Hacker News: mobeigi

New comment by mobeigi in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

mobeigi — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:10:34 +0000

I used to use a Windows firewall which basically hijacked a bunch of WinAPI calls and let me approve/deny every request. Trying to be a good secure boy I ran this setup for a while but it was exhausting. Every single action needed dozens of approval windows. After a while I removed the software. I reckon it is good situationally though, trying out a new program for first time (that isn't risky enough for a VM or sandbox), might be good to turn on a tool like this.

New comment by mobeigi in "Ring owners are returning their cameras"

mobeigi — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:05:57 +0000

The parody is amazing! They were quick to respond and made a great ad at a time a lot of people are moving away from Ring.

New comment by mobeigi in "We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs"

mobeigi — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:10:45 +0000

Any modern system with a sizeable userbase has thousands of bugs. Not all bugs are severe, some might be inconveniences at best affecting only a small % of customers. You have to usually balance feature work and bug fixes and leadership almost always favours new features if the bugs aren't critical to address.

New comment by mobeigi in "We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs"

mobeigi — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:08:15 +0000

I believe the idea is to pick small items that you'd likely be able to solve quickly. You don't know for sure but you can usually take a good guess at which tasks are quick.

New comment by mobeigi in "You can make PS2 games in JavaScript"

mobeigi — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 10:07:33 +0000

Even the PS2 isn't safe from JavaScript.

New comment by mobeigi in "Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)"

mobeigi — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:42:50 +0000

Lovely attack vector. It's fun to open the various databases stored by browsers like Chrome in SQLITE to see the kind of information they store. I wouldn't be surprised if a similar attack vector existed for a different stored artefact.

New comment by mobeigi in "Building a Simple Search Engine That Works"

mobeigi — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:50:59 +0000

Great read. It makes you wonder how heavily optimised the tokenizers used by popular search enginea truly are.

New comment by mobeigi in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

mobeigi — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 06:27:15 +0000

I wonder if there is a real person out there called John Doe who regularly received legal threats for a myriad of alleged crimes.

New comment by mobeigi in "Meeting Cost Calculator"

mobeigi — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 06:05:42 +0000

I wish people would understand how expensive meetings are. Don't get me wrong, a good meeting can be very useful for all parties involved by the vast majority of meetings can be replaces by a blog post or pre-recorded video which can be shared out for people to consume on their own schedules.

New comment by mobeigi in "Marko – A declarative, HTML‑based language"

mobeigi — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 07:01:27 +0000

I love the landing page for this project. It's very engaging.

New comment by mobeigi in "Why is Zig so cool?"

mobeigi — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 04:07:42 +0000

I've heard good things about Zig. I want to pick it up and experiment with it but at ~2% market share I find it hard to justify spending the time to learn and master it right now. It's usually much easier to find the time to learn a new language if there is a project (work or open source) that is also using it.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology

New comment by mobeigi in "Tags to make HTML work like you expect"

mobeigi — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:47:24 +0000

Interesting.

From what I can tell this allows some screen readers to select specific accents. Also the browser can select the appropriate spell checker (US English vs British English).

New comment by mobeigi in "Why I code as a CTO"

mobeigi — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:46:38 +0000

Exactly. Most CTO's have tens if not hundreds of direct reports that rely on them regularly. Which is why their time must be used to support them leaving absolutely 0 time to do PR code contributions on the side (unless you work weekends).

New comment by mobeigi in "Why I code as a CTO"

mobeigi — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:44:28 +0000

I appreciated the sentiment but I do wonder how on earth a CTO has enough time to write one line of code, let along several thousands. Even before reaching the C-suite roles, higher ups tend to be in meetings all day, back to back. In the short amount of non-meeting time they find, they typically have to do other admin related things or information sharing.

I guess that CTO uses weekends or works super long hours which I is fine if they don't push that expectation onto others.

I'd only really expect a CTO in an early stage startup to be pushing code like this (and eventually stepping back when they grow).

New comment by mobeigi in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

mobeigi — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:39:52 +0000

Hopefully the worker is okay. I have to agree that the non-emergency classification seems odd. This should warrant a proper investigation and steps to avoid this in the future.

New comment by mobeigi in "Email bombs exploit lax authentication in Zendesk"

mobeigi — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 05:15:04 +0000

This spam campaign drove me nuts! I received so many of these emails from so many random companies.

The key takeaway is to always have a email verification loop (or something stronger like phone verification) when using an anonymous user feature. You need to prove you own an email address before you use it.

New comment by mobeigi in "Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client"

mobeigi — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:20:54 +0000

I'm amazed people still use IRC! More power to you. I used to use it a fair bit back in the day bit the last programming community that I was a part of that used IRC moved to Discord around 2020 which is when I basically stopped using it.

New comment by mobeigi in "Chess.com regional pricing: A case study"

mobeigi — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:40:33 +0000

I'm a big fan of lichess! Their developers are also super friendly and helped answer my questions when I was using their open source projects to build a hobby chess app. I donate regularly too.

This post was more about exploring regional pricing using a case study and lichess being free in every country wasn't a good fit :)

New comment by mobeigi in "Chess.com regional pricing: A case study"

mobeigi — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:36:40 +0000

I checked several states from the US and some from other countries. I did not find any discrepancies within a country but I didn't check every combination of course!

New comment by mobeigi in "Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?"

mobeigi — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:13:30 +0000

I'm waiting for the day someone builds a wrapper around LLM chats and uses it as a storage medium. It's already been done for GitHub, YouTube videos and Minecraft.