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63stack··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
No search, no making space in an existing page, no moving text around, cumbersome to take it with you everywhere, unlike a phone.
63stack··on Anger, Anxiety and Agency
I'm pretty sure I could post "standing in the fire is painful and bad for your health" and there would at least be one person in the comments saying "I actually like standing in the fire".
63stack··on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
In order: no, no, no, and no. I accepted that I can't avoid google spying on me on android, if I could have a phone that works with banking apps without google's crap I would, but thanks to their safetynet racket it's not possible for me.
63stack··on Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
Sure intent matters but I still don't see how this warrants the government going after him.
63stack··on AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint
This is not about the products that are shipped, but the app itself. I would caution people to never install it as well.
63stack··on GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
Oh no fuck that, business 101 is make sure that your checkout page works. There is plenty of competition in this sector, take your money elsewhere.
63stack··on Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?
Most places I worked at cared very little for quality code, there was much more pressure on shipping fast even if it meant incurring technical debt, crap performance for end users, or developers leaving due to legacy code accumulation that nobody understood anymore.

I'm glad there is a tool that let's these companies have even shittier code shipped even faster. The faster they burn down the better.

63stack··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
You can add "make no mistakes" to the end of the prompt and achieve the same result while burning less tokens.
63stack··on Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)
Are you sceptical if people have slept before 1600, or what's with the "at least?"
63stack··on Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age
There should be parental controls that disallows installing apps, so there is no hidden browsers. Google and apple has an entire walled garden infra setup that they are using for control and hoovering up all the user data, the same infra can be uses for this.
63stack··on Web Security is Too Hard
My main takeaway from this is not that "security is hard" but that cloudflare is pretty incompetent.
63stack··on Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
It's also not worth posting "I tried didn't work" because nobody knows what you tried. There is zero information in it, and it's a waste of bits that just pollutes the discussion.
63stack··on Superlogical
Yes. I find it quite funny that 4 people with the flashiest of titles (head of experience?) came up with this amazing plan:

1. it will be incredible

2. it will be composable

3. it will be safe to use in production

I would totally invest millions into these guys, they have a bright future ahead.

63stack··on How to Block Some of the Bots
Please enlighten us
63stack··on The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon
We can cross that bridge when we get there
63stack··on Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
This is only true if you are using apps that require no communication with a server. Otherwise it's constant forced updates, and basing security on the version number of the installed app is a moot point since you can't guarantee the server will send the same replies to 2 different users.

I can't parse the part about e2e not making sense for webpages.

63stack··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
Trump clearly stating anything is a stretch, that man cannot talk coherently even for a minute.

He has also stated that the war has been won many times. Why would you take anything coming out of his mouth seriously?

63stack··on EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules
Can anyone explain something? Since there are so many open source chat applications, what keeps anyone from "just" exchanging a key with someone else out of band, and then modifying the client so that it uses that key to encrypt all communication? I understand that this does not scale to big groups, but surely whoever is pushing this crap must have thought about this? Or is the idea that we will have completely locked down PCs as well ala android and ios so you can't run anything unapproved?
63stack··on YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood
That was the strangest line for me as well. The article tries to play up this "Polish engineer with an MSc in computer science who has 13 years of industry experience" who ... used claude to review the code. My mom could have done this without an MSc or years of industry experience.
63stack··on CarPlay Is Additive
>The challenge with screen mirroring solutions is that they take over every single pixel in the car, and that’s not the way we see ourselves interacting with our users.

Wassym Bensaid sounds like an incompetent person to be a chief software officer working on cars if he does not understand this is not how carplay works. It's either this, or he's just weaseling out of saying "we want to capture all our users data, and we want to put in rent seeking subscriptions into our cars, which is going to be hard if we enable carplay".

Do not buy cars from companies like this.

63stack··on What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
What's the point in making this distinction? This is HN, 99% of the users here are aware of what zero knowledge proof is and that it's possible to implement it that way.

The general consensus and what the article is alluding to is that it will be probably implemented in a way that allows individual tracking and identification.

63stack··on AMD silently removes memory encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs
AMD is spreading FUD by not answering why it was removed. They could stop this in its tracks if they wanted.
63stack··on Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers
If this is clickbait, you are a google shill. The limitations of v3 are very clearly explained on the ublock homepage:

uBlock Origin used the webRequest API to intercept and block network requests in real-time. The replacement declarativeNetRequest API has hard limits on the number of filter rules (previously 30,000, now 330,000) and lacks the dynamic filtering capabilities that made uBlock Origin so effective.

    Cannot use all filter lists simultaneously (rule limits apply)
    No cosmetic filtering in the default mode
    No scriptlet injection by default
    Limited dynamic filtering capabilities
    Requires broader host permissions upfront
63stack··on AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
To me it sounds like the agent's operator is a person who has zero self awareness, and is entitled to the maximum to believe that he can just 1) point an agent at real people and expect them to do his bidding, 2) and then ask for a refund for his "experiment". Let's not even discuss the fact that his bill is from AWS, and he's trying to get a refund from DN42.

There is no arguing with people like this. They are not here to learn anything about networking. Asking the LLM to stop will not make it go away.

Burn a hole in the operator's wallet. It will make it stop very quick.

If this was my hobby project, I would have told the agent to spin up more higher capacity EC2 machines because this is not enough, and I would have felt no shame. This is a project I'm operating at my own cost for educational reasons. I'm not going to argue with people who the only line of communication I have towards is an agent and have guns pointed at my infra. They are ready to put any amount of financial burden on me. Fuck all of that. Burn a few of these idiots, and people will learn.

63stack··on AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42
Did you read your own link? A parent has to apply for this.

Parent/Legal Guardian Identity Verification To confirm your identity, we’ll ask you to take:

    A live selfie of yourself, and
    A photo of your own ID document (Valid Passport or valid UK/ROI Drivers Licence)
63stack··on AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
Amazon's incentive is to fine tune their own possible future model
63stack··on Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
You discovered what web development was like in early 2000.
63stack··on Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
Why do most developers not like it? Is it because the browser is a terrible platform for text editors since there is no proper key mapping, or access to proper debuggers, or there is too much latency, and no access to cli tools?

You make it sound like you are surprised, but everyone who has tried this knows it's crap and a band aid at best.

63stack··on Do we fear the serializable isolation level more than we fear subtle bugs (2024)
You are supposed to define indexes based on how you query the data, not ahead of time.
63stack··on Can we have the day off?
"the market" is literally the arena of competition, it's not a surprise it's more competitive than ever
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