Hacker News: jmull3n

New comment by jmull3n in "Google Flow Music"

jmull3n — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:44:03 +0000

It can generate something well produced, but it's really bad at applying taste or direction in the way a human does.

The workflow feels wrong. it should be closer to a DAW with chat, where the model outputs stems, samples and arrangement parts instead of one finished track. Then you could target a specific sound, section or idea and actually develop it.

New comment by jmull3n in "Free Course on Security Headers, for Developers"

jmull3n — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 11:37:40 +0000

It would be great to get a preview and some more details like a contents page before handing over an email address.

New comment by jmull3n in "France rejects backdoor mandate"

jmull3n — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 01:02:45 +0000

I suspect Five Eyes already has backdoors into Apple and Google and can remotely push compromised updates to specific targeted devices. How do you know the version of Signal you get from the App Store is the same as everyone else? Australia can compel engineers to implement backdoors, they can't refuse or even talk about it due to gag orders. They can then share that info with Five Eyes to bypass their own laws like they did with ANOM. Australia ran the operation specifically to bypass stronger privacy laws in the other countries. The Snowden leaks with PRISM, showing governments getting data straight from Apple and Google servers. Australia's latest encryption bill lets them force companies to give access to encrypted comms. Seems pretty plausible to me.

New comment by jmull3n in "DoubleClickjacking: A New type of web hacking technique"

jmull3n — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:14:08 +0000

This would be super effective as a form submit button that doesn’t respond, tricking the user into rage clicking

New comment by jmull3n in "Minification Is Evil"

jmull3n — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:08:44 +0000

Don’t agree with this take. Sacrificing the performance for all my users so a minuscule percentage of them can poke around a little easier? All the JavaScript is likely transpiled anyway. They can use dev tools to unminify most of it. Deploying with source maps for production might be a better ask?

New comment by jmull3n in "Ask HN: React Native vs. Flutter for iOS/Android apps in 2023?"

jmull3n — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 20:15:11 +0000

I actually really enjoy React Native with Expo. The over the air updates allowing me to bypass the app store approval process for minor changes are a game changer. React Native renders Apple's UIKit which looks and feels much better than Flutters attempt to emulate it. It's also much easier to make Android Apps look like an Android app with Material design while iOS apps look like their made for iOS. Flutter for web just draws everything in a canvas so it's not accessible and the resulting file size is massive. While with React Native I can leverage Solito to run the same code base as a Next.js application for the web.

New comment by jmull3n in "Box jellyfish demonstrate learning ability"

jmull3n — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:57:54 +0000

Don't forget to keep an eye out for drop bears too! They're a particularly aggressive species of koala that are known to jump out of trees and attack unsuspecting humans.

New comment by jmull3n in "Australia will not force adult websites to bring in age verification"

jmull3n — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 23:26:30 +0000

Our government legally forces companies to create back doors, definitely surprised and impressed to see they made the right decision here

New comment by jmull3n in "Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup"

jmull3n — Wed, 31 May 2023 05:08:56 +0000

This is really good, I wish I saw it before I built something similar. Mine is server-side rendered at the edge. It allows any value but still has no where near the functionality as yours. https://github.com/jmcmullen/qr-kit

New comment by jmull3n in "The case for banning children from social media"

jmull3n — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:51:15 +0000

I'd rather not have to provide my ID and verify my identity like on certain crypto exchanges to watch a youtube video or like a friends post on instagram.

I can't see any other implementation of this working, instead we'd have 2 popups now every time we visit a new site. One for cookies, the other to say "yes I'm over 18".

New comment by jmull3n in "Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website"

jmull3n — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 22:29:27 +0000

I'm curious what Chromium based browser HN users would recommend for web development.

I stopped using Brave since they added a bunch of crypto garbage. Chrome and Edge both have telemetry and Google/Microsoft account sign in nagging.

Currently using Firefox. Love Orion as well on my phone but the Webkit Devtools make it unusable for development.

WP Optimize is cheating PageSpeed and other testing tools

jmull3n — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 01:13:36 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/GijoVarghese_/status/1563097754322501632

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32645577

Points: 9

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New comment by jmull3n in "Hijacking Email with Cloudflare Email Routing"

jmull3n — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 15:16:26 +0000

Good find. I can't believe it was that easy, tests should have caught this.

New comment by jmull3n in "Bun: Fast JavaScript runtime, transpiler, and NPM client written in Zig"

jmull3n — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 00:36:03 +0000

pnpm is much better.

https://pnpm.io/

New comment by jmull3n in "Vue 3 as the New Default"

jmull3n — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 22:52:23 +0000

Thank you, I was looking for something exactly like this yesterday. How does it compare to Nuxt 3?

New comment by jmull3n in "There are six internet links on my office on wheels—seven when Starlink arrives"

jmull3n — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 23:34:18 +0000

You're underestimating how terrible internet connectivity is in rural Australia. A lot of places will only have 1 provider that offers service, if any at all.

New comment by jmull3n in "Monoliths as a Service"

jmull3n — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 10:12:10 +0000

Seems legit

New comment by jmull3n in "Cyberespionage Using SS7 via Circles"

jmull3n — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 08:48:45 +0000

Is 4G & 5G vulnerable? I wonder if a jailbreak tweak exists to disable 2G and 3G.

New comment by jmull3n in "Email a Dumpster Fire"

jmull3n — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 01:06:49 +0000

Can I make this my out of office reply?

New comment by jmull3n in "Why not use GraphQL?"

jmull3n — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 14:32:41 +0000

You don't directly query your database from GraphQL. Similar to REST, you read the parameters from the request and build your database query using the object–relational mapping library of your choice. A popular one at the moment for Node is Prisma.