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New comment by ziml77 in "An Introduction to Obsidian"

ziml77 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:00:10 +0000

Obsidian shows a warning about this. But the only issue it's pointing out is that mixing Obsidian's built-in sync with something that syncs your files is likely to cause problems. Otherwise it's a perfectly safe and normal way to sync.

New comment by ziml77 in "Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT"

ziml77 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:39:55 +0000

It seems to help. But it's just one factor. I also have a lot of subscriptions to help guide the algorithm. And it seems most heavily weighted on things you've recently watched, so if you ever leave youtube playing while you're not actually watching it, you might need to manually remove videos from your watch history that don't align with what you want to see suggested.

New comment by ziml77 in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

ziml77 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:18:48 +0000

How can people ever discuss something in public fora if spoilers have to be eternally avoided? Keep in mind, people often disagree on what even crosses the line into being a spoiler.

New comment by ziml77 in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

ziml77 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:15:55 +0000

I'm with other people here. Make this a one-time purchase. If a major macOS update requires significant changes to keep the program working, make that a new version that people need to buy. A pretty standard way to keep people from feeling screwed if the break happens right after they bought your software is to give them the next version of your software for free if you release it within 1 year of their purchase.

I think you're actually likely to make more money that way because people will pass on adding yet another subscription to the pile they have already.

New comment by ziml77 in "Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT"

ziml77 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:43:55 +0000

I make sure to hit not interested the second I see anything I very much don't want pop up in me feed. I don't want mine to drift towards the average feed of the lowest effort, sensationalist garbage.

New comment by ziml77 in "OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break"

ziml77 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:15:21 +0000

The AI for everything thinking is really easy to let infect you. I was trying to figure out how to make some SQL alerting easier to understand quickly. The first thing my brain went to was "oh just shove it into an LLM to pull out the info of what the query is doing". And it unfortunately wasn't until after I said that out loud that I realized that was a stupid idea when you could just run a SQL parser over the query and pull the table names out that way. Far faster, more cost effective, and reliable than asking an LLM to do it.

New comment by ziml77 in "Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom"

ziml77 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:13:04 +0000

Snowflake is typically used for data analytics in my experience. It's going to have financial stuff very likely, but not like raw documents. Definitely not source code.

I mean technically you can stuff documents into a column with the BINARY datatype provided they are under 67 MB each, but it's not really meant to be used as a document store.

New comment by ziml77 in "CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised"

ziml77 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:11:25 +0000

"Fix for a critical issue when querying the CPU that could lead to data corruption in other processes executing at the same time"

Or, "hey ChatGPT generate me a changelog for updates and fixes I could make to the software CPU-Z"

Expecting a more detailed changelog doesn't help at all

(I'm not even sure you'd need to prompt an LLM around guardrails like I did here, it would probably happily spit out a fake changelog even if you were explicit about it not being real as long as you don't tell the LLM you're planning to trick people with malware)

New comment by ziml77 in "CPU-Z and HWMonitor compromised"

ziml77 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:49:44 +0000

Same. I used to pirate software but even way back I kept it limited to very popular software and established downloads (where if they were malware they were almost certain to be in a signature database by that point). And I absolutely never pirated an OS. I thought anyone doing that was out of their freaking mind because any malware there had ultimate access to block its own detection and do whatever else it pleased.

Now I don't do it at all. It's not worth the risk when I have the money to pay for the proprietary software that I like and when the ecosystem of open source software is very good.

New comment by ziml77 in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

ziml77 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:13:34 +0000

But even of you do see the use, why not proof of stake rather than proof of work?

New comment by ziml77 in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

ziml77 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:53:02 +0000

Oh ok I misunderstood. I'm in full agreement then, and that flips back to being fully on Microsoft.

New comment by ziml77 in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

ziml77 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:18:05 +0000

> brokies

No fucking wonder they're throwing molotovs. How about not calling people less fortunate elitist, condescending names.

New comment by ziml77 in "Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#"

ziml77 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:22:53 +0000

Losing dynamic PGO by using AOT compilation could be a detriment to performance in long-running applications, right?

New comment by ziml77 in "WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution"

ziml77 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:49:07 +0000

It's so unhelpful for people to get mad at made up crap. It completely weakens the impact of the pushback. Like if someone is in a position where people are getting mad over all sorts of made up stuff anyway, what's even the point of avoiding actually doing any of the things they're mad about? Might as well get something out of it if the downside doesn't change either way.

New comment by ziml77 in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

ziml77 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:11:22 +0000

Really? At my workplace if we had a vendor email us about needing to take some action to continue being able to work with them, but we didn't follow through with that, any business disruption would be squarely on us for not handling it. At the very least even if we can't meet a supposed deadline, we need to work with the vendor to get extensions if possible, and if that's not possible then we either need to mitigate the impact or get more resources on the changes ASAP.

New comment by ziml77 in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

ziml77 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:59:53 +0000

I suspect as much too. If there's a failure to match the noise perfectly then the headphones are just going be be blasting a loud sound into your ears. And if it matches the frequency correctly but lines up with the sound instead of being out of phase, then it's acting as an amplifier!

New comment by ziml77 in "Claude Managed Agents"

ziml77 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:09:19 +0000

Those agents did such a wonderful job making and deploying this page that the testimonials are unreadable because each spot has two of them overlapping.

New comment by ziml77 in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

ziml77 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:27:36 +0000

For the stuff I've worked on, if you want to know about bugfixes and emergency releases, you'd go to Jira where those values are formalized as fields. Someone else in the comments here had a suggestion which just looks for the word "fix" which would definitely capture some bugfix releases, but is more likely to catch fixes that were done during development of a feature.

New comment by ziml77 in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

ziml77 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:16:34 +0000

That was my question too. I have plenty of projects I've worked on where they rarely get touched anymore. They don't need new features and nothing is broken.

New comment by ziml77 in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

ziml77 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:35:17 +0000

The corporate subscription for ChatGPT says the same thing. And I would be shocked if it wasn't the same for a corporate agreement for Claude.