Hacker News: thombles

New comment by thombles in "Cal.com is going closed source"

thombles — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:30:26 +0000

It's a meaningful difference for SaaS. Most likely an attacker doesn't have access to your running binary let alone source code, and if they probe it like a pentester would it will be noisy and blocked/flagged by your WAF.

New comment by thombles in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

thombles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:56:44 +0000

Microsoft could tone it down a bit (especially all the full screen harassment after windows updates) but I wonder how many casual users have had their bacon saved precisely because their documents and desktop got pushed to the cloud?

New comment by thombles in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

thombles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:54:20 +0000

It’s super hostile. I realised I was going to press it by accident eventually so I switched to Fossify Gallery before I did.

New comment by thombles in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

thombles — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:47:48 +0000

It doesn’t? I use the OneDrive app for scanning documents all the time. + button then “Capture”

New comment by thombles in "I'm betting on ATProto"

thombles — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:00:43 +0000

I understand your pedantic point but let me give a realistic reply. If your account, or the account of somebody you like corresponding with, happens to be on an instance that falls into disfavour (not uncommon in my time there) then server bans come out and conversations become broken, even between parties who had no knowledge of the overarching drama. Good luck even understanding it if you aren’t a techie.

New comment by thombles in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

thombles — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:36:34 +0000

Oof. Why can’t it just do its one job? My interest level in trying these agents has gone from lukewarm to zero.

New comment by thombles in "Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive"

thombles — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:37:02 +0000

If you want your nostalgia in multimedia - https://canyonmid.com/

Tangled: Our €3,8M seed round

thombles — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 09:55:27 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.tangled.org/seed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47215839

Points: 12

# Comments: 7

RSS Guard v5.0.0

thombles — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:06:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/releases/tag/5.0.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173445

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by thombles in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

thombles — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:00:01 +0000

> you can imagine how a locally run LLM that was just part of the SDK/API developers could leverage would lead to better UI/UX

It’s already there for Apple developers: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundationmodels

I saw some presentations about it last year. It’s extremely easy to use.

New comment by thombles in "C++ says “We have try... finally at home”"

thombles — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 10:41:57 +0000

HN has some heuristics to reduce hyperbole in submissions which occasionally backfire amusingly.

Experiments with Memory Integrity Enforcement

thombles — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:27:24 +0000

Article URL: https://octet-stream.net/b/scb/2025-12-16-experiments-with-memory-integrity-enforcement.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284773

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by thombles in "Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse"

thombles — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:32:40 +0000

Given what this person has gone through, if you want to be critical then I think you owe us a more detailed explanation what exactly would have worked better. Armchair parenting is very easy.

New comment by thombles in "$1900 Bug Bounty to Fix the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H's Speakers on Linux"

thombles — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 08:55:26 +0000

Out of all bugs and feature requests, this one is an outlier in that it requires specific hardware to work on and has an obvious success condition. This means that every man and his dog is not going to be throwing an LLM at this to see if their particular slop wins the prize. People get weird when money is on the line and managing a bounty is a job for which I would never volunteer.

New comment by thombles in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

thombles — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:57:20 +0000

MetaARPA tier membership (quarterly fee) is required to have HTTPS on your personal website - personal sites hosted on the main BSD cluster don’t have it.

New comment by thombles in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

thombles — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 08:55:53 +0000

HTTPS ain’t cheap though.

New comment by thombles in "At the end you use `git bisect`"

thombles — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 01:33:04 +0000

One place bisect shines is when a flaky test snuck in due to some race condition but you can’t figure out what. If you have to run a test 100000 times to be convinced the bug isn’t present, this can be pretty slow. Bisecting makes it practical to narrow in on the faulty commit, and with the right script you can just leave it running in the background for an hour.

Bureau of Meteorology ordered to fix new website after torrent of complaints

thombles — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:17:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-29/bureau-of-meteorology-ordered-to-fix-website-after-backlash/105945832

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45742567

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Polish top-performing language for complex AI tasks, finds study

thombles — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 09:51:19 +0000

Article URL: https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/10/26/polish-top-performing-language-for-complex-ai-language-tasks-finds-study/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45719046

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by thombles in "Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto"

thombles — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 02:56:00 +0000

Spam, illegal content, and moderation in general. How do you protect against new account spam when any domain could be a PDS and any PDS could host an arbitrary number of users? What do you do about people stuffing ebooks and TV shows in git repositories? If a project is getting piled on with all its issued spammed because of political views of the repo's maintainer, is this considered a problem, and if so how is it fixed?

The advantage of an AppView is that, like BlueSky, you can actually have a central moderation team and consistent moderation policy. Even if people post whatever they want on their own PDS it is possible to curate what people normally see. However, even though I avoid following the drama I can see that the BlueSky moderation team is constantly under fire for some decision or other. Choose your poison.

Nowadays I don't have the appetite for fully decentralised public networks and all the responsibilities and problems they bring. It's nice that AT's content is completely open compared with something like Twitter, but it's so helpful that the day-to-day administration is centralised when you want an authority to appeal to without ending up with the quagmire of "defederation".

A question to ponder: is anyone here going to volunteer to run a "permissive" radicle seed node? (i.e. providing storage and access to arbitrary git repos uploaded anonymously)