Hacker News: zith

New comment by zith in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

zith — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:42:30 +0000

I've created my own keyboard layout plus do some key remapping on my mac. Are you sure this won't work for tilde?

The tilde key exists in the key map here: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2450...

You can see how I did mine here if you're interested: https://github.com/bruse/dotfiles/tree/main/macOS (I suspect com.local.KeyRemapping.plist is most interesting, but the key layout file is there too, with some comments on how it was generated).

New comment by zith in "Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes"

zith — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:40:24 +0000

Sure, but it's probably unwise to have your production credentials on your development machine at all. It's far more likely to be compromised than your locked down production environment.

New comment by zith in "Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes"

zith — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:47:40 +0000

I must have missed some trends changing in the last decade or so. People have production secrets in the open on their development machines?

Or what type of secrets are stored in the local .env files that the LLM should not see?

I try to run environments where developers don't get to see production secrets at all. Of course this doesn't work for small teams or solo developers, but even then the secrets are very separated from development work.

New comment by zith in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

zith — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:19:26 +0000

It's interesting, because a few years ago I would have put this strictly under the "not invented here" fallacy, where we'd now be stuck maintaining another project for the foreseeable future. I used to press pretty hard to avoid it.

Now I wonder if the maintenance cost for this type of internal system has gone down to a level where that is no longer an issue.

New comment by zith in "How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground"

zith — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:41:15 +0000

Interesting! I know Sweden was not first, but Stockholm has had 3g coverage in the subway since 2005 and 4g since 2016.

New comment by zith in "Data breach at major Swedish software supplier impacts 1.5M"

zith — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:39:14 +0000

If I understand correctly the only thing not public that was leaked was the role each person had in the government.

New comment by zith in "MitM Flaw in Bitchat: Identity Is a Bitchat Challenge"

zith — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 08:28:05 +0000

I guess "don't roll your own crypto" is as valid as ever.

New comment by zith in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

zith — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 12:04:57 +0000

Of course, majority is not very cleanly applicable yous politics. Less than half (which according to Mirriam Webster is the definition) of the votes cast in the last election went to Trump/Vance, and with such a poor voter turnout it was even further from a majority. Meanwhile the electoral college is working against the idea.

New comment by zith in "Ask HN: Teams using AI – how do you prevent it from breaking your codebase?"

zith — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:04:34 +0000

When using aider for development, do you typically review the generated diffs in aider itself or do you use an external tool?

Trying to figure out what a good workflow looks like.

New comment by zith in "Debanking (and Debunking?)"

zith — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:40:46 +0000

I wonder why Andreessen needs to use disinformation to shape opinion if the actual problem is so bad? I find it very unlikely that he does not know how PEP actually works.

It is so demonstrably false. Anyone who has worked in an finance adjacent industry likely knows the definition of a PEP.

New comment by zith in "Ladybird surpassed Servo in the number of successfully passed web-platform-tests"

zith — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 09:34:29 +0000

It seems like Servo has gotten a lot more contributions lately, after a prolonged pause.

https://github.com/servo/servo/graphs/contributors

New comment by zith in "Homegrown Rendering with Rust (2021)"

zith — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 12:11:38 +0000

Does anyone know if Embark are still using a lot of rust in their production games? They seem to be a very well funded studio (lots of employees, big fancy office, competes with other AAA FPS-games). I wonder if these experimental-sounding projects have given way to more classic tech in the churn of building games that are profitable.

New comment by zith in "Companies with return-to-office mandates face losing their most valuable workers"

zith — Wed, 29 May 2024 08:39:55 +0000

This is my experience in very small companies (think a <10 person startup). The value of everyone knowing a lot of what's going on from immersion is immense. You can have very little processes around information sharing (which takes time to set up and fine tune!), very little time to convince people what needs to be done (it's obvious from the conversation the other side of the room is having), and all the nuance of in-person communication is kept.

Once a company gets a little bit bigger, the processes around information sharing, planning and other communication has to be in place anyway. Teams need to collaborate, work needs to be tracked, there has to be meetings for planning. Once you're already doing that you might not lose anything by going remote.

New comment by zith in "A skeptic's take on beaming power to Earth from space"

zith — Sat, 11 May 2024 14:19:15 +0000

https://www.reflectorbital.com/

New comment by zith in "Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software"

zith — Fri, 03 May 2024 13:44:24 +0000

I worked in the robotics lab at my university for a few months. That was a really nice way of making software more tangible. Seeing things move through physical space made it more real.

New comment by zith in "ESA satellites to test razor-sharp formation flying"

zith — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:14:07 +0000

They'll use one spacecraft to block the sun shining on the other spacecraft,yes.

New comment by zith in "BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery – more range and even lower cost"

zith — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 12:12:14 +0000

Perhaps semi-off topic, but it will be interesting to see if silicon anodes (like https://www.silanano.com develops) will take off. They promise up to 20% increased capacity from switching from carbon anodes alone, which sounds amazing.

New comment by zith in "Google restricts Gemini chatbot election answers"

zith — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:46:05 +0000

This sounds sane to me. I don't think people in general have a good understanding of how these generative AI products produce their answers, and I think many would assume hallucinated information to be true.

This is bad in all cases, but certainly misinformation in the democratic process is up there with the worst. Of course, perhaps more importantly for Google, it's a PR disaster waiting to happen when Gemini starts touting incorrect information seemingly supporting one political party or another.

New comment by zith in "Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people"

zith — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:06:22 +0000

Because it's not true? Anyone who has ever been close to the customer support role knows that there is a constant battle to help the customers answer questions on their own, and you will never be completely successful.

It seems some people prefer calling/chatting to finding info on their own. Even trivial info.

New comment by zith in "Largest natural gas leak from Nord Stream pipeline"

zith — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:04:10 +0000

You can easily sail from the other countries that have a baltic sea coast line though? It's not far. A small yacht can definitely do it.