Hacker News: neuroticnews25

Searchcode.com is being rebooted (maybe?)

neuroticnews25 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:41:24 +0000

Article URL: https://boyter.org/posts/searchcode-is-being-rebooted/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45247473

Points: 1

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New comment by neuroticnews25 in "Tell HN: Use "-f**k" to kill Google AI Overview"

neuroticnews25 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:53:11 +0000

I'm humbled and honored to announce I came up with it earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44364640

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "The great medieval water myth (2013)"

neuroticnews25 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:29:22 +0000

You don't really need sterile conditions, yeast just need a head start to outcompete other microbes. Then, as alcohol and CO₂ build up, the brew becomes bacteriostatic. Which is still different from being bactericidal.

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me"

neuroticnews25 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:58:57 +0000

>Maybe you're looking for the mediocre job just because you think it will be a walk in the park

>The worst one was talking about how it would be a relaxing position for them

What's wrong with that? Can't you compensate being lazy with being efficient?

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "I know genomes and I didn’t delete my data from 23andMe"

neuroticnews25 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 07:45:06 +0000

Incognito mode in Chrome does block third party cookies.

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)""

neuroticnews25 — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:40:06 +0000

That would make Grok the only model capable of protecting its real system prompt from leaking?

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database"

neuroticnews25 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:17:51 +0000

Basic SQLi, XSS, or buffer overflow attacks are equally trivial and stem from the same underlying problem of confusing instructions with data. Sophistication and creativity arises from bypassing mitigations and chaining together multiple vulnerabilities. I think we'll see the same with prompt injections as the arms race progresses.

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models"

neuroticnews25 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:27:18 +0000

Aren't these [0] lines wrong?

"[\\b\\d][Aa]bbo[\\bA-Z\\d]",

\b inside a set (square brackets) is a backspace character [1], not a word boundary. I don't think it was intended? Or is the regex flavor used here different?

[0] https://github.com/BlueFalconHD/apple_generative_model_safet...

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/nsregul...

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "Touching the back wall of the Apple store"

neuroticnews25 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 10:18:18 +0000

For non-apple people:  is Private Use Area code point rendered as Apple logo on Apple devices.

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "Ask HN: How to get rid of Gemini?"

neuroticnews25 — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 10:28:13 +0000

It also works with the exclusion operator (-fuck), this way you avoid polluting search results.

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "parrot.live"

neuroticnews25 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:48:43 +0000

curl.exe parrot.live to bypass the invoke-webrequest alias

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "The Shape of the Essay Field"

neuroticnews25 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:02:41 +0000

Ad 2, this is not how knowledge is understood in mainstream epistemology and in common language.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android"

neuroticnews25 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:03:46 +0000

To me it's weird that they're willing to misuse browser APIs so blatantly for interprocess communication, when, as I understand it, server-side correlation using a combination of IP, battery level and screen dimensions probably already gets them 95% of the surveillance capability.

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello"

neuroticnews25 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:03:50 +0000

Thank you, hosted demo with no login required saving to local storage is exactly what i was looking for.

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site"

neuroticnews25 — Fri, 23 May 2025 11:55:43 +0000

Author blacklists some ISPs [0]:

>I contacted Rachel and she said - and this is my poor paraphrasing from memory - that the IP ban was something she intentionally implemented but I got caught as a false positive

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42599359

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "The scientific “unit” we call the decibel"

neuroticnews25 — Thu, 22 May 2025 08:22:51 +0000

I think the "whining" is just a stylistic choice and an excuse to talk about the things he finds worth noting. I didn't perceive the tone of the article as negative.

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called “Karton”"

neuroticnews25 — Mon, 19 May 2025 11:34:04 +0000

ChromeOS also supports this, making the OS experience somewhat tolerable.

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "DNA is maybe 60-750MB of data"

neuroticnews25 — Fri, 09 May 2025 12:43:34 +0000

Another thing is that evolution doesn't need to store all the information defining an organism in the DNA. It can also be passed down from mother to child during pregnancy, never touching the source code, "reflections on trusting trust" style.

Superinteligent alien given only the DNA code and tasked with reconstructing the organism probably would never be able to guess all the details of the bootstrapping environment right. I find it weird how little people talk about this.

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "Show HN: Free, in-browser PDF editor"

neuroticnews25 — Mon, 05 May 2025 08:09:39 +0000

Photopea can also handle PDFs quite well. But not password protect them.

New comment by neuroticnews25 in "Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now"

neuroticnews25 — Mon, 05 May 2025 07:48:27 +0000

I was the only programmer in the 5-person team on a hackaton and due to juniority, time management and communication problems I didn't deliver anything that worked. We won.