Hacker News: tlhunter

New comment by tlhunter in "Pixel Watch 5"

tlhunter — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:01:27 +0000

I like how the footnotes are all broken. Like the repairability footnote links to charging. Lots of money was spent making that website.

New comment by tlhunter in "Proving a human wrote something"

tlhunter — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:57:21 +0000

I had a similar idea for take-home tests for software interviews. Run a bash script to commit all changes in a repo every 5 seconds. The candidate then submits a tarball of the git repo.

  #!/usr/bin/env bash
  while true; do
    git add -A
    if ! git diff --cached --quiet; then
      git commit -m "$(date --iso-8601=seconds)"
    fi
    sleep 5
  done

New comment by tlhunter in "My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault"

tlhunter — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:30:30 +0000

I want something like this in a keyboard: a completely hidden drive that the OS cannot see until I type in a certain string of characters (password) to activate it with a separate string of characters to deactivate it.

New comment by tlhunter in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

tlhunter — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:13:28 +0000

I just want icons that I can click from my home screen (eg PWA).

New Android security setting spots bad networks and fake cell towers

tlhunter — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:10:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zdnet.com/article/android-security-setting-spots-bad-networks-and-fake-cell-towers-how-to-enable/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791942

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by tlhunter in "Web Browsers on PDAS"

tlhunter — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:23:51 +0000

Title should read "Web Browsers on PDAs", in case you're confused like I was.

New comment by tlhunter in "Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing"

tlhunter — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:17:49 +0000

I'm a fan of Manuskript on Linux. It's similar but has more features and, IMO, looks better: https://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/

Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says

tlhunter — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:27:12 +0000

https://www.uscis.gov/newsroom/news-releases/us-citizenship-...

https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/memos/PM-... [pdf]

https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/2057817233200418837, https://xcancel.com/DHSgov/status/2057817233200418837

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrpz4l1klgo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/05/22/new-ru..., https://archive.is/yi2cX

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48241890

Points: 1129

# Comments: 1990

New comment by tlhunter in "They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker"

tlhunter — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:22 +0000

My personal tagline, "I came here to kick ass, build web applications, and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum." came from this movie.

RFC: Oden: The Server-First, JavaScript-Esque Runtime

tlhunter — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:11:42 +0000

Article URL: https://rfchub.com/phobos/rfc5-oden-the-server-first-javascript-esque-runtime

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904198

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tlhunter in "Google Flow Music"

tlhunter — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:46:09 +0000

I hate how these tools ask me to type in some long prompt and then once I finish they tell me that I need to make an account.

New comment by tlhunter in "The Utopia of the Family Computer"

tlhunter — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:38:08 +0000

I actually found the LLM-generated image more annoying than the LLM-generated prose.

New comment by tlhunter in "DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public"

tlhunter — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:28:09 +0000

https://archive.is/jHfOe

DOJ wants to scrap Watergate-era rule that makes presidential records public

tlhunter — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:28:09 +0000

Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2026/04/09/trump-documents-library-presidential-records-act/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722566

Points: 264

# Comments: 69

New comment by tlhunter in "“Your frustration is the product”"

tlhunter — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:32:30 +0000

> No print publication on the planet does this. The print editions of the very same publications — The New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Yorker — don’t do anything like this.

Ehh... I cancelled my SF Chronicle subscription a year ago. Since then I've received a dozen predatory phone calls and just add many letters. Plus when you do have the subscription they alter prices on you like a cable TV provider. So in some ways print is better than web but in other ways it's worse.

New comment by tlhunter in "Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?"

tlhunter — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:07:16 +0000

Article?

New comment by tlhunter in "Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?"

tlhunter — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:41:19 +0000

Mine is pretty cool looking: https://thomashunter.name/posts/2026-02-26-alpaka-elements-t...

New comment by tlhunter in "Layoffs at Block"

tlhunter — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:48:05 +0000

Jack couldn't be bothered to use capital letters in his last layoff email either.

My experience building a Node.js Native Module using an LLM

tlhunter — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:53:43 +0000

Article URL: https://thomashunter.name/posts/2026-02-17-generating-a-node-native-module-with-an-llm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061585

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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

tlhunter — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:56:21 +0000

Hopefully this will get momentum scrolling working.