Hacker News: shreddit

New comment by shreddit in "IBM i (OS/400) the Database Operating System"

shreddit — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:55:03 +0000

The main database of the company i work for is DB2 on a very recent IBM System. In terms of sql there’s nothing i miss that postgresql has.

If only the company for the software which runs on top of the DB2 would have used single column primary keys (some go over 7 columns) and not decimal for dates…

New comment by shreddit in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

shreddit — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:13:23 +0000

Couldn’t GrapheneOS provide a special pin which boots into an “empty”session? Where the user can install some default stuff to not look suspicious?

New comment by shreddit in "Show HN: HTMLDrive – serve HTML files from your Google Drive"

shreddit — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:50:02 +0000

Then it’s no longer _completely_ free

New comment by shreddit in "Jim's TrueType QR Code Font"

shreddit — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:24:53 +0000

It doesn’t seem to like spaces that much, the code for [QR coded] is broken for me on safari ios. When the space is removed it’s a working qrcode again

New comment by shreddit in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

shreddit — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:55:39 +0000

This doesn’t read to me as someone who is sincerely impressed or rather surprised what ai is capable off.

This reads like someone is trying to convince me, that ai is just this good, and that the author is telling me to use more ai.

To me this sounds like: Trust me, it’s really bad, i know what I’m talking about. Just lean into it, or change profession.

New comment by shreddit in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

shreddit — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:17:45 +0000

Why does your last sentence sound like something yoda would say?

New comment by shreddit in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"

shreddit — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:59:43 +0000

The same with brightness. I have a shortcut to lower the white point because the lowest brightness level is still far to bright in complete darkness.

New comment by shreddit in "Is the author of pdf-lib okay?"

shreddit — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:53:34 +0000

If one needs to work with pdf in a JS environment one will sooner or later cross paths with pdf-lib. I noticed the last release was almost 5 years ago and the maintainers git contributions stopped at the same time. There is a second github account under the same name but the last contribution was in 2024.

Also his personal homepage (https://andrewjdillon.com/) seems to be no longer under his control, the certificate has a different CN and the websites domain is listed under the SAN (with a multitude of other domains).

Is the author of pdf-lib okay?

shreddit — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:53:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943865

Points: 33

# Comments: 19

New comment by shreddit in "Astrological CPU Scheduler"

shreddit — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:07:28 +0000

"Yeah i know compile times are slow today, but that's because pluto is moving into Aquarius"

New comment by shreddit in "Apple I Advertisement (1976)"

shreddit — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:15:42 +0000

Beats me. Same computer, same browser. Don’t know whether it’s the exact same address though. Cleared cookies already. Still only working in incognito.

New comment by shreddit in "Apple I Advertisement (1976)"

shreddit — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:32:09 +0000

I have the exact same problem. It’s saying something about not being able to confirm my identity? I took a look at the dev tools and it’s apparently making a request to a server which returns an error.

It only works in incognito because it’s using a different ip address there…

New comment by shreddit in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

shreddit — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 09:22:39 +0000

Yeah, as an iOS dev, the grass is not greener on this side of the fence…

New comment by shreddit in "Show HN: Fun things to do with your VM/370 machine"

shreddit — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:11:28 +0000

What a coincidence. My company just upgraded their AS400/IBM i and nobody wanted to buy the old one, so it’s just sitting there. I think it’s a Power 8 Processor…

New comment by shreddit in "Flock Hardcoded the Password for America's Surveillance Infrastructure 53 Times"

shreddit — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:13:12 +0000

But is it really hacking if they just give you the key?

Am i breaking into your home when you leave the door wide open? /s

New comment by shreddit in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

shreddit — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:10:30 +0000

Did not expect that: I got rid of a small screen i can carry around by putting a lot of small screen all over my house.

I put that in the same bin as all the “Stop doomscrolling” apps. You can’t prevent doomscrolling by adding another app on your phone. Get rid of the phone (and all other screens), one does not need to be able to look up everything in a moments notice. Write it down on a paper and do it later.

New comment by shreddit in "TP-Link Tapo C200: Hardcoded Keys, Buffer Overflows and Privacy"

shreddit — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:37:58 +0000

As soon as i read the author used grok as an ai assistant, i was somehow less interested to keep on reading. Not because of the usage of ai, but the chosen provider. (I don’t know whether grok is just the best choice for this kind of work.)

Is it wrong to judge people for their choice of ai providers?

New comment by shreddit in "“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number"

shreddit — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:39:13 +0000

At least the Hindenburg was iceberg proof

https://xkcd.com/2350/

New comment by shreddit in "Pebble, Rebble, and a path forward"

shreddit — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:46:02 +0000

Rebble sounds pretty much like a non profit to me

> The Rebble Foundation is a non-profit organization that keeps the Pebble community alive. rebble.io

https://rebble.foundation/

New comment by shreddit in "Writing your own BEAM"

shreddit — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:15:08 +0000

Clicked on the link because I don’t know what a “BEAM” is, was not disappointed