Hacker News: elwebmaster

New comment by elwebmaster in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

elwebmaster — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:32:29 +0000

We always see consumers blamed for choosing price over quality. How about retailers taking the blame for dumbing down or removing product specs? If two items look identical but one costs more than the other how can consumer be blamed for choosing the cheaper ones? Especially in the age of LLMs, it you are building a quality product you need to include a spec sheet of what makes your product better than the competitor. Not dumbed down marketing speak like "lasts longer" but specific details justifying the premium, like "zippers made in Japan" or the stitching density, fabric specifics, etc. Consumers who care can use LLM to understand what it all means and make informed choice. But when the information is hidden consumer will choose the cheapest option.

New comment by elwebmaster in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

elwebmaster — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:41:08 +0000

Can OP write another article focusing on the revenue side, how to actually bring in $10K MRR, forget about the tech stack, AI can solve that.

New comment by elwebmaster in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

elwebmaster — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:17:01 +0000

LinkedIn also violates SPAM regulations on a regular basis. Despite of me having disabled all emails from this service I consistently receive promotional emails. LinkedIn defines a new "type of promotional email" for which it assumes it has implicit consent to send unsolicited emails and proceeds to do so. It then has a fake compliance apparatus by allowing the victim to once again "unsubscribe" from the newly created email subscription which they never consented to on the first place. I really hope there is a class action and these scumbags get fined.

New comment by elwebmaster in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

elwebmaster — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:48:03 +0000

You don't have to imagine, it will hallucinate you a slop with full confidence every time.

New comment by elwebmaster in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

elwebmaster — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:21:33 +0000

It's terrible. Fake money is fueling the exhaustion of real resources in search of questionable outcomes ("AGI"). Imagine if all of these money were invested in curing cancer.

New comment by elwebmaster in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

elwebmaster — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:58:44 +0000

That's because the article is AI slop.

New comment by elwebmaster in "Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]"

elwebmaster — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:01:13 +0000

This! Absolutely needed regulation. Why is it that such a clearly beneficial and necessary piece of legislation is not making its way through the legislative bodies of the world while age checks somehow magically appeared universally?

New comment by elwebmaster in "Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices"

elwebmaster — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:14:23 +0000

First we need to understand what the root cause of the problem really is then we can discuss solutions. All we've been told is that "Android users are getting scammed, we are going to make side loading impossible". There is no clear cause and effect established, no data shared with the public on what percent of scams were caused by sideloaded apps and how the scams actually operate for us to be able to accept the solution.

New comment by elwebmaster in "Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]"

elwebmaster — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:02:20 +0000

Why would you say "semi-legally"? Nothing "semi" here. What is "semi-legal" is making hardware e-waste by deciding it is "no longer supported". It is "semi" legal because it is legal under the corrupt political systems in most of the world but is criminal against humanity and the planet we all call home. In that sense if you can prevent e-waste trough any means you are a hero.

New comment by elwebmaster in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

elwebmaster — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:23:40 +0000

Can one be opposed to age verification in the OS and yet totally happy that Meta got this fine? There is a very big difference between e2e encryption /telephone and social media. Social media is more akin to a phone book. I do not recall there ever being any phone books listing minors. That's completely unacceptable and unnecessary. I am totally OK with phonebooks (or their modern digital equivalents which enable people discovery and user generated content discovery) to abide by the same KYC rules as banks. And be only for adults. Your kids using e2e encrypted messaging to communicate with their friends whom they have met in person? Nothing wrong with that, we all have the right to privacy. Kids listing their contact information publicly? Absolute no.

New comment by elwebmaster in "Have a fucking website"

elwebmaster — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:05:38 +0000

What techies are missing is that AI doesn't make it possible for mom and pop shops to create and manage a website but it levels the playing field for enterprenuers. We can't expect plumbers and restaurant owners to spend 12+ hours fighting with AI website builders just to get a cookie cutter-website that is nothing more than a brochure. Nor can they fork thousands of dollars for web design agencies and spend months in mindless meetings. Thanks to AI now there is a way: small mom and pop local website builders can offer a white-gloves solution that scales and drives revenue for the SMBs.

New comment by elwebmaster in "I built an ephemeral P2P chat with WebRTC, without servers"

elwebmaster — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:48:33 +0000

You should mention that it uses PeerJS. That's not without servers. PeerJS runs their own signaling server which you are relying on to connect your peers.

New comment by elwebmaster in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

elwebmaster — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:19:29 +0000

Anything taxpayer funded should be open source to begin with.

New comment by elwebmaster in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

elwebmaster — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:46:06 +0000

Yes, having a US "front" is how North Koreans pass the identity verifications at US companies looking for remote workers. I have personally spoken with numerous such individuals. Think about it, if you were a legitimite organization attempting to gain US presence would your first action be to SPAM individuals on Github or to register a business and submit a job post on LinkedIn?

New comment by elwebmaster in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

elwebmaster — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:33:52 +0000

Just got a SPAM email from a Github scraper while reading this thread:

From: james@techglobal.website Quick note – your GitHub profile Hi X,

I came across your profile on GitHub. Given you're based in the US, I thought it might be relevant to reach out.

Profile:

I run a technical team (full-stack, cloud, DevOps) that delivers for clients. We're looking to work with an engineer based in the US on client-facing coordination—discovery, requirements, alignment—while we handle delivery. If that might be relevant, I'd be glad to set up a short call.

Regards, James

If I had to guess, "James" is a North Korean looking to scam US clients, based on my experience with shady actors.

Themes and plugins for Claude Code's status bar

elwebmaster — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:41:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/npow/oh-my-claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47087296

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New comment by elwebmaster in "GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack"

elwebmaster — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 04:06:08 +0000

And had the highest proportion of ignorant users.

New comment by elwebmaster in "GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack"

elwebmaster — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 04:04:35 +0000

While it can happen to anyone npm does preselect the users most likely to unknowingly amplify such an attack. Just today I was working on a simple JS script while disconnected from the Internet, Qwen Coder suggested I “npm install glob” which I couldn’t because there was no internet, so I asked for an alternative and sure enough the alternative solution was two lines of vanilla JS. This is just one example but it is the modus operandi of the NPM ecosystem.

New comment by elwebmaster in "Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article"

elwebmaster — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:33:02 +0000

Of course, since we live in 1984 already everything is edited as is convenient. For all that technology has given, nobody talks about what it has taken away.

New comment by elwebmaster in "Two billion email addresses were exposed"

elwebmaster — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:17:26 +0000

I have never seen a website where I can sign up without a password and using only email and passkey. Is there one? All websites treat passkeys as an “add-on” to the passwords of the last century. Totally backwards thinking.