Hacker News: monocularvision

New comment by monocularvision in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

monocularvision — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:42:33 +0000

That explains it. I don’t see it from my US IP address.

New comment by monocularvision in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

monocularvision — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:01:34 +0000

I just did. Tell me where it states what you are claiming. Neither my reading (IANAL) nor ChatGPT’s reading could find such a blanket ban:

https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms

New comment by monocularvision in "New laws to make it easier to cancel subscriptions and get refunds"

monocularvision — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:58:32 +0000

In the US, the problem with this as a solution if you had some contract or agreement with the company, simply not paying doesn’t mean you have cancelled that contract. They could continue to bill you, report non-payment to credit bureaus and try to come after you via collections.

Many/most won’t do all that but it is something to keep in mind.

New comment by monocularvision in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

monocularvision — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:41:50 +0000

You might want to check out “How it Works” on the site as none of what you said applies: https://typed.by/how

New comment by monocularvision in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"

monocularvision — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:28:32 +0000

That indemnity clause is only for Team, Enterprise and API users. Do you know what was used here?

Also the commercial version is limited to “…Customer and its personnel, successors, and assigns…”. I am very much not a lawyer and couldn’t find definitions of these in the agreement but I am not sure how transferable this indemnity would be to an open source project.

New comment by monocularvision in "“This is not the computer for you”"

monocularvision — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:51:35 +0000

This post reminds me of a 14-year old boy reading the MS-DOS manual to figure out what AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS at his younger brother’s football games.

New comment by monocularvision in "ATMs didn't kill bank Teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

monocularvision — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:19:13 +0000

Yep, check deposit was the last reason I might regularly visit a bank (although even before the iPhone, I would use the ATM for that)

New comment by monocularvision in "WA income tax clears House after 24-hour debate"

monocularvision — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:38:04 +0000

If you are truly incapable of even imagining the objections (that you might disagree with!) you should probably get out of your bubble and expand the content you consume.

New comment by monocularvision in "GPT-5.4"

monocularvision — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:12:10 +0000

This is great! I have been meaning to implement this sort of thing in my existing Shortcuts flow but I see you already support it in Shortcuts! Thank you for this!

Anywhere I can toss a Tip for this free app?

New comment by monocularvision in "MacBook Neo"

monocularvision — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:35:31 +0000

There’s also plenty of room for it which is why it continues to appear on all MacBooks.

New comment by monocularvision in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

monocularvision — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:30:15 +0000

It’s as if there are a bunch of different people out there.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy

New comment by monocularvision in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

monocularvision — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:48:13 +0000

“Google denied wrongdoing but settled to avoid the risk, cost and uncertainty of litigation, court papers show.”

I keep seeing folks float this as some admission of wrongdoing but it is not.

New comment by monocularvision in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

monocularvision — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:31:11 +0000

Copilot in the streets, Claude in the sheets.

New comment by monocularvision in "Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see"

monocularvision — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:53:52 +0000

I understand that language evolves and meanings change but we need a word that means “literally”! If we let this one go, the battle is lost.

New comment by monocularvision in "iCloud Photos Downloader"

monocularvision — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:15:21 +0000

Do you know if this supports multiple users? Can’t find mention of it in the site.

New comment by monocularvision in "Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)"

monocularvision — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:48:28 +0000

I am not a huge fan of joke-y replies like this, but bravo. Perfect.

New comment by monocularvision in "Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge"

monocularvision — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:37:58 +0000

To be honest I am not sure if you are even discussing this in good faith anymore. The idea that the Supreme Court could render impeachment of them null and void and the legislative and executive branches would just be :shrugging-emoji: is a little silly.

Yes, the court’s job is to interpret the law. But the Constitution is not code and the judges are not the CPU. Ultimately, the rule of law will always be dependent on people.

New comment by monocularvision in "Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge"

monocularvision — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:59:11 +0000

They could still be impeached by the legislative branch.

New comment by monocularvision in "Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge"

monocularvision — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 00:44:52 +0000

Highly recommend the podcast “Advisory Opinions” if you are interested in Supreme Court analysis.

New comment by monocularvision in "Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple $115M for Abusing Dominant Position"

monocularvision — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:06:13 +0000

Apple is allowed to share data among its apps. Third-party app developers are allowed to share data within their apps. If third-party developers want to share data with _other_ third-party developers (aka the advertising ID), then they need the explicitly request permission. It is fairly straightforward.