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New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "Adobe wrote to my hosts file. I've never had an app do this before"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:38:23 +0000

I dislike the intent too. A website should simply not be able to see which apps I've got installed. Imagine Facebook doing stuff like this in order to know what ads they should serve.

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "Ask HN: Why doesn't download default to upload origin?"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:57:37 +0000

I think uploading a file, editing it and downloading it back is such an uncommon operation that it makes no sense to apply any smart heuristics.

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:13:10 +0000

You, as a maintainer, are free to ignore any such expectations and do what you want. There are no obligations. You only risk disappointing people (or corporations), and losing Github stars. If that leads to unmaintained libraries, that probably means the open-source model doesn't work for this project. And that's fine.

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "Ask HN: What's the future of software testing and QA?"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:42:04 +0000

Is the consensus that software will be both developed and tested by machines? Will there still be a human in the loop? I hope at least some testing or approval will still be done by people, otherwise the software we use everyday will become even worse than it is now. Unless we envision that machines will also be the only end users of the software. At that point there hopefully will be an interface that allows for immediate reporting and fixing of defects.

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

ssdspoimdsjvv — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:44:41 +0000

Intelligence has many dimensions.

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:06:37 +0000

The parent comment was talking about a deployed application, and making sure users can't modify the source code.

In that case, your image hopefully was built using source code from a VCS and no such changes will have been applied. This is not so different from building an app by pulling the latest version of the code from Git.

And if you did manage to commit changes that completely mess up your environment, you throw that image away, take a vanilla one and load your source code into it. Again, not so different from using Git.

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "Ruby and Its Neighbors: Smalltalk"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:50:48 +0000

Smalltalk being so malleable also makes it possible to completely disable source code inspection/execution.

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "You can't cURL a Border"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:22:54 +0000

Perhaps your passport was checked on departure instead of on arrival? At least that's how it worked when taking the Eurostar train.

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:07:58 +0000

How do you define cryptography? Let's say my files are written in a format that only my software can read. Is it then illegal to distribute said files?

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "The key to getting MVC correct is understanding what models are"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 11:57:13 +0000

Of course, it just becomes the HelperUtilService!

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "XSLT: A Precision Tool for the Future of Structured Transformation"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 13:13:53 +0000

There's a working group dedicated to breathing new life into the standard:

https://qt4cg.org/specifications/xslt-40/Overview.html

Last updated just under a week ago!

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "Ask HN: What do you use to write and take notes? Is there a cursor for writing?"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 14:22:32 +0000

An AI-powered editor I assume. Always having to come up with your own thoughts must be tiresome.

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 06:00:39 +0000

What about QA, code review, documentation,...?

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:01:27 +0000

Oh sure, it can be represented. But now JSON is the one being noisy, ugly and verbose.

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:20:32 +0000

Streaming is defined in the XSLT 3 spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#streamability. When you want to use streaming, you are confined to a subset of XPath that is "guaranteed streamable", e.g. you can't just freely navigate the tree anymore. There are some special instructions in XSLT such as and that make it easier to collect your results.

Saxon's paid edition supports it. I've done it a few times, but you have to write your XSLT in a completely different way to make it work.

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:04:15 +0000

How would you represent mixed content in JSON?

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "MitmProxy2Swagger: Automagically reverse-engineer REST APIs"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 14:01:14 +0000

The web app probably authenticates using an API as well, in which case it's trivial to add that to your shadow client as long as you have the credentials.

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "Godot founders had desperately hoped Unity wouldn't 'blow up'"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 13:36:57 +0000

It's a foreign concept in French because in French it's always on the last syllable, so you don't have to think about it.

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "PwC tells UK staff it will monitor office attendance using location data"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 13:23:27 +0000

Have you never gotten any inspiration or creativity from talking to somebody outside of a planned meeting?

New comment by ssdspoimdsjvv in "Ask HN: How to emulate a smartphone on a computer for banking apps?"

ssdspoimdsjvv — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:02:31 +0000

Landlines still exist.