<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: saintfire</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=saintfire</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:09:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=saintfire" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "VoxWork: Anonymous employer reviews before accepting a job offer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So it costs money <i>per company</i> and users submitting have no incentives? There's no network effect like the honestly terrible glassdoor.<p>Vague notions of moderation filtering "disgruntled employees" and HR teams. How is that proposed to work?<p>How do you separate a genuine 2 star review between a 2 star review of someone who got fired with cause. How do you filter HR teams without undue burdon on volunteered info from former/current employees.<p>Etc.. Etc..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:48:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356497</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356497</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49356497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "AdNauseam – Clicking ads so you don't have to"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not to speak to the effectiveness, but I think the idea is to discredit advertising by invalidating the concept of paying for clicks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:00:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340726</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be fair, equipment is pretty enjoyable to run, especially if you aren't burned out of it as a job.<p>I miss running an excavator, all the time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 23:13:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176577</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "That time when I failed the Microsoft interview"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This was the real riddle all along.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:56:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164218</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164218</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "A Discord Alternative – Echoed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nah, everyone I know isn't a fan of discord's UI.<p>I stand to gain nothing and I don't even think it's popular sentiment.<p>For a new user it's completely alien. Trying to get a coworker to try discord for the first time is a nightmare.<p>It tries to solve so much in such a condensed bar on the side. Why are DM listed "as" a server. I hate the notification system for transient server joins. I  have no opinion of the channel system. Why can't you read discord threads of a public discord without joining the server and accepting the posting rules? They're trying to emulate forums but it's a huge PITA to just read (in a RO state, even).<p>Idk lots of complaints, network effect is a bitch.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:52:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077282</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49077282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is that true if:<p>This project is not associated with Tailscale Inc.<p>However, one of the active maintainers for Headscale is employed by Tailscale and he is allowed to spend work hours contributing to the project. Contributions from this maintainer are reviewed by other maintainers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:04:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926369</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926369</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "A better way to tie gym shorts (or any drawstring) [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I read that exact preface on his site before learning and adopting it (the secure knot, specifically, but the preface is on both).<p><a href="https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknottech.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknottech.htm</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:00:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48826133</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48826133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48826133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "Espionage Against the European Parliament"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean his device was pwnd completely. Its not a stretch that attempts to warn are suppressed.<p>That or he didn't notice or could have assumed the notice itself was one of many phishing attempts against large orgs.<p>If I saw a notification that my account was compromised by Pegasus I'd personally assume phishing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:07:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780576</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "Immich 3.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe I'm missing something but the linked discussion has a link to a closed issue that links a PR that added the feature you say is missing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:43:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770444</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770444</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48770444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You presumably need to convict the conspirator on evidence that doesn't consist of having published documents on your person.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:52:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727675</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "What is a Lithium-ion capacitor?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Limited by material. They store electric charge by using thin layers of insulating material and pooling negative charge on one side and positive on the other. You can puncture the material and release energy as a typical conductor, it's not stored chemically.</p>
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<p>The nags that you <i>could</i> just click "I bought a license" to remove without actually buying one?<p>Or you know, also buy the license and click it honestly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:43:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658287</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "I hate compilers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It chooses the challenge weight based on signals. If your phone looks like a phone from a residential IP you get a simple challenge.<p>If you then spam requests you might get another, harder, hallenge appear.<p>If you have a data center IP and look like bot traffic you get a hard challenge out the gate.<p>AFAIU after looking at their docs several months ago.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:37:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591973</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48591973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Push based, sure. Allowing SMS, I still hold, undermines all of this.<p>They "secure" this behind password which you entered to trigger the SMS push in the first place.<p>Offering an "out" to a more secure flow means your secure flow may as well not exist.<p>Additionally, phishing a pushed OTP is not really much harder since you can trigger the push and then just have the user finish off the flow for you, provided they don't read the IP or whatever you display them (they won't, they think they're signing in), effectively the same as a TOTP.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:12:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579283</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't tell if this is satire.<p>DeepSeek did the same thing the american companies did on a much smaller scale.<p>They took the output of one company and trained a model.<p>American companies took the output of all IP they could illegally* acquire and trained a model.<p>The world does need protection from abusers, you're right.<p>EDIT: illegal in some cases (see 82TB of torrented ebooks), immoral in most.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:29:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578938</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anecdotally, I don't know anyone who picks up random tools, unrelated to AI, because AI is advertised.<p>Usually when I see people see a pop-off for <i>Try our AI assistant</i> I hear "Fuck off" or "leave me alone" while they close it. It's like everything has a modern Clippy.<p>Personally I do see it as a VC signal, as if they gave up on making a good tool and started working on slopifying it.<p>60% is lower than I imagined, tbh. Most people aren't doing agentic workflows and AI is likely not a selling point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:47:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569705</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569705</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use a basic OTP password instead of Microsoft's ironically less secure (see SMS as 2FA) with my work MS account. Perhaps your org disabled it but it is definitely something a Microsoft account can do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:23:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563670</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563670</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48563670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And yet, I incessantly get spoofed numbers calling me from the same "central office code". Also resulting in people with the same code "returning my calls" and then getting angry that I say I didn't call them.<p>Preventing number spoofing would help significantly with spam calling. At least the ones from local numbers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:26:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510148</link><dc:creator>saintfire</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510148</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saintfire in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see everyone coming up with an arbitrary date of when Google lost their moral compass that aligns with their own moral compass. In that vein, I feel like when Brin and Page released a paper stating how PageRank could never be beneficial to a consumer with ads and then launched an ad company powered by page rank is when Google became evil.</p>
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<p>Nor have they been keen on letting users OR devs customize the ui.</p>
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