Hacker News: elwebmaster

New comment by elwebmaster in "Grok Bot"

elwebmaster — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:51:33 +0000

We are doing AI screening. Candidate works with AI for 15 minutes and session is recorded. We review real output not AI generated resume. If candidate can get AI to apply and produce meaningful output then maybe we should hire that candidate. Currently outputs are manually reviewed but easy enought to have AI screen outputs.

New comment by elwebmaster in "Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere"

elwebmaster — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:14:10 +0000

Oh if only cut and paste was broken... In Windows and Linux copy and paste itself is broken. Sometimes you copy with mouse, sometimes you copy with keyboard, and if it is a recent version of MS Office likely neither will work. Sometimes you paste with Ctrl+v sometimes with Ctrl+shift+v, sometimes with mouse, sometimes it just won't work. Such a simple operation should have been completely owned by the OS.

New comment by elwebmaster in "A retrospective of my time on the internet"

elwebmaster — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:26:57 +0000

Can we bring it back with LoRA? It has a lot of the properties of the original internet: decentralization, slow speeds, and limited access.

New comment by elwebmaster in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

elwebmaster — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:21:24 +0000

Nonsense. Many if not all legit Claude users are using Claude Code inside their Cloud servers. How else would you use it anyway? For just local dev? That's so 2000 and late bro.

New comment by elwebmaster in "Deno Desktop"

elwebmaster — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:01:05 +0000

Enough with web trash! Isn't vibe coding enough to build a proper program?

New comment by elwebmaster in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

elwebmaster — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:08:01 +0000

You are not alone. How about GPT 5.5? Does it come close to Fable 5?

New comment by elwebmaster in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

elwebmaster — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:21:48 +0000

Why is npm still not blocked by every OS on earth is beyond me. These guys will never learn.

New comment by elwebmaster in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

elwebmaster — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:44:48 +0000

There is no bona fide desire to solve the problem by the social media companies which are profiting from our kids. As a parent, I can never find the option to enable parental controls on apps like YouTube (especially on TV). This option is easy enough to implement locally without requiring any accounts or OS-level age support. However, clearly the goal is not to protect the children but to enable mass scale surveillance and profit from it. Even when I manage to enable parental controls by using a dedicated app or account (what nonsense is it that I need to create an account to restrict access!!!) the content being served is dubiously appropriate for the age group, aside from having no value whatsoever other than the intended goal of perpetuating addiction.

New comment by elwebmaster in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

elwebmaster — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:27:13 +0000

You won't be asked, your tax dollars will just be used to bail them out, either directly or through tariffs. Because democracy.

New comment by elwebmaster in "LLMs Are Not a Higher Level of Abstraction"

elwebmaster — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:03:14 +0000

I have done this, alias codex --yolo -p . It's very helpful not having to remember every odd command and its parameters. It's a bit more typing but I type faster than invoke and scan through man pages.

New comment by elwebmaster in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

elwebmaster — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:19:02 +0000

Next up, cars with no-tech! Bring them on.

New comment by elwebmaster in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"

elwebmaster — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:34:20 +0000

Nailed it.

New comment by elwebmaster in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"

elwebmaster — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:31:28 +0000

"The parent platform" yada yada, my parent platform is bare metal, how about that?

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?