Hacker News: samtheprogram

New comment by samtheprogram in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

samtheprogram — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:49:25 +0000

Sounds like Apple under Steve Jobs.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell"

samtheprogram — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:02:40 +0000

As mentioned elsewhere, while this writeup is about exploiting the RCE, Claude was separately used to find and document this specific RCE.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

samtheprogram — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:08:08 +0000

They kinda added window positioning with Tahoe -- there are things I like more about it than Rectangle (resizing), but I found that it was janky enough I switched back to Rectangle.

I rarely use the Dock, it's somewhat eye candy I leave up, or add stacks for folders that I use, but typically for keyboard action I reach for spotlight (cmd+space). Now, spotlight occasionally shitting the bed, that's another issue...

New comment by samtheprogram in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

samtheprogram — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:17:37 +0000

That is wild. Thanks for the info.

New comment by samtheprogram in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

samtheprogram — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:37:35 +0000

Definitely not Wayland related, or so I doubt. I'm on wayland and never had any issues, and it's a TUI, where the terminal emulator does or does not do GPU work. What led you to that conclusion?

New comment by samtheprogram in "Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices"

samtheprogram — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:42:21 +0000

I'm confused, how does Chrome work on ARM64 Android phones today?

New comment by samtheprogram in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

samtheprogram — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:47:16 +0000

He deletes posts after they are no longer relevant. Given how people dig dirt up on people and take them out of context long after that context is forgotten, more people should do that (or delete social media altogether).

New comment by samtheprogram in "GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation"

samtheprogram — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:43:56 +0000

Linus never cared about that use case of the GPL. He cared about the source code sharing.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

samtheprogram — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:27:38 +0000

Tangeltial, can we still run custom Darwin kernels? IIRC that was blocked under security pretenses.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

samtheprogram — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:05:10 +0000

And?

New comment by samtheprogram in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

samtheprogram — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:23:41 +0000

The irony of this in the README:

- Node.js production server (vinext start) works for testing but is less complete than Workers deployment. Cloudflare Workers is the primary target.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware"

samtheprogram — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:43:00 +0000

And now everyone else is aware of it too... including anyone marginally above a scriptkiddie.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Why E cores make Apple silicon fast"

samtheprogram — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:25:21 +0000

Catalina and Mojave were the closest releases in terms of quality that we got to Snow Leopard. Catalina in particular since it was the release that removed more 32-bit cruft (like Snow Leopard before it).

New comment by samtheprogram in "Solving Shrinkwrap: New Experimental Technique"

samtheprogram — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:15:28 +0000

I came to say something similar; on Android Firefox, scrolling on the page is stuttery.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

samtheprogram — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:59:55 +0000

New feature development in web and mobile apps is absolutely 10% more productive with these tools, and anyone who says otherwise is coping. That's a large fraction of software development.

New comment by samtheprogram in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

samtheprogram — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:57:14 +0000

This is by choice, no? In most cases I see stuff like this, it could've been a bash script. That said, the environments in different CI's are different so it won't be totally portable, but still applies.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety"

samtheprogram — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:57:41 +0000

This is the equivalent of saying that a cigarette reduces anxiety. The overall habit absolutely does not reduce anxiety.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]"

samtheprogram — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:08:46 +0000

Kimi K2.5 approaches Sonnet as well from what I can tell, it's just slower to get to the result.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]"

samtheprogram — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:07:40 +0000

opencode is a good alternative that doesnt flake out in this way.

New comment by samtheprogram in "Bugs Apple loves"

samtheprogram — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:35:30 +0000

Spotlight has really been bothering me lately, for months now, and it’s not even indexing all the time. I disabled all but applications and the calculator, because that’s all I use Spotlight for, and it still can’t find some apps that are in /Applications. Sometimes it’s some apps, sometimes it’s everything, and after rebooting it’ll sometimes reindex. No idea what’s going on, but today might be the day I install Quicksilver, if that’s still a thing.

I also had to type over reindex 3 times to get it to stick :)