Hacker News: hackeman300

New comment by hackeman300 in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

hackeman300 — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:37:02 +0000

I've tried this without much luck. In my experience they get too bogged down on surface things and don't have the necessary business requirements/context to understand and find actual bugs.

How have you set yours up that works well for you?

New comment by hackeman300 in "CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers"

hackeman300 — Tue, 05 May 2026 03:58:50 +0000

It's a shame, this seems like an interesting topic but I can't get past the blatant AI-isms littered throughout.

>This is not raw shellcode — it is a fully formed ELF executable

New comment by hackeman300 in "The woes of sanitizing SVGs"

hackeman300 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:35:58 +0000

Someone did this already and did call it tinyVG! https://tinyvg.tech/

New comment by hackeman300 in "The woes of sanitizing SVGs"

hackeman300 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:35:07 +0000

Seems like someone already implemented your idea. https://tinyvg.tech/

New comment by hackeman300 in "Why weekends are under threat"

hackeman300 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:11:08 +0000

It's also got a lot of hallmarks of AI written prose

New comment by hackeman300 in "Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer"

hackeman300 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:32:03 +0000

Are you an ai

New comment by hackeman300 in "Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?"

hackeman300 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:15:46 +0000

>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment.

These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM

New comment by hackeman300 in "I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed"

hackeman300 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:00:36 +0000

Seriously I thought I was going crazy with this. So many "it's not just x it's y". Short punchy sentences. Emdashes galore.

New comment by hackeman300 in "Anthropic is Down"

hackeman300 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:56:33 +0000

I hear you on the west coast, but two thirds of the population lives east of the Mississippi and is in working hours

New comment by hackeman300 in "Disrupting the largest residential proxy network"

hackeman300 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:46:59 +0000

Try browsing from any Mullvad vpn. You will be "blocked by network security"

New comment by hackeman300 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

hackeman300 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:22:55 +0000

What's this?

New comment by hackeman300 in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

hackeman300 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:40:22 +0000

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it. Does Apple provide any APIs for interacting with this metadata or was this something you had to implement yourself with lower level DB lookups?

New comment by hackeman300 in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

hackeman300 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:14:02 +0000

If you manually edit the date on a photo, is that also stored separately from the image file itself? Wondering because I've noticed photos I've backed up to Immich from iOS photos don't respect that edited date and reflect whatever the original date was.

I've been thinking about looking into a fix for this since it's bugged me a bit.

New comment by hackeman300 in "The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains"

hackeman300 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:40:53 +0000

Yup, closed as soon as I saw the classic "it's not x, it's y" pattern.

New comment by hackeman300 in "GPT-5.2"

hackeman300 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:26:36 +0000

Gravity isn't 9.8m/s/s across the universe. If you're at higher or lower elevations (or outside the Earth's gravitational pull entirely), the acceleration will be different.

Their point was the 9.8 model is good enough for most things on Earth, the model doesn't need to be perfect across the universe to be useful.

New comment by hackeman300 in "Two billion email addresses were exposed"

hackeman300 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:23:15 +0000

Unfortunately strongbox was sold a few months ago to a somewhat notorious app firm that has the nasty habit of buying popular apps and adding a whole bunch of telemetry. Not something I'd want in a password app.

I've switched to KeePassium. Not quite as polished UX, but works for me

New comment by hackeman300 in "Poison, Poison Everywhere"

hackeman300 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 05:27:31 +0000

Where can I read more about Wirecutter's infiltration? Disappointed to hear since I largely trusted their reviews

New comment by hackeman300 in "New #1 open-source AI Agent on SWE-bench Verified"

hackeman300 — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:15:31 +0000

Surely there are no other macroeconomic factors that could have played a role in this decline too

New comment by hackeman300 in "Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?"

hackeman300 — Tue, 13 May 2025 19:21:40 +0000

Can you elaborate? Is twilio a bad actor?

New comment by hackeman300 in "Someone at YouTube needs glasses"

hackeman300 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:05:45 +0000

Perhaps the incentives of said UX team don't align with those of the user. They might be optimizing for maximal time spent on the site, for instance.