Hacker News: jadengeller

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

jadengeller — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:50:28 +0000

Tangentially, I see a lot of people here upset that apps can react to your screenshot before it is captured. I think it is helpful to think about it as a tradeoff between freedoms:

(a) the freedom to screenshot any content on your own device (b) the freedom to share content with others that cannot be screenshotted

It can be annoying when DRM or privacy features block a screenshot, but I think it can also benefit the platform ecosystem that you participate in as a user too. Idk!

New comment by jadengeller in "Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms"

jadengeller — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:39:59 +0000

when naming the protocol part of a url, obviously you don't want to pick something so verbose, but that doesn't mean you gotta pick an acronym. could be hyper:// or smth. not saying it should be, just saying there are other ways that a more verbose concept can be shorted for certain contexts

New comment by jadengeller in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"

jadengeller — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:43:58 +0000

Modern Swift borrows a lot from Rust! And it also has its own benefits, both ergonomic and also supporting eg generic in dynamic libraries

New comment by jadengeller in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

jadengeller — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:46:57 +0000

this comment seems to be astroturfing to sell a course

New comment by jadengeller in "Bitwarden integrates with OneCLI agent vault"

jadengeller — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:35:30 +0000

exfiltrating a credential provides persistent access (until detected and rotated) tho! probably one of the more leveraged things to prevent

New comment by jadengeller in "Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules"

jadengeller — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:42:26 +0000

No, you misread

New comment by jadengeller in "How Dada enables internal references"

jadengeller — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:41:34 +0000

I think this is a bit similar to Mojo's origin types: https://docs.modular.com/mojo/manual/values/lifetimes/#origi...

New comment by jadengeller in "I built a search engine to index the un-indexable parts of Telegram"

jadengeller — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:47:11 +0000

what do you verify about the bots?

New comment by jadengeller in "Show HN: Phage Explorer"

jadengeller — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 07:03:51 +0000

some quick feedback on the user interface:

- i pressed "Amino Acids", and nothing updated below the toolbar. can't figure out what it does

- the "Tools" buttons looks like a segmented picker, but both seem to actually initiate a modal presentation

this tool seems interesting, but it would be worth polishing some of these ui quirks because my first impression was that it seems a bit broken (or confused me)!

but seems like a cool project otherwise, love people building and sharing explainers as they learn stuff!

New comment by jadengeller in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

jadengeller — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 04:49:22 +0000

I'd probably say we ought to use DNS.

New comment by jadengeller in "Well, it's just an AWS Account ID"

jadengeller — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 05:50:35 +0000

If there are rate limits, or if the search space is vast, this is notably more limited (even if arguably still enumeration)

New comment by jadengeller in "Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says"

jadengeller — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 08:28:12 +0000

is it actually free? or are we collectively paying for it by allowing the big business to gain control of an otherwise competitive market and jack up prices

individuals are not pricing that in. coordination is needed. that's why we regulate the market

New comment by jadengeller in "Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says"

jadengeller — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 08:23:07 +0000

it's not a great market for consumers if we allow big business to undercut pricing and kill competition

government should help us coordinate to prevent this Nash equilibria

New comment by jadengeller in "First Class Contexts – Rye Language"

jadengeller — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 05:10:56 +0000

It's hard for me to tease apart the differences between Rye "first class context", deprecated JS "with" statement, Scala/Idris/Agda implicit arguments, and I guess also just effect systems generally?

it feels like there're all features for ergonomic dependency injection, but maybe that's a lot of programming

New comment by jadengeller in "Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs"

jadengeller — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:22:26 +0000

> When it matters?

This applies to usernames too! It's easy to phish if platforms render capital I and lowercase l the same

New comment by jadengeller in "OxidOS Automotive"

jadengeller — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 19:11:05 +0000

it may be about safety against cyberattacks

New comment by jadengeller in "You cannot simply publicly access private secure links, can you?"

jadengeller — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:26:53 +0000

Client web app makes POST request. It leaves browser, but not in URL

New comment by jadengeller in "M1 Macs may lag behind"

jadengeller — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 07:08:53 +0000

If this is true, XML must've been way more exciting than I could've imagined

New comment by jadengeller in "Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone"

jadengeller — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:13:03 +0000

Yeah, the price difference between this and Teenage Engineering's own products is wild! It's worth noting the Playdate (by Panic) is designed by Teenage Engineering and also just $200. https://shop.play.date

New comment by jadengeller in "Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone"

jadengeller — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:08:36 +0000

I'll admit the device is very cute, but without a solution to prompt injection, you'd be a fool to give this access to your accounts.