Hacker News: drcongo

New comment by drcongo in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

drcongo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:31:47 +0000

I thought we flagged AI written slop on here.

New comment by drcongo in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

drcongo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:21:16 +0000

The world has literally turned into a political cesspool lately. Possibly related.

New comment by drcongo in "Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members"

drcongo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:59:20 +0000

I'm guessing that incest porn is apparently so popular in the US that it's made finding anything that isn't incest porn on US porn sites much harder for these perfectly upstanding members of the House of Lords.

Wait, am I still allowed to say upstanding members?

New comment by drcongo in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

drcongo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:54:11 +0000

Good points. I had a horrible vision of a git -> GitHub -> Microsoft -> GitHub-on-Azure style pipeline but yeah, I think there's enough good people involved around jj that your vision is probably more likely. Also, hi Steph!

New comment by drcongo in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

drcongo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:54:03 +0000

If I remember correctly, jj is one guy who works at Google. Which presents a separate worry, which is that one day, when jj gets popular enough, Google will consume it, make it shit, change the name of it every six months and then shut it down.

New comment by drcongo in "Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects"

drcongo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:16:52 +0000

This reminded me that a couple of years ago I set Kagi up to never show results from x.com at all. Nothing was lost.

New comment by drcongo in "Tailscale's Pricing v4"

drcongo — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:45:08 +0000

With all the talk of simplifying things in the blog post, I had high hopes that were dashed against the rocks when I looked at the continuing insane complexity of the pricing page. Honestly, it's like looking at Charlie's murder board in Always Sunny. The one feature I use in Tailscale, ssh with magic DNS, seems to have unlimited hosts for the Personal plan and 5 hosts for the next step up. I would love to give you guys money, you just won't let me.

New comment by drcongo in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

drcongo — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:29:21 +0000

One day last week one of my clients' sites was getting about 2k "visitors" per second - I had to block the entire AS45102 to make it stop.

New comment by drcongo in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

drcongo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:44:14 +0000

Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades

New comment by drcongo in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

drcongo — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:16:37 +0000

I despise this. Slack keeps doing this even though I have a password and 2FA configured.

New comment by drcongo in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

drcongo — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:47:11 +0000

Curious isn't it, especially as it's such a bad fit for their product - authenticating with GitHub in order to ssh made the whole thing so much more painful than it needed to be. I subsequently tried switching to using a passkey when that became an option, but it's not possible to make the passkey user the owner of a tailnet created by a GitHub org user, so I'm stuck with two users in my Tailscale and can't delete the GitHub org user. It's the main thing that keeps me looking for a reliable alternative to Tailscale.

New comment by drcongo in "Apple Just Lost Me"

drcongo — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:23:44 +0000

My uncle shouts at cats and thinks the CIA have an implant in his fillings, but I'm not claiming that as proof on HN.

New comment by drcongo in "US expected to send thousands more soldiers to Middle East, sources say"

drcongo — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:09:58 +0000

Who are the hackers?

New comment by drcongo in "Flighty Airports"

drcongo — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:55:09 +0000

Funnily enough, I just went to download the app, checked the in-app purchases and saw the list you've posted here, then promptly closed the App Store.

How much does this app cost? Who knows?! Does a "Week-to-Week Flighty Pro" subscription cost $4.99 or $7.99? Why is Week-to-Week Flighty Pro $4.99 in the list twice? Same for Annual Savings Flighty Pro $59.99. Apple have made such a fucking mess of in-app purchases that we end up with this kind of rubbish, and I can't place any trust in a developer who allows their in-app purchases list to look like this. So they just lost a sale.

New comment by drcongo in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

drcongo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:02:13 +0000

My kids have a PS5 and a Switch 2 and really only use either of them for Minecraft.

New comment by drcongo in "Apple Business"

drcongo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:43:59 +0000

I've decided you're probably right, I retract my earlier comments.

New comment by drcongo in "Apple Business"

drcongo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:11:21 +0000

By business relationship I meant B2B. They're excellent.

New comment by drcongo in "Apple Business"

drcongo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:44:40 +0000

Dunno if you've ever had a business relationship with Apple but they're really good on that front. Proactive and helpful, along with always trying to sell you stuff, but proactive and helpful nonetheless.

New comment by drcongo in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

drcongo — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:21:19 +0000

Get a deposit down on the Xpeng AeroHT! https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/xpeng-land-aircr...

New comment by drcongo in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

drcongo — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:06:11 +0000

Doesn't Isreal have a ban on reporting of strikes inside their borders?