Hacker News: lloydatkinson

New comment by lloydatkinson in "2,085 Tests, and None of Them Opens the Front Door"

lloydatkinson — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 01:19:27 +0000

> Opens the front door

This is the most recent AI slop phrase the models produce, keep an eye out you'll see it everywhere.

New comment by lloydatkinson in "WhatCable: Know what your USB-C cable can do"

lloydatkinson — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:28:38 +0000

Are you suggesting there is no middle ground and that simply knowing if a USB-C cable is a USB C cable or a fake one can't be done with a cheap tester?

New comment by lloydatkinson in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

lloydatkinson — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:43:13 +0000

The "content not viewable in your region" images really sets the tone.

New comment by lloydatkinson in "Software for One"

lloydatkinson — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:22:23 +0000

I care.

New comment by lloydatkinson in "Software for One"

lloydatkinson — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:11:33 +0000

The article is also obviously written by Claude too. I’m starting to hate the internet.

New comment by lloydatkinson in "VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines"

lloydatkinson — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:37:49 +0000

Like that probably still open huge github issue with hundreds of comments, the one about how docker will blow your firewall wide open.

New comment by lloydatkinson in "Show HN: I made some transistor animations"

lloydatkinson — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:30:02 +0000

This is one of the coolest animation/diagrams I've ever seen, I wish they had them when I did this at uni. It sure beats whiteboards with scribbles and arrows all over it...

New comment by lloydatkinson in "Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere"

lloydatkinson — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:06:32 +0000

At first I thought this was going to be the widely reported problem where despite copying something many times it still won't be there in the clipboard. I've even developed a habit of CTRL+C-ing half a dozen times from Chrome just to ensure it really worked.

New comment by lloydatkinson in "Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules"

lloydatkinson — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:00:47 +0000

Given the constant launch delays how could they justify hard coding a 15 day window like this?

New comment by lloydatkinson in "How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner"

lloydatkinson — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:12:30 +0000

I don't know how I feel about this. Ingenious perhaps. But then again, being assigned some absolute slop riddled with tech debt arbitrarily could be particularly cruel.

New comment by lloydatkinson in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

lloydatkinson — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:10:50 +0000

I suppose so?

New comment by lloydatkinson in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

lloydatkinson — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:00:07 +0000

That's the second time, probably more, you've been saying this in the thread. Blaming users for "buying" Windows is ridiculous too.

New comment by lloydatkinson in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

lloydatkinson — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:58:30 +0000

I'm still angry at how they ruined Overwatch

New comment by lloydatkinson in "Rebuilding My Homelab with Compose, Ruby, IPv6, and No Kubernetes"

lloydatkinson — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:50:29 +0000

Did you ever consider NixOS for your homelab?

New comment by lloydatkinson in "Converting colors in JavaScript at 6B operations per second"

lloydatkinson — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:20:20 +0000

Ah is that the phrase for this bullshit, staccato? It's tiring to read.

New comment by lloydatkinson in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"

lloydatkinson — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:23:11 +0000

There's actual real people working on this bullshit. Horrifying doesn't even come close.

New comment by lloydatkinson in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

lloydatkinson — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:42:46 +0000

This matches my experience of running a public mediawiki server. The bots (mostly Facebook/Meta) will for every single change fetch every single page again, over and over.

I can’t tell if it’s incompetence or malice.

New comment by lloydatkinson in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

lloydatkinson — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:45:00 +0000

I suppose, but my Debian didn’t seem to ship with it.

New comment by lloydatkinson in "We Got This Wrong. and We Are Fixing It"

lloydatkinson — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:26:32 +0000

Without the context this isn't very interesting

New comment by lloydatkinson in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

lloydatkinson — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:20:47 +0000

Debian.