Hacker News: yborg

New comment by yborg in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

yborg — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:38:49 +0000

The HN optimizing T-shirt compiler is the next stage here :D

New comment by yborg in "The space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan Stanley"

yborg — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:22:56 +0000

It has to make money. The Space Shuttle was a technical marvel as well and was massively subsidized by the US taxpayer.

New comment by yborg in "Supersonic flight returning to US after half-century ban"

yborg — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:06:49 +0000

This will free manufacturers to build supersonic private jets for the superwealthy to cruise over flyover America. With normal steerage air travel becoming increasingly unaffordable for the average person, I can't see airlines buying supersonic airliners given fuel costs, they couldn't fill them for what they would have to charge.

New comment by yborg in "Agentic Mfw"

yborg — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:30:01 +0000

It's AI. Telling a model to shitpost really isn't very interesting since that's pretty much half of everything on the internets and there was practically infinite training material.

New comment by yborg in "Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products"

yborg — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:42:29 +0000

This actually isn't that far-fetched, once Microsoft saw that the bundled competing suite went subscription, they were free to drop their "perpetual" support.

I would occasionally see the standalone MS for Mac on sale for ~$30 and considered getting a copy just in case I needed it for some compatibility reason, but I just knew there was a catch. So I just kept running Libre. Glad I didn't waste the money.

New comment by yborg in "Show HN: 500 years of Joseon court omens as an observability dashboard"

yborg — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:32:29 +0000

Feel like there should be a K-drama about that deer lol.

New comment by yborg in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

yborg — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:52:06 +0000

There won't be "websites" anymore, it will all just be Google. Other behemoths that generate original content (that aren't AI) like sports, news, entertainment will either be big enough to sign individual deals on pain of litigation or just force-scraped (as is happening now) by bots that are indistinguishable from human users.

New comment by yborg in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

yborg — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:17:18 +0000

I don't think it's that PS has a better UI it's that so many people spent years in it because it became the de facto standard in graphic design work. Given the choice between doing work and learning a totally different interface so you can do work is choice many people won't make.

New comment by yborg in "Building a UMatrix Replacement"

yborg — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:20:08 +0000

There's still uMatrix, for that matter. gorhill hasn't updated it in 5 years, but still just werks.

New comment by yborg in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

yborg — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:51:17 +0000

Cue xkcd on standards. I've been interested in mesh radio, and I keep hoping that a winner will emerge. Probably won't until a large commercial vendor gets interested and picks one.

New comment by yborg in "Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port"

yborg — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:12:56 +0000

Can confirm, friend who moved to Mac after 30+ years on Win ecosystem and all of the discussions we have are basically "but on Windows..." They specifically have lamented the unavailability of Notepad++ because of a specific hanging indent behavior they are used to.

Most people do not have the cognitive flexibility to really adapt to a tool that is more or less domain equivalent but different in any way. These small differences create more friction than learning something that doesn't have any close mapping to what you knew before.

New comment by yborg in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

yborg — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:13:15 +0000

>"their"

It's an entirely different management team.

New comment by yborg in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

yborg — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:09:51 +0000

My approach is that for critical sites like banking, I use the site URL stored in the password manager too, I don't navigate via any link clicking. I personally am fine with thinking when my entire net worth is potentially at stake.

New comment by yborg in "Mozilla Used Anthropic's Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox"

yborg — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:58:47 +0000

What they did not say is how many of these vulnerabilities were addressed by LLM-created fixes, if any.

New comment by yborg in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

yborg — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:36:00 +0000

It helps them by making it somebody else's responsibility to get it right and thus shields them from liability.

New comment by yborg in "Introduction to Obsidian"

yborg — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:03:31 +0000

It has nested folders. But it will continue to have the problem of not being exactly whatever you are using now.

New comment by yborg in "The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine"

yborg — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:35:11 +0000

Maybe post your brilliant solution to commercial companies with hundreds of millions in funding unrestrained bot scraping the Internet for AI training instead of complaining about people desperate to rein it in as individuals.

New comment by yborg in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

yborg — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:57:39 +0000

You have a truly Magic Mouse if yours charges in 15 minutes. In my experience, it is hours to charge from zero, which until I put an always-running monitor in the menu bar for the mouse battery level is what you are guaranteed to have since there is no other indicator of mouse battery level.

I used to roll my eyes at the complaints until I actually had one of these, and it is appallingly bad engineering. Especially since the previous design, which was functionally identical just needed a 10 second battery swap.

New comment by yborg in "90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective"

yborg — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:00:05 +0000

The Krishnamoorthi Senate loss was a shock, he had more money than virtually the rest of the field put together and had name recognition and was a sitting 5 time House representative. Nobody knows who the Lt. Gov. was, even with Pritzker's backing.

New comment by yborg in "Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild"

yborg — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:03:44 +0000

It's especially glaring since Apple just released a fix for a Coruna exploit that patched iOS 15.