Hacker News: katbyte

New comment by katbyte in "Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap"

katbyte — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 23:27:21 +0000

No but if you have specific asks like “make this resizable” “I should be able to drag and drop to combine” or “add a button on the top right to close” it’s quite good at directed changes

New comment by katbyte in "The August 17 outage, and the work ahead"

katbyte — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:44:14 +0000

I use jetbrains editors, but mostly goland which might be more stable then others

I recently tried zed but it ddos’d my nas over an smb share lol

New comment by katbyte in "Devtools must be open source"

katbyte — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:16:07 +0000

Opportunity for gh

“Here is my pr I attach x$ payable when it is merged” and allow me to add $ to other prs.

I have been waiting year + for multiple feature in some projects that have open prs and for one I would easily bid 100-200$

New comment by katbyte in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

katbyte — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:29:53 +0000

mRNA vaccines and testing of them have been around far longer then 2020

New comment by katbyte in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

katbyte — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 03:23:43 +0000

I’m pretty sure it was lost via billions spent on a sustained propaganda campaign no country was willing to stand up to.

New comment by katbyte in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

katbyte — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:19:15 +0000

Home networks are usually, nearly always, not run by anyone who is capable of “paying attention to the rest of their security controls”

New comment by katbyte in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"

katbyte — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:54:42 +0000

I wouldn’t want a public ip for all the devices and computers on my home network either. Seems like a huge security risk.

New comment by katbyte in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

katbyte — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:41:34 +0000

You do realize there are many people, especially younger folk, who will never have played or seen the media listed? And if they did not even noticed the symbol?

I’m older and have and I didn’t even know there was a special Nazi skull symbol while I do know about many of their other symbols.

New comment by katbyte in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

katbyte — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:01:02 +0000

Maybe an example that isn’t almost 100 years old ?

New comment by katbyte in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

katbyte — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:11:19 +0000

Yep local police partnered with them causing local SAR to go “don’t use it”

https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/whistler-search...

https://globalnews.ca/news/8258671/north-shore-rescue-what3w...

Basically the company wants to make money off it so are pushing it and it’s problematic due to it being less easy to use then standard gps cords, words sound the same, and most people have no idea what it is (and nor should they learn lat long)

New comment by katbyte in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

katbyte — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:08:49 +0000

The company pushes it hard and some fall for the marketing

But locally here most SAR teams are against it

https://globalnews.ca/news/8258671/north-shore-rescue-what3w...

https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/whistler-search...

New comment by katbyte in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

katbyte — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:15:29 +0000

what3words Is terrible and search and rescue teams are actively against people using it.

New comment by katbyte in "VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor""

katbyte — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:10:02 +0000

Notepad++?

It’s been a while since I used it, but it’s one of the few things I miss on osx

New comment by katbyte in "Meow.camera"

katbyte — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:40:21 +0000

No just that factory farming animals maybe shouldn’t be allowed. I have no problem with eating free range animals that live outside and are humanly treated and slaughtered even if the price goes up. I do have a problem with animal abuse which factory farming is.

New comment by katbyte in "Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society"

katbyte — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 06:05:29 +0000

Also it could do with some regulation banning people who win to much shouldn’t be allowed

New comment by katbyte in "Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society"

katbyte — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 06:04:41 +0000

Seems like an easy solution is just to ban them from banning winners.

Regulate them

New comment by katbyte in "AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions"

katbyte — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:57:59 +0000

It’s like the difference between someone who can search the internet or codebase well bs someone who can’t

Using search engines is a skill

New comment by katbyte in "The story behind Caesar salad"

katbyte — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:32:38 +0000

There are different kinds - the one I make is primarily oil raw egg lemon

New comment by katbyte in "The story behind Caesar salad"

katbyte — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:31:33 +0000

Well it is paywalled

Tabasco is an interesting twist I’m going to have to try

New comment by katbyte in "The story behind Caesar salad"

katbyte — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:30:50 +0000

Yep.

Also raw eggs not mayo, and garlic in the oil for a while before making it.