunas lower nighttime heart rate more than exercise (n=59,000)"

danlitt — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:08:06 +0000

This just means the surfaces are dry. The commenter said the air is not dry.

New comment by danlitt in "Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents"

danlitt — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:43:52 +0000

Zero on all metrics. Phew!

New comment by danlitt in "Building a Web Page That Edits Itself"

danlitt — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:09:02 +0000

This is lovely, but I think falls down the moment you want any generated content (table of contents being a typical first example).