Hacker News: htx80nerd

New comment by htx80nerd in "Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?"

htx80nerd — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:26:38 +0000

im failing to see the connection

>standard pixel tracking, linked to meta (js , web)

>Meta exploited Android's localhost (os level)

New comment by htx80nerd in "Love systemd timers"

htx80nerd — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:17:26 +0000

>The conversation from the core devs ran through the pattern that one gets used to seeing when one runs into SystemD bugs that are caused by extremely complex unanticipated interactions between parts of the project

>SystemD contains an enormous -and ever-growing- amount of accidental complexity, and has a set of core maintainers who are generally disinterested in either documenting the places where one or more complex systems bind together to cause stop-the-world problems or fixing the systems involved so that they don't bind up.

excellent comment. thx for the long form. im sure it was fueled by excessive frustration.

imagine my surprise to learn that Systemd was causing my long standing frustration with changing my dns settings. and further surprise to learn that server admins have this same issue and many switch away from using systemd-resolved.

New comment by htx80nerd in "Love systemd timers"

htx80nerd — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:24:00 +0000

btw that xz hack only effect systemd distros

New comment by htx80nerd in "Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks"

htx80nerd — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:27:45 +0000

>Grok is trained to have a bias

Oh and the others arent? You cant really be that niave right?

New comment by htx80nerd in "Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims"

htx80nerd — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:26:48 +0000

I like ChatGPT a lot but it is always trying to debate and disagree when you ask it simple non-controversial questions. Trying to turn everything into a debate session instead of just answering the question.

New comment by htx80nerd in "Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs"

htx80nerd — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:57:44 +0000

why is this even a post - this is common sense not 'hacker news'

New comment by htx80nerd in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

htx80nerd — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:03:57 +0000

>"making economic resources available to EU-sanctioned entities."

this is very vague

New comment by htx80nerd in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

htx80nerd — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:54:54 +0000

>!!!I see no reason not to go with a rolling release distro!!! for personal servers. Run all the services in containers and !!!have the base OS auto-update itself as often as it needs.!!!

you do not belong in IT

New comment by htx80nerd in "Click (2016)"

htx80nerd — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:01:31 +0000

Everyone knows stores have security cameras. But if you called them up and said 'I saw you pick up the chips' they wouldnt have a good feeling.

Everyone understands websites use analytics and tracking, but people dont want to be reminded of it. Which is why people hate those FB ads which exactly match what you searched for 24 hours ago.

New comment by htx80nerd in "Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude"

htx80nerd — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:25:39 +0000

claude ads hot off the presses.

New comment by htx80nerd in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

htx80nerd — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:39:58 +0000

Digital Ocean. I should add going into the whole situation I had a positive feelings about Hetzner and negative feelings about Digital Ocean. It's why I tried Hetzner first. I didnt like D.O. or want to use them. But in the end their interface was way easier to work with.

New comment by htx80nerd in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

htx80nerd — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:38:27 +0000

oy cant say bad things or make jokes about people who did terrible thing cuz their not white. my mistake m8

New comment by htx80nerd in "Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties"

htx80nerd — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:57:48 +0000

it must be rad to be a scientist and get paid to do a bunch of BS that doesnt really matter and most people wont even double check your work and then if anyone questions your work hordes of Internet Hero's will defend your Expert Honor

New comment by htx80nerd in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 AOL kills off the last maverick tech company (2004)"

htx80nerd — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:48:33 +0000

they want a popular thing, then that thing falls under the control of Big Business Meeting Thinking , and suffers the expected fate

New comment by htx80nerd in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

htx80nerd — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:57:34 +0000

Companies are making a trillion dollars on Open Source free code then maybe donate 50k to that project. People are spending huge amounts of time , stress, their lives, to help these projects. Companies have proved themselves to be very self centered. CEOs getting 2x yatchs and 5x houses while Open Source guys are trying to figure out which grocery store has the cheapest food items.

New comment by htx80nerd in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

htx80nerd — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:53:35 +0000

Hetzner has the most unintuitive UI out of any host I've ever used in 20+ yrs of using different web host. Spending hours trying to do basic things, and even AI couldnt help. Switched to one of their competitors after 2(!) days of trouble shooting and got the same basic task done in ~10 mins.

New comment by htx80nerd in "What we lost the last time code got cheap"

htx80nerd — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:42:11 +0000

>The cost of producing code has collapsed. AI tools can generate functional, adequate, perfectly average code at a speed and cost that would have been unimaginable even five years ago. And like the outsourcing wave of the early 2000s, the economics are real and rational. Nobody is wrong for using these tools. The code they produce is often fine. It works. It passes tests. It might ship as-is.

After using AI for months (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) it is extremely rare for their code to work 'as is' first shot and almost always requires several iterations and cleaning up edge-cases.

When it does work 'first shot' it's usually when it's transferring existing working code to a new project which is slightly different.

New comment by htx80nerd in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

htx80nerd — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:02:20 +0000

i will never work for one of these mega big tech companies. making tons of $$$ then fire you. have a nice day.

New comment by htx80nerd in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

htx80nerd — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:00:06 +0000

not good when the power goes out / grid goes down which has happened repeatedly in the past 40 yrs

New comment by htx80nerd in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

htx80nerd — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:59:33 +0000

>but also how "ready" is "ready enough"?

good question but too often what we find is "not ready at all".