Hacker News: lossyalgo

New comment by lossyalgo in "How to Create a Tor Exit Node (2015)"

lossyalgo — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:43:13 +0000

Do Flock cameras have internet access? ;)

New comment by lossyalgo in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

lossyalgo — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:25:10 +0000

Can anyone recommended any books?

New comment by lossyalgo in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

lossyalgo — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:29:03 +0000

Probably depends highly on location, company and type of lock. I needed to get into my mailbox after losing the keys. They wanted 150 for literally 5 minutes with a screwdriver (lesson learned!). Of course I'm paying for those years of experience as well as the drive over. I was able to talk them down to 120. Oh and it was during the weekday! I also did research prior and called a few places, they all basically said the same thing: "depends on the lock but probably minimum 100".

New comment by lossyalgo in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

lossyalgo — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:24:02 +0000

Why do we need to throw AI at everything? It's a huge waste of resources for a problem that is/was easily solved by uBlock Lite (and other alternatives).

New comment by lossyalgo in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

lossyalgo — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:21:35 +0000

If anyone will be going to jail within a corp, it's usually some low-level scapegoat and rarely the C-suite.

New comment by lossyalgo in "50k Boat Names"

lossyalgo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:40:00 +0000

haha very cute! Got me thinking, IP69K might also be fun, albeit slightly less nerdy.

New comment by lossyalgo in "50k Boat Names"

lossyalgo — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:56:06 +0000

If I had a boat I would totally steal that (and wait for other nerds to strike up conversations).

New comment by lossyalgo in "Open Book Touch: open-source e-reader"

lossyalgo — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:14:51 +0000

The YT video shows the dictionary (among features).

New comment by lossyalgo in "Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode"

lossyalgo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:15:56 +0000

I suppose it's easier to turn everyone into unwitting tokenmaxxers than it is to raise prices again.

New comment by lossyalgo in "An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop"

lossyalgo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:38:07 +0000

OP is using Apple so maybe that's why? I use PS weekly and I've never seen it (or anything else) touch my hosts file on Windows. I just verified - nothing beyond my own entries.

New comment by lossyalgo in "An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop"

lossyalgo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:34:15 +0000

Does it still work when you block all outgoing connections?

New comment by lossyalgo in "An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop"

lossyalgo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:33:20 +0000

Same with most (all?) JetBrains products, and for the first 3 years every year gets cheaper!

New comment by lossyalgo in "GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years"

lossyalgo — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:15:50 +0000

If you don't mind going to jail and/or paying a fine, flying in restricted/illegal areas.

New comment by lossyalgo in "List of European organizations that have banned personal messaging apps at work"

lossyalgo — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:25:00 +0000

I refuse to install that malware on my phone. Upshot is that I don't get bothered by coworkers after hours.

New comment by lossyalgo in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

lossyalgo — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:05:00 +0000

Maybe that's how OpenAI was able to blow $5.73 BILLION dollars on "marketing" i.e. paying politicians and influencers.

New comment by lossyalgo in "Historical memory prices 1960-2026"

lossyalgo — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:09:01 +0000

The truly absurd part is that datacenters are barely being built and those that are built can't be turned on because they don't have enough power. Satya Nadella admitted recently that they have warehouses full of unused hardware because they a) can't get datacenters built and b) don't have enough power i.e. this whole RAM scandal is a bloody joke. If OpenAI goes bust (their financials are a huge mess and lots of red flags - they might not even survive to IPO!) and then what will happen to all those "inked" deals to buy all that RAM?

New comment by lossyalgo in "Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)"

lossyalgo — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 20:35:10 +0000

We would love to, but we ran out of tokens.

New comment by lossyalgo in "Fox to buy Roku"

lossyalgo — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:04:03 +0000

Got a 7-year old QNAP NAS recently and wanted to try Jellyfin. Installed, running, indexing... 6 hours later NAS is no longer reachable. Nothing worked so had to hard reboot. Afterwards the Jellyfin service wouldn't start anymore. Installed Plex (via app store) and 2 weeks later everything is indexed and streams to multiple devices, though I did have to google a few times to fix things related to crashing while transcoding and playing subtitles. It was literally 2 toggles in the UI. The only irksome thing is it doesn't let me play audio files (which could be related to the crappy built-in Plex app on the cheap projector). I also wish there was a way to disable all the (paid) cloud offerings, I want it to be LAN-only.

To be fair, Jellyfin page doesn't list my NAS as being supported, so I had to "manually" install it (a couple commands and clicks).

New comment by lossyalgo in "What happened to nerds?"

lossyalgo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:15:33 +0000

Related (for the non-grey/whitebeards who saw Revenge of the Nerds): Calling someone a nerd used to be fairly demeaning. Today I would say it swings between okay/acceptable and funny/cool, depending on the social circle.

New comment by lossyalgo in "What happened to nerds?"

lossyalgo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:09:06 +0000

And yet even more nerds than ever are devoting themselves to AI. I just wonder - to what end?