Hacker News: macic

New comment by macic in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

macic — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:33:30 +0000

> There was no ill intent by evil corporation, but rather a desire to support functionality that some customers expect of VS Code w.r.t. AI-generated code.

Can you expand on this? Who "expects" their code editor to lie about using Copilot?

New comment by macic in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

macic — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:28:01 +0000

Just what we need, even more government censorship.

New comment by macic in "File.haus – Anonymously upload up to 300GB"

macic — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 15:20:08 +0000

Seems interesting. With a file limit as high as 300 gigabytes, I assume the only way they’re able to afford hosting it is because they don't have many users, so I wouldn’t expect this site to stay around for very long. I’ve seen many similar websites come and go over the years.

New comment by macic in "Webneko – a desktop screenmate ported to web"

macic — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:28:09 +0000

Looks very similar to oneko.js

New comment by macic in "ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X exposed driver licenses"

macic — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 06:43:52 +0000

Exactly. You should NEVER give these companies your ID for exactly this reason.

New comment by macic in "YouTube to start blocking third-party apps that don't show ads"

macic — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:49:15 +0000

The YouTube app now has incognito mode, which shouldn’t affect your recommendations.

New comment by macic in "Anonfiles is shutting down"

macic — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 22:19:05 +0000

AnonFiles was very sketchy. They had extremely generous file size limits and were apparently funded completely through donations. On their footer they linked to other file sharing sites, which linked to even more file sharing sites. All of them had the exact same layout and generous file size limits. They also shared the exact same IPs. There were around 15 of them. A lot of them impersonated other defunct file sharing websites which shut down such as MegaUpload. All of these sites are now offline. Make of this what you will, but to me it sounds like a honeypot.

New comment by macic in "Google Tries to Defend Its Web Environment Integrity Critics Slam It as Danger"

macic — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:18:10 +0000

Terry was right

New comment by macic in "PyPI will require 2FA by the end of 2023"

macic — Fri, 26 May 2023 09:09:30 +0000

Is that so they can subpoena your phone number as well?