Hacker News: pfych

New comment by pfych in "There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability"

pfych — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 07:48:50 +0000

It looks to be at least 20 days old, with another blog post on the site

New comment by pfych in "Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?"

pfych — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:41:15 +0000

I migrated to self hosted bitwarden (vaultwarden) on my Nix VPS.

Using the CXP integration in the iOS 1Password/Bitwarden apps made bringing over my OTP codes, Passkeys and passwords super easy. It didn't bring over my attached files though, but easy enough to manually do that. Was able to get it setup, migrated and 1Pass sub cancelled in less than an hour.

FYI, I was briefly having issues with the iOS and Desktop bitwarden apps but it was due to my vaultwarden version being a little behind! Making sure I was running latest with a nix flake update fixed any issues :)

New comment by pfych in "Bitcoin trail, Google cookies and Uber Eats orders help tie man to Steam malware"

pfych — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:33:00 +0000

Claude get me a job that pays $200k/yr. Make a breakthrough.

New comment by pfych in "Bluesky Trademarks ATProto"

pfych — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:29:39 +0000

maybe 1/2 of the people in my bsky feeds use non bsky pds'es & clients?

New comment by pfych in "DoesItAgeVerify: The age verification status of Open Source Operating Systems"

pfych — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:28:46 +0000

It is just arch with some guy's dotfiles - and they're not even that good

New comment by pfych in "Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time"

pfych — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:00:25 +0000

> What the hell has happened to HN? Am I speaking with some Russian bot farm trying to breed political radicalization?

Sadly not - check sentiment on X around these topics, heritage foundation etc are pushing all these topics right now

New comment by pfych in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

pfych — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:23:39 +0000

FYI - shewon is entirely self reported and does no verification. It includes events such as local town fair bean bag throwing competitions.

It also classifies a trans person winning anything as ~3 losses since "a non-trans person may have shifted the entire bracket" moving 2nd -> 1st, 3rd -> 2nd etc... The entire site is hypebole and should not be used as a serious reference lol.

New comment by pfych in "Show HN: 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS"

pfych — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:18:13 +0000

This is Mahjong Solitaire - It's completely different to actual Mahjong. It's a completely different game that uses Mahjong tiles.

New comment by pfych in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

pfych — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:04:16 +0000

This is just what I did, and plan to continue to do.

New comment by pfych in "UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M"

pfych — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:24:50 +0000

This budget included a full modernization of their infrastructure as well as the website redesign. It's still heaps of money - but the media saying "a website cost $96 million AUD" is misleading.

New comment by pfych in "Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf"

pfych — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:07:41 +0000

Someones linked in this thread the Defunctland video essay on these characters that I highly recommend watching since it goes into this in detail.

But the main reason is, there's a lot of brand imagery on the line with these interactions, someone putting on a voice, or using a voice changer could make a mistake. Disney instead have a conversation tree with pre-recorded voice lines that a remote operator can control. Much harder to mess up

New comment by pfych in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

pfych — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 02:30:27 +0000

It's crazy to read this because I came from a Samsung TV/Display - LG Software is so much better than that!

Really wish we'd get dumb displays with these great panels :(

New comment by pfych in "Wikipedia earned $184M from donations, the servers cost less than $5M"

pfych — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:32:17 +0000

I don't know why I ever bother scrolling down when opening a twitter thread... Some of those comments are crazy to read.

Personally I think while wikipedia does rake in an extremely large amount of money via donations, they provide an amazing platform and haven't felt the need to make it shitty with new features - or "keep up with market trends". I'm happy for it to stay this way.

New comment by pfych in "Sunsetting Supermaven"

pfych — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 01:13:44 +0000

Supermaven still is the smartest & best tab autocomplete I've ever used. And it's a shame there is ZERO competitors who come close to how "smart" it felt with it's suggestions. All other tab autocomplete AI's feel annoying and almost always get in my way.

I stopped using Supermaven a while back when their JetBrains plugins broke and the only fix was a manual edit to a java file every time the IDE updated :(

New comment by pfych in "Verifying your Matrix devices is becoming mandatory"

pfych — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 04:52:30 +0000

I use Thunderbird as my main Matrix client since it's already always open on my PC and is Lightweight. Whenever I open Element or any other client (Nheko, etc.) they all complain about each-other being unverified.

Clicking verify in any client does nothing. No popups in any other clients - doesn't ever seem to do anything. Sometimes Element will pop up a QR reader but there's no QR presented in the other clients. The UX around Matrix is a nightmare.

New comment by pfych in "Outdated Samsung handset linked to fatal emergency call failure in Australia"

pfych — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:37:03 +0000

Australia shut down its entire 3G network, which a lot of devices used for emergency calls. A lot of phones worked with 4G still but did not support using 4G for emergency calls.

The telco's solution was to sell new phones to people, which a lot of people didn't do. Apparently all of these phones that still worked were flagged and blocked from using 4G but this apparently wasn't the case.

New comment by pfych in "Peter Thiel: Capitalism Isn't Working for Young People"

pfych — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 02:56:22 +0000

He has defended the institution of slavery, and has suggested that certain races may be more naturally inclined toward servitude than others.[^1][^2]

[^1]: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/curtis-yarvin/ [^2]: https://www.inc.com/tess-townsend/why-it-matters-that-an-obs...

New comment by pfych in "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"

pfych — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:27:01 +0000

I run heaps of services on AWS and my bill is ~$2-3 - I'm not running any EC2 instances at all. Some of the offerings these cloud providers offer are extremely affordable if you know how to play your cards right and use the right services.

New comment by pfych in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

pfych — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:29:44 +0000

I'm always happy to hear this from people. I get maybe an email a month specifically about this post haha

New comment by pfych in "Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update"

pfych — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:09:41 +0000

My Samsung 4k 240hz OLED monitor has an absolutely gorgeous panel but if I knew I'd need to connect it to the internet and run a PYTHON script to disable some of its "features"[1] I probably would have gotten a similar LG display instead.

[^1]: https://pfy.ch/programming/disable-samsung-game-bar.html