Hacker News: krade

New comment by krade in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

krade — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:22:57 +0000

Off topic, but I'm hoping you'll maybe see this. There's been an issue with the VS code extension that makes it pretty much impossible to use (PreToolUse can't intercept permission requests anymore, using PermissionRequest hooks always open the diff viewer and steals focus):

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/36286 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/25018

New comment by krade in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

krade — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:30:27 +0000

UBO Lite doesn't support cosmetic filters or custom rules.

New comment by krade in "I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search"

krade — Thu, 15 May 2025 18:07:43 +0000

yes? you either copied the code from somewhere and didn't bother fixing the comments or you write nonsensical comments. neither is great.

New comment by krade in "I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search"

krade — Thu, 15 May 2025 18:03:48 +0000

so, the hiring manager should spent more time on formulating the rejection than the candidate spent on reading the actual requirements?

New comment by krade in "How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure with a 90% Discount"

krade — Thu, 09 May 2024 10:51:27 +0000

I don't doubt that physical hardware would be cheaper than AWS at their scale, but their graph seems off: They are showing no difference between on demand and reserved pricing, with reserved pricing often even being more expensive. Are they actually taking the full 3-year up-front cost and comparing it to monthly on-demand pricing?

New comment by krade in "New ways we're tackling spammy, low-quality content on Search"

krade — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 00:38:26 +0000

used to be possible around 2011-2012 but worked too well so was obviously removed.

New comment by krade in "Kagi and Wolfram"

krade — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:41:15 +0000

this has probably been the first and only new features added to a product in years, that's actually been useful to me personally.

New comment by krade in "Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'"

krade — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 01:10:47 +0000

this worker came to me, crying, tears in his eyes: Thank you Mr. Puchai for firing all these people.

New comment by krade in "Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival"

krade — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 02:30:20 +0000

not only is this completely wrong, but you aren't taxed on assets, and capital has nothing to do with it either.

assuming you meant revenue and income, your example actually perfectly illustrates the problem. Company A has $1MM in revenue, spends $1MM on SE salaries and is taxed on $800k income. Company B has $1MM in revenue, spends $1MM on some AWS db service and has no income to be taxed on.

New comment by krade in "Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine"

krade — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:38:36 +0000

Bad comparison. Ballmer launched Azure, Surface, Bing, Xbox and Office on iOS and Office365. He was also the one go all-in on the cloud and to start the shift towards embracing Open Source. Pretty much everything that people attribute to Nadella either launched or started under Ballmer.

New comment by krade in "Google dusts off the Google+ playbook to fight ChatGPT"

krade — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 15:05:09 +0000

Analytics, AdSense, Doubleclick, Blogger, Google Groups, Google Voice, Picasa, AdMob, Postini, recaptcha, Nest. AdWords was stolen from Overture, after their ridiculous idea of a monthly, flat fee for a keyword failed. Afaik, Gmail is the only successful Google product that wasn't an acquisition.

New comment by krade in "The IT Crowd US Pilot (2007) [video]"

krade — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:59:31 +0000

no, they've changed quite a bit, only the first scene is sticking somewhat with the original version. 5 minutes in at least half the dialog has been rewritten. and all the changes are for the worst.

New comment by krade in "Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?"

krade — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:37:09 +0000

because people (intentionally) keep conflating interchange, card scheme fees as well as fees paid to the merchant's acquiring bank in order to make US/UK fees seem more outrageous. Just going off of Stripe pricing, the processing fee is 1.3% for EEA issued cards compared to 2.9% in the US.

New comment by krade in "I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Have To"

krade — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 01:12:59 +0000

did you even read the moneygram PR?

"Consumers can now go into a MoneyGram location to either load their digital wallets to access the digital economy, or cash-out their digital currencies to increase the utility of their holdings."

So the real world use-case for Moneygram is to exchange cryptocurrency for cash and vice versa. How exactly does this refute his point?

And having blockchain domains that can only be accessed using a particular dns, a VPN service, certain browsers or having to install an extension is hilarious.

Not to mention ENS is running their "web3" on Cloudflare. The decentralization is truly mind boggling.

Oh and loved this part about handshake renewal fees:

"Renewal fees and ownership It’s important to understand that when you buy a traditional domain, you are hooked to pay the domains registrar a renewal fee each year. This is a fee to maintain ownership of your domain name. The renewal fees are subject to change and often times driven by ICANN and then the registrars. So with traditional domains, you don’t truly own them – you are simply leasing it"

And handshake domains solve this by:

"Handshake domain names provide true ownership. Which means there are yearly renewal fees*"

Gotcha, makes sense.

New comment by krade in "Bad UI is causing people to get scammed"

krade — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 13:47:52 +0000

that's what BIMI certificates are for.

New comment by krade in "Bad UI is causing people to get scammed"

krade — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 13:36:57 +0000

Just FYI, but that email is faked. By default, gmail will only show logos for senders automatically for domains with verified BIMI certificates. Since that's obviously not the case here, the only other way is to add the gmail address to your contacts and manually set an image for that contact. Or I guess the logo could have been added to the screenshot. In any case, rather misleading.

Without that Venmo logo the whole scam is rather obvious. But hey, anything for clicks I guess.

Edit: Also obvious from the times of the screenshots. The email was received at 9:47am, the screenshot not showing the logo was taken at 9:49am. The screenshots showing the venmo logo however weren't taken until 2:23pm and 2:50pm.