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hahn-kev··on Just a little AI resistance, as a treat
In the past we would just get a canned response. Is that actually better than an AI response I wonder?
hahn-kev··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
Read access, sure. But being able to turn them off?
hahn-kev··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
Yeah, step 1, buy a TV with this firmware version... As if they told you in the store before you purchase it.
hahn-kev··on Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content
People reading a source can't know if it's true just by reading it either (though they could be fairly sure if it's false sometimes)
hahn-kev··on Websites Should Be Printable
Looks like in Chrome on mobile you can set it per site, but you need to dig into accessibility for that. I don't see a way to do that in FF, so you would have to set the default which would effect all sites.
hahn-kev··on Bring Back the Cool Save File Screens
I've been thinking about this a lot after the flop of Gears of War E-day which cost 500 million just on development.
hahn-kev··on Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more
IMO this should be Brotli2Shell if anything
hahn-kev··on Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?
This kinda makes me think about the transition from writing machine code by hand to using a compiler. Did people feel similar at the time that they didn't understand the machine code that the compiler was writing for them?
hahn-kev··on Triple-A Minesweeper
I absolutely love the fact that it's impossible to lose. You can click every mine and still not lose.
hahn-kev··on Theranos.world
I get a secure connection failure. Maybe it's for the best
hahn-kev··on Docker Agent
Yeah that is odd. Also most non programmers would say yaml is programming
hahn-kev··on Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?
That just sounds like short vs long term memory
hahn-kev··on Building reliable (and fast) directory sync
Thought this would be about something like dropbox.
hahn-kev··on Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available
I don't think people are using Claude to read docs to them, rather modifying their system for them.
hahn-kev··on How one Twitch chat message became code execution on a streamer’s PC
That, or no script tags, but that is quite hard as I understand.
hahn-kev··on How one Twitch chat message became code execution on a streamer’s PC
It seems wild to me that Twitch doesn't sanitize the messages on their backend. I'm sure that they sanitize them on their own UI. But considering how many people also consume messages via their API, they should also sanitize for them, defense in depth and all.
hahn-kev··on How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments
Maybe more drop outs is a good thing, we need more skilled labor anyway
hahn-kev··on Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries
Yeah that was my thought too. This behavior is fine for a person, not for a company. I'm tired of companies being people.
hahn-kev··on A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
Would you really want to use a chat app with just win32 elements?
hahn-kev··on I don't like passkeys
I like using passkeys in bitwarden from Firefox, I just wish it didn't popup a dialog that's usually behind the browser.
hahn-kev··on Stabilizing Rust's Never Type
Yeah, I don't like it when languages use too many symbols for things. It's a hard line as I don't like languages where everything is a keyword (e.g. begin end vs { }), but not enough keywords and it's hard to learn and remember the language.
hahn-kev··on Stabilizing Rust's Never Type
Yeah this is good. I feel like a language which never fixes a mistake ends up stuck. JS by it's nature can't fix things like this and it sucks.

Thankfully Rust is compiled so this break is at compile time, and seems simple to fix. I wonder if their could even be an auto fix for it.

hahn-kev··on The Gemini app is now available for Windows
It's crazy to me that there's no screenshots on the blog post. And when you click through to download it there's a bunch of aspirational pictures, but only one short clip showing what it actually looks like. Why? Is it too hard to show a screenshot?
hahn-kev··on Fastpotify
Technically no, but they can just ban you. It would not be impossible to detect.
hahn-kev··on Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
As a non Python dev this seems like very surprising behavior for a system library to be modified by just having a file with a specific name in the same folder.
hahn-kev··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
It is so buggy every time I try to use it, even with Jetbrains AI it bugs out. I want to love it though.
hahn-kev··on Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird
Fair, but I'd expect consistency. Number("1") equals `1` IIRC.
hahn-kev··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Except that's a very different threat than with Credit cards. Sure Google could do that, but Europe could even just make their own android fork if they wanted and that would be far easier than replacing the whole credit card system. And I doubt they would even need to fork Android, they could side load, or just make their own app store and require it to be installed on phones sold in the EU.
hahn-kev··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
Right but is an AI company going to destroy a Gutenberg bible? No, as you said the content is not rare, and that's what they want.
hahn-kev··on HTML Can Do That
I feel like there's so few times it would actually work how I want it that it seems like there's little point.
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