Hacker News: dansmith1919

New comment by dansmith1919 in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

dansmith1919 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:57:08 +0000

Oh damn, I love this one. I’ve been vibe coding a ‘public benefit’ app on the side that has a few hundred users but never thought of doing something for an actual non-profit.

Care to elaborate on your process? Curious how you approach them and come up with the best path forward with limited time (assuming you have a full time job as well on the side). Thanks!

New comment by dansmith1919 in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

dansmith1919 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:54:41 +0000

Big fan of the accountability phase, or the “find out” phase:

Engage in high-risk, uncalculated actions and be prepared to face the inevitable, data-driven consequences.

New comment by dansmith1919 in "I put my whole life into a single database"

dansmith1919 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:27:42 +0000

That was my main takeaway as well. How do you do this without any shame? My man is emitting an amount of CO2 on par with an small African country

New comment by dansmith1919 in "Don't Become the Machine"

dansmith1919 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 08:32:34 +0000

The very basic (but incorrect) assumption that the “grind never stops” people rely on is

more hours == more productivity

It’s not. If you’re sleep deprived you’ll produce shit, which you’ll probably have to redo later. Sleep properly, produce more in less hours.

But hey, at least your colleagues think you’re busy because you’re last to leave redoing your shitty work!

Edit: read The Brain at Rest by Jebelli, don’t work yourself to death

New comment by dansmith1919 in "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"

dansmith1919 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:35:10 +0000

Only one I have issues with is Ticketmaster, other than that I forget that it’s even on all the time

New comment by dansmith1919 in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

dansmith1919 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:35:50 +0000

How much free time do you think the average person has to learn and set all this up?

“You’re giving these companies your data and then dare to be angry when you lose it? Just get a degree in computer science and host it yourself!!1! I am very smart”

New comment by dansmith1919 in "How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones"

dansmith1919 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:17:15 +0000

Yeah now we know why it’s on the front page not even 10 minutes after posting…

New comment by dansmith1919 in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

dansmith1919 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:57:35 +0000

Keep them?? But how else would you keep devs working hard if there are no mass layoffs to be afraid of all the time??

New comment by dansmith1919 in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

dansmith1919 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:34:29 +0000

What it the dystopian fuck is this headline

New comment by dansmith1919 in "EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners"

dansmith1919 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:30:57 +0000

To be fair, if they're actually buying it for the whole sportswashing thing and not for the short-term cash profits, could it maybe be a good thing for the games? Better games == more effective sportswashing?

Either way, human rights journalists lose.

New comment by dansmith1919 in "Users only care about 20% of your application"

dansmith1919 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:51:55 +0000

> But they don't necessarily care about the same 20%.

Did you write that entire comment based on the headline only?

New comment by dansmith1919 in "Apple says it may stop shipping to the EU"

dansmith1919 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:11:13 +0000

Tech behemoth attempts to blackmail an entire continent. In other news: the sky remains blue.

New comment by dansmith1919 in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

dansmith1919 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:37:12 +0000

So... nothing? Because I'm also not from an English speaking country and I speak English.

New comment by dansmith1919 in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

dansmith1919 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:53:26 +0000

At some point they told ChatGPT to put emoji's everywhere which is also a dead giveaway on the original report that it's AI. They're the new em dash.

New comment by dansmith1919 in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

dansmith1919 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:51:46 +0000

Crazy how he doubled down by just pasting badger's answer into Chat and submitting the (hilariously obvious AI) reply:

> Thanks for the quick review. You’re right — my attached PoC does not exercise libcurl and therefore does not demonstrate a cURL bug. I retract the cookie overflow claim and apologize for the noise. Please close this report as invalid. If helpful, I can follow up separately with a minimal C reproducer that actually drives libcurl’s cookie parser (e.g., via an HTTP response with oversized Set-Cookie or using CURLOPT_COOKIELIST) and reference the exact function/line in lib/cookie.c should I find an issue.

New comment by dansmith1919 in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

dansmith1919 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:24:56 +0000

Our company wants to move away from Google Chat, I'm happy that Slack is letting us know upfront that they won't have to be considered at all.

New comment by dansmith1919 in "Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it"

dansmith1919 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:41:36 +0000

I think they mean prompt injection rather than some malformed image to trigger a security bug in the processing library

New comment by dansmith1919 in "Human writers have always used the em dash"

dansmith1919 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 13:02:54 +0000

That's why I still finish everything I write with "Sent from my iPhone 4 using Tapatalk" — just to reinforce that there's a human behind it.

Sent from my iPhone 4 using Tapatalk

New comment by dansmith1919 in "Human writers have always used the em dash"

dansmith1919 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:59:06 +0000

They also get the em dash when typing '--'

New comment by dansmith1919 in "Becoming the person who does the thing"

dansmith1919 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:28:10 +0000

> The part that never sat well with me was how they were trying to preach it to others and present themselves as the wise, experienced guru sharing this advice to others when really they were just barely figuring it out.

Honestly, you probably have to bring it like this if you want to generate a following. I guess people like it when someone just hands them a truth in a confident enough way.