Hacker News: mmanfrin

New comment by mmanfrin in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

mmanfrin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:28:42 +0000

I feel accepted spelling of the word is 'doxxes'; doxes in my head reads as 'dokeses'.

Also talk about a headline that would mean absolute gibberish just a couple decades ago.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Shall I implement it? No"

mmanfrin — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:43:05 +0000

How is this not clear?

New comment by mmanfrin in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

mmanfrin — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:46:51 +0000

You can make blood money but you have to be aware it's blood money. Don't delude yourself in to thinking you work for an ethical or moral company.

New comment by mmanfrin in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

mmanfrin — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:02:04 +0000

Absolute disgrace of a person and organization.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Banned in California"

mmanfrin — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:38:23 +0000

> At least if they drive everyone productive out of the state, the environment will be pristine.

Most of what you said has been going on for >100 years. That's sure driven people out!

New comment by mmanfrin in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

mmanfrin — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:22:35 +0000

Far cry difference between that and the mass dragnet and centralized surveillance of entire communities at tap for agencies/police/fed.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Brex is joining forces with Capital One"

mmanfrin — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:23:37 +0000

"Joining forces" is such a lame corpospeak phrase.

New comment by mmanfrin in "OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions"

mmanfrin — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:49:19 +0000

Every other iteration of a service that introduces a free ad-paid tier then ratchets it to bifurcation of premium in to 'premium' and 'premium with no ads' and then on and on.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Iran Protest Map"

mmanfrin — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:19:47 +0000

"The same organization" is missing the context of it being made the 2nd largest military on earth by the current admin.

New comment by mmanfrin in "I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude"

mmanfrin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 03:42:41 +0000

I yearn for those days. CSS was a mistake. Tables and DHTML is all one needs.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Fire TV: Amazon to block piracy apps in the future"

mmanfrin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:23:31 +0000

Firefox with ublock and I still get the modal.

New comment by mmanfrin in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"

mmanfrin — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:27:08 +0000

And the only institution with a mandate to educate and inform just got defunded.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)"

mmanfrin — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:38:32 +0000

Great irony of finishing a league game just now where the whole game lagged (for everyone in the game) to find this at the top of HN.

New comment by mmanfrin in "AI promised efficiency. Instead, it's making us work harder"

mmanfrin — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:07:51 +0000

Modern cotton gin.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Chatbots are replacing Google's search, devastating traffic for some publishers"

mmanfrin — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 04:21:11 +0000

I built a protein comparison site (aggregating nutrition, ingredients, electrolytes, prices) and I expected a little bit of traffic, but I'm getting less than a single visitor every 2 days from google. It's absolutely dead.

A year ago I threw together a tiny little site with some datamined assets from a game (deadlock) that randomly got indexed and saw a couple hundred visits a month from google.

New comment by mmanfrin in "I hacked a dating app (and how not to treat a security researcher)"

mmanfrin — Mon, 12 May 2025 21:35:29 +0000

> They didn't know what they were doing _and still went through with it_

You don't know what you don't know; sometimes people can think they do know what they're doing and they just haven't encountered situations otherwise. We were all new to programming once; no one would ever become a solid engineer if they prevented themselves from building anything out of fear of doing something wrong that they did not account for out of lack of experience.

New comment by mmanfrin in "FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities"

mmanfrin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 17:54:10 +0000

> What is the purpose of laws if they are willfully ignored?

Nearly every liberty we take for granted was at one point against the law or gained through willful lawbreaking. A healthy society should be tolerant of some bending of the rules.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Signal Carnival"

mmanfrin — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 02:05:29 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Orvsms7Ils

New comment by mmanfrin in ".localhost Domains"

mmanfrin — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 19:24:40 +0000

The comments here all suggesting different arcane and complicated stacks of different devops solutions and certificates and configurations and services has me somewhat despairing that such a COMMON usecase is still so annoyingly obtuse.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water"

mmanfrin — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:51:14 +0000

Why wouldn't they, it's what plants crave.