Hacker News: makach

New comment by makach in "The First MCP Server for Cybersecurity Product and Market Analysis"

makach — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:02:03 +0000

i guess marked is going to be oversaturated with these kinds of tools. can someone who use this tool tell us about it?

New comment by makach in "The First MCP Server for Cybersecurity Product and Market Analysis"

makach — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:00:30 +0000

primary login method with linkedin? "continue with login, recommended for enterprise professionals"

how disgusting.

New comment by makach in "Should AI have the right to say 'No' to its owner?"

makach — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:56:10 +0000

Sounds like we need some laws for robotics/ai

New comment by makach in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

makach — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:53:02 +0000

I had to read this message twice, gotcha

New comment by makach in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

makach — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:51:44 +0000

Seems very vulcan. Works with vulcans and to some extent vulcan wannabees. Words have meaning, and how we express ourselves through our words is how we lead and share knowledge. There is nothing wrong with being honest, but honesty without love and care is brutality.

New comment by makach in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

makach — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:45:37 +0000

well, that was awkward. that said, some I didn't love some I absolutely did. Is this fair?

New comment by makach in "On Getting Hacked"

makach — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:37:40 +0000

It is an humbling experience the moment when you accept that getting hacked is something that can happen to anyone, including the best of us. No one is too good not to be hacked.

New comment by makach in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

makach — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:20:05 +0000

AI is built to be non-deterministic. Variation is built into each response. If it wasn't I would expect AI to have died out years ago.

The pricing and quality on the copilot, codex (which I am experienced in) feels like it is getting worse, but I suspect it may be my expectations are getting higher as the technology is maturing...

New comment by makach in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

makach — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:17:09 +0000

Some of their high priced noise cancelling headphones have excellent quality. I purchased the QC-25 ages ago, and when it stopped working I reached out to support, this was beyond their 3y warranty, provided serial number and they sent me a new QC-35 no questions asked replacement unit.

I am very happy with my QC-35 headphones. They are probably 5y+ now and they go with me everywhere. I think it is unfair to state their hw quality is low. It is much better than low.

New comment by makach in "Tally – A tool to help agents classify your bank transactions"

makach — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:04:44 +0000

This is an actual hard problem he is trying to fix. 50-line python? Pfff..! My current personal 400-line rule script begs to differ not to mention the PAIN of continuously maintaining it. I was looking into using AI to solve the same problem but now I can just plug and play.

New comment by makach in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

makach — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:40:52 +0000

I want to read each and every halluicinated post. Detectic deep fakes for seniors... Microsoft Office sub for 40$

yes

New comment by makach in "Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector"

makach — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 10:38:48 +0000

I wish.

New comment by makach in "Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector"

makach — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:34:25 +0000

Slippery slope- just matter of time before someone makes a downdetector for the downdetector for downdetector. Ad nauseum.

New comment by makach in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

makach — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 07:08:56 +0000

Excellent write up. Cybersecurity professionals read the story and learn. It’s textbook lesson in post-mortem incident analysis - a mvp for what is expected from us all in a similar situation.

Reputationally this is extremely embarrassing for Cloudflare, but imo they seem to get their feet back on the ground. I was surprised to see not just one, but two apologies to the internet. This just cements how professional and dedicated the Cloudflare team is to ensure stable resilient internet and how embarrassed they must have been.

A reputational hit for sure, but outcome is lessons learned and hopefully stronger resilience.

New comment by makach in "ZOZO's Contact Solver for physics-based simulations"

makach — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:11:48 +0000

hey, what a time to be alive

New comment by makach in "Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time"

makach — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 19:22:25 +0000

Appreciate it, for me it became this stress inducing xmas calendar. Did it a couple of years and then I stopped because it wasn't fun anymore. Some puzzles were really hard and I took it really personally when I couldn't complete them.

New comment by makach in "Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP"

makach — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 07:05:50 +0000

It's a shame. I use this functionality to retrieve and delete messages from other mailboxes on a daily basis in order to use Gmail as my primary email interface.

New comment by makach in "Amiga Hardware Reference Manual 3rd Edition (1991)"

makach — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 12:19:39 +0000

Excellently written, and a must have back in the days

New comment by makach in "Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels"

makach — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 05:23:04 +0000

Shorts and Reels are designed to be incredibly addictive. I really wish there were an option to turn them off, especially on Instagram and Snapchat. What I want is to see my friends' photos — but instead, Shorts and Reels quickly funnel me into an endless discovery feed. It feels toxic, distracting, and completely misaligned with the core purpose of these apps. This functionality isn’t necessary, and I’d much rather have the choice to block it.

New comment by makach in "Going faster than memcpy"

makach — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:04:24 +0000

You pre-stole my comment, I was about to make the exact same post :-D

Although the blog post is about going faster and him showing alternative algorithms, conclusion remains for safety which makes perfect sense. However, he did show us a few strategies which is useful. The five minutes I spent, will never be returned to me but at least I learned something interesting...