Hacker News: progbits

New comment by progbits in "Meshdiff – visually compare two STL versions in the browser, client-side"

progbits — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 13:09:15 +0000

Looks handy. Feature suggestion: locked views so all three viewports rotate together.

New comment by progbits in "Building a native C# implementation of CEL engine"

progbits — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:41:05 +0000

The code is also clearly all vibecoded.

I think this is the usual we get these days: "Show HN: I built..." where in fact author did write neither the code nor the writeup.

New comment by progbits in "MCP 2026-07-28 Specification: transport going stateless"

progbits — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:21:59 +0000

It was clear from the start (to anyone who ever designed a protocol [1]) that MCP was a pile anti-patterns. They are slowly undoing the mistakes one by one. Maybe next years version will finally be something usable that it could have been from v1.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44016783

New comment by progbits in "Make an Origami Circuit Board"

progbits — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:03:57 +0000

The images you are looking for:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3772318.3792784

Page 13, figure 16.

Strange this is not in the article itself.

New comment by progbits in "GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices"

progbits — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:30:06 +0000

Even more of a reason for good and easy backup and restore.

Before travel back up the real contents and restore a dummy travel backup with random games, stock photos etc. Then restore back to real contents.

New comment by progbits in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

progbits — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:00:37 +0000

Codeberg is not software.

Forgejo is, and remains FOSS.

Codeberg provides a free service and is under no obligation to cater to cryptobros and vibecoders. You can buy a VM and host your own.

New comment by progbits in "Tell HN: Namecheap gave my account to an unverified third party"

progbits — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:53:21 +0000

You can also buy .is domains directly from the ISNIC registry. Or .de, .to, and few others support that.

No registrar needed, they are useless middlemen anyway.

New comment by progbits in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

progbits — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:40:37 +0000

From the prompt:

> You should do a breakthrough

This is just as funny and ridiculous as those "make no mistake" prompts.

New comment by progbits in "I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25"

progbits — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:26:01 +0000

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/3a640e1c5e39aa...

String concatenation SQL injection in the year 2026.

New comment by progbits in "Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor"

progbits — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:50:35 +0000

Not taking it away.

I hate those arguments "it has emdash therefore AI", of course humans also write that way.

But poor and excessive usage of them is a pretty strong red flag, also together with other tells.

New comment by progbits in "Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor"

progbits — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:48:44 +0000

In last month or two I noticed semicolons getting used where previously it would be em-dash, in both cases excessively and often incorrectly.

I assumed some of my coworkers added "replace all em-dashes with semicolons" into their CLAUDE.md as a really crappy attempt at hiding their inability to write a single sentence without assistance.

New comment by progbits in "Madame Semver Will See You Now"

progbits — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:22:58 +0000

This reminded me a lot of Aphyr's interview series.

Madame Semver Will See You Now

progbits — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:25:12 +0000

Article URL: https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/10/madame-semver-will-see-you-now.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892339

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by progbits in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

progbits — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:54:40 +0000

Thank you!

Is that a new feature? I have over a thousand contributions on StreetComplete (casually using it during walks) and somehow I never noticed that button.

New comment by progbits in "Agentic coding notes from Galapagos Island"

progbits — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:25:11 +0000

Realizing he's just using it to mean remote place in terms of AI bubble (Vancouver! What does that make all the other places that are not major tech hubs?) was a bummer.

Who cares about AI, I wanted to read about living in Galapagos

New comment by progbits in "Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3"

progbits — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:06:59 +0000

I see this all the time in code reviews at work. Extremely verbose comments that teach the clueless author how things work but have no place in the final code: aside from codebase not being a coding tutorial, they are also incredibly specific and would become stale and incorrect in matter of weeks.

New comment by progbits in "Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it"

progbits — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:27:17 +0000

> So imagine my surprise when I was notified that Google removed the article from its search results

You know you can just read the linked articles, right?

Edit: parent has edited their post, it used to say something like "google has never notified anyone about such things".

New comment by progbits in "Doing a masters while working in Spain"

progbits — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:59:59 +0000

This comment is little abrasive but there is truth to it.

I've seen many people who are quite competent under close supervision but completely clueless on their own.

We could debate if academia would be better off with different approach though.

New comment by progbits in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"

progbits — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:38:54 +0000

https://github.com/jyjblrd/wigglegramLens

This is one option, trading ease of use and low cost for lower picture quality and less light.

New comment by progbits in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

progbits — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:06:51 +0000

> EU regulators’ extreme interpretation of the DMA

It's not extreme interpretation, it's the intent.

Just say it would break your vendor lock-in.