Hacker News: philipdavis

New comment by philipdavis in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

philipdavis — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:38:04 +0000

i tried very hard to find a plugin that was deploying a Trojan but couldn’t find any. It looks to be a POC report. The title is so misleading and terrifying

New comment by philipdavis in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

philipdavis — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:36:54 +0000

When you wonder how much damage one person can do in 4 years...

New comment by philipdavis in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

philipdavis — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:34:13 +0000

nice! Here is trump speak

Input: i like burgers

Output: I love burgers, I really do. They’re fantastic, maybe the best food ever created, believe me. Nobody likes a great burger more than I do, it’s true.

New comment by philipdavis in "Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub"

philipdavis — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:14:07 +0000

The MCP approach is brilliant! I've been solving the same friction problem from a different angle. I mostly use Anki to improve my vocabulary, and ended up building a tiny browser-side tool for myself (now called Wordwise / Anki Dictionary) that lets me double click any word on a webpage, get a clean definition + the sentence it appears in, and export it straight into Anki with one click.

It’s been a surprisingly good middle ground between fully manual cards and fully LLM dumps. If anyone’s curious: https://wordwise.me

New comment by philipdavis in "AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power"

philipdavis — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 03:25:26 +0000

It says ordinary people are sold AI, and billionaires are sold AGI

New comment by philipdavis in "Bored of It"

philipdavis — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 05:45:22 +0000

I thought it was Trump

New comment by philipdavis in "Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by"

philipdavis — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 06:43:07 +0000

The badges are hilarious lol

career|saved stakeholders|impressed

New comment by philipdavis in "Layoffs Don't Work"

philipdavis — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 04:07:07 +0000

Hmm Goldman has been trimming 5% or so every year, and looks they have been doing fine so far.

New comment by philipdavis in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

philipdavis — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:05:15 +0000

I feel only MAGA are happy & comfortable staying on X, voting for trump != maga

hence the question

New comment by philipdavis in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

philipdavis — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:41:29 +0000

I guess those smart, insightful people are staying on X because

- their targeting audience are on X

- they are rich and do not really care what the platform owner does

- they will be very happy to join the owner when offered such opportunities

For people who are the target audience of those people, I guess

- they voted for this, and they are happily watching the federal gov falling apart

- they convinced themselves that X is the place to grow / learn from smart and insightful people (I don't think one has to be on it for more than 10 min a day to grow & learn, unless one is a crypto trader)

- they convinced themselves that it is really nothing political about using X

New comment by philipdavis in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

philipdavis — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:10:14 +0000

Do people in the US still use X? If yes, why? What keeps you on the platform (so the owner is a tiny step closer to destroying your own country)?

New comment by philipdavis in "I built a lay-down desk"

philipdavis — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 14:51:39 +0000

A phone is usually less than 200g, a CRT monitor can easily be >10kg, so at least 50 times worse

New comment by philipdavis in "When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number"

philipdavis — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:33:43 +0000

Question: do you think you will be arrested for doing the same thing if it was in your country? (A from myself: yes absolutely)