Hacker News: mintplant

New comment by mintplant in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

mintplant — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:23:48 +0000

Are you not concerned that you, too, will go away?

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

mintplant — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:00:27 +0000

Not security, but I ran into a related supply-chain issue recently. I needed a library to perform a moderately complex task, and found one in the ecosystem I was working with that had been around for a while, appeared reputable, and passed my cursory inspection. So I dropped it in, got the feature implemented, and moved on.

Some time down the line, I discover CPU being maxed out, which is showing up in degraded performance in other parts of the system. I investigate, and I trace the issue to a boneheaded busy loop in this library that no human with the domain expertise to implement the library would have written. Turns out I'd missed one deeply-buried mention in the README that maintenance was being done via AI now, and basically the whole library had been rewritten from the ground up from the reliable tool it used to be to a vibecoded imitation.

Yeah, yeah, sure, bad libraries existed before all this. But there used to be signals you picked up on to filter the gold from the dreck. Those signals don't work anymore.

New comment by mintplant in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

mintplant — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:21:32 +0000

Have we already forgotten Cloudbleed [0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudbleed

New comment by mintplant in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

mintplant — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:20:35 +0000

If I have a disk image or access to the physical drive, it's trivial. This means they can no longer be considered encrypted at rest.

New comment by mintplant in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

mintplant — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:17:54 +0000

Right, but it has many knock-on effects unfortunately. For example, it propagates to web content and causes some sites to break because they don't test with animations disabled.

New comment by mintplant in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

mintplant — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:39:37 +0000

Awesome! Is there a working way to do the same for Windows virtual desktops? I remember I used to do it with ViVeTool [0], but Microsoft removed the feature flag at some point.

[0] https://github.com/thebookisclosed/ViVe

New comment by mintplant in "How to turn anything into a router"

mintplant — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:29:19 +0000

Quite a bit beefier and pricier than I'm looking for, yes! But thank you anyway.

New comment by mintplant in "How to turn anything into a router"

mintplant — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:22:56 +0000

This seems like it might be a good place to ask: does anyone know of a low-cost, readily-available SBC box with built-in dual Ethernet interfaces?

I've been very interested in some of Radxa's boards in the ~$30-70 range, like the E52C [0] and the E20C [1], but they don't have many distributors and seem to have stocking issues [2].

[0] https://radxa.com/products/network-computer/e52c/

[1] https://radxa.com/products/network-computer/e20c/

[2] https://shop.allnetchina.cn/products/radxa-e52c?variant=5034...

New comment by mintplant in "No, Windows Start does not use React"

mintplant — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:12:06 +0000

> This is the Windows 11 start menu. See that Recommended section at the bottom of it? That is built with React Native for Windows. No, that is not a full JavaScript framework in your start menu. There’s no web view / browser running gobbling up your resources. It’s React Native for Windows which is a flavor of React Native that directly calls Windows APIs including, you guessed it, WinUI 3.

I would still say that means Windows Start uses React, frankly.

Infoporn

mintplant — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:25:57 +0000

Article URL: https://msx.horse/blog.php?b=blog%2F2026_03_17.nfo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47468449

Points: 1

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New comment by mintplant in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

mintplant — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:26:31 +0000

I'm trans. This man has actively and intentionally made life harder for myself and my loved ones. So yes, I'm going to enjoy any news that weakens his ability to do that, and no, I won't apologize for it.

New comment by mintplant in "Loon: A functional lang with invisible types, safe ownership, and alg. effects"

mintplant — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:14:18 +0000

I got really excited reading this! The docs site is very polished and hypes up lots of features which click with things I've been wanting out of a language. But then I went to the repository [0] and realized that this is a week-old project, with every single commit written by Claude. I went to the playground page [1] and tried the example for effects, a headline feature and what drew me in the most, but it threw an "unbound symbol" error. I thought maybe the example could just be out-of-date, so I tried the example under the "Algebraic effects" heading on the homepage, which shows a different syntax, but that threw a parse error. The "Pattern matching" example is supposed to return 78.5, but it returns 15.700000000000001 when run in the playground. The example for "Mutation" on the ownership docs page [2] throws "unbound symbol 'set!'". The "Type Signatures" example from the types guide [3] throws another parse error. That's where I stopped.

How much of this is actually real?

[0] https://github.com/ecto/loon

[1] https://loonlang.com/play

[2] https://loonlang.com/guide/ownership

[3] https://loonlang.com/guide/types

New comment by mintplant in "When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown"

mintplant — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:03:34 +0000

"Clownshoes" is common as an adjective at Mozilla.

New comment by mintplant in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

mintplant — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:05:53 +0000

I think that's because you have the Pro version.

New comment by mintplant in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

mintplant — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:06:07 +0000

> Now an outcome has been chosen for you, without your input. The situation is probably irreconcilable.

I think you've reversed cause and effect. SparkFun publicly cut off Adafruit in response to Adafruit's private contact with SparkFun. Only then did Adafruit put out a public post addressing SparkFun's vague public allegations.

New comment by mintplant in "Bincode development has ceased permanently"

mintplant — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:07:56 +0000

The comments in that thread were shameful. If only the commit author names changed, then it would be trivial to run a git diff comparing the content of the old and new HEADs. But no one did - instead they dogpiled on the maintainer who got doxed and had their home address posted.

New comment by mintplant in "“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number"

mintplant — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:58:59 +0000

Their API leaked all users' login PINs to other users, and they only took a month to patch it! So fast, so secure.

New comment by mintplant in "How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM"

mintplant — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:11:13 +0000

A working microphone and recording software and hacking tools like aircrack-ng on an otherwise stripped-down OS image...

New comment by mintplant in "Doge 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter"

mintplant — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:20:34 +0000

The implication is that the death toll is under-reported due to the disruption of the means by which those deaths would be reported and logged. In other words, those thousands of deaths are just the ones we know about.

New comment by mintplant in "The R47: A new physical RPN calculator"

mintplant — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:12:04 +0000

Super cool! But I so rarely reach for the physical calculators I already have these days. Any recommendations on RPN calculators for Windows or Android? The one I've got on my phone right now has some little quirks that bug me.