Hacker News: sgarman

New comment by sgarman in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

sgarman — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:35:58 +0000

I think he's just suggesting this isn't isolated to the UK and is a trending global issue.

New comment by sgarman in "Fixing a bricked Framework laptop"

sgarman — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:33:47 +0000

This was the only point I disagreed with the author on. They used metabase, a tool for their internal employees to manage the business and review their data. It's not some crazy 3rd party marketing tool or something, it's an internal BI tool that had a zero day. More zero days are coming.

New comment by sgarman in "The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services"

sgarman — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:14:16 +0000

I'm not? It drowns out any competition and all we are left with is a single company with a monopoly that speed runs enshitification where consumers lose.

New comment by sgarman in "Pam Bondi Implicated in as Much as $5.5M in Insider Trading"

sgarman — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:30:20 +0000

I guess tangentially related, if you do insider trading but do it poorly is it still a crime? I feel that if the answer is yes then your explanation about how the timing was bad isn't super relevant.

New comment by sgarman in "Web Security is Too Hard"

sgarman — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:42:33 +0000

Last time Coinbase had a breach I wrote in to support chat to see what I needed to do. They said there was no breach. I sent them a link to their own blogpost about it. They responded with "wow this is the fist time I'm hearing about this."

New comment by sgarman in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

sgarman — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:41:16 +0000

I have a 7S and it still gets updates regularly.

New comment by sgarman in "Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse"

sgarman — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:04:38 +0000

I agree. The last 5 years especially.

New comment by sgarman in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

sgarman — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:14:15 +0000

Not an AI defender but this doesn't sound all that different than before where people were just arguing for their understanding of the issue. No one knows everything and has perfect alignment with reality. I'm with the other guy who responded, test it, else y'all just guessing and arguing who's better at guessing.

New comment by sgarman in "AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn"

sgarman — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:24:37 +0000

Reading a review from Roger Ebert provided a lot of value to me - I knew generally his likes and dislikes and could use that information relationship to contextualize the review. I think reviews break down when you move from individual to aggregates. What does 34% really mean, maybe 90/100 reviewers hate horror, are under 25, all from a specific city? I really don't agree with your take that on reviews but I do think reviews in aggregate - where there is no relationship to the reviewer -- are problematic.

New comment by sgarman in "Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BN"

sgarman — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:45:06 +0000

That new salesforce powered heroku status dashboard is a labyrinth of sadness.

https://status.salesforce.com/products/Heroku

New comment by sgarman in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

sgarman — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:45:30 +0000

Mine literally come from the verified coinbase phone number and say coinbase and everything. If I didn't know for sure they are not calling me I'd think it was real 100%.

New comment by sgarman in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

sgarman — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:24:26 +0000

I'm a total noob in this space but I'm using pacman, paru, yay, shelly. Are those different than "userspace package manager" or are these not relevant because it's Arch?

New comment by sgarman in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

sgarman — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:04:25 +0000

Homeassistant already has tons of integration into power providers and easily let's you pipe in local data if you have it. In addition - can it be a product if anyone can just type what this guy did into an LLM? What's your moat if anyone can just replicate it?

New comment by sgarman in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

sgarman — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:14:53 +0000

Is this totally true? There is advertising, marketing spend and retail shelf space. Surely it's more complex than "solves users problem at price point."

New comment by sgarman in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

sgarman — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:58:54 +0000

So how long can you collect $0 of rent on your $5000 building before the bank realizes?

New comment by sgarman in "Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images"

sgarman — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:00:36 +0000

I think the issue is it was never definitive. This is a great way to show people that.

New comment by sgarman in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

sgarman — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:38:35 +0000

https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/

New comment by sgarman in "6 years of CS2 skin market data, indexed S&P-style (open methodology)"

sgarman — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:07:20 +0000

How useful is pre 2025 data after Valve made such large changes to how skins work? https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1oe5x07/counter_s...

Did you have to account for this or not really?

New comment by sgarman in "AI slop is killing online communities"

sgarman — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:23:50 +0000

The fact that reddit enabled hiding your posts is crazy to me. In a time where knowing who's engaging in a community is more important than ever (am I talking to a bot or a troll?) reddit removes even more options to validate.

New comment by sgarman in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

sgarman — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:13:38 +0000

A 10x engineer who doesn't even know what tools they are using?