Hacker News: montroser

HTTP desync in Discord's media proxy: Spying on a whole platform

montroser — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:18:23 +0000

Article URL: https://tmctmt.com/posts/http-desync-in-discord/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47808263

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by montroser in "Average is all you need"

montroser — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:36:30 +0000

This tracks. Tasks that used to be a day or two of grunt work are now an hour with Claude.

And there is a lot of that type of work to do if you're trying to grow a business. But, something in there should be trying to be exceptional or else you have no moat. Claude will probably not be able to breeze through that part with the same amount of ease...

New comment by montroser in "Average is all you need"

montroser — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:32:04 +0000

Average is all you need, if your needs are average.

New comment by montroser in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

montroser — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:42:13 +0000

> I sometimes wish I had never put my name on it so I could just take the money without harming my reputation, but I did, so I’m stuck with being honourable.

This distills down to: "I don't want to be honourable." They signaled right from the beginning.

New comment by montroser in "I Hate Tailwind and Love Bootstrap"

montroser — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:18:08 +0000

> It just adds an extra layer of abstraction, which I happen to also find unnecessary.

Can't tell if you're talking about React or Tailwind

New comment by montroser in "EFF Logs Out of X"

montroser — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:23:41 +0000

I like the big link to their Twitter profile at the top and bottom of that post!

New comment by montroser in "Show HN: Gemma Gem – AI model embedded in a browser – no API keys, no cloud"

montroser — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:13:40 +0000

Not sure if I actually want this (pretty sure I don't) -- but very cool that such a thing is now possible...

New comment by montroser in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

montroser — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:37:13 +0000

That is a lot of complaining for having no suggested better alternative.

And there is your answer to the clickbait title -- we're still using markdown because there's no alternative that is so much better that it is going to dethrone the one that has all the momentum from being the first good-enough take on this that got any traction.

New comment by montroser in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

montroser — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:46:13 +0000

It has been pretty rough. Their own numbers report just a single `9` for Actions in Feb 2026 with 98% uptime. But that said -- I don't get the 90% number.

Anecdotally, it seems believable that 1 in 50 times (2%) in Feb that Actions barfed. Which is not very nice, but it wasn't at 1 in 10 times (10%).

New comment by montroser in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

montroser — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:26:50 +0000

Then this is for the handful of cases for you. When it matters it matters.

New comment by montroser in "What came after the 486?"

montroser — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:36:22 +0000

I remember those Cyrix chips well. We had a little shop where we would assemble boxes to spec. And hey, a 486 is a 486, we reasoned. They were cheap, ran cool, and just about as fast as the others.

New comment by montroser in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

montroser — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:41:34 +0000

Cost of doing business...

New comment by montroser in "Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them"

montroser — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:13:35 +0000

If you want to switch back and forth between "these two web things side-by-side" and "something else" over and over, then in that case it's better than two full browser windows side-by-side because they come into the foreground and vice versa as a unit.

New comment by montroser in "Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive"

montroser — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:57:45 +0000

Gosh, my brain just got all fuzzy going through those one after the next. Transitioning from the previous era of CGA to 16 colors was so very exciting at the time.

New comment by montroser in "Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)"

montroser — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:12:18 +0000

I had a friend in ninth grade in the late 1900s who was a talented artist. He used his skills to make beautifully expressive pixel-art hardcore pornography on the TI-82.

He crafted a few different scenes, where for each one, he set it to loop back and forth between two frames -- and the implied motion was fantastically realistic for the resolution and fps he was working with...

Justice Department seizes several websites it says spread terrorist propaganda

montroser — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:01:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/19/politics/justice-department-seizes-websites-spread-terrorist-propaganda

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47448319

Points: 19

# Comments: 4

New comment by montroser in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

montroser — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:16:03 +0000

Reminds me of cpanel, from the late 1900s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPanel

New comment by montroser in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

montroser — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:43:02 +0000

This is as much an indictment of AWS compute as it is anything else.

New comment by montroser in "Ask HN: How many of you hold an amateur radio license in your country?"

montroser — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:38:34 +0000

There are dozens of us, friend. I got my license for the challenge and learning that came with. Tuned in to signals near and far but never sent my own voice over the air.

New comment by montroser in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

montroser — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:51:52 +0000

So, what is Motorola's incentive here? I love it, but why are they pursuing this? It's an enterprise / government play around auditable privacy and security?