Hacker News: prophesi

New comment by prophesi in "AI makes programming differently difficult"

prophesi — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:27:44 +0000

They need to improve their spec on writing responses on Hacker News. Or maybe typos are an improvement by design to look human / increase engagement.

Not suggesting anything, but I'm wondering where the culture of having obvious misspellings without editing them out became the norm on HN. It's become the new em dash warning flag for me on forums.

New comment by prophesi in "Web-based cryptography is always snake oil"

prophesi — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:14:29 +0000

The discussion on the proposed solution is interesting

https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1680

New comment by prophesi in "Efficacy and Safety of Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression"

prophesi — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:20:56 +0000

Bit of an aside, but a quarter of Xanax can also immediately take you out of an LSD trip.

New comment by prophesi in "Efficacy and Safety of Psilocybin in Treatment-Resistant Major Depression"

prophesi — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:57:14 +0000

I'm of the same opinion. Also apparently one recipient ended up with HPPD from this medical study, when they essentially only had 30mg of psilocybin every 6 weeks? I think prior history should be checked there.

> Two serious adverse reactions were reported after psilocybin, 25 mg, including 1 case of hallucinogen persisting perception disorder.

The psychotherapeutic therapy probably did the heavy lifting for any positive effects. At least from what I can tell, for depression, the magic of psychedelics is the reckoning you're faced with to clean up your act and think of more than just yourself.

Still, always glad to see more studies on psilocybin!

New comment by prophesi in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

prophesi — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:03:57 +0000

Or maybe just add a script in package.json to run whatever patch-package does (eg, "install:patch": "npm install && patch-package") instead of whitelisting every package to have that power.

New comment by prophesi in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

prophesi — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:36:49 +0000

Corporate is also claiming that they don't allow stores to take on consignment deals, contrary to their franchise agreement explicitly allowing franchise owners to take on consignment deals.

New comment by prophesi in "Exit IP VPN servers mitigation rollout"

prophesi — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:41:03 +0000

> For journalists targetted by nation states, perhaps it would be better to use Brave or Chrome inside of Qubes.

Curious why Chrome/Brave is recommended? I don't think any modern browser is better for anti-fingerprinting like the Firefox-based ones, including TOR and Mullvad Browser? Don't install random extensions outside the defaults and you're doing a lot better than a Brave/Chrome install if you want a usable internet.

New comment by prophesi in "A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft"

prophesi — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:56:17 +0000

I imagine the 5% of issues are more likely to be related to Linux itself; then they hop back to a BSOD on Windows with forced updates or a buggy "stable" OS update on Mac.

New comment by prophesi in "Loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE"

prophesi — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:04:13 +0000

Not an exhaustive list, but the site has a Showcase page[0]. The readme[1] also has a link to their Discord server along with their forum.

[0] https://strudel.cc/intro/showcase/

[1] https://codeberg.org/uzu/strudel

[2] https://club.tidalcycles.org/

New comment by prophesi in "Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does"

prophesi — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:26:38 +0000

Thankfully the case was taken to the Hamilton County Municipal Court, which I imagine was a much fairer trail than he would've received at Lockland's Mayor Court. He was cleared of all charges[0].

[0] https://local12.com/news/local/man-cleared-charges-spray-pai...

New comment by prophesi in "Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users"

prophesi — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:55:51 +0000

Unless it was in a previous iteration of the submission's title, I don't see Linux mentioned anywhere.

New comment by prophesi in "AI slop is killing online communities"

prophesi — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:33:11 +0000

When it comes to slow forum content, I think it's a fool's errand to try to determine if someone is using AI for their responses. Any of the tell-tale signs of AI are easily skirted by mentioning in their prompt to not do so. It goes back to how you can't sanitize human language which has been an issue with LLM's from the beginning.

Encouraging a culture of not using AI works to an extent, but I also tire of threads claiming the parent post is AI. There isn't a sure-fire way to know one way or another.

New comment by prophesi in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

prophesi — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:21:30 +0000

I think HN needs a refresher on responsible disclosure, and that even vulnerability scanners engage in this practice for obvious reasons in that it benefits both parties. One party gains exposure, and the other gets exposure and their bug squashed without the bug wrecking havoc while they try to squash it.

New comment by prophesi in "Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists"

prophesi — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:26:51 +0000

I'd agree with that to an extent. The USA is in a corporatocracy, so I'd argue it's the private corporate entities lobbying for the government to utilize their private surveillance. In general I try not to grant conspiratorial competency which could be better explained by the exchange of money.

New comment by prophesi in "Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists"

prophesi — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:13:39 +0000

The government is a third-party as well. Leveraging Flock to skirt privacy laws is two sides of the same coin; commercial entities are doing this too.

New comment by prophesi in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

prophesi — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:19:06 +0000

Yet wanting an extension recommendation by an online user you don't know to install code you can't verify with access to data on the youtube domain is fine.

New comment by prophesi in "Flock Condemns False Child Predator Allegations, Yet Calls Critics Terrorists"

prophesi — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:25:42 +0000

Whether or not Flock employees are child predators or not, the crux of the issue lies in the third parties Flock allows access to these cameras. For a link to their actual blog post where they make this comment: https://www.flocksafety.com/blog/understanding-flocks-testin...

(The terrorist allegations are from an interview December of last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357850 )

New comment by prophesi in "NIST gives up enriching most CVEs"

prophesi — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:09:04 +0000

Assuming this is in reference to the great Veritasium video[0] going over what these reference materials are used for and why they're so expensive.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esQyYGezS7c

New comment by prophesi in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

prophesi — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:33:57 +0000

Yes, there are plenty of them.

I think you heard "vibe-code" and immediately went out of your way to act obtuse, even though I was using it as an example of how simple it is to show these "hidden" filters.

New comment by prophesi in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

prophesi — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:50:27 +0000

> You're literally just adding extra parameters to the search request

> Saw more options looking for Firefox extensions than Chrome for this, though that might be expected.

Sorry if I wasn't clear enough in my comment that it's a very trivial feature. Would you want a lmgtfy link instead?

edit: The irony that this very submission is probably AI generated? There's no link to their source code, and there's a tab titled "AI Generator" for AI generated playlists?