Hacker News: spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=spurgelaurelsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:57:11 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"]]>Fun game, but it showed the lack of security hygiene employed by the game writer. It said `cat ~/.zshrc` was bad because it would share tokens and secrets, but I would never put secrets into my shell rc.

]]>Thu, 28 May 2026 17:27:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312382spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312382https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48312382<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Show HN: Yolt – safer YOLO mode for LLMs (recover deleted or overwritten files)"]]>Clever name!

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:18:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689823spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689823https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689823<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "SSH Secret Menu"]]>This is a secret? I've had this baked into my muscle memory for decades when an SSH session hangs.

]]>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:26:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335991spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335991https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335991<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Ask HN: How has AI changed your learning methods?"]]>I've gone back to reading paper books.

]]>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 17:28:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791133spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791133https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791133<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Guy Used ChatGPT to Talk to 5k Women on Tinder and Met His Wife"]]>Headline should be "Man ghosts 4,999 women and met his wife"

]]>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:52:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39292589spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39292589https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39292589<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service"]]>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms I think maybe you should read this.

]]>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:34:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32728362spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32728362https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32728362<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service"]]>You do realize that this wasn't simply about "discourse", yes? This was about active doxxing and swatting of real living human beings. Being transphobic might be just an (ignorant) opinion, but actively working to harm people needs to be shut right down.

]]>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:06:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32728016spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32728016https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32728016<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service"]]>This wasn't just due to Twitter outrage. People are actually being targeted and harmed through this site. Hate and harm are not covered under free speech.

]]>Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:03:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32727969spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32727969https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32727969<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Ask HN: Does anyone here use a BSD for their main OS?"]]>Whenever I buy a new laptop, I install OpenBSD (and inevitably despise the experience), then install FreeBSD (and remember how I need some things that simply don't work in BSD), then end up using Arch.

This last FreeBSD install was working perfectly, but my wifi card had a breaking bug so I went to Arch. I've been waiting for almost 3 years for Arch to break hard enough to need a reinstall so that I can go back to FreeBSD (now that the wifi card is fixed). But Arch just keeps on tickin'

]]>Mon, 06 Jun 2022 15:48:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31641998spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31641998https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31641998<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Musician Earns $160K Per Month Working Just 5 Hours a Week"]]>Is this an MLM spam post? It smells like one.

]]>Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:19:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31074448spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31074448https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31074448<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Pfizer Is Lobbying to Thwart Whistleblowers from Exposing Corporate Fraud"]]>If "whistleblowers" are an item on your risk assessment sheet, you might want to rethink your methods.

]]>Tue, 30 Nov 2021 16:04:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29393606spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29393606https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29393606<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Ask HN: What's the best way to secure your workstation?"]]>There's a middle ground between accepting and paranoia: secure to best effort.

]]>Mon, 29 Nov 2021 15:13:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29380748spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29380748https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29380748<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Ask HN: Is the ISO 27001 certification worth it?"]]>Type 1 is a point in time, and it expires. Type 2 maintains it.

]]>Wed, 03 Nov 2021 20:14:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29099698spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29099698https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29099698<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Ask HN: What have been the hardest work-related aspects of async/remote work?"]]>Domestic partner aggro.

]]>Mon, 07 Jun 2021 17:28:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27425346spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27425346https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27425346<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Want to Stop Ransomware Attacks? Ban Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies"]]>Victim blaming won't help here. Ransomware is generally a sophisticated attack by groups that tend to have the finances, skills, and resources to stay ahead of 80% of the companies operating today.

]]>Fri, 04 Jun 2021 15:47:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394816spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394816https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394816<![CDATA[New comment by spurgelaurels in "Show HN: ScreenToVideo – Record your videos flawlessly"]]>Looks pretty rad. Does it (or will it) integrate with Vidyard?

]]>Thu, 18 Feb 2021 20:57:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26185407spurgelaurelshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26185407https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26185407