Hacker News: withzombies

New comment by withzombies in "They will force you, open source maintainers, to drink the gasoline"

withzombies — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:07:38 +0000

I think Daniel Stenberg's (of cURL fame) journey with AI reports is going to be repeated for every major project and many will not enjoy being subjected to it.

They will force you, open source maintainers, to drink the gasoline

withzombies — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:31:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.notcheckmark.com/2026/04/you-will-drink-the-gasoline/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868178

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Vedette a macOS File Firewall

withzombies — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:09:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aquilon.dev/vedette/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618826

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by withzombies in "Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)"

withzombies — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:21:18 +0000

They also added the "Inline" theme which is a copy of Dark Sky's

New comment by withzombies in "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"

withzombies — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:35:22 +0000

AppleTV has a Tailscale client that you can use an exit node. That's what I do to VPN back to home when I'm traveling.

New comment by withzombies in "If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?"

withzombies — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:39:38 +0000

I read 2 or 3 books at once. I pick the one that fits my mood or my activity -- for example, I'll listen to a low effort audio book when out for a walk or when at the gym.

People are often surprised - "You're reading three books at once?! How do you keep track?". I normally point out that they're probably watching 5 different TV shows right now and they have no problem with that. It's not really different.

New comment by withzombies in "GCC 16 considering changing default to C++20"

withzombies — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:29:43 +0000

No old programs wouldn't be able to compile anymore with the proposed change

New comment by withzombies in "GCC 16 considering changing default to C++20"

withzombies — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:15:21 +0000

Yeah, I think it's because none of the compilers are obligated to support the standard and things get added that never get implemented.

A good example is the C++11 standard garbage collection! It was explicitly optional but afiak no one implemented it.

https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/cpp11-library#gc-abi

New comment by withzombies in "GCC 16 considering changing default to C++20"

withzombies — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:52:06 +0000

I'm not talking about software compiled by the compiler having a higher default.

Warnings becoming errors would be scoped to gcc itself only, and they can fix them as part of the upgrade.

New comment by withzombies in "GCC 16 considering changing default to C++20"

withzombies — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:00:28 +0000

Shouldn't the compilers be on the bleeding edge of the standards? What is the downside of switching to the newest standard when it's properly supported?

It's the type of dog fooding they should be doing! It's one reason why people care so much about self-hosted compilers, it's a demonstration of maturity of the language/compiler.

New comment by withzombies in "I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer"

withzombies — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:10:08 +0000

You can send background push notifications which are delivered when the phone is ready for them. They don't deliver when the phone is low battery or in low battery mode. It's specifically made to reduce battery consumption.

Higher priority push notifications require a user visible UI element and ca be delivered regardless of certain low power situations.

New comment by withzombies in "Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI"

withzombies — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:59:12 +0000

> The agents may benefit from some training on tools available within their agents. This will certainly help with the majority of general CLI tools, there are bespoke tools that could benefit from adapting to LLMs.

Definitely not just `ls`.

New comment by withzombies in "Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI"

withzombies — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 19:05:28 +0000

The `command_not_found_handler` can be added to your .zshrc or .bashrc as is.

New comment by withzombies in "Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI"

withzombies — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:30:12 +0000

Many of the changes that would work for LLMs would also be beneficial to users.

New comment by withzombies in "If nothing is curated, how do we find things"

withzombies — Sat, 17 May 2025 20:41:23 +0000

When we were kids, just knowing music that wasn't on the radio made you "into music". Things were very different! The internet has really allowed music choices to be much more personal and I think it's a good thing. We have such a wide variety of music available to us now.

I've had some luck finding some TikTok creators who curate specific "vibes" and publish Spotify playlists. I think that's just how it's done now.

New comment by withzombies in "Making my app worse because of macOS privacy protections"

withzombies — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:50:15 +0000

This change is a great change as so many Apps spy on your pasteboard. I think a lot of people are going to be shocked at how many apps peek into your pasteboard for both legitimate and illegitimate reasons.

It's sad that your app won't be as useable but I'd much rather have the universal pasteboard protections. It would be worthwhile if we had to specify a pasteboard access reason in the Info.plist, but that likely would require a new API because it would break all legacy uses of the current API.

New comment by withzombies in "Security research on Private Cloud Compute"

withzombies — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:26:54 +0000

Apple has a lot of Java WebObjects running on old Unix servers

New comment by withzombies in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

withzombies — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 19:20:55 +0000

You should still create a US C-Corp, ideally in Delaware.

New comment by withzombies in "Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links"

withzombies — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:25:47 +0000

The cache link predates Google's ads business

New comment by withzombies in "Build Simple Fuzzer (2020)"

withzombies — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:49:55 +0000

All the polish hackers are named Michał and have also worked together. I know Melewski and Zalewski have in the past!