Hacker News: mkgeorge7

New comment by mkgeorge7 in "Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments"

mkgeorge7 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:14:17 +0000

This is actually very cool@

New comment by mkgeorge7 in "Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments"

mkgeorge7 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:14:05 +0000

This is actually very cool!

New comment by mkgeorge7 in "Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs"

mkgeorge7 — Tue, 06 May 2025 16:08:04 +0000

Question for the devs in here...something I've been thinking about a lot recently. So I see that OP linked out to a public github repo...but when downloading the actual bundle, what's a quick way for me to determine that what I'm installing on my mac is actually the same as what's in the public repo? It's always seemed like a loophole to me ready for (potential) exploitation.

>> Ship project. >> Link out Github repo on the static site somewhere >> Gain trust instantly as users presume the public repo is what's used behind the scenes

Disclaimer: I'm a web dev and don't know a single thing about native MacOS software

New comment by mkgeorge7 in "4B If Statements"

mkgeorge7 — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:21:24 +0000

I'm relatively new to the world of node. Is there anything objectively wrong or should I say nefarious with that this Jon person is doing? I guess, what's the issue here, from your perspective, if he's creating package (that albeit are simple) but some some amount of utility?

Ask HN: How does Google Widevine work under the hood?

mkgeorge7 — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:04:17 +0000

In an attempt to watch a movie together with a friend over Zoom, I found that while screen sharing, HBO Max (via the browser) blacked out the entire screen in a preemptive effort to combat bad actors from exploiting copyrighted material.

I did some digging and found the source of this technology: Google Widevine.

I tried circumventing this restriction and visited HBO Max from Brave browser, but even there, I was prompted to download this extension lest I wouldn't be able to access the site.

I'm a web developer, so a couple of questions come to mind:

1)How exactly would any browser environment be privy to me using a screen sharing via another mac app, zoom?

Some preliminary research suggests that browsers can't tap into the ScreenCaptureKit API, which has me a little perplexed.

I'm curious to know what information is being ingested by a browser when I screen share via zoom. How are the event listeners initialized? How is data being passed to them? What specific os permissions does a browser application need access to to tap into my mac's sceencapturekit api?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38796359

Points: 19

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New comment by mkgeorge7 in "Show HN: Playing Telephone with GPT-4 and Dall-E-3"

mkgeorge7 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:42:28 +0000

I am VERY curious to see how this recursion plays out, but I'm seeing the below error.

RuntimeError: This app has encountered an error. The original error message is redacted to prevent data leaks. Full error details have been recorded in the logs (if you're on Streamlit Cloud, click on 'Manage app' in the lower right of your app).

Dear AI [GPT4], What is love?

mkgeorge7 — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 21:19:21 +0000

Article URL: https://trythatwithai.substack.com/p/dear-ai-what-is-love

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35531724

Points: 4

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New comment by mkgeorge7 in "Is Y Combinator worth the money? A second perspective (S21 batch)"

mkgeorge7 — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 18:58:07 +0000

Yesterday, I read an article by Oleksii Sidorov where he shared his experience on being incubated by YC – batch of W22. Here's the link to the original substack: https://acecreamu.substack.com/p/is-y-combinator-worth-the-m...

I work for a YC (S21) company, as an employee and not as a founder, so I immediately sent the article to one of the cofounders to gauge his thoughts on Oleksii's experience, purely out of my own curiosity.

Being the kind of mentor that he is, Colton sent me a highly detailed, point-by-point analysis on everything Oleksii touched on.

I loved it and told him that instead of having his perspective exist merely in our private discord DM, he should put it in a twitter thread and share it publicly, since a second perspective is always useful, thus this post.

Enjoy!