Hacker News: sdf4j

New comment by sdf4j in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

sdf4j — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 01:19:42 +0000

Since when isn’t that a cyber attack?

New comment by sdf4j in "Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT"

sdf4j — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:41:00 +0000

maybe the smartest minds in all of tech can’t do better.

New comment by sdf4j in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

sdf4j — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:44:30 +0000

If something changes frequently, is it important to know? is the change inevitable or artificial?

I’ve learned to appreciate lasting things and ideas.

New comment by sdf4j in "Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot"

sdf4j — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:27:37 +0000

I think OP talks about code navigation, which is objectively terrible on vscode in general

New comment by sdf4j in "AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide"

sdf4j — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:56:11 +0000

You got it wrong. Use appliances instead of eggs. If getting an oven gets more expensive I rather keep going to Dennys.

It’s classic capex vs opex. I’d keep paying my openai subscription instead of dropping $3k to run a subpar model. If the thing costs $1k I would consider it.

New comment by sdf4j in "PowerFox Browser"

sdf4j — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:21:06 +0000

> That's a good thing, but making it clearer what to expect will make it easier for potential users to decide whether to give it a try.

There are not that many options for the potential users.

New comment by sdf4j in "How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?"

sdf4j — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:04:45 +0000

Plenty of C-level executives have salaries around that number. Replacing them with AGI would be cost-effective. Cost is contingent, shouldn't be part of the AGI definition.

New comment by sdf4j in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

sdf4j — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:20:08 +0000

Curious about why the janky manual paper processes, excel sheets, or stuff not documented, was fixed only when vibe code was available. Was it just cost?

New comment by sdf4j in "Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA"

sdf4j — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:08:59 +0000

> they all have the same mother, grew up in the same house, etc.

I’m pretty sure the first one didn’t have siblings, and the second only had one. Also their mother is not the same person after raising the first kid, or raising two.

Parenting never have reproducible conditions.

New comment by sdf4j in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

sdf4j — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:19:51 +0000

That's what Bill Gates proposed [0].

[0] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-wants-tax-robots-2...

New comment by sdf4j in "Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down"

sdf4j — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:51:54 +0000

Good thing is that we can start using Insomnium now.

New comment by sdf4j in "Wi-fi signal tracks heartbeat without wearables"

sdf4j — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 00:32:16 +0000

That’s the point, with wifi you already have the array of microphones in the room.

New comment by sdf4j in "Become unbannable from your email"

sdf4j — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:12:33 +0000

When I see suggestions to "own" your email domain, how do you manage the chicken-egg problem of needing an email address in the first place to register the domain you want to lease?

Are there registrars that let you walk in with a physical ID to proof you are you in case your email gets compromised and they get access to the registrar? Any experience with that?

New comment by sdf4j in "Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room"

sdf4j — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:08:13 +0000

what you mean we can't? there are a lot of curated content directories out there.

New comment by sdf4j in "Why is GitHub UI getting slower?"

sdf4j — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:58:41 +0000

GitLab is a completely different platform.

This comes to solve the problem of the terrible UX in the most widespread git service. I won't dare to try to convince my whole team, or company, to migrate to GitLab, but this can be easily adopted.

New comment by sdf4j in "Do not download the app, use the website"

sdf4j — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:31:00 +0000

not having a way to divide notification channels, transactional vs promotional, make it worse than android.

New comment by sdf4j in "Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own"

sdf4j — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 03:58:05 +0000

> I always say to buy a domain first.

You can only rent a domain. The landlord is merciless if you miss a payment, you are out.

There are risks everywhere, and it depresses me how fragile is our online identity.

New comment by sdf4j in "Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever"

sdf4j — Wed, 28 May 2025 19:13:23 +0000

> One of my founding principles is that Compiler Explorer links should last forever.

And yet… that was a very self-destructive decision.

New comment by sdf4j in "I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022)"

sdf4j — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:40:44 +0000

To answer your questions: receiving letters is easy, companies know how to do it. Sending letters is not common for the public.

New comment by sdf4j in "Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative"

sdf4j — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 09:46:41 +0000

And that happened 15 years ago