Hacker News: gertop

New comment by gertop in "Glue bonds to nonstick surfaces and wipes clean with ethanol"

gertop — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:12:21 +0000

The ones that don't have the property are expensive specialized/stronger glue sticks. If you stick to dollar general you don't have to think about it.

New comment by gertop in "GNU Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more"

gertop — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:29:56 +0000

Yes, it's always been that way. Unfortunately, Thom is Dutch.

New comment by gertop in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

gertop — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:30:02 +0000

I've ported complex applications (not as complex) in about a month. So I could see someone already deeply familiar with Firefox and we assembly to get something working in a month or two, which 25k covers in almost all markets.

But the fact remains that those individuals are few. Whereas any schmuck can get Claude to do it (no offense to OP) so at this point I don't even think the money argument is worth discussing even it comes to LLM. For the majority of people a LLM is the difference between being able to do something or not being able to do it.

New comment by gertop in "Book: RISC-V System-on-Chip Design"

gertop — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:44:59 +0000

Why do you say it's worth it before you've even read it, let alone seen it?

New comment by gertop in "Leaded gas was a known poison the day it was invented (2016)"

gertop — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:10:40 +0000

People who absolve engineers of all responsibility annoy me to no end. They're omnipresent on this forum and justify working for Facebook with things like "not my decision" or "someone else would do it" or "it's not that bad you just don't understand" or "I'm just following orders"

New comment by gertop in "Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches"

gertop — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:54:31 +0000

Matter of any kind interacts with radio wave on some level. You might be thinking of how radio waves in the bands and power used for cellular don't have a negative health impact. But they still 100% interact and the human body, being both dense and conductive, absorbs radio waves beautifully.

New comment by gertop in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

gertop — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:42:43 +0000

> Hopefully, it has improved since then, but I haven't checked.

Good news then because you're currently in a thread about how FUTO has improved!

New comment by gertop in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

gertop — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:31:30 +0000

Qwen 3.6 9B doesn't exist.

If you meant 3.5 9B and you truly believe it's as good as 4o then I can only assume you have a very basic use case.

New comment by gertop in "Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages"

gertop — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:37:13 +0000

VS Code is updated monthly. More and more they also release a bugfix to the monthly release, a week or two after.

New comment by gertop in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

gertop — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:49:45 +0000

Your analogy falls apart because the "lazy bastards" still knew how to program and understood the code they were working on.

Vide-coders often don't read, let alone understand, the code they send for PRs.

New comment by gertop in "A quick look at Mythos run on Firefox: too much hype?"

gertop — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:59:37 +0000

> Heh that’s a very low bar though

This is a low bar: ?

> communities with as high of a signal-to-noise ratio and breadth of experiences as HN, especially not public ones that one can stumble their way into without knowing a guy / joining a clique

If this is such a low bar, then how come there's only HN? Can you name another? 10? 100? Because I can't.

New comment by gertop in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

gertop — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:53:22 +0000

Just because you disagree with a law doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. You anti copyright shills are exhausting... Why can't you try to attract people to your side to eventually instead effect some real change? Do you just take that much pleasure in being an edgelord that your cause be damned?

New comment by gertop in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

gertop — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:48:15 +0000

Please do tell us of that mythical leader who is so good at governing that no other country has ever had a grievance with them?

New comment by gertop in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

gertop — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:55:43 +0000

Disabling notification preview in the operating system settings doesn't prevent the issue, they're still saved in the database.

The only way they're not saved is to disable name/content in signal itself.

Maybe you're not as capable of elementary logical inference as you thought?

New comment by gertop in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

gertop — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:44:42 +0000

Any application can send notifications without going through a server.

New comment by gertop in "CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised"

gertop — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:32:03 +0000

It's entirely possible to ship malware in source form... Just look at the numerous supply chain attacks. Nix is a cute project but entirely irrelevant here.

New comment by gertop in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

gertop — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:15:34 +0000

I'm surprised that this is the best NYT investigative journalism could do. It's well written and comprehensive, but it also contains no new information.

And I truly mean it, all the proofs listed here are so well known that you're likely to learn just as much by watching one of the hundreds of "Adam is Satoshi!!1" YouTube videos.

Given the title (a quest!) I would have expected some personal findings to be added to the shared narrative, not just rehash of the first 2 pages of a Google search.

New comment by gertop in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

gertop — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:54:27 +0000

I have been the service provider who had to paywall just to stop the spammers and you're right. But it's also true that kids will be collateral damage (or anyone without a credit card).

In my case, and it was the 90s, I took the time to setup a way to pay by calling a premium (1-900) for $1.49 number so the barrier to entry even for kids was still reasonable.

Maybe in modern day the equivalent is adding Google pay and Apple pay then you cover some kids at least (gift cards and such).

Quite the hassle for the provider, and it will turn away any person who cares about privacy. There's no way to win anymore.

New comment by gertop in "Show HN: I Built Paul Graham's Intellectual Captcha Idea"

gertop — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:33:15 +0000

> Try sample questions here without signing up

It's very gracious of you to let us fill captchas without signing up first.

New comment by gertop in "What if the browser built the UI for you?"

gertop — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:26:40 +0000

Buried in your prose is certainly a point shared with your average website visitor: they want the information, they don't want to be wowed with complex animations. But they also don't want no styling. There is a middle ground between looking like lynx and having some flair.

> Maybe I'm not normal

You definitely are not normal, if we define normal as "the vast majority of people". If web developers took your feedback seriously it would be detrimental to the experience of almost everybody. But I think that you knew that.