Hacker News: selkin

New comment by selkin in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

selkin — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:24:29 +0000

What bothers me ain't the subscription, but the lack of transparency. I'm asked to pay for future updates and support here, but I don't know what that would be.

Some visibility into the roadmap and operations (an anonymous LLC doesn't really say "Trust") is needed for me to feel good about typing my credit card number into the form.

New comment by selkin in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

selkin — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:35:53 +0000

s/Before/Between/

New comment by selkin in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

selkin — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:16:36 +0000

Holding the title of engineer does not make one a good or capable engineer.

New comment by selkin in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

selkin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:04:28 +0000

The FCC ain’t doing nothing about it. If anyone thinks they are, then I have an amazing US made router to sell them.

New comment by selkin in "Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found"

selkin — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:20:04 +0000

It’s true, and briefly made the news at the time[1]. The CSRB was also decimiated, and the current DHS deputy secretary, in his confirmation hearing, called for wrecking the agency, as he disagrees with their efforts to maintain election security.

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[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/11/doge-axes-cisa-red-team-st...

New comment by selkin in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

selkin — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:36:00 +0000

Many wouldn't, but some people share his values, and given the compensation, it makes saying "no" much harder. Money may not be the most important thing in life, but it does make them extremely easier to live.

New comment by selkin in "How will OpenAI compete?"

selkin — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:27:53 +0000

I stopped reading once Evans emphasized consumer product. That was never a good strategy to sell SaaS, and I don't see how that changes.

New comment by selkin in "How will OpenAI compete?"

selkin — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:27:10 +0000

X has only brand recognition right now, and an extremely toxic one.

Big customers may buy but won't give them logos, people who are offended by Musk's worldview won't pay them either. You don't do well with a toxic brand: just look at Ye having to buy full page apologies ads to try and sell a record.

New comment by selkin in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

selkin — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:13:10 +0000

Why is it a good thing? Manufacturing jobs are horrible, ask anyone who had one.

The US built a high margins service economy.

This is two steps backwards, no step forwards sort of a deal.

New comment by selkin in "What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)"

selkin — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:28:59 +0000

Every statement in the above comment is wrong:

People born in the 90s wouldn’t have a chance to be old enough to belong to any group other than a preschool before the collapse of the Soviet and Soviet aligned regimes.

For those who were adults before 1990, while they may have been party members for reasons unrelated to political ideology, it wasn’t as common: in the late 80s, only ~10% of adults in Warsaw pact countries were communist party members. Far from “everyone”.

And even if you check that in the DS-160 visa application form, you are allowed to add an explanation. Consular visa officers are very well familiar with the political situation at the countries they are stationed in, and can grant visa even if the box is checked.

New comment by selkin in "Windows NT/OS2 Design Workbook"

selkin — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:40:59 +0000

macOS is a certified UNIX[0], but iOS isn’t.

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[0] https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

New comment by selkin in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

selkin — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:44:00 +0000

otoh: the non regulated should cost more.

It’s kinda like “qualified investors” - you want to make sure people who are wiling to do something extremely stupid can afford it and acknowledge their stupidity.

We don’t need regulation to protect those that can afford to buy protection: we need it for those who can’t.

New comment by selkin in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

selkin — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:41:01 +0000

By default, Claude code keeps session history (as jsonl files in ~/.claude).

It’s wasteful not to save and learn from those.

New comment by selkin in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

selkin — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:43:04 +0000

And multiple years from the boardroom making a decision to build a data center to breaking ground.

New comment by selkin in "Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation"

selkin — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:08:04 +0000

We want to protect against the unknown, not the known. The less surface area, the better, and containers have much wider surface area than VMs. Both had their faults, of course.

New comment by selkin in "Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation"

selkin — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:25:01 +0000

Not sure if it's intended, but Apple Container is a microvm, providing mich better isolation than containers (while retaining the familiar interface)

New comment by selkin in "Amazon One palm authentication discontinued"

selkin — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:33:46 +0000

Walmart famously refuse to pay the extra couple of basis points that are charged by the various payment-rails-involved-entities when doing NFC payments instead of physical card.

New comment by selkin in "Keeping 20k GPUs healthy"

selkin — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:43:24 +0000

One of the issues. The idea that space is the place (for data centers) is more of a desperate marketing than serious engineering.

New comment by selkin in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"

selkin — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:26:38 +0000

If you want people to interview better, you have to both allocate resources to it, and make it count on perf. It’s not laziness, it’s ROI.

New comment by selkin in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

selkin — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:42:30 +0000

No one might be Job-level ahole, but I'm certain Cook ain't less ruthless. It's a matter of priorities, not attitude.