Hacker News: scratchyone

New comment by scratchyone in "Show HN: Mach – A compiled systems language looking for contributions"

scratchyone — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:48:49 +0000

fully self hosted without any external dependencies is incredibly impressive, amazing work

New comment by scratchyone in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"

scratchyone — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:45:14 +0000

ooh, this seems super cool. i see that he doesn't print jackets, have you gotten them printed elsewhere for that?

New comment by scratchyone in "iPhones with iOS 26 are freezing FaceTime calls when they detect nudity (2025)"

scratchyone — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:53:00 +0000

This is an article from almost a year ago, last edited July 3, 2025...

New comment by scratchyone in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

scratchyone — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:30:00 +0000

thank you lol, this has convinced me to switch over to fastmail

New comment by scratchyone in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

scratchyone — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:05:59 +0000

As someone who also loves Kagi, what do you like so much about Fastmail? Seeing it compared to Kagi makes me want to give it a try as well haha.

New comment by scratchyone in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

scratchyone — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:03:46 +0000

I've had generally good experiences with Exa, I use it as an MCP in all my various coding tools and use the API whenever I build an AI thing that needs search.

Also an extremely happy Kagi user but can't speak to their API, haven't tried it yet.

New comment by scratchyone in "FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack"

scratchyone — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:46:09 +0000

To be fair, just because you understand the code you see doesn't mean its safe to copy-paste. Many of these compromised sites will show something that appears to be a benign command but will be something entirely different when you copy them.

Not good to get people into the habit of copying and running code in their terminal.

New comment by scratchyone in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

scratchyone — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:12:36 +0000

They will never remove tissue if you're still alive. This is the reason organ donation is most common in brain-death cases, because the tissue is still alive but you are entirely dead. As you point out, it would be horrible to dismember someone who is still alive and would certainly violate their oath.

I hope this is a comforting answer, I choose to be an organ donor because of these details.

New comment by scratchyone in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

scratchyone — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:15:49 +0000

Honestly still insane to nuke a high-volume client's business after a single payment issue. There would be no reason for Google to believe that a single hiccup like that is evidence that they won't get paid and have to cut account access immediately.

New comment by scratchyone in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

scratchyone — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:24:15 +0000

https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is...

haha i went to go check and they haven't merged a PR since 2017

New comment by scratchyone in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

scratchyone — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:08:30 +0000

felony murder is pretty widely regarded as a leading factor in incredibly unjust prosecutions and sentencing decisions. perhaps not the best concept to build your ideas on top of.

New comment by scratchyone in "Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431"

scratchyone — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:08:23 +0000

that's quite smart. i was almost stupid enough to paste it into a terminal to check if it worked before deciding to wait and let others analyze it first haha

New comment by scratchyone in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

scratchyone — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:27:04 +0000

funny how he didn't care about ethics the moment it was more profitable to release it than to talk about dangers.

New comment by scratchyone in "Copy Fail"

scratchyone — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:23:11 +0000

unfortunately the page can also lie to you haha. it seems people have reviewed the code by now, but running suspicious shellcode you don't fully understand is never a great idea.

New comment by scratchyone in "AI Overviews are coming to your Gmail at work"

scratchyone — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:46:11 +0000

my company intentionally avoids all AI usage and yet our enterprise google workspace is still constantly sending us ai generated summaries of all of our various sensitive documents

New comment by scratchyone in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

scratchyone — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:44:24 +0000

tbf most companies don't have a potentially world-ending product. only real similar field is defense contractors who typically can't brag about unreleased ideas as they're classified.

New comment by scratchyone in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

scratchyone — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:39:46 +0000

Don't worry, these companies will make sure we get to experience both nightmare futures.

New comment by scratchyone in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

scratchyone — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:38:07 +0000

100% agreed. That's part of the issue imo, these companies pretend their new models are "too dangerous" to seem like they care about the world, yet they have no qualms deploying existing models in warfare or bragging about impending mass-unemployment.

New comment by scratchyone in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

scratchyone — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:37:15 +0000

I mean, it's the BBC and the article doesn't have any typical AI tells, where is this idea that it's AI written coming from???

New comment by scratchyone in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

scratchyone — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:32:14 +0000

Honestly we should have learned this claim from AI companies was purely fear-mongering back when GPT-2 was "too dangerous to release".