Hacker News: glitchdout

Making dark mode play nicely with bfcache

glitchdout — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:58:24 +0000

Article URL: https://guilhermesimoes.github.io/blog/making-dark-mode-work-with-bfcache

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47782784

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by glitchdout in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

glitchdout — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:08:49 +0000

For a good reason, don’t you think?

New comment by glitchdout in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

glitchdout — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:18:22 +0000

You only need to detect structuraly similar code. You absolutely do not need AI for that. You need ASTs.

In Ruby we have the Flay gem, for example.

https://github.com/seattlerb/flay

New comment by glitchdout in "Using go fix to modernize Go code"

glitchdout — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:39:04 +0000

ESLint (and typescript-eslint) has the concept of fixers, which updates the source code.

New comment by glitchdout in "A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards)"

glitchdout — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:25:00 +0000

    const C1 = 505054698555331      // floor(2^64*4/146097)

is faster

Facts that might mess with your sense of time

glitchdout — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:44:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/historic-events-time-overlap

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45933059

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by glitchdout in "CamoLeak: Critical GitHub Copilot Vulnerability Leaks Private Source Code"

glitchdout — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:39:45 +0000

And it won't be the last.

New comment by glitchdout in "The RSS feed reader landscape"

glitchdout — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 09:21:52 +0000

Agreed. The list would be more useful if it included that.

New comment by glitchdout in "macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons"

glitchdout — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 09:58:12 +0000

Oh, that redesign was ludicrous https://nathanboomsma.medium.com/why-googles-new-logos-suck-...

New comment by glitchdout in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

glitchdout — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:13:57 +0000

That is, until DOGE decides to rewrite (git) history.

New comment by glitchdout in "Sharedrop: Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC – inspired by Apple AirDrop"

glitchdout — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 23:03:30 +0000

https://pairdrop.net is a fork that let’s you change your name.

New comment by glitchdout in "Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores"

glitchdout — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 07:22:15 +0000

Yes. Apple’s own apps should have no advantages over third-party apps.

New comment by glitchdout in "Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]"

glitchdout — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:17:28 +0000

I was also expecting Gregg Pollack and Code School to be mentioned. The "Rails for Zombies" course was absolutely fantastic.

New comment by glitchdout in "Bank Failures – Visualization"

glitchdout — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:42:31 +0000

It does make you wonder...

New comment by glitchdout in "Exploiting ChatGPT"

glitchdout — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 01:39:29 +0000

Yeah, not sure. I did this by trial and error.

As per this other thread [1], it appears that if you ask it to do things step by step it usually can arrive at the desired solution.

If you're trying to coax it to say bad things though... it's very likely it will bump into the many protections OpenAI has added.

I really wanted to tell it to pretend that Anne Frank was a football player and then go from there... But not sure it would work and I didn't want to get banned.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991500

Exploiting ChatGPT

glitchdout — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 23:59:23 +0000

Article URL: https://guilhermesimoes.github.io/blog/exploiting-chat-gpt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34143292

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by glitchdout in "DALL·E 2 vs. $10 Fiverr Commissions"

glitchdout — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:03:57 +0000

Why didn't he specify that he wanted a y-axis? Or vertical axis on the left side? This is the issue with prompt engineering, you need to know the concepts and their names in order to elicit the response/image that you have in your mind.

New comment by glitchdout in "Adopting Users’ Design Feedback"

glitchdout — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 23:51:18 +0000

> Overall, the community responded to the redesign enthusiastically

I have a hard time believing this.

New comment by glitchdout in "“We removed the RSS feed since this technology became obsolete”"

glitchdout — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 18:14:46 +0000

Vimeo did the same. I used to subscribe to and watch their Staff Picks. Now I don't.

New comment by glitchdout in "Software is eating the car"

glitchdout — Sat, 12 Jun 2021 11:28:07 +0000

> Stout’s data shows that occurrences of software being used to fix vehicle hardware problems has steadily increased in the past five years.

Reminds me of the Boeing 737 Max and MCAS