Hacker News: duckmysick

New comment by duckmysick in "Codex for almost everything"

duckmysick — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:46:04 +0000

I don't see how it's possible to support Linux with Wayland, unless you limit the automation only to the browsers.

New comment by duckmysick in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

duckmysick — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:18:46 +0000

Does anyone else remember Epic 2014? It was a video made years ago that speculated about the future of the internet and media, with the end game being personalized news written by a computer. The timeline is off but the brand names are mostly the usual suspects. Rewatching it now gives me this uncanny feeling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUHBPuHS-7s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014

New comment by duckmysick in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

duckmysick — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:15:38 +0000

Did Claude point out that under this proposal the Spanish clubs would be bared from entering European competitions? Since the clubs under the same ownership (more than 30%) can't enter the same UEFA club competitions.

New comment by duckmysick in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

duckmysick — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:30:28 +0000

Why don't have all the telemetry opt-in instead? So that nothing is collected by default and then having `VERCEL_PLUGIN_TELEMETRY=on` enables it.

New comment by duckmysick in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

duckmysick — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:35:49 +0000

Sometimes you need to bump a dependency version, adjust the code to a changed API endpoint, or update a schema. Even if the core features stay the same, there's some expected maintenance. I'd still call that being worked on, in a sense that someone has to do it.

New comment by duckmysick in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

duckmysick — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:31:34 +0000

For comparison, here are the official hardware recommendations for Debian: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch03s04.en.html

"With Desktop" has 1GB minimum and 2GB recommended - along with Pentium 4, 1GHz cpu.

New comment by duckmysick in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

duckmysick — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:03:36 +0000

How did they access your Airbnb account?

New comment by duckmysick in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

duckmysick — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:36:32 +0000

That's why you do a "soft delete" and move things from your main area to out-of-sight closet/attic/storage unit. A cold storage, as the OP called it. Then clean it once a year (or when you need more space) and get rid of things you haven't used.

I regretted throwing out a thing like that maybe once.

Don't do it to "insurance" items like a fire extinguisher or a drain snake.

Now, what happened to me more often was: losing a thing, doing an extensive search for it, not finding it, buying a replacement, and then finding the original item the day after.

New comment by duckmysick in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

duckmysick — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:38:14 +0000

It's not against their will. It's a part of the contract they signed when they started working at the company. The contract stipulates how it can be terminated (in accordance with the local law). If it says each party can terminate a contract with a prior notice of two weeks, the contract is enforced for those two weeks after giving in the notice. There's still an employee-employer relationship at this point, even if the employee gave their notice.

In some countries the notice period can go for months. Usually it gets longer with the tenure. It allows both parties to transition and prepare in advance.

New comment by duckmysick in "Android Developer Verification"

duckmysick — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:46:45 +0000

There were a few mishaps with PyPI and npm - including in the past week and even today. Not sure if those meet your criteria of FLOSS, but if it does I wouldn't call it solved.

New comment by duckmysick in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

duckmysick — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:27:39 +0000

I'm not that familiar with TypeScript/JavaScript - what would be a proper way of handling complex logic? Switch statements? Decision tables?

New comment by duckmysick in "Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry"

duckmysick — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:02:18 +0000

There's some irony in Chrome's user agent referencing Mozilla and Gecko for historical compatibility reasons: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/146.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

New comment by duckmysick in "Trivy ecosystem supply chain briefly compromised"

duckmysick — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:31:56 +0000

> credential rotation was performed but was not atomic (not all credentials were revoked simultaneously).

How do you simultaneously revoke all credentials of all your accounts spanning multiple services/machines/users?

New comment by duckmysick in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

duckmysick — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:08:45 +0000

> Wayland flips this to isolation-by-default: explicit portals/APIs for screen capture, input, etc.

The problem is old (and even not so old) apps don't expose those APIs so interactions like UI automation on Wayland is limited, if not impossible. I'd love to grant a specific permission just for selected GUI apps, but I can't because they don't support it.

There's a reason why RPA software on Wayland is limited to web apps inside a browser. Or something extremely janky like taking screenshots of the entire desktop and doing OCR. But then you can't interact with unfocused apps.

New comment by duckmysick in "Have a fucking website"

duckmysick — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:00:03 +0000

From what I've observed in different parts of the world, small restaurants, hair salons, beauty salons, boutiques, etc. all go straight to Facebook/Instagram. Opening hours and driving directions are already there, menus/offers are in the gallery - together with pictures of the meals or whatever they are selling. Contact forms are replaced with a WhatsApp number. Testimonials are the customers comments. If there are negative ones, either respond for bonus points or just outright delete them.

Restaurants don't even need a dedicated take-out ordering section since delivery apps cover that too.

I rarely see Squarespace or Wix.

New comment by duckmysick in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

duckmysick — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:50:38 +0000

The above is specifically from a different LLM trained on the data with the knowledge cutoff of year 1913. Gemini has a cutoff date somewhere in 2025 from what I remember.

If you want to replicate, you should try the same question on the same custom LLM, not Gemini.

New comment by duckmysick in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

duckmysick — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:14:10 +0000

I thought it was WiZ of the lightbulbs fame. Figured they were going all in their smart home approach. But yeah, the other Wiz makes more sense.

New comment by duckmysick in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

duckmysick — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:49:42 +0000

https://lobste.rs/ has a system like that.

New comment by duckmysick in "I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer"

duckmysick — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:23:50 +0000

That's a butterfly.

New comment by duckmysick in "I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers"

duckmysick — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:25:52 +0000

I wish there was a wiki like that for Windows.