Hacker News: grub5000

New comment by grub5000 in "Using Kagi Search with Low Vision"

grub5000 — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:18:56 +0000

Kagi now gives you 50 free searches, at least if you're not signed in.

New comment by grub5000 in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

grub5000 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:01:39 +0000

This is incredibly normal language and quite close to how I would write this quote, so what makes you think this is LLM text?

New comment by grub5000 in "I fixed Windows native development"

grub5000 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:44:40 +0000

MinGW and MinGW-64/MSYS2 are just as inscrutable, fragile and new-user-hostile. The fact that you have to choose between MinGW (which has a 64 bit version) or MinGW64 (completely separate codebases maintained by different people as far as I can tell) is just the first in a long obstacle course of decisions, traps, and unexplained acronyms/product names. There are dozens of different versions, pre-built toolchains and packages to throw you off-course if you choose the wrong one.

If you're just a guy trying to compile a C application on Windows, and you end up on the mingw-w64 downloads page, it's not exactly smooth sailing: https://www.mingw-w64.org/downloads/

New comment by grub5000 in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

grub5000 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:43:15 +0000

FWIW I think I was experiencing the same hangs as you, and they seem to have resolved on their own now. Worth checking again just in case

New comment by grub5000 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

grub5000 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:38:17 +0000

I would guess that there needs to be a clear, cheap, easy to use alternative to discord in order for a large numbers of communities to move over. It probably has to be a single clear alternative as well – multiple will exacerbate the decision cost

New comment by grub5000 in "Microsoft is working to rebuild trust in Windows"

grub5000 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 09:22:31 +0000

> > Microsoft has now confirmed in a statement to The Verge that it has received this negative feedback loud and clear, and is planning to make some important changes in 2026.

This line isn't in the article or the archived version of the article you linked - where did it come from?

New comment by grub5000 in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

grub5000 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:11:22 +0000

I’m not sure it’s quite fair to call this hypocrisy. Lumo was introduced separately after the Proton Unlimited subscription, and it was never claimed to be included in Unlimited (they also have a handful of other products like Standard Notes that are not included)

New comment by grub5000 in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

grub5000 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:28:33 +0000

Funny, I disagree. I think copilot truly sucks compared to the other options. But you can uninstall copilot, so I don’t see why it bothers people at all.

New comment by grub5000 in "GitHub postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions"

grub5000 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:44:35 +0000

> Now if only they would listen to the feedback about windows 11 and their forced copilot we might be onto something.

You can just uninstall Copilot? It’s nowhere on my Surface Laptop 7 with W11.

New comment by grub5000 in "Show HN: Engineering.fyi – Search across tech engineering blogs in one place"

grub5000 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 07:54:58 +0000

I can't figure this one out - is it only a browser extension? The site keeps trying to trick me into installing a browser extension, which seems incredibly sketchy

New comment by grub5000 in "Cursor 1.0"

grub5000 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 14:20:14 +0000

Have you upgraded to the new .mdc file format? I didn't get around to .cursorrules before this format came out, but I'm finding .mdc is reliable if configured well (e.g. with the right file extensions)

New comment by grub5000 in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

grub5000 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 09:58:11 +0000

This rings so completely true to me. Every time I notice a reproducible bug and try to report it to Apple I'm stunned by how difficult they make the process. Even reporting something as basic as incorrectly transcribed podcasts is an awful experience.

Triaging and categorising bug reports at scale really feels like something LLMs should be able to assist with significantly.

New comment by grub5000 in "Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout"

grub5000 — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:55:44 +0000

Lots of sites that return a ton of images, like an of the image search sites (Google, Bing, DuckDuckGO, loads of porn sites etc.)

New comment by grub5000 in "Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax"

grub5000 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:39:47 +0000

Seems like something LLMs should be useful for, if not now then soon enough

New comment by grub5000 in "Security researcher hacks Tesla via Bluetooth LE keyless entry vulnerability"

grub5000 — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 11:15:01 +0000

+1, works well with Edgeium + uBlock.

New comment by grub5000 in "Firefox updates its iOS web browser to turn Tracking Protection on by default"

grub5000 — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 22:10:49 +0000

It's so they can do exactly this sort of thing. Firefox has their won chrome wrapper on the engine, you can sign in with their sync account and it has inbuilt Pocket, tracking protection etc.

New comment by grub5000 in "Security Researchers Publish Ryzen Flaws, Gave AMD 24 Hours Prior Notice"

grub5000 — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 23:50:13 +0000

First hit for googling "Spectre Javascript POC": https://github.com/ascendr/spectre-chrome

New comment by grub5000 in "Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great?"

grub5000 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 10:04:06 +0000

>I get a noticeable weird feeling in my gut if I'm working in a environment where there are too many unknowns.

That's fear for me. Always a chance I'll knock something important over...

New comment by grub5000 in "Ask HN: What habits make a programmer great?"

grub5000 — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:53:36 +0000

> * Practice empathy

Any tips on how to do this? I don't often feel things for myself and it's even rarer to experience empathy at a level I can detect. I meditate to try to better understand and learn to detect my feelings, but haven't made much progress yet (I use Headspace).

New comment by grub5000 in "Reddit Is Raising Funds at a Valuation of $1.7B"

grub5000 — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 10:06:52 +0000

Amazon.com? Ebay? Hard to think of any major development at either in recent years