Hacker News: gpmcadam

New comment by gpmcadam in "WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system"

gpmcadam — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:37:58 +0000

You'd have been mocked as a tinfoil hat wearer for saying this more than 18 months ago

New comment by gpmcadam in "GitHub is down again"

gpmcadam — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:18:49 +0000

> Monday

Beyond a meme at this point

New comment by gpmcadam in "Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes"

gpmcadam — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:01:41 +0000

The idea here is great and I think it has a lot of legs but I think inherently people will have initial concerns with security.

Do you have plans to only allow reading mail from specific senders, and giving fine-grained control on the API side?

I would like to give this to an AI agent but only initially where I and my team can forward mail to the agent, and not give it the ability to draft and send emails on its own.

New comment by gpmcadam in "Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes"

gpmcadam — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:53:08 +0000

Where do you configure the allowlists?

New comment by gpmcadam in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

gpmcadam — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:56:01 +0000

https://gary.mcad.am

New comment by gpmcadam in "Nano Banana Pro"

gpmcadam — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:14:32 +0000

None of it was accurate.

But boy was it beautiful.

New comment by gpmcadam in "Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)"

gpmcadam — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:16:49 +0000

The title of the post isn't asking HN users a question

New comment by gpmcadam in "Trying to Recreate iOS on the Web"

gpmcadam — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:45:16 +0000

The biggest contributor to this was jQuery Mobile. Surprisingly, the "ThemeRoller" is still up, despite the project being discontinued. Quite a fun trip down memory lane.

https://themeroller.jquerymobile.com

New comment by gpmcadam in "IMG_0416"

gpmcadam — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:57:51 +0000

Isn't that exactly what he did when live-streaming on X last year?

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1653608284606312448

"This is 2015 Periscope code. Yeah, seems like we just need to improve it a bit."

New comment by gpmcadam in "Unit tests as documentation"

gpmcadam — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 09:24:47 +0000

In TDD spec is converted to behaviours that can be ran as automated tests so if the logic of the code changes, it breaks the spec and in turn the tests

Whereas documentation can (inevitably) go stale with no feedback or build failures

New comment by gpmcadam in "Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today"

gpmcadam — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:17:15 +0000

Grok did OK? (Grok 2 Mini Beta)

https://i.imgur.com/mvnusFd.jpeg

New comment by gpmcadam in "Wayback Machine Is Down"

gpmcadam — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:23:01 +0000

Interestingly, this HN post is currently 3rd on Google for the query "wayback machine".

New comment by gpmcadam in "GPT-4o"

gpmcadam — Tue, 14 May 2024 13:27:16 +0000

I think also very US-culture-specific.

New comment by gpmcadam in "Original Pirate Material"

gpmcadam — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 13:26:45 +0000

You're listening to The Streets, lock down your aerial

New comment by gpmcadam in "Ask HN: Feeling quite disheartened about job search, any advice?"

gpmcadam — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 13:08:08 +0000

Don't feel bad about taking time to give yourself more energy in the long run. Go for a walk or jog. Do something you enjoy to help recharge your batteries.

If you plan to continue spending time on personal projects or CV, maybe change your scenery and go to a nice cafe or similar. Maybe coworking spaces or new environments will unlock opportunities to network in ways you haven't thought of.

Keep your mind focused on the end goal and consider each step a learning opportunity.

Also, take this time to do things you might not have had the time to do before: learn a new programming language or tech stack or write that blog post you've been sitting on; you never know what doors this type of thing could open for you.

Best of luck!

New comment by gpmcadam in "Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute"

gpmcadam — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 15:46:28 +0000

I waited around 30 seconds for this page to load before I gave up.

I can't say it improved my focus but I did appreciate the 30s of calm. Good work!

New comment by gpmcadam in "Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union"

gpmcadam — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:04:17 +0000

Ah the answer to everyone’s problems, endless legislation

Ask HN: Favourite low-tech/plain HTML websites?

gpmcadam — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 09:25:49 +0000

Over the years as "plain HTML"[1] websites in the mainstream have moved aside for JS-rich "Web Apps" I've started to appreciate the few sites that still exist as primarily HTML and CSS.

They load fast, respond instantly, and don't overwhelm you with newsletters, cookies, privacy or other pop-ups; but most importantly they are reliable and for whatever reason -- perhaps the Boring™ hosting over popular cloud hosting providers -- they are always up.

Anyway, some of mine are listed below but I'd love to see if the HN community has some treasured sites they still love and use regularly (other than HN of course).

- EpGuides[2] - plain-text list of episodes for TV shows including original air date and links to episodes as CSV, Wikipedia, IMDB, etc.

- Snooker.org[3] - Lite snooker live scores, TV schedule, tournament brackets + API access

- Live Football on TV[4] - Tabular list of football (soccer) fixtures and which TV network is showing them (UK only)

[1] I'm aware that not all of them are plain HTML, they are likely rendered from various server-side backends and some even have ads but I'm using that term to mean essentially once it renders, it's static and has minimal if any client-side interaction

[2] e.g. https://epguides.com/Lost/

[3] https://www.snooker.org/

[4] https://www.live-footballontv.com/

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New comment by gpmcadam in "Gemini AI"

gpmcadam — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 08:50:19 +0000

This is a product marketing video, not a demo.

New comment by gpmcadam in "Insomnia REST client updated to require signup to use"

gpmcadam — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 00:43:03 +0000

Not affiliated but would highly recommend https://httpie.io/app if you’re looking for an alternative