Hacker News: xbar

New comment by xbar in ""They had no concept of a duty of care to their users.""

xbar — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:26:16 +0000

Oh my. This set of principles is appropriate for malware.

New comment by xbar in "Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI"

xbar — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:48:48 +0000

Represence.

New comment by xbar in "OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals"

xbar — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:15:39 +0000

Missouri Governor Mike Parson publicly labeled St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist Josh Renaud a "hacker" for such a "breach." He launched a multi-month criminal investigation by the Missouri State Highway Patrol, threatening criminal and civil prosecution. My take was that such action was idiotic. Renaud was never charged.

AI agents are going to find things that you put on the public Internet without authentication. If you put sensitive things in there, you have created an AI-attractive-nuisance (IMHO/IANAL).

New comment by xbar in "An update on Wayback Machine access"

xbar — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:51:58 +0000

Thank you for the Wayback Machine. It is immensely powerful for good.

New comment by xbar in "A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals"

xbar — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 23:12:07 +0000

Security-yolo-clowns play with dangerous toys and hurt people. Many used to get sent to jail.

New comment by xbar in "Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here"

xbar — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:56:48 +0000

Their solution is to drive demand for domestically-produced oil at ever increasing volumes and prices.

New comment by xbar in "Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)"

xbar — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:53:46 +0000

I agree that the idea that some number of teleporting ships scales past the ability to bring enough chaotic asteroids to bear on them seems like a design problem. For me, that was six ships on wave 14. The field is rapidly emptied of threats.

New comment by xbar in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

xbar — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:59:47 +0000

How can OpenAI figure out how to be trustworthy?

New comment by xbar in "Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening"

xbar — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:57:07 +0000

Um. Apple?

New comment by xbar in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

xbar — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:38:52 +0000

I am grateful that the devs and their commitment to continuously improving the game have long left those people behind.

The gameplay is completely engaging and this update looks like it fills in even more spaces than were hoped for.

New comment by xbar in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

xbar — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:48:41 +0000

I disagree.

Ready-made UI components and templates have been million-dollar businesses for a lot of companies for a long, long time.

Finding space in a development ecosystem to provide a set of purpose-built tools is a common and healthy software business pattern.

Engineer and Nam A2 and AI = Perfect and Free Valen Halen Plug-In [video]

xbar — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:48:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drQGeK8wfNY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578313

Points: 1

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New comment by xbar in ".name Termination"

xbar — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 22:53:00 +0000

I can only assume ICANN was co-opted by Verisign some decades ago.

New comment by xbar in "Creating Backup Storage Sucks"

xbar — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:45:41 +0000

I liked the post because it tells a true story about one of the remaining problems that are hard to solve well without a 3rd party.

New comment by xbar in "METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident"

xbar — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:40:42 +0000

How did German solar panels end up adapting?

New comment by xbar in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

xbar — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:16:42 +0000

Firefox still works fine for me. Sometimes it gets greedy with some activities. I smack it around and it seems to respond. I worry that Mozilla is starving it compared to other activities.

New comment by xbar in "25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA"

xbar — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:41:40 +0000

Time to break up Big Food.

New comment by xbar in "Stopping the smart TV from being used against you"

xbar — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:20:51 +0000

Yup. Samsung & Sonys too. Dumb mode, no internet, Apple TV.

Doesn't solve the malware on Windows PCs installed by LG monitors problem. My only solution to that remains to not buy Lucky Goldstar ever since their 14" 640x480 VGA monitor died inside of warranty but they refused to fix it.

New comment by xbar in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

xbar — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:43:44 +0000

Well said. Now I just need a universal way to maintain consistency of my F-keys across all applications, including various browsers.

New comment by xbar in "Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (2018)"

xbar — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:34:21 +0000

What a fun post! My vector calculus is rusty so it was a pleasant little derivation.

I liked getting to the end an find A.R. as the author. It made me appreciate this part of the journey that eventually got us some Asahi Linux graphics.