Hacker News: mintplant

New comment by mintplant in "Orkut.com"

mintplant — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:38:17 +0000

Yep, this is the exact use case that voice channels are used for in the community-oriented Discord servers I'm in. With the important note that voice channels support not just voice but video, multi-person screensharing, text chat, and even built-in games, though I've never actually seen the last of those get used in practice. Voice channels are just passively there in the channel sidebar with a list of people currently hanging out there, and you can drop in and drop out as you like. You can also send individual invites to join you in VC to server members.

New comment by mintplant in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

mintplant — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:30:01 +0000

But that integration kept timing out, so the author switched back to Twitch and somehow found a plain-RTMP endpoint that time. I'm also confused.

New comment by mintplant in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

mintplant — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:56:15 +0000

You can choose which categories of segments (sponsorships, interaction reminders, etc) auto-skip in the settings. You can also change them from auto-skip to manual skip via a "Skip" button that appears overlaid on the video.

New comment by mintplant in "F-Droid 2.0"

mintplant — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:02:32 +0000

I've never actually had this issue, for whatever reason. In-app updates to NewPipe (and the various forks) install just fine even if I originally downloaded from F-Droid. Not sure how that works exactly.

New comment by mintplant in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"

mintplant — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:34:45 +0000

My partner cried the other day because her long-planned PC upgrade is now an order of magnitude more expensive than she budgeted for pre-AI-boom.

Destructive Convenience

mintplant — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:10:06 +0000

Article URL: https://volpeon.ink/notebook/dangerous-convenience/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086054

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Yarn Spinner Public License

mintplant — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:32:02 +0000

Article URL: https://yarnspinner.dev/yspl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986234

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mintplant in "Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust"

mintplant — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:24:57 +0000

Going from starting the project two weeks ago to already having a flashy marketing site is another tell, unfortunately. As much as I would love to see a trustworthy version of this idea.

https://github.com/rayfish/rayfish/commit/c49816e6dfba19e91a...

New comment by mintplant in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

mintplant — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:11:37 +0000

Reading the comments in this thread, I think it's difficult for some folks here to accept that many, many people outside their bubble genuinely despise what they're doing, and it's not just a misunderstanding or a matter of branding.

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

# Comments: 0

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.