Hacker News: mathfailure

New comment by mathfailure in "typ.ing"

mathfailure — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:14:38 +0000

Sir, there are rules. You have to follow them. You don't insert arbitrary number of spaces after any punctuation marks. Your 'mental breath'/health issues should not affect others. Historical workarounds for quite technical problems from past eras don't mean what you think they mean. They were workarounds, not a valid reason to use double spacing in digital texts.

New comment by mathfailure in "typ.ing"

mathfailure — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:20:08 +0000

Sir, this is a mistake. You've been trained by mistake to produce mistakes. We know it's awful.

New comment by mathfailure in "Software Giant SAP Stops Most Travel and Hiring Because of AI's Soaring Cost"

mathfailure — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:21:02 +0000

Seems like they're doing fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP#mwAeo

New comment by mathfailure in "Mykhailo Fedorov reveals struggle to secure Patriot missiles and Western support"

mathfailure — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:12:42 +0000

Right after ukraine gets demilitarized!

New comment by mathfailure in "Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions"

mathfailure — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:39:04 +0000

AFWall+, of course.

New comment by mathfailure in "Mykhailo Fedorov reveals struggle to secure Patriot missiles and Western support"

mathfailure — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:47:45 +0000

That's good. Time to stop this war.

New comment by mathfailure in "Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions"

mathfailure — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:21:17 +0000

I don't understand the comments to this post. Don't people use firewalls anymore to limit internet access only to the apps really needing it?

New comment by mathfailure in "New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste"

mathfailure — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:00:33 +0000

What, again?

New comment by mathfailure in "Fully in-browser container builds"

mathfailure — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:56:38 +0000

I don't know any scenario where I'd need any of that, but I love such things regardless.

About git.kontain.me - what if I'd like to setup my own copy of such a service and would like it to work with a non-public git repo, how to pass credentials? Since you support only cloning over https (btw, why not over ssh as well?) - one could use an URL of format user:pass@host:port/path/to/repo, would that work?

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.