Hacker News: threesevenths

New comment by threesevenths in "Microsoft is laying off 9,100 employees, Xbox division hit hard"

threesevenths — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 10:59:50 +0000

They’re looking for folks that don’t need to see the code.

Also, this is fairly predictable. Companies hired expensive devs during the pandemic and are now working to replace them with lower cost devs in a weak market. Jobs will come back, at lower salary ranges.

New comment by threesevenths in "Ask HN: Books/guides/resources about running a public, web CA?"

threesevenths — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 12:54:31 +0000

The difficult part of running a ca is convincing others you’re trustworthy. You need to have your business processes audited but an independent third party and then wait for your root to be adopted and deployed in browsers.

The value in exiting providers is their reach; versign for example is deployed in practically every trusted root bundle. When GoDaddy wanted to enter the market, they bought Starfield who already had a root which was widely trusted and crossed that with their own.

The reason people will pay for you to compute a number based on a number they give you and your super secret number is that people trust what you’re doing with your super secret number. And that trust takes time.

New comment by threesevenths in "Last Windows update creates C:\inetpub"

threesevenths — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:23:09 +0000

I’d be willing to bet some internet karma that this was a simple mistake during packaging and an errant folder create was accidentally included. I’d be incredibly surprised if any IIS components are activated by this update or if anything beyond the folder existing is out of the ordinary for the system.

New comment by threesevenths in "Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord"

threesevenths — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:03:49 +0000

A British company making a chat app. What’s the privacy policy? 5 eyes first then you?

New comment by threesevenths in "Brother refutes "false claims" that it bricked printers using third-party ink"

threesevenths — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 11:01:50 +0000

I read this article overwhelmingly thinking: do a test Ars. The subtext read like “Oh woe is us well just have to wait and see what happens there’s nothing we could do to move this along. We have an editor that has one but theirs isn’t internet connected. Oh if only there was something we could do to give more substantive reporting.”

Buy a printer, buy third party toner, and try and confirm or refute the claims.

New comment by threesevenths in "Tips from a Senior .NET Developer"

threesevenths — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 10:48:15 +0000

What a shitty world when we now have paywalled content on medium.

New comment by threesevenths in "UnitedHealth laying off 30-35k employees by May 1"

threesevenths — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:46:13 +0000

I’ll have what they’re having.

New comment by threesevenths in "What are the best online activities to do with friends remotely?"

threesevenths — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:11:08 +0000

Run a discord server. Hang out and chat, even if you’re playing different games or watching shows and movies. Sometimes knowing you’ll be heard even if no one is actively speaking is a good activity.

New comment by threesevenths in "Why do software developers like working from the office?"

threesevenths — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:24:05 +0000

> we used a combination of two data collection methods: a survey administered to 651 employees and in-depth interviews conducted with 35 employees from the same organization.

I’m no statistician but surveying a single org does not seem to be a representative sample of the whole population of software developers.

New comment by threesevenths in "Show HN: Double-entry accounting based personal finance app"

threesevenths — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 13:43:13 +0000

Question about data collection. On the App Store it says that no data is collected by the app. In your privacy policy on the site it states that you do collect data related to the work that the app does and among other things, device metrics. If you do collect data, would you mind updating your App Store listing to clearly indicate that you collect data. If you don’t collect anything, could that be clearly indicated in your privacy policy.

Thanks, app looks clean and useful.

New comment by threesevenths in "Ask HN: Would you recommend a framework laptop"

threesevenths — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:39:36 +0000

What main board do you have the issue with? Is it a 13 or 16?

New comment by threesevenths in "Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now"

threesevenths — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:48:43 +0000

Cold boot perf is a good yard stick but it’s not that important in your workflow. Except when it crashes. They really should work on that. Quality as a feature.

New comment by threesevenths in "Mercedes' patented steering may make EVs to drive"

threesevenths — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:21:26 +0000

Missing the word exciting in the title.

New comment by threesevenths in "YouTube-dl site blocked due to German court ruling"

threesevenths — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:20:54 +0000

What wild times we live in that a regional court can block access globally to a website.

New comment by threesevenths in "Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely (2023)"

threesevenths — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:06:05 +0000

Can you explain what has not gone well for you? How has it gone for the rest of the team?

New comment by threesevenths in "Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely (2023)"

threesevenths — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:04:46 +0000

Interest rates are dropping. Jobs are appearing and new ideas are forming. There will probably be fewer silly startups. Hopefully we will see some new technology that has a meaningful impact.

New comment by threesevenths in "I Hacked My Friend's Phone to Show How Easy It Is [video]"

threesevenths — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 14:14:24 +0000

If you’re looking for privacy don’t bring a two way radio gps tracker with you everywhere you go.

New comment by threesevenths in "Hollywood Can't Ditch Its Teslas Fast Enough:"They're Destroying Their Leases..""

threesevenths — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 07:03:06 +0000

I think there are plenty of other competent alternatives on the market now that match the price points of Teslas. Their supercharger network with free or cheap access was their main competitive advantage. I don’t think it’s as relevant now for a purchasing decision.

New comment by threesevenths in "When Infrastructure Gets Hacked"

threesevenths — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:38:56 +0000

Great cross between civil engineering and cyber security with a couple of good examples of past incidents.

New comment by threesevenths in "Did ChatGPT just message me first?"

threesevenths — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 12:08:15 +0000

To recreate this, start a new chat conversation, tell ChatGPT to ask you about your first week in high school. Then, use the browsers dev tools to hide the first message sent by you to ChatGPT. Watch SkyNet grow.