Hacker News: justinclift

New comment by justinclift in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

justinclift — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:05:02 +0000

More like "forced to accept" rather than "trust".

This latest event just continues Microsoft's track record of being a security problem rather than having their shit together. :(

New comment by justinclift in "Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform"

justinclift — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:03:21 +0000

Meanwhile Palantir is getting in tight with the UK government, to the point of managing the UK's firearms, explosives, and poisons licensing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403043

New comment by justinclift in "I am giving up on VM Gaming"

justinclift — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:46:52 +0000

> download game for offline play, then take it off the network forever.

From rough memory, even in offline mode Steam requires people to re-auth after... um... I think it's every 7 days?

Not sure about the timeframe, but it's one of those things where you can't be offline "forever".

New comment by justinclift in "US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules"

justinclift — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:25:08 +0000

> Requiring all contractors to be licensed by Florida on the surface doesn’t seem like an issue, but it increased prices.

Shouldn't that also have 2nd (etc) order effects like reducing house fires and other fuck ups from installations by people who reckon they can do the job correctly, but actually can't?

New comment by justinclift in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

justinclift — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:32:59 +0000

> in one week absolutely nobody will be talking about this.

In news media, sure. But in IT teams around the world people will be referring to this (the exploit opening stupidity) for years as how NOT to do things. :)

New comment by justinclift in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

justinclift — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:08:20 +0000

Claude Code has been incredibly helpful extending soap-go to better support XML handling in Go: https://github.com/tnymlr/soap-go

Specifically WSDL/XSD support, for auto generating code and similar from vendor supplied documentation.

The Go ecosystem handles JSON (ie Swagger) fairly well, but in-depth XML handling has been a weak point compared to Java where it's very mature. Claude is helping with closing that gap. :)

New comment by justinclift in "American Fork PD posts and removes unredacted bodycam footage"

justinclift — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:28:52 +0000

Complete 82gb zip file at: https://archive.org/download/afpd-files

There are also several (smaller, partial at this time) torrents too, though I'm unsure if they'll be completed as they don't seem to have changed size in a few hours.

Can anyone be bothered to transcribe it for a wider audience? :)

New comment by justinclift in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

justinclift — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:25:28 +0000

Nah, don't think so. When I setup my main dev desktop (a Debian variant) a few months ago it defaulted to X11 and getting Wayland to work on it was a pain in the butt.

That being said, on a different box with an older gen Nvidia card (3070) it defaulted to Wayland and just worked out of the box.

So, bit of a mixed bag. ;)

New comment by justinclift in "Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw"

justinclift — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:31:16 +0000

> wish i ran a dead company that did 67 billion in revenue last year, with year-over-year increases.

Didn't IBM used to be north of US$100B/yr?

New comment by justinclift in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

justinclift — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:26:24 +0000

> Our internal metrics within KDE show that over 95% of users of Plasma 6.6 are on Wayland

Wonder how representative of the real end user population this is?

New comment by justinclift in "Stop Ruining It"

justinclift — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:22:20 +0000

They'd have to list to the feedback from the insiders though, and that doesn't seem like a MS thing to do.

New comment by justinclift in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

justinclift — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:15:35 +0000

Apparently both can be done together, it's just that it takes a bunch more effort so most places don't bother.

New comment by justinclift in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

justinclift — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:08:42 +0000

So, LM vs LLM? :)

New comment by justinclift in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

justinclift — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:52:59 +0000

Thanks, that name was indeed making me wonder what's going on with the BFL people. :)

New comment by justinclift in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

justinclift — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:32:57 +0000

Yeah, the Intel reference page only lists DDR4, not DDR3:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/92986/i...

New comment by justinclift in "Dav2d"

justinclift — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:02:55 +0000

That crowd are just deeply concerned one of their lucrative revenue streams is disappearing.

So they seem to be attempting to pull a fast one and use unproven claims to try and convert their competitor into a replacement revenue source.

It'll probably be a case of whoever has the best lawyers + contacts + persistence wins.

But it'll be interesting if discovery shows evidence they know they don't have a case and are trying it anyway. "Piercing the corporate veil" can theoretically be a consequence of that AFAIK.

New comment by justinclift in "You need to stop using Google now"

justinclift — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:16:04 +0000

And one with clearly AI written dialog too. :(

I couldn't listen for more than ~30 seconds.

New comment by justinclift in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

justinclift — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:15:11 +0000

> [a] great deal of open-source software and hobbyist knowledge sharing has never been driven by financial reward

It seems like a lot of the underlying sentiment which was driving that was to contribute to the world and make things better for our fellow people.

Working on OSS software sure doesn't feel as rewarding in the last few years, so I've personally stepped back from 99% of what I do. As have more public people that have worked on OSS for a long time.

New comment by justinclift in "Liquid AI reveals 8B-A1B MoE trained on 38T"

justinclift — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:05:20 +0000

Does your pantry have a cashier and let you buy stuff there?

Because a food store sounds like it does.

New comment by justinclift in "The dead economy theory"

justinclift — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:23:16 +0000

So, best make sure the court has a significant internet outage on the day your case is scheduled, while you have your model running in your pocket? :)