Hacker News: stuartd

New comment by stuartd in "Patrick Stewart has died"

stuartd — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:29:24 +0000

make it not so

New comment by stuartd in "Firefox Enterprise"

stuartd — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:19:13 +0000

Many years ago I installed Firefox 0.6 on my mother-in-law’s laptop and gave it the IE logo - she never noticed, it never got updated, but she never had any malware problems.

New comment by stuartd in "Policing sex in public toilets in 1930s London"

stuartd — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:35:49 +0000

> [policemen] acted as agents provocateur, enticing men through deceptive means to respond to sexual invitations – so they could catch them red-handed

This was still the case in the 1980s - I worked with an ex-policeman who was ‘young looking’ and his job was this kind of entrapment.

New comment by stuartd in "Agents don't need memory, they need documentation"

stuartd — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:28:19 +0000

New comment by stuartd in "Eric S. Raymond – This is the case against AI Doom – pass it on"

stuartd — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:26:08 +0000

On a repellent platform as well

New comment by stuartd in "I hate you Microsoft"

stuartd — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 22:19:54 +0000

> Please stop using windows. Please stop using proprietary document formats.

New comment by stuartd in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

stuartd — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:40:43 +0000

The latter two potentially yes, as they can sell a product. Chrome - not so much: sell the browser, embed ads… nothing palatable.

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