Hacker News: testplzignore

New comment by testplzignore in "Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died"

testplzignore — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:00:28 +0000

Makes me wonder if he's actually dead...

New comment by testplzignore in "One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days"

testplzignore — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:51:24 +0000

Software developers approving AI PRs without reading them: This is the way the world works now. Get with the times.

Police approving AI PRs without reading them: This is the way the world works now. Get with the times.

New comment by testplzignore in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

testplzignore — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:50:55 +0000

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/

"You choose the AWS Region(s) in which your content is stored. You can replicate and back up your content in more than one AWS Region. We will not move or replicate your content outside of your chosen AWS Region(s) without your agreement."

New comment by testplzignore in "Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue"

testplzignore — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:08:13 +0000

This is the load-bearing question.

New comment by testplzignore in "Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30"

testplzignore — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:10:14 +0000

> Experts are vetted upfront by an AI interviewer

> till the AI is happy

My god this is dystopian.

New comment by testplzignore in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

testplzignore — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:35:10 +0000

Interesting coincidence that both this article and the Hugging Face "security incident" post were on July 16. These will be mandatory reading in future Skynet History classes, assuming we survive the war.

New comment by testplzignore in "Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25"

testplzignore — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:54:53 +0000

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/c474dc6051dd60...

New comment by testplzignore in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

testplzignore — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:56:39 +0000

~681 American footballs. At 27 balls per team per NFL game, an average of 17.8 games per team per season, and an annual salary cap of $301 million, those many balls are equivalent to a salary of $481 million. So by weight, footballs are "worth" 12 times the price of gold.

Joe Burrow weighs 215 lbs and makes $55 million per year. That makes him worth his weight in gold x4.

I'm still researching the average weight of a football field. Depends if it has rained recently.

New comment by testplzignore in "--dangerously-skip-reading-code"

testplzignore — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:52:43 +0000

> Product owners and engineers could initially collaborate on this spec and on test cases to enforce business rules.

LOL. I had to check if this was published on April 1st.

New comment by testplzignore in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

testplzignore — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:29:32 +0000

Maybe he trying to collect every waifu from every gacha game. That would get expensive in a hurry.

New comment by testplzignore in "The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers"

testplzignore — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:23:05 +0000

The NSA would presumably have all of this.

From a taxpayer perspective, it's such a waste to have multiple agencies doing their own unconstitutional surveillance. Why have two Ministries of Love when one would do? :)

New comment by testplzignore in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

testplzignore — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:28:38 +0000

> What’s more, Peltzman’s analysis finds that some of the largest declines in happiness seem concentrated among well-to-do demographics, like older people, white people, and college graduates.

The same demographics that are the most likely to have gone from working in the office to working from home...

New comment by testplzignore in "Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions"

testplzignore — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:08:00 +0000

Would be fascinating to see what happens if the boundaries are reversed (i.e., "harm people"). Give it a fake "launch the nukes" skill and see if it presses the button.

New comment by testplzignore in "Running Out of Disk Space in Production"

testplzignore — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:26:54 +0000

Would another way be to drop the reserved space (typically 1% to 5% on an ext file system)?

New comment by testplzignore in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"

testplzignore — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:09:38 +0000

Our industry has never been serious about security. We all download and run unvetted code via package managers every day. At least now the insanity is out in the open. We won't change until Skynet fires off the nukes.

New comment by testplzignore in "I dropped our production database and now pay 10% more for AWS"

testplzignore — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:34:06 +0000

You should always use Object Lock with compliance mode on your S3 backups. Always.

New comment by testplzignore in "Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores"

testplzignore — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:00:22 +0000

I don't see anyone else asking this question. Seems like a major detail Google is burying.

I'm guessing the alternate billing flow will contractually require the app to "phone home" to Google with how much the user spent. Presumably will be part of the app review process.

New comment by testplzignore in "WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system"

testplzignore — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:25:42 +0000

Bruce Wayne implemented this almost 2 decades ago in The Dark Knight. EU innovation moving at a snail's pace as usual /s

New comment by testplzignore in "The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up"

testplzignore — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:24:37 +0000

We need to standardize on using Earth circumferences as the unit of length. Or better, football fields! (the type of football of course being implied by the website's ccTLD)

New comment by testplzignore in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

testplzignore — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:22:53 +0000

There have been changes in the manufacturing process to "pre-shrink" fabrics.

Similar improvements have been made to improve colorfastness. Mixing new reds and whites used to consistently produce pink. Not anymore.