Hacker News: hn92726819

New comment by hn92726819 in "The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances"

hn92726819 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:54:18 +0000

Millions of users, and you think exactly zero of them will hand over their credit card info?

New comment by hn92726819 in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

hn92726819 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:50:13 +0000

This is really cool. Most people here are whining that you, a college student, aren't acting like an adult. I hope you can look past that; it's supposed to be hacker nature to do stupid stuff like this.

It bothers me that most comments here are high-and-mighty. Did you guys really do nothing you regret when you were younger?

New comment by hn92726819 in "FreeCAD v1.1"

hn92726819 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:31:19 +0000

Just click the varset in the tree view and it lists them in the properties pane

New comment by hn92726819 in "A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder (1992)"

hn92726819 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:49:18 +0000

What emotion must people be feeling when they die then?

> the word is worse than meaningless

It seems as though you are redefining it to be meaningless, then projecting that onto everyone else. Is it not curious to you that everyone else takes no issue with its usage?

New comment by hn92726819 in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

hn92726819 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:09:40 +0000

I hed to look this up, so here's a correction: it was one large line logically split, not smaller lines. So you can't select, say, a long compact JSON line.

Still not fixed: https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/issues/3494

New comment by hn92726819 in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

hn92726819 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:21:06 +0000

When I tried Wezterm last year, you couldn't select more than 3-5 lines of text. I went to fix the 'bug', I found that it was intentional because it allocates a string and copies multiple times every time you click and drag.

Even if that's fixed, that design put me off the terminal forever.

New comment by hn92726819 in "Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away.""

hn92726819 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:39:47 +0000

You may be surprised to hear that many people work to make a living and then just go home. Not every employee has to drink the kool aid to make a living.

New comment by hn92726819 in "Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)"

hn92726819 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:54:25 +0000

You can. But this makes intent clear. If you clone a git repo and see build/ with only a gitkeep, you are safe to bet your life savings on that being the compiled assets dir.

New comment by hn92726819 in "Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)"

hn92726819 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 14:51:24 +0000

Yeah... I don't think you were wrong. Having 100 tiny gitignores makes finding out why something is excluded annoying. Our policy is one root level gitgnore and gitkeeps where required.

Some devs will just open the first gitignore they see and throw stuff into it. No thank you.

New comment by hn92726819 in "An AI CEO said something honest: ExperiencedDevs"

hn92726819 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:26:53 +0000

Points 3, 4, and 6 are directly related to AI. 5 is indirectly related

New comment by hn92726819 in "AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet"

hn92726819 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:17:26 +0000

Your first point only holds if nothing ever changes in the programming world. People write new languages and frameworks all the time. How do you compare dates in pandas? How about polars? Duckdb? Etc.

New comment by hn92726819 in "Ghidra by NSA"

hn92726819 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:27:39 +0000

I doubt it. Ghidra is extremely extensible with their plugin/tool architecture. Public Ghidra includes the extremely helpful decompiler tool, and a few others, but I'm willing to bet that NSA uses regular Ghidra + some way more capable plugins instead of having another Ghidra.

New comment by hn92726819 in "The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting"

hn92726819 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:11:51 +0000

That argument is not going to hold up for long though. Someone can prompt "improve the open source projects I work on", an agent 8 layers deep can do something like this. If you complain to the human, they are not going to care. It will be "ok." or "yeah but it submitted 100 other PRs that got approved" or "idk, the AI did it"

New comment by hn92726819 in "Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features"

hn92726819 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:49:48 +0000

There is something to be said about that. Firefox does keep inserting it's 'helpful features' like Pocket on users, which is very annoying.

My point is just that everyone is so critical of Firefox, when the alternative is disproportionately, orders of magnitude worse for the user.

I'd rather bash on minor Firefox grievances when it's the #1 browser, not when it's losing/lost the browser war and it's our last chance at browser engine diversity.

New comment by hn92726819 in "Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features"

hn92726819 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:44:41 +0000

In this example, nearly every other company in existence gives their employees nothing and asks them to use their hands (forcing AI with no option).

It's hard for me to look at Google, Win11, M$ office, and then complain about Firefox.

New comment by hn92726819 in "Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features"

hn92726819 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:48:40 +0000

> The AI features can be disabled entirely or individually, so users can pick and choose what they want to use

It sounds like you would want to switch off two of them and leave two of them on, no? How is that malicious compliance?

The master AI switch is for people that have moral issues with all AI, so they want all future features turned off.

New comment by hn92726819 in "Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features"

hn92726819 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:45:57 +0000

This is expected behavior in Microsoft products, but has Firefox ever done anything like this?

New comment by hn92726819 in "Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features"

hn92726819 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:44:25 +0000

In the parallel universe where Firefox defaults to ai features being off, there's a snarky comment like yours about why it isn't on by default.

It is really tiring to hear this stuff. People (rightfully) complained there was no switch. One was added. In Chrome, you can't turn off Google's ai unless you install a third party extension that hasn't yet been blocked by Google. Not a lot of companies allow disabling their garbage, but FF does.

Can't we be happy with this nice switch?

New comment by hn92726819 in "Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025)"

hn92726819 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:05:50 +0000

Unrelated, but in that link:

> Interestingly, the code continues to check the entire hash after a mismatch.

This is a standard practice in cryptography, but maybe not at the time.

New comment by hn92726819 in "JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3"

hn92726819 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 13:37:21 +0000

> There we did see some file corruption creep in

Did you figure out what caused corruption? Was minio losing blocks or was juicefs corrupted even though minio was consistent?