Hacker News: orourke

New comment by orourke in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

orourke — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:05:01 +0000

My son was in the middle of an exam and then his screen went black and it showed the message from ShinyHunters. Hasn’t been able to get back in since.

New comment by orourke in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"

orourke — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:33:10 +0000

I feel that getting anywhere into the neighborhood of “kind of working” for a project like this is noteworthy and a huge milestone. Maybe a better headline would be, however: Agents almost create a working browser.

New comment by orourke in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

orourke — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:33:21 +0000

This has been my experience exactly. Even over just the last few weeks I’ve noticed a dramatic drop in having to undo what the agents have done.

New comment by orourke in "Replacement.ai"

orourke — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 15:03:48 +0000

I think the concern in this case is that, unlike before where machines were built for other people to use, we’re now building machines that may be able to use themselves.

New comment by orourke in "What a Hacker Stole from Me"

orourke — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:56:06 +0000

Why would someone try to hurt this guy? This site is great.

New comment by orourke in "FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions"

orourke — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 00:56:04 +0000

In the case of unsubscribe links I think it’s more about having your sending reputation destroyed by ISPs because they will penalize you heavily if people have to use the spam button to unsubscribe. Our company makes it as easy as possible and practically encourage people to unsubscribe because of this.

New comment by orourke in "Google must open Android for third-party stores, rules Epic judge"

orourke — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:44:26 +0000

I’ve been working with React Native and Flutter and every time I have to interact directly with iOS/Android, I find that Android is much easier to work with and feels much better designed from a software/api/config perspective. Where Apple wins, however, imho is in hardware. The iPhone is a masterpiece and users can tell, even ~16 years in. I feel that when Apple finally chokes on hardware, or some player in the Android spaces releases something incredible, the game will change quickly.

New comment by orourke in "Deep space radio signal reaches Earth after 8B years"

orourke — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 23:49:24 +0000

Not a series of prime numbers?

New comment by orourke in "Aliens and the Enlightenment"

orourke — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:03:25 +0000

What’s most fascinating to me is the certainly with which they believed that other worlds were inhabited. Horace Walpole, for example, even abandoning his faith over the theological difficulties it presented. Hundreds of years later, however, we’re left with the Fermi Paradox.

New comment by orourke in "Personal carbon footprint of the rich is vastly underestimated"

orourke — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:59:16 +0000

Because “carbon” in these conversations is a proxy to “stuff” as an important input to everything. Of course, the rich have more stuff. Interestingly, focusing on carbon allows for applying a moral dimension to having more stuff: it’s not only wrong to have more because I have less and don’t like that, but because you are hurting is all.

New comment by orourke in "All code is technical debt"

orourke — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 03:37:42 +0000

All code may be technical debt but the interest rate can vary.

New comment by orourke in "White Rabbit Project (2020)"

orourke — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:06:41 +0000

“sub-nanosecond synchronization”

“typical distances of 10 km between nodes”

Light travels 30cm in a nanosecond. How do they achieve sub-nanosecond accuracy over long distances?