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New comment by ivan888 in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

ivan888 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:31:39 +0000

At some point (soon), the massive inefficiency of this system will stop being subsidized. Also, it’s nondeterministic and unreliable.

New comment by ivan888 in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

ivan888 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:36:32 +0000

> The “Follow” button is visible when I take the screenshot mid-switch.

Does this indicate that the privacy feature has a gap, where you could reveal the length of your password if you take a screenshot mid app switch?

New comment by ivan888 in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

ivan888 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:19:27 +0000

I would love an agentic tool that simply finds code locations and opens them in my editor, so that I can write the implementation. I find this to be the most tedious and disorienting part, especially in languages without strong typing, that de-emphasize navigable references between classes. For example, wouldn’t necessarily need this tool for Java. Would like it for Ruby.

New comment by ivan888 in "What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?"

ivan888 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:44:35 +0000

Is it like self driving cars, where 100% non-human code would be arguably safer?

But then it always comes down to having some human who is accountable for verifying the behavior. I think ultimately we just need a better set of languages and frameworks to minimally encode the types of applications we want to build today, so that human comprehension and verification of the source code becomes easier.

New comment by ivan888 in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

ivan888 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:28:38 +0000

It’s probably not too important to choose a service that you think you can trust fully, because that trust might be broken at some point. But having an identifier that can be swapped to different backends, so people can find you again when the host inevitability changes, is a stronger strategy. I think the importance of owning domain names will increase, and using those as the canonical identifier of a project will give it more permanence. The procedures for seizure and censorship with domain names are better established and understood.

New comment by ivan888 in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"

ivan888 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:06:05 +0000

But consider how, in just a short few years, tools will have changed so much that even achieving this specific look will not even be possible (everything is in the cloud and normal users can’t even run them locally)

We’ll inevitably end up feeling nostalgic for these mid-2020s AI slop menus, much like how graphic design of the 90s and 2000s is revered (see other comments on this post) even while during its making was regarded as garish

New comment by ivan888 in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

ivan888 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:59:10 +0000

Ah yes you are right. The policy I am referencing is for the Free or Pro tiers, Business is different

New comment by ivan888 in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

ivan888 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:05:14 +0000

That's a good operating assumption, and I usually think this way too.

It turns out Slack actually requires legal process or consent of parties to provide private messages to admins: https://slack.com/help/articles/204897248-Guide-to-Slack-imp...

But of course yes, another party could simply take a screenshot

New comment by ivan888 in "Moist Towelette Museum"

ivan888 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:30:31 +0000

I find myself holding onto and preserving general ephemera and just happened to scan a moist towelette package over the weekend. My collection mostly consists of business cards and dry cleaning type carbon copy receipts. I need to better catalogue these and share online. A few business cards: https://ivan.sh/biz-cards/

New comment by ivan888 in "The Doorman's Fallacy in Action"

ivan888 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:49:42 +0000

Going to "modernized" restaurants is just a drag. I don't want to touch your tablet or scan your code. I much prefer the restaurants which only accept cash

New comment by ivan888 in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

ivan888 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:00:53 +0000

There's also the global gitignore configuration (core.excludesfile=~/.gitignore_global), which for me contains things like: *.swp, .DS_Store, scratch, etc.

New comment by ivan888 in "How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?"

ivan888 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:15:38 +0000

This seems very low. I have not worked in professional screenprinting environments, but all resources I have seen indicate potential for hundreds or thousands of high quality prints from a well prepared screen.

Shortcuts.app as UI to Rsync

ivan888 — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:33:36 +0000

Article URL: https://ivan.sh/shortcuts-rsync/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347093

Points: 2

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New comment by ivan888 in "Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries"

ivan888 — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:10:22 +0000

The ending reminds me of the “Americans are obsessed with protein” article

New comment by ivan888 in "AI-Driven Facial Recognition Leads to Innocent Man's Arrest (Bodycam Footage) [video]"

ivan888 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 21:27:51 +0000

This is too close to Idiocracy

New comment by ivan888 in "E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper"

ivan888 — Wed, 14 May 2025 23:48:52 +0000

Yeah I’ve had this same idea for the same reasons, and came to the same conclusions that without legislation, no incentive exists to send statements as attachments in emails or to store them with a 3rd party where they can’t be tampered with when a mistake is discovered

New comment by ivan888 in "A 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159` (2024)"

ivan888 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:08:46 +0000

> Dubs

Not sure if anyone else noticed the item id of this comment does indeed end in 88?

New comment by ivan888 in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

ivan888 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:53:21 +0000

I'm interested to hear more about this. I think I have a tendency to want to do this myself. Any additional reading on this concept?

New comment by ivan888 in "Maybe You're Not Sick of Programming"

ivan888 — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:05:37 +0000

Taking real disconnect breaks (more than one week) also help a lot. Some people, including me until recently, don’t seem to do this often or at all

New comment by ivan888 in "IBDNS: Intentionally Broken DNS server"

ivan888 — Wed, 29 May 2024 18:59:32 +0000

To be pedantic, its purpose is for verification testing of systems that allow for testing of the type you describe