Hacker News: wnevets

New comment by wnevets in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

wnevets — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:42:42 +0000

Google spent all that time pushing Manifest V3 but does little to prevent this, and in some cases even encourages it. [1]

> To provide a more tangible example, Chrome Web Store currently has Blaze VPN, Safum VPN and Snap VPN extensions carry the “Featured” badge. These extensions (along with Ishaan VPN which has barely any users) belong to the PDF Toolbox cluster which produced malicious extensions in the past. A cursory code inspection reveals that all four are identical and in fact clones of Nucleus VPN which was removed from Chrome Web Store in 2021. And they also don’t even work, no connections succeed. The extension not working is something users of Nucleus VPN complained about already, a fact that the extension compensated with fake reviews.

[1] https://palant.info/2025/01/13/chrome-web-store-is-a-mess/

New comment by wnevets in "FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database"

wnevets — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:10:37 +0000

Notifications is a different app?

New comment by wnevets in "Science confirms torpedo bat works as well as regular bat"

wnevets — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:45:22 +0000

I forgot all about the torpedo bat "craze", It was largely a dead story by the all star break.

New comment by wnevets in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

wnevets — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:33:53 +0000

the remaining population of linkedin users?

New comment by wnevets in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

wnevets — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:47:41 +0000

So before this war the strait was open and now it's gonna reopen? So much progress!

New comment by wnevets in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

wnevets — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:54:16 +0000

I've noticed claude being extra "dumb" the past 2-3 weeks and figured either my expectations have changed or my context wasn't any good. I'm glad to hear other people have noticed something is amiss.

New comment by wnevets in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

wnevets — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:31:11 +0000

> but rather a labor shortage from an aging population.

combined with ridiculous cost of living, terrible work/life balance and incredibly xenophobic immigration policies.

New comment by wnevets in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

wnevets — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:48:36 +0000

> So you are saying they shouldn't have given those 30k people a job to begin with? I don't know if that's any better.

For the long term health of the company it's near a certainty that would have been better. The effects of adding ~20K then laying off 30K in such a relatively small period of time are gonna be felt for years

New comment by wnevets in "We intercepted the White House app's network traffic"

wnevets — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:14:30 +0000

I hear there is this amazing new app you can install to avoid all of the TDS you dislike so much.

New comment by wnevets in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

wnevets — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:35:04 +0000

BAD (never write these):

- "Fix bug found while testing with Claude Capybara"

- "1-shotted by claude-opus-4-6"

- "Generated with Claude Code"

- "Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <…>"

This makes sense to me about their intent by "UNDERCOVER"

New comment by wnevets in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

wnevets — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:03:36 +0000

I view the opportunely cost, moral reduction, corporate politics, etc. differently then just money. I wanted to emphasize the long term effects of hiring then firing 30K has on businesses beyond what people typically focus on like payroll.

New comment by wnevets in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

wnevets — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:34:07 +0000

The wasted cashed is only part of the story.

Just think of the wasted man hours spent on integrating 30K new employees that supposedly the company didn't need. The time spent in meetings about restructuring departments, new points of contacts, reassignment of duties, figuring out who to promote, training the new hires, etc.

Now the company gets to it all again in reverse with much lower moral and excitement. The amount of hours & employee focus wasted on the bureaucracy of the hiring and firing over 30K employees instead of spending that time on improving the business should get you fired from leadership.

New comment by wnevets in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

wnevets — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:54:02 +0000

> but what exactly should they be held accountable for?

For over hiring 30K people.

New comment by wnevets in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

wnevets — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:25:41 +0000

Very often people will defend these kind of layouts as the result of overhiring but then shouldn't the leadership that over hired 30K people also be held accountable?

New comment by wnevets in "VR Is Not Dead"

wnevets — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:07:21 +0000

VR has never been alive for me. If Apple can't get fetch to happen I don't know how anybody can with the current state of the pc hardware industry.

New comment by wnevets in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

wnevets — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:50:22 +0000

> That's a personal GitHub Pages site. If the lonelycpp GitHub account gets compromised, whoever controls it can serve arbitrary HTML and JavaScript to every user of this app, executing inside the WebView context.

I was promised a meritocracy and non stop winning. When do those begin?

New comment by wnevets in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

wnevets — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:33:24 +0000

https://winaerotweaker.com/

New comment by wnevets in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

wnevets — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:15:43 +0000

Its one of the first things I turn off.

New comment by wnevets in "Chuck Norris has died"

wnevets — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:52:09 +0000

The kids today don't know their internet lore. smh.

New comment by wnevets in "Chuck Norris has died"

wnevets — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:19:32 +0000

Is this a joke?