Hacker News: matltc

New comment by matltc in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

matltc — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:12:41 +0000

My approach is ubolite/no script/privacy badger for when I really want chrome.

Otherwise I just run Brave. Always brave on mobile since chrome native doesn't support extensions. Seems fine for me. Oh and I set my DNS server to adguard

Probably some pixels or whatever get through but I don't have to see ads shrug

New comment by matltc in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

matltc — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:42:07 +0000

The difference between pre- and post-chatbot writeups is stark: https://igor-blue.github.io/2021/03/24/apt1.html

$100 says OP is Claude

New comment by matltc in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

matltc — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:15:16 +0000

What does setting this up look like? Qemu vm and run there? How do you interface with version control and deployment?

New comment by matltc in "Claude Fable 5"

matltc — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:26:42 +0000

Iirc there are at least two cli flags that should do this. Can't remember the disabler--check `claude --help`. `--append-system-prompt` to overwrite.

New comment by matltc in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

matltc — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:22:52 +0000

Crazy they merged into main holy moly

New comment by matltc in "AI Doesn't Have ROI"

matltc — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:37:22 +0000

One can (maybe, probably) disable copilot completely in vscode: chat.disableAIFeatures

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/309947

I am considering pinning whatever the earliest version in which this setting was introduced. I can't think of a single feature VSCode has implemented in the last three years that I couldn't go without. The binary for 121 is like 50% larger than 120.

New comment by matltc in "Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/HTTP/httptrace"

matltc — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:57:22 +0000

I picked up Go a couple weeks ago. It's giving me the same warm feeling I get when I read Ruby. When I got to the concurrency section in the tour, I fell in love. Channels and goroutines blew my mind, especially because I had been wrestling with websockets in Node.

New comment by matltc in "Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity"

matltc — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:36:52 +0000

Why is everything like this? One must do backflips to thwart these attempts at surveillance. I am getting pretty tired of it and about to go full Stallman

New comment by matltc in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

matltc — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:18:40 +0000

I wouldn't hold my breath.

New comment by matltc in "Google changes its search box"

matltc — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:24:08 +0000

Lots of people talking about Google being strictly worse than a number of search engines (bing, duck, etc) not been my experience. Brave default search is awful. Duck was terrible last I used it. Google still great for me, but I have a decent amount of "privacy controls" implemented (DNS, vpn, browser extensions) and i basically dork most searches--average search looks more like a find invocation than English. In this last regard especially, Google is peerless, imo Been a while since I looked around though. Is there an engine that supports all the operators that Google does and that provides results of better or equivalent quality?

New comment by matltc in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

matltc — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:08:18 +0000

Would like to see the numbers if we exclude healthcare jobs. I think job growth has been net-negative across the board when healthcare is excluded.

New comment by matltc in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

matltc — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:24:44 +0000

2+2 is great. Still go check on casino megathreads if I wanna play somewhere in a new town

New comment by matltc in "The vi family"

matltc — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:13:53 +0000

"No more mouse, no more mice, no more traps."

https://youtu.be/9n1dtmzqnCU?t=71s

New comment by matltc in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

matltc — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:09:55 +0000

Mythos is either dangerous or not. We are taking dangerous to mean that the number of vulns it finds will be much greater than bugs found with available tools.

Since mythos found only one additional vuln, and since x+1 is not much greater than x, it follows that mythos is not dangerous per the definition above.

New comment by matltc in "Cartoon Network Flash Games"

matltc — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:57:28 +0000

I played so much gtoons. I remember meeting berniefoo in a MSN group and being starstruck.

Recommend joining the discord linked in gtoons.app; announcement coming soon.

New comment by matltc in "Optimizing Ruby Path Methods"

matltc — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:30:14 +0000

Processing async messages received over a socket with multiple namespaces.

Any async chain really where the steps are in a pipeline

New comment by matltc in "Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler"

matltc — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:17:55 +0000

Rest of industry: OK we need to set up our agent harness, write our SOUL.md, config permissions, skills, mcps, hooks, env...

Matz: gem env|info and find should do

New comment by matltc in "Optimizing Ruby Path Methods"

matltc — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:48:36 +0000

Ah yeah I'm only vaguely familiar with Go. Didn't realize the speed differential was this drastic.

New comment by matltc in "Optimizing Ruby Path Methods"

matltc — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:36:09 +0000

Makes me miss Ruby. Been in node typescript recently. Everything is a callback returning a promise in some weird resolution chain, mapped and conditional types, having to define schemas for everything and getting yelled at by lsp all day... Oh then you gotta write react components and worry about rerenders and undefined behavior caused by impurity in state, npm, arcane .json configs

Versus active record, mvc, yaml configs, bundler, beautiful syntax, robust and trivially extendable stdlib, amazing native debugging and cli docs out of the box, everything out of the box if you're using Rails

I do not understand why it becomes increasingly irrelevant, especially in web development. I kinda get scripting--bash and python tend to run everywhere

New comment by matltc in "Optimizing Ruby Path Methods"

matltc — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:14:59 +0000

Not really slow since YJIT, I think 3.1?