Hacker News: iaaan

New comment by iaaan in "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"

iaaan — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:31:38 +0000

Valve's Source Engine has pretty famously been source-available for its entire(?) lifespan, there's no need to decompile their games.

New comment by iaaan in "There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability"

iaaan — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 02:23:02 +0000

I feel like half of working in the cybersecurity industry is just cultivating your social media persona. It's bizarre. I left a viral up-and-coming startup over it. It was mixing into everyone's personas at work in weird and uncomfortable ways, as someone who doesn't use traditional social media.

New comment by iaaan in "PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP"

iaaan — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:47:59 +0000

That's wiz.io for you. Blogspam

New comment by iaaan in "New gTLD Application for .lan"

iaaan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:26:43 +0000

The one downside of being named Ian is being predisposed to misread lowercased "LAN"

New comment by iaaan in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

iaaan — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:22:46 +0000

Where is it hosted that costs a few cents per month?

New comment by iaaan in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

iaaan — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:49:27 +0000

I've been saying this for years. These companies don't want you to own the compute hardware. They just want to flash the colored pixels in front of you.

New comment by iaaan in "Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah"

iaaan — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:21:12 +0000

What, succinctly, is your point? You first claimed that this was not a genocide, then posted a link to a list of other genocides. Are you saying that none of the genocides in your list happened? Or that they are miscategorized?

New comment by iaaan in "Goodbye Google"

iaaan — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:16:09 +0000

IMO it's really not hard to extrapolate where this all ends up if you've read e.g. Das Kapital, and even if you haven't...

New comment by iaaan in "ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market"

iaaan — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:33:16 +0000

Organizing into communities and societies is absolutely what has allowed humanity to prosper beyond the sum of its parts. Our propensity for both idealism and shame, while being deeply intertwined with our vulnerability to highjacking, are also things that allow us to imagine something better and strive to achieve it. There's nothing that brings out shame better than the presence of other people, and nothing more inspiring than working well together with others towards a common goal.

New comment by iaaan in "“I just chose words carefully”"

iaaan — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:33:35 +0000

There's a famous example of this in Malcolm in the Middle where the camera cuts to a different shot and a stand-in for Dewey is visible in the 16:9 release, but was not visible in the original 4:3 broadcast. So in one shot you have Dewey's normal actor, then in the next there is some random kid.

New comment by iaaan in "Go 1.27"

iaaan — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:23:53 +0000

Neat, stealing this.

New comment by iaaan in "Go 1.27"

iaaan — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:20:49 +0000

Unfortunately for people SELECTing UUIDs out of a DB directly into a uuid struct, the built-in uuid structs don't implement the necessary interface for that, so you'll have to continue using the google package, or a plain string.

New comment by iaaan in "French musician Kavinsky found dead"

iaaan — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:50:48 +0000

Maybe most recognizable: New Wave

New comment by iaaan in "Apple Upgrade"

iaaan — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:43:59 +0000

What I really want is a trade-in system that pays out closer to what I'd get selling my Macbook on Craigslist or something. I want to stay within Apple's ecosystem and upgrade regularly, but I'd end up having to shell out nearly full price every time to do so, so I don't upgrade and no money changes hands at all. If they weren't quite so greedy with it, they could easily extract hundreds from me per year.

New comment by iaaan in "Chatto is now open source"

iaaan — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:49:18 +0000

Yep, instantly lost all interest. I'm not sure how impressive it is that somebody vibecoded a browser-based chat app over the course of several months. I also don't know what difference it makes that the dev is a really cool guy, or whatever; I'm sure he is, but the usage of AI is unethical, plain and simple, and I won't support it at all whenever feasible.

New comment by iaaan in "Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep"

iaaan — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 07:07:31 +0000

Any idea how that works? Something with the microphone maybe?

New comment by iaaan in "I feel like giving up on coding"

iaaan — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:08:54 +0000

> But some of us just want to get something out of our heads and built without months of back and forth with a developer.

A different perspective:

I'd like to still be employed 5 years from now in the field I've spent all of my adult life building a career in.

New comment by iaaan in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

iaaan — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:04:28 +0000

No it did not!

New comment by iaaan in "Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year"

iaaan — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:55:36 +0000

I've seen physical billboards in the Portland, OR area for OpenAI, so I guess that accounts for at least part of it. Not really sure what kind of return they're getting on those but apparently they can just do whatever they want, even if they're losing money.

New comment by iaaan in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

iaaan — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:36:18 +0000

Anecdotally, 2012 is when I got back in to reading for pleasure, as a 16-year-old. I had no friends though, and thought someone cute might see me reading and become interested in me.

Prior to that, I stopped reading because video games were easy to get lost in endlessly. At the time, I recall I was probably playing a lot of League of Legends, TF2, Minecraft, and probably some others -- all of which I felt I could pretty much sink an infinite amount of time into, at the time.