Hacker News: mathfailure

New comment by mathfailure in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

mathfailure — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:03:49 +0000

> You can't reasonably get a job at a US firm while being physically located somewhere else and on the other side of an uncertain and greatly attenuated greencard application process. That's just not how this works.

For IT jobs - why can't you?

New comment by mathfailure in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

mathfailure — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:22:24 +0000

Yes.

New comment by mathfailure in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

mathfailure — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:17:00 +0000

...or is it?

New comment by mathfailure in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

mathfailure — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:04:56 +0000

Cloudflare is cancer. And the tumor is now too big.

New comment by mathfailure in "Quien – A better WHOIS lookup tool"

mathfailure — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:15:08 +0000

I do. I care. And there are dozens of us.

Lots of infected programs provide value. It has nothing to do with being or not being infected.

If a project was vibecoded in a weekend - there are less chances that it will still be maintained in a, say, year or two.

New comment by mathfailure in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

mathfailure — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:39:44 +0000

Nice to have this as an extra option, but being a linux user I value openness of code. I am pretty content with opensnitch + opensnitch-ui.

Unofficial Telegram client 'Nekogram' turned out to be a spyware

mathfailure — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:10:01 +0000

Article URL: https://thebadinteger.github.io/nekogram-phone-exfiltration/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633528

Points: 5

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New comment by mathfailure in "Scotty: A beautiful SSH task runner"

mathfailure — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:55:46 +0000

Scotty doesn't know...

New comment by mathfailure in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

mathfailure — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:31:41 +0000

Works fine for me. Configure your shell.

New comment by mathfailure in "Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go"

mathfailure — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:36:14 +0000

But how do we know the readme isn't also vibecoded?

New comment by mathfailure in "Nearby Glasses"

mathfailure — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:49:02 +0000

That's not a dichotomy.

New comment by mathfailure in "Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite"

mathfailure — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:00:30 +0000

That's probably a security feature.

New comment by mathfailure in "Asbestos is a bigger problem than we thought [video]"

mathfailure — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:52:35 +0000

tl;dw

New comment by mathfailure in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

mathfailure — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:25:39 +0000

No, there are no such news yet, only hearsay.

New comment by mathfailure in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

mathfailure — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:50:05 +0000

What stops them from selling it to an affiliated entity for 1 eurocent and thus evade the ban?

New comment by mathfailure in "The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware"

mathfailure — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:13:23 +0000

Looks believable that they are indeed the devs behind the project, but it's weird to post stuff like that to... reddit? They have a site for the project, why not post there?

New comment by mathfailure in "The Future for Tyr, a Rust GPU Driver for Arm Mali Hardware"

mathfailure — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:16:04 +0000

One can start working on creation of a teleportation device. Doesn't mean we have it.

https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m3/

What do you see as progress here? Nothing is supported, everything is "to be announced" (i.e. unsupported).

New comment by mathfailure in "Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)"

mathfailure — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 02:16:54 +0000

They did. Just not explicitly.

New comment by mathfailure in "Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)"

mathfailure — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:33:11 +0000

Not if if you APPEND the dot path to the PATH env: the system traverses the dirs specified in the PATH env from left to right and stops at first match. Your system's sed binary is in the dir that's to the left of your '.' dir.

New comment by mathfailure in "Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)"

mathfailure — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:32:02 +0000

> if you end up in a directory that's not under your control, and you do a "ls", it might execute "./ls" instead of /usr/bin/ls,

Not if if you APPEND the dot path to the PATH env: the system traverses the dirs specified in the PATH env from left to right and stops at first match. Your system's ls binary is in the dir that's to the left of your '.' dir.