<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: thepasswordis</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thepasswordis</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2026 01:13:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thepasswordis" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Anthropic's Public Benefit Charter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>She probably thought that having Jeffrey Epstein involved in her porn site would be a benefit to humanity.  The people involved in Epstein's plots probably <i>also</i> thought they were benefiting humanity (just maybe not the humans alive <i>right now</i>)<p>And for clarity, this isn't just Dario's wife, she's part of the executive staff.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:56:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186711</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186711</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50186711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reminds me of one of the funniest products I've ever seen: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbkvJznmwU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbkvJznmwU</a><p>This is the "kosher switch" - observant Jews customarily do not use light switches on Saturday (their weekly holy day).  This light switch represents a workaround where when you flip the switch, it <i>randomly</i> generates an on or off signal and emits this through an optical coupler.  When the random number sufficiently causes the state of the light to change, it latches in that direction.<p>This is a way of turning the lights on and off without violating the tradition.<p>"I didn't switch the light, the random number did!"<p>"I didn't exploitVulnerability(), random number did!"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:10:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969106</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969106</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "I Don't Like LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What sorts of places do you hang out in, or how old are you?<p>People who did programming for the love of programming was <i>extremely</i> common in the sortof hacker subculture that existed from 1990-2010is or so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:35:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742365</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742365</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49742365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "iPhone Duo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm interested to see what cases for this will look like.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:18:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630992</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Literally putting tokens into a machine and hoping profit comes out.  Amazing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:14:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628916</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is actually astonishing to me that this is not something which can be turned off at the OS level, or as a permission setting in the app permissions.<p>The app knowing I took a screenshot feels adjacent to me to a keylogger.  Imagine how many apps are capturing that information silently.  To my mind, a screenshot is something that is happening outside of the app context, the app knowing about it is a security flaw imo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:56:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338834</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338834</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The tick you're talking about here (hard to crush) is a wood tick, the types that carry lyme are deer ticks.<p>They're much, much smaller.  The size of a poppy seed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:33:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314079</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314079</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you don't do any 3D printing, it's hard to understand the difference between bambu labs and nearly everything else.<p>The Bambu printers work.  Imagine the difference between windows XP and OSX.  Do you guys remember the insane breath of fresh air it was to get a computer which just <i>worked</i>?<p>That's Bambu.  Yeah they aren't open source there's all sorts of telemetry, etc.  Nobody cares because they really just want to print things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 16:30:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110549</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110549</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://x.com/EthanLevins2/status/2043366941922926940" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/EthanLevins2/status/2043366941922926940</a></p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742680">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742680</a></p>
<p>Points: 357</p>
<p># Comments: 187</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:19:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://maps.apple.com/frame?center=33.723388%2C35.614698&amp;span=1.983925%2C4.004193</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742680</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Layoffs at Block"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, that's just the reality of the market right now.  Software engineers are an extremely hot field, likely because everybody is trying to add AI to their products.<p><a href="https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/" rel="nofollow">https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-glo...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:44:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173139</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just as a reminder, 15 years ago was 2011.<p>That was...like 4 macbooks ago.  I still have keyboards from that era.  I still have speakers and monitors from that era kicking around.<p>We are definitely, <i>definitely</i> not the last generation to use keyboards.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:38:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895379</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895379</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The fact that you believe this is the exact reasoning behind trying to prevent things like what Jimmy Kimmel did here.<p>It could not be more cut and dry than this.  In fact it is <i>so</i> cut and dry that a conspiracy theory on both the left <i>and</i> the right is that the text messages demonstrating his political motivations aren’t genuine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:09:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45309494</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45309494</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45309494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "GPT-5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The model should appear as a drop down at the top of the page.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:22:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827388</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I actually think that pasting questions into chatGPT etc. and then getting general answers to put into your code is the way.<p>“One shotting” apps, or even cursor and so forth seem like a waste of time.  It feels like if you prompt it <i>just right</i> it might help but then it never really does.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:22:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44525123</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44525123</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44525123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The people assessing his talent are falling for the same delusion as the people conducting the interview.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:12:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44457180</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44457180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44457180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Remember: we’re all in this together!<p>Is there a single person that takes what Sam is saying here seriously?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:59:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44446089</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44446089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44446089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Extremely vulnerable to rubber hose attacks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 01:36:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011383</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011383</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would be very happy to do this.<p>Fine, make it optional.  I actually would love a version of cold storage that is: never release this money unless I personally travel to an office if NYC and authorize it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 23:01:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44000219</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44000219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44000219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there anything crypto does that paper currency doesn’t?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 19:20:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998367</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998367</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah, cool.  My name, home address, phone number, social security number, and images of my drivers license and passport as well as what bank I use.</p>
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