Hacker News: throwaway613746

New comment by throwaway613746 in "Cloudflare Flagship"

throwaway613746 — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:09:21 +0000

Feature flags are so ridiculously simple I have never needed to outsource this to someone else.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

throwaway613746 — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:49:16 +0000

So did Nazi eugenics.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"

throwaway613746 — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:38:12 +0000

The best way to fight back is to not play the game at all. AI slop has completely ruined the internet, it's not going to get better. It was already on a massive downard trend pre-AI and generative AI has only accelerated the decline by 100x. It's only going to get worse from here.

uBlock Origin: Settings -> Filter Lists -> EasyList –> Annoyances -> EasyList –> AI Widgets

It's not perfect but the internet feels slightly better when AI garbage is not constantly being shoved in my face 24/7.

I want to go one step further -> I want to hide widgets, but I also want to intercept the request it would have made and replace the payload with garbled nonsense. Similar to how Ad Nauseam will hide ads but it also clicks every single one to poison the data collection.

And for this reason alone you will pry Firefox from my cold, dead hands.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

throwaway613746 — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:35:44 +0000

So you're just constantly committing untested versions of you work?

New comment by throwaway613746 in "WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward"

throwaway613746 — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:37:11 +0000

macos itself is sluggish af

I booted up an OLD imac stuck on 10.something, with an - I can't remember which gen - i5 and only 8gb of ram and I was blown away by how much it FLIES on that ancient hardware - even compared to my M1 Max Mac Studio

Apple Silicon is great. Everything else sucks.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "ReactOS"

throwaway613746 — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:43:49 +0000

ReactOS came first though.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "OpenWarp"

throwaway613746 — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:05:07 +0000

Why do you need to have a whole fork to remove them when there is a single AI killswitch option already?

New comment by throwaway613746 in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

throwaway613746 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:38:57 +0000

It's been a few years and I have yet to see a single novel thing come out of it. Even chatbots weren't novel when ChatGPT came out.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

throwaway613746 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:10:17 +0000

I've been jumping between Maple Mono and a custom Iosevka build that I've been tweaking here and there for the better part of 3 years. Jetbrains Mono is also really nice if you want something a bit more neutral.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "Cocoa-Way – Native macOS Wayland compositor for running Linux apps seamlessly"

throwaway613746 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:22:59 +0000

As someone that switches between MacOS (dayjob) and Linux (my own PCs) workstations daily - I wish I could do the opposite for Linux. MacOS keyboard shortcuts are just way more intuitive to me, and they are way more consistent across applications.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

throwaway613746 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:16:29 +0000

A cheap mini-pc in your closet.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

throwaway613746 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:57:54 +0000

AI isn't an excuse for war crimes. Remember this at, and after, election time.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "ARC-AGI-3"

throwaway613746 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:57:57 +0000

Or more appropriately - The Talos Principle.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"

throwaway613746 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:25:42 +0000

My company has been massively affected by this over the past month.

It sucks having to tell customers "this is on Microsoft's end, we're trying to work through it with them but we don't have an ETA and can't say more than that" because Microsoft support is absolutely useless. The other day we changed some DMARC/SPF records around and that seemed to do the trick but now it appears to just be a coincidence.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build"

throwaway613746 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:48:15 +0000

Never saw the point of these desktop apps. Docker (and podman) works just fine from the CLI only.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

throwaway613746 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:12:53 +0000

I don't care that the non-gnu coreutils are using rust. I care that they aren't GPL licensed.

This means Canonical can offer proprietary patches on top of these packages and sell them as part of their "enterprise" offerings and this gives me the ick.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption"

throwaway613746 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:58:40 +0000

> "if you're so much more productive with AI, what have you built with it"

If my boss asked me a question like this my reply would be "exactly what you told me to build, check jira".

If you want to know if I'm more productive - look at the metrics. Isn't that what you pay Atlassian for? Maybe you could ask their AI...

New comment by throwaway613746 in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

throwaway613746 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:43:51 +0000

Ironic, because AI Agent integration is their business model.

New comment by throwaway613746 in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

throwaway613746 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:03:36 +0000

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New comment by throwaway613746 in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

throwaway613746 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:36:41 +0000

I just wish this was possible somehow without essentially making corporate mass-surveillance a requirement.