Hacker News: stuartd

New comment by stuartd in "The Art and Beauty of Blade Runner (2015)"

stuartd — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:18:10 +0000

> But nowhere close to the emotional impact

It may be trite but “Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can, too.” gets me every single time

New comment by stuartd in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

stuartd — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:05:17 +0000

Photos Wallpaper - recreates the functionality from older Mac OS versions to rotate photos from your library as wallpaper, changing on a schedule.

Written by Codex with me driving product direction, reviewing, testing, occasionally scolding, and handling the release process.

Accepted onto the Mac App Store last week.

New comment by stuartd in "Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake"

stuartd — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:21:08 +0000

http://archive.today/fgcHn

New comment by stuartd in "The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE"

stuartd — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:39:31 +0000

> The HN entry is still there, but I can't read the original post now.

The post on IA - https://web.archive.org/web/20160304013342/https://eng.uber....

New comment by stuartd in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

stuartd — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:35:37 +0000

Thank you for that link. I recommend reading to the very last line.

New comment by stuartd in "Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good"

stuartd — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:07:10 +0000

much as I love and revere woz that is a terrible idea

New comment by stuartd in "iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 Fix Dozens of Vulnerabilities, Including Zero-Day"

stuartd — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:52:14 +0000

Is that not 18.7.5 as released yesterday or am I missing something?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/126347

New comment by stuartd in "Even the Happiest Place on Earth Has Measles"

stuartd — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:24:14 +0000

http://archive.today/v4LtY

From magic to malware: How OpenClaw's agent skills become an attack surface

stuartd — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:36:45 +0000

Article URL: https://1password.com/blog/from-magic-to-malware-how-openclaws-agent-skills-become-an-attack-surface

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46879016

Points: 1

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New comment by stuartd in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

stuartd — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 03:30:47 +0000

Hanlon’s razor applies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

New comment by stuartd in "GitHub no longer uses Toasts"

stuartd — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:17:34 +0000

https://archive.ph/2025.12.08-211115/https://primer.style/ac...

New comment by stuartd in "Nook Browser"

stuartd — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 00:20:06 +0000

I loved Camino. I think I still have the binary on my MBA just to look at the icon and sigh

New comment by stuartd in "Reinventing how .NET builds and ships (again)"

stuartd — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 06:21:24 +0000

It is, shall we say, more curated

New comment by stuartd in ".NET 10"

stuartd — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:21:23 +0000

Wix was open sourced in 2004 - https://www.computerworld.com/article/1580079/microsoft-goes...

New comment by stuartd in "Over 80% of sunscreen performed below their labelled efficacy (2020)"

stuartd — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:34:44 +0000

https://altruistsun.com/

I have vitiligo and basically no skin pigment above my neck line - this product is excellent, reasonably priced, and ethical

New comment by stuartd in "Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress"

stuartd — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:20:40 +0000

I’m using Windows 11 at my new job and wow, it really is horrible (always been a server OS user at work, Mac at home)

This whole thing about it opening links in Edge despite your preferences is just.. bizarre! It’s like they had a bet on “hey what’s the most user hostile thing we can get away with?!”

New comment by stuartd in "Max, a Real Programmer"

stuartd — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:49:46 +0000

I remembered this story the other day but couldn’t remember the name - and then coincidentally came across this link to it! https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

New comment by stuartd in "They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder"

stuartd — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:35:38 +0000

I used to have a DTC-690 - brilliant for parties. Sold it for £1 in the end to a happy customer.

New comment by stuartd in "Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved feature (2022)"

stuartd — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 18:50:55 +0000

The post links to a GitHub page, which contains this:

> I just blogged about the new git-notes functionality over at the [Pro Git blog](dead link)

The link is archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20100828155504/http://progit.org...

New comment by stuartd in "AI sceptic Emily Bender: 'The emperor has no clothes'"

stuartd — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 09:40:13 +0000

> how can she say that it's both no good at most things and simultaneous dangerous because of the job losses it will cause?

worse is cheaper