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New comment by re in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

re — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:20:10 +0000

It's much worse than it used to be. Before it was only really a problem with apps with a lot of menus, and you could access the items by switching to an app with fewer of them. Now, the notch takes up a lot of space, and you hit it really soon on a 14" display—I can only have maybe three third party menu applets on top of my collection of built-in ones before they disappear into the notch.

New comment by re in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

re — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:08:00 +0000

> getsupport.apple.com.phish.xyz

I notice that a lot of scam texts use domains that start with a TLD followed by a hyphen, like:

  https://wa.gov-phish.fit/dol
  https://seattle.gov-phish.cc/dmv

(Real examples, with "phish" replacing a string of 3-4 random letters)

In some ways, it's a more convincing fake URL, since even if you're used to reading the domain right-to-left, your brain wants to start from the hyphen since it's a different character following a familiar TLD. But that type of domain also seems a lot easier for spam detection rules to catch.

New comment by re in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

re — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:46:12 +0000

Not too sure of the utility of this. It's not an easy sentence to remember, because while grammatical, it's nonsense—it would take some effort. So if I'm trying to memorize a static IP, setting up a DNS name is likely to be easier. And also if I'm going to be using this to memorize IPs I'd like the algorithm to be open source.

All that being said, I think it's a neat idea and a cool tool!

New comment by re in "Microgpt explained interactively"

re — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:11:23 +0000

I didn't get that sense from the prose; it didn't have the usual LLM hallmarks to me, though I'm not enough of an expert in the space to pick up on inaccuracies/hallucinations.

The "TRAINING" visualization does seem synthetic though, the graph is a bit too "perfect" and it's odd that the generated names don't update for every step.

New comment by re in "MinIO Is Dead, Long Live MinIO"

re — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:02:28 +0000

> it really makes me doubt that what is written there is actually true at all

Indeed, the whole "Ironically, switching from Apache 2.0 to AGPL irrevocably makes the project forkable" section seems misguided. Apache 2.0-licensed software is just as forkable.

New comment by re in "The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock"

re — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:36:10 +0000

Website is offline, archived snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20260227201321/https://www.origa...

New comment by re in "Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers"

re — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 09:48:33 +0000

They are commonly used synonymously. English as she is spoke is not a logical language.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/could-couldnt-care-l...

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/could-ca...

New comment by re in "Flux 2 Klein pure C inference"

re — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:54:36 +0000

> I wanted to see if, with the assistance of modern AI, I could reproduce this work in a more concise way, from scratch, in a weekend.

I don't think it counts as recreating a project "from scratch" if the model that you're using was trained against it. Claude Opus 4.5 is aware of the stable-diffusion.cpp project and can answer some questions about it and its code-base (with mixed accuracy) with web search turned off.

New comment by re in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

re — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:36:50 +0000

I have had issues with resizing Quick Look windows with their rounded corners on macOS for the last several major versions, well before Tahoe. The resize cursor indicator there also doesn't seem to appear at the correct location for the actual resize handles.

New comment by re in "Spherical Snake"

re — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:12:34 +0000

Because I learned JS before ECMAScript 6 was widely supported by browsers and haven't written a ton of it targeting modern browsers. You're right that it's unnecessary.

New comment by re in "Spherical Snake"

re — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:49:15 +0000

Here's a console command you can run to increase the snake length immediately, and thus the difficulty:

   (() => { let count = 50; const delay = 100; const interval = setInterval(() => { addSnakeNode(); if (--count <= 0) clearInterval(interval); }, delay);})()

New comment by re in "Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second"

re — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 07:44:27 +0000

Pagination is also buggy, as the live results interfere with the historical ones.

New comment by re in "FracturedJson"

re — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:55:12 +0000

Ports are a derivative work; you should preserve the original author's copyright attribution.

New comment by re in "Henge Finder"

re — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:28:07 +0000

On mobile there's no info other than "please visit from a desktop/laptop computer", so for anyone else not near one:

> Finds when the sun aligns with your street for a perfect sunset view (like Manhattanhenge).

> * Enter an address to check for alignment with the sunset (or more specifically, alignment a little before sunset, the last moment the sun is at 50˚)

> * Shows street bearing and sun alignment information

> * Displays coordinates and next henge date (if there is one)

https://github.com/vritvo/henge_finder

New comment by re in "My favourite small hash table"

re — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:02:03 +0000

> a linear array of all the 4 billion values, with the key as array index, which fits in 16 GiB

The hash table has the significant advantage of having a much smaller minimum size.

> Perhaps text strings as keys and values would give a more interesting example

Keep reading to "If keys and values are larger than 32 bits"

New comment by re in "The web runs on tolerance"

re — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:53:54 +0000

> HTML4 was the "sloppy" answer to XHTML

I think you mean HTML5, which exhaustively specified how to do parsing in a fault-tolerant, normalizing way. HTML 4 (and 4.01) predated XHTML 1.0, and HTML 4.01 attempted to take things in a stricter direction, introducing a "Strict" DTD that did things like drop the tag, in pursuit of separating structure and presentation.

New comment by re in "AI bro introduces regressions in the LTS Linux kernel"

re — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:10:14 +0000

Reddit discussion gives some additional context (and background on Brad Spengler) here: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1oc38d2/ai_bro...

Apparently, "all you need is [...] this: [bytes]" is the hash of an undisclosed exploit proof-of-concept. And the relationship between Spengler and Linux maintainers has been somewhat contentious for the better part of a decade: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13312723

New comment by re in "Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler"

re — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:27:34 +0000

> They removed other maintainers access to their AWS account, and one of them had allegedly taken a screenshot of the root password from a password manager

Inaccurate:

> Ruby Central also had not removed me as an “owner” of the Ruby Central GitHub Organization. They also had not rotated any of the credentials shared across the operational team using the RubyGems 1Password account.

> I believe Ruby Central confused themselves into thinking the “Ruby Central” 1Password account was used by operators, and they did revoke my access there. However, that 1Password account was not used by the open source team of RubyGems.org service operators. Instead, we used the “RubyGems” 1Password account, which was full of operational credentials. Ruby Central did not remove me from the “RubyGems” 1Password account, even as of today. https://andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/the-rubygems-security-inci...

Ruby Central didn't realize that they hadn't actually revoked any access to the previous maintainers (and that they didn't have the updated root AWS credentials) until two weeks later when André notified them.

New comment by re in "Show HN: Scriber Pro – Offline AI transcription for macOS"

re — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:47:17 +0000

What libraries/models is this built on?

New comment by re in "Copy-and-Patch: A Copy-and-Patch Tutorial"

re — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:23:31 +0000

Copy-and-Patch: Fast compilation for high-level languages and bytecode (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40553448 - June 2024 (51 comments)

A copy-and-patch JIT compiler for CPython - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38769874 - Dec 2023 (68 comments)

Copy-and-Patch: Fast JIT Compilation for SQL, WebAssembly, and Others - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28547057 - Sept 2021 (7 comments)