Hacker News: mpern

New comment by mpern in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

mpern — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 16:40:09 +0000

FWIW I moved to Proton Pass after I read the blog post months ago. The switch was seamless except for passkeys (had to enroll new ones; back then I only found a tool to convert Proton Pass passkeys to Bitwarden, but not the other way around)

For me, Pass works much better, especially passkeys on Android. Bitwarden was very flaky in that regard, Proton Pass "just works".

I use Pass for personal logins and sharing family-related accounts with my wife.

New comment by mpern in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

mpern — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:38:38 +0000

At least for gondolin and microsandbox, you bind a specific secret placeholder to the target host. i.e. your GH token is only replaced/injected for calls to api.github.com, not other hosts. And you can set up both with deny-by-default

New comment by mpern in "Why are so many young people getting cancer?"

mpern — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:20:31 +0000

Which therapies do you have in mind and where can I find more information?

I have cancer, I'll take anything that has at least preliminary trails...

New comment by mpern in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

mpern — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:39:50 +0000

I read the title as "I scraped 38 book reviews". Time to get reading glasses...

New comment by mpern in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

mpern — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:13:00 +0000

Would you be so kind to lead by example?

What are the specific tasks + prompts giving you an 3x increased output, and conversely, what tasks don't work at all?

After an admittedly cursory scan of your blog and the repos in your GH account I don't find anything in this direction.