Hacker News: haburka

I Hacked into the Worst E-Bike and Fixed It [video]

haburka — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:14:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPrtVGimBYs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48488044

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by haburka in "Predator Void – A free browser-based stealth survival game"

haburka — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:39:48 +0000

It’s not mobile friendly, could not play

New comment by haburka in "The Bluesky firehose if everyone was messaging you"

haburka — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:28:58 +0000

Well it really feels like I’m not missing out on much. Interesting project though.

New comment by haburka in "ChatGPhish: The Page Is the Payload"

haburka — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:42:30 +0000

Very telling they only use one AI provider here as the models are getting much better at detecting this nonsense and avoiding it.

Additionally this is obviously AI generated and nothing new since 2024 when we all collectively understood that prompt injection is a thing. Would like to see a bit more real effort in a post than just a few million tokens spent.

New comment by haburka in "OpsGrid: Cloud Stack at a Glance"

haburka — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:38:22 +0000

I think this is the kind of thing that can be entirely replaced by vibe coding now. It takes a few minutes for AI to make a dashboard like this and then it can be custom made to the users liking. It’s hard for me to see any value here above what currently exists.

The Rsync thing was inevitable and it's happening everywhere

haburka — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:58:46 +0000

Article URL: https://robertjwebb.substack.com/p/the-rsync-thing-was-inevitable-and

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354735

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by haburka in "AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn"

haburka — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:24:44 +0000

I think this kind of overly dramatic writing makes me struggle to respect the arguments in the piece. Like the blog writer has this style like they’re documenting the collapse of humanity or something when really it’s just a massive cloud company taking some direction that may be suboptimal. I understand this tone can be helpful to drive effective change but I think it should be reserved for situations where people are actually suffering as opposed to when extremely well paid people engineers are laid off.

New comment by haburka in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

haburka — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:52:44 +0000

Preaching to the HN choir - great for upvotes but does anyone read anything new in this? Feels like I’ve seen the same article about this every month and I don’t think business people care.

Hacking in request body during render in Next.js

haburka — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:27:26 +0000

Article URL: https://robertjwebb.substack.com/p/draft-hacking-in-request-body-during

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923698

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The world of AI contributions in Open Source

haburka — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:23:48 +0000

Article URL: https://robertjwebb.substack.com/p/the-absurd-world-of-ai-contributions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563412

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by haburka in "The Kimwolf botnet is stalking your local network"

haburka — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:31:28 +0000

I love how frequently Botnet creators reference Krebs. Like they are his biggest fans, and they just want a shoutout on his blog.

New comment by haburka in "Welcome to Gas Town"

haburka — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:45:56 +0000

This is either a meme or the way everyone will code in 2 years, in both cases, it terrifies me.

New comment by haburka in "CSS-in-JS: The Great Betrayal of Front End Sanity"

haburka — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:36:39 +0000

This is completely meaningless AI slop. No mention of tailwind, no real nuance. This is embarrassing.

New comment by haburka in "Broccoli Man, Remastered"

haburka — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:14:43 +0000

I do wish they updated this to 2026 google! I don’t think it would be nearly as interesting though since they do get rid of most red tape but since everything is enterprise scale, it’s never easy.

New comment by haburka in "Toucan Wireless Split Keyboard with Touchpad"

haburka — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:56:12 +0000

I recommend the glove 80 for split ortholinear mechanical keyboards. It’s got plenty of of keys for coding. Also you can mount it to camera tripods and actually use it when tilted which really improves ergonomic factor.

New comment by haburka in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

haburka — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:39:22 +0000

It’s not just you, I think some engineers benefit a lot from AI and some don’t. It’s probably a combination of factors including: AI skepticism, mental rigidity, how popular the tech stack is, and type of engineering. Some problems are going to be very straightforward.

I also think it’s that people don’t know how to use the tool very well. In my experience I don’t guide it to do any kind of software pattern or ideology. I think that just confuses the tool. I give it very little detail and have it do tasks that are evident from the code base.

Sometimes I ask it to do rather large tasks and occasionally the output is like 80% of the way there and I can fix it up until it’s useful.

New comment by haburka in "Digg.com is back"

haburka — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:51:05 +0000

I think that social media has been a massive experiment where we asked, what if we let capital interests subvert our desire for community to get us to watch ads? And we have learned that it’s just not a good idea. I think perhaps Digg was one of the better ones but I solemnly wish social media was mostly illegal, especially advertising based, for profit sites.

I think hacker news manages to be ok since it doesn’t rely on advertising which makes it much more palatable.

New comment by haburka in "Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?"

haburka — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:10:49 +0000

> Very true. But why is that argument never deployed against the bullies?

Unfortunately part of being an adult is realizing there are no bullies. There are adults with power and some people who wield unfairly, but that’s different from a mean schoolchild, although the similarities are there. I don’t think the people who work on browser standards are bullies and it’s weird to frame them in that way.

> Where's the equality in that?

I guess why do you think there should be equality between users and the people that work on browser standards? It’s a committee not a direct democracy. Although they do take user feedback seriously, they surely can’t only do what every vocal minorities wants right?

> Again, why isn't anyone calling for them to be more calm and respectful of the people they're hurting?

They’re not be disrespectful by moderating the thread. They’re simply trying to do their jobs without being insulted constantly. It’s a bit different. They are actively responding respectfully to the feedback, I don’t think they’re hurting people.

> But given that they know these proposals would be contentious, why didn't they approach this in a more respectful and collaborative manner?

How could it be more collaborative? It’s already a request for feedback on an open forum. The comments aren’t even deleted just hidden because they’re duplicates. I’m curious what could be more collaborative?

New comment by haburka in "Anti-competitive practices masquerading as security is a dangerous pattern"

haburka — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:58:33 +0000

> Would you be okay if LinkedIn and GitHub banned your account without any explanation?

If I was doing something like shitting on the brand and advertising my competition product with the platform then I would not be totally surprised. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

> Or are you of the opinion that it's not a possibility because you follow all of their ToS to the letter at all times?

Yes. Platforms literally have the right to ban you for any reason without giving an explanation. If you don’t like that then you should lobby the government. I do think it would be better for society if there were certain laws platforms had to follow! But do I trust the government to get those laws right? Not yet. Maybe in 10 years.

>Do you admit that you'll never provide any objective feedback about these companies since that may (or even should?) violate their ToS in your opinion?

WTF ? You can definitely provide objective feedback to LinkedIn in the form of like feature requests lmao. But when you insult their product and then sell your own product that’s not objective feedback. You’re obviously self invested. Your goal isn’t to improve LinkedIn, it’s to sell your own product.

Which is ok! LinkedIn is a platform with many issues that there absolutely should be startups that try to fix them. But don’t pretend it’s like a massive tragic conspiracy when your account gets banned. You were simply poking a bear and the bear swiped at you.

> Why are you disparaging the author of the essay? What if she's your colleague, too?

I am being critical - I don’t think it’s the same as calling people who work at a company stupid or malicious. I never claim the author is stupid, just blind sided by their own hubris maybe. I believe they’re very smart and I’m sure they’re good at their job.

> How can you be sure that the person who's been deplatformed is not a colleague of yours, too?

I’m not sure of that. I tried to be fair in my critique. Maybe I got a bit spicy but it’s the internet.

> Why is it okay to disparage private individuals in private capacities (and to deny them their livelihood in these cases of LinkedIn and GitHub bans), but not okay to provide less than ideal feedback about monopolistic multibillion-dollar companies?

It’s ok to provide feedback of platforms. Just if you do it and you get banned don’t be surprised. Getting banned from a platform doesn’t meant you did something that “wasn’t ok.” It just means the platform decided to do it. Providing critical feedback of a platform while promoting your own competing product is not surprising to get a ban.

New comment by haburka in "Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?"

haburka — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:38:34 +0000

It’s ok to have emotions, even as an adult, we all have feelings. However, it’s important to be kind to other humans and to treat humans with respect. Even on the internet, even when people are proposing removing features from a browser. Now it can be difficult to voice opposition without coming off as rude but its definitely an important skill for a professional to have.

I think this is especially true on GitHub where people are using their real professional identities. I’m honestly shocked that anyone can just comment on these proposals given how toxic it gets. Imagine if this is your day to day work environment - you’re trying to improve the web, which is already a tremendously difficult thing while all of these keyboard warriors are insulting you and your efforts. I wouldn’t want to wish that on anyone.