Hacker News: wfh

New comment by wfh in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

wfh — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 14:29:29 +0000

Has this tax change been mentioned in any earnings calls as a reason for layoffs. Perhaps if that evidence could be found it would bolster the argument being made here. Didn't someone have all earnings call transcripts in a large database - perhaps an AI can find evidence of this?

New comment by wfh in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

wfh — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 02:29:25 +0000

I just installed tiktok for the first time on my Android device and it asked for no permissions and even let me use it without creating an account. How is it getting photos and videos on my device?

New comment by wfh in "Google paid $10M in bug bounty rewards last year"

wfh — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 23:01:45 +0000

Original blog post that the article was seemingly based on https://security.googleblog.com/2024/03/vulnerability-reward...

New comment by wfh in "New U.S. immigration rules spur more visa approvals for STEM workers"

wfh — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 17:35:28 +0000

If you mean the existing H-1B lottery, see sibling comment linking the Forbes article which says "However, attorneys say attempting to reorder the H-1B lottery from highest to lowest salary by regulation, as the administration has discussed, would be unlikely to survive a legal challenge."

New comment by wfh in "Stop Worrying About Deepfakes"

wfh — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:27:06 +0000

I don't think this article will age well.

New comment by wfh in "Third-party Reddit apps are being crushed by price increases"

wfh — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 14:59:56 +0000

Remains one of my proudest contributions to Chromium https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/25...

New comment by wfh in "Apple’s fight against iPhone sideloading was pointless at best, harmful at worst"

wfh — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 16:30:39 +0000

The lasting legacy will be persuading everyone that installing apps should have its own scary word like "sideloading" rather than just "installing".

New comment by wfh in "Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news"

wfh — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:50:02 +0000

I think you're talking about Chromebooks.

New comment by wfh in "All 1,400 Google Chrome CLI flags"

wfh — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 02:25:34 +0000

Can't wait for hacker news to find out about --enable-features and --disable-features.

New comment by wfh in "All 1,400 Google Chrome CLI flags"

wfh — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 02:22:23 +0000

Sure, you can use the enterprise policy:

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#DefaultJavaScriptJ...

And this existed before SDSM... in fact SDSM depends on the code landed in Chrome that backs this policy.

New comment by wfh in "Why fusion will never happen (2012)"

wfh — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 17:09:51 +0000

Agree with the article but, to me, demonstrates the reason why governments and regulators (and taxation authorities) make a difference here. E.g. if fossil fuels get a 200% tax then maybe nuclear/fusion (fission now) becomes more viable.

Have to concede that wind and solar seem pretty good now, if combined with good grid-wide battery technology.

New comment by wfh in "Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (2015)"

wfh — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 02:08:02 +0000

Loading this page with JavaScript disabled is a very bizarre experience!

New comment by wfh in "Stadia died because no one trusts Google"

wfh — Sun, 02 Oct 2022 06:15:25 +0000

I use my Stadia controller over a USB-C cable to my PC. Plays Elden Ring fine :)

New comment by wfh in "Confess your love with zero-knowledge"

wfh — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 19:58:45 +0000

Reminds me a paper I co-authored all the way back in 2000! https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/papers/2000-StajanoHar-roman... wow that's a long time ago!

New comment by wfh in "Implementing Global Injection and Hooking in Windows"

wfh — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 04:59:07 +0000

Code injection like this is why we have historically been unable to enable stronger process mitigations for Chrome that might improve security and stability. It's a real pity :(

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=851565...

The flag we (still) can't enable by default is

--enable-features=BrowserDynamicCodeDisabled

New comment by wfh in "JPMorgan hit with $200M in fines for letting employees use WhatsApp"

wfh — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 19:30:17 +0000

(do not work in finance so excuse the dumb question but) if there is this requirement for all employee communications to be tracked for compliance purposes, how are/were face to face meetings recorded? Or just chatting in the corridor? Is that not allowed?

New comment by wfh in "WebAssembly and Back Again: Fine-Grained Sandboxing in Firefox 95"

wfh — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:43:17 +0000

How does this compare with https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/27... ?

New comment by wfh in "US seeks answers from Tesla over no recall"

wfh — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 16:52:11 +0000

NHTSA should change the name of the term. With more and more vehicles supporting over-the-air updates, using a word like "recall" which implies you have to drive your car to a garage and have them fix it in person is just confusing.

New comment by wfh in "Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went into space [video]"

wfh — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 17:52:59 +0000

BBC Radio 4 also presented a good hour-long segment on Gagarin last weekend https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v24g

New comment by wfh in "How to liberate a Chromebook"

wfh — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 17:21:34 +0000

Does GalliumOS auto-update, including security updates for all packages?