Hacker News: sentrysapper

New comment by sentrysapper in "The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?"

sentrysapper — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:32:22 +0000

I experienced this in Japan and Korea as well. There are of course, neighborhoods where noise is tolerated but while I was there I noticed most commuters whisper conversations on their phone. The thought of blasting a call or music on speakerphone is unconscionable.

New comment by sentrysapper in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

sentrysapper — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:13:58 +0000

... was optimistic.

New comment by sentrysapper in "Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (2025)"

sentrysapper — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:55:45 +0000

Evergreen excuses for tech people desperately want to work. I get why, it would give you agency to do other things you WANT to do. I tried reviewing a colleagues agent-generated code and it was practically unreviewable. I watched him blame himself, saying he just needed to adjust a parameter. He tried everything except admit the machine does not conceptionaly understand what he was asking.

New comment by sentrysapper in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

sentrysapper — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:43:08 +0000

It's not BS though? That's what companies like Chainalysis professionally. This was covered in graphic detail as to how they caught a pedo ring in Andy Greenberg's book Tracers In The Dark.

New comment by sentrysapper in "Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"

sentrysapper — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:47:20 +0000

Same here. Thought it was my firewall at first. Thanks for confirming.

New comment by sentrysapper in "Data breach: DOGE 'accidentally' leaked the whole Social Security database [pdf]"

sentrysapper — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:02:22 +0000

Department of Government Exfiltration.

New comment by sentrysapper in "Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery"

sentrysapper — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:37:44 +0000

You can tell this was written with love. Regardless of what tools were used to make this, I think we could all do more of this for the people important in our lives.

New comment by sentrysapper in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

sentrysapper — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:14:14 +0000

they way they are going about it very much is. update your understanding.

New comment by sentrysapper in "Much of the World Facing 'Water Bankruptcy,' U.N. Report Warns"

sentrysapper — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:06:02 +0000

Trying not to think about _We Stand On Guard_.

New comment by sentrysapper in "Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases"

sentrysapper — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:57:39 +0000

it is unreasonably easy to make non-refundable purchases in these games. They deserve this and every lawsuit that follows.

New comment by sentrysapper in "Tell HN: HN was down"

sentrysapper — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:30:42 +0000

What a rude thing to post. Hund, don't listen to this entitled nonsense. There is a reason it's called human error. Companies 100x your size and 10000x your revenue like AWS, Microsoft, CloudFlare, CrowdStrike can't figure out how to accurately provide status dashboards. At least you took the time to explain your mistakes. If anything you got another supporter for your honesty.

New comment by sentrysapper in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

sentrysapper — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:18:14 +0000

Postman pulled this same stunt in 2022, limiting how many times you can run your own API class from your machine. To this day I've never reconciled with them or their product management decisions.

New comment by sentrysapper in "Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide"

sentrysapper — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:15:27 +0000

My grandfather was a crop duster pilot in the 60s-70s. He died of Parkinson's almost 4 years ago today. He is the only one in my family to succumb to this disease. For a brief moment I was relieved to know there was some explanation for his suffering.

Then I read the HN comments. It is beyond infuriating to read a well researched paper with 1300 open cases legal with overwhelming evidence only to be met with "zero chance this is real."

New comment by sentrysapper in "Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide"

sentrysapper — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:48:41 +0000

Why does that sound untrustworthy? Do you have any idea of what the tobacco industry hid about second hand smoke exposure? How is it somehow more plausible this nurse made up her condition than pesticide manufactures being honest about the impacts?

New comment by sentrysapper in "Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz"

sentrysapper — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:49:33 +0000

I've been calling them the N2 trials. The evidence this administration willingly shares makes one shudder to think what they are not sharing.

New comment by sentrysapper in "The Joy of Playing Grandia, on Sega Saturn"

sentrysapper — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:07:28 +0000

looks like the host is getting too many requests, anyone know of a mirror?

New comment by sentrysapper in "1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises"

sentrysapper — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:51:55 +0000

Starting to? Brother where hast thou been?

New comment by sentrysapper in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

sentrysapper — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:58:04 +0000

What would that look like? A network with built-in rate & connection limiting?

The closest thing I can think of is the Gemini protocol browser. It uses TOFU for authentication, which requires a human to initially validate every interaction.

New comment by sentrysapper in "Steam Machine"

sentrysapper — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:49:00 +0000

oh boy here comes the GabeCube

New comment by sentrysapper in "Hiring a developer as a small indie studio in 2025"

sentrysapper — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:34:20 +0000

> You must ask candidates to solve problems directly related to the role. If you’re hiring a game programmer, knowing how to detect fraud in bank transactions is irrelevant knowledge if that task never appears on the job.

I wish more companies understood this. In all my years of interviews I never got a coding interview or take home programming assignment that even remotely resembled the work they needed.