Hacker News: tom1337

New comment by tom1337 in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

tom1337 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:57:22 +0000

No because per default the input is not cleared when screenshotting. If you‘d implement this yourself for security reasons you'd most likely blur / overlay the whole screen when the app enters background state.

New comment by tom1337 in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

tom1337 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:53:53 +0000

Wow they just went into "another" outage

> Update 16:59 UTC - The degradation affecting API Requests, Actions, Git Operations, Issues, Pages, Pull Requests and Webhooks has been mitigated. We are monitoring to ensure stability.

> Update 17:30 UTC - Git Operations is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

> Update 17:36 UTC - Issues is experiencing degraded performance. We are continuing to investigate.

> Update 18:48 UTC - API Requests is experiencing degraded availability. We are continuing to investigate.

New comment by tom1337 in "Incident with Github.com"

tom1337 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:56:16 +0000

Update 16:36 UTC - We identified the problematic component and have taken corrective actions. There are strong signs of recovery but we are still working to completely restore service, with error rates still remaining slightly elevated. We will post further updates as recovery continues.

just shy of 3 hours to find the issue

New comment by tom1337 in "Incident with Github.com"

tom1337 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:40:17 +0000

How would I be able to run my CI via Buildkite when I still host in GitHub and their API is down? We are currently already using self-hosted runners and they also don't work because either they aren't started by GitHub or can't download the code.

New comment by tom1337 in "Incident with Github.com"

tom1337 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:07:21 +0000

> Warning: Failed to download action 'https://codeload.github.com/'.

> Error: Response status code does not indicate success: 429 (Too Many Requests).

> Warning: Back off 19.714 seconds before retry.

> Warning: Failed to download action 'https://codeload.github.com/'.

> Error: Response status code does not indicate success: 502 (Bad Gateway).

> Warning: Back off 22.228 seconds before retry.

> Error: Response status code does not indicate success: 429 (Too Many Requests).

> Error: Failed to download archive 'https://codeload.github.com/' after 3 attempts.

Nice - even their own action runners are getting rate limited atm

New comment by tom1337 in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

tom1337 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:49:22 +0000

I am not sure if all Webhooks were affected or only those regarding actions. Theres not much information given besides "Webhook deliveries may be delayed."

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/qcvjkzcs7j74

New comment by tom1337 in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

tom1337 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:27:36 +0000

It most likely is. We are using Ubicloud (which seems to work the same way hf jobs does) and it's also down. GitHub is not sending out Webhooks and is also not able to queue external jobs. If we had to emergency deploy anything now I'd have no idea how to really do that...

New comment by tom1337 in "OpenAI says my prepaid credits were consumed, refuses to show any record"

tom1337 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:12:43 +0000

If you buy groceries and let them expire in your fridge because you forgot to use them, did the grocery store stole the money from you?

New comment by tom1337 in "OpenAI says my prepaid credits were consumed, refuses to show any record"

tom1337 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:01:05 +0000

That’s pretty common. While I agree it’s not ideal for users, having credits that never expire is a headache for businesses. They’d effectively owe you compute forever, which complicates accounting. It also makes pricing changes harder, since people could keep using credits they bought at much lower prices. And, of course, if credits expire before they’re used, the company ends up keeping the money without having to provide the service. At least OpenAI shows you the expiration of your credits pretty easily...

New comment by tom1337 in "Apple is getting this wrong"

tom1337 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:51:01 +0000

Funny to hear that even Apple themself struggle with that. In the past it's been such a PITA for us to decide whether employees can use private account or shall use company apple ids. As we have a pretty lax policy, most of them use their private accounts to have iCloud sync or to simply access purchased apps but having a simple way for dual account usage would be too easy i guess.

New comment by tom1337 in "Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy"

tom1337 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:48:39 +0000

You can't ask someone why they like something more while just denying the most common, subjective reason. I don't like coffee because in my opinion it does not taste good. A peach red bull tastes just better in my opinion. Also, two things can taste good for a person at the same time. I like my energy drink which is easily accessible in my fridge but when I am out and a bout a fresh strawberry, banana or any other fresh fruit is of course better.

New comment by tom1337 in "Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary"

tom1337 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:22:40 +0000

> I have the utmost respect to them (notably simonw)

seems like simon only changed the readme and wasn't really involved in the project.

https://github.com/vercel-labs/scriptc/commits/main/?author=...

New comment by tom1337 in "OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack"

tom1337 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:40:53 +0000

I know this is totally unrelated but why is there an image from an android phone having the Apple AppStore open?

New comment by tom1337 in "Ask HN: Does anyone else find GPT-5.6 Sol in Codex slow?"

tom1337 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:06:58 +0000

It feels like all models are slow(er). I've switched back to 5.5 Medium and it also took 12 minutes to do a small-ish refactor across 8 files. I guess that happens when you onboard nearly a million users per day while also removing the 5h usage limit.

New comment by tom1337 in "Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them"

tom1337 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:15:01 +0000

Also, the magnet text is not visible:

style="position: absolute; left: -9999px; top:-9999px;display: none"

maybe they try to warm up those emails to use them for other "campaigns" later on...

New comment by tom1337 in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

tom1337 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:16:22 +0000

macOS Permission Management regarding shell scripts is so bad. For example they show you a list of software thats allowed to access the full disk - but I have like 8 "sh" or "bash" in there and some random scripts with no way to open the enclosing directory in Finder making it basically impossible to see what it is and if its legit…

New comment by tom1337 in "Show HN: Atlasphere – Live Infrastructure Diagrams"

tom1337 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:28:41 +0000

I was one click from downloading it and was happily surprised that the page did not talk about Pricing so I assumed it was free - went back here to check if I missed something and seems like I did...

New comment by tom1337 in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

tom1337 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:59:42 +0000

I won't understand why Cowork isn't simply opt-in. It also installs a ~10GB vm bundle which you cannot remove

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rlc71n/claude_de...

Tell HN: Stack Overflow seems down

tom1337 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:59:02 +0000

Getting redirected to https://stackoverflow.com/error on any post I visit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478317

Points: 5

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New comment by tom1337 in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

tom1337 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:49:48 +0000

I don't think I get foldable phones. When is the extra space necessary? I mean most of them turn from a somewhat 9:16 aspect ratio to 1:1. You don't earn anything in space to consume media content. The only real improvement might be for multitasking?