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hk1337on Claude Code sends your email address to websites

I used a masked email with Claude and haven’t had anything but Claude emails from it.

hk1337on Insects don't swarm at LED lights

Yeah, we have solar powered LED lights in the walking path where I live and the lights are covered with them. They look nasty.

hk1337on Show HN: I built a tool that prices a pre-built PC part by part

I was actually wondering this. Is it the same as pc part picker or used in addition to it?

hk1337on Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)

This is great! They saw a problem, found a solution, and just fixed it. Better than complaining about it for 5-10 years waiting for someone else to do something

hk1337on SOML – A Config Format for Humans

yet another format? https://xkcd.com/927/

hk1337on It's now official, tech is the new tobacco

John Appleseed is the new Joe Camel.

hk1337on Git for the US Code

git seems like it sounds good in theory or on the surface but not once you go to start to try and implement it.

It might be interesting to have a git mirror as a means of searching bills and changes but not as the source of truth.

hk1337on Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security

October 21, 2026: The day the internet broke

hk1337on /dev/null: social network for developers

I like it. I might steal that.

hk1337on /dev/null: social network for developers

> Failed to open page

I'm guessing that wasn't expected result.

hk1337on US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership

Maybe in one aspect but it also raises the question, "Why is Congress concerned with details like this?"

Just trying to point out what could be the opposition for this, not that it's a bad thing to pass.

hk1337on Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to Discord

https://github.com/StrafeChat

There’s a GitHub but it was all the way at the bottom of the page behind a tiny icon in a group of other socials. At least on mobile it was.

hk1337on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome

> Most people who say this didn't go through the pain of why IE was such a PITA.

I did and "Chrome is the new internet explorer" is more accurate than what has been uttered since Chrome split from WebKit, "Safari is the new internet explorer".

IEs problem wasn't that it was behind in features, it was that it used IE-specific plugins and was heavily integrated with Windows Explorer. Safari is and has not been either of those.

hk1337on Thunderbird for iOS

Yeah, the only thing it doesn't do is shared inboxes with Microsoft Office accounts. I would really like to uninstall Microsoft Outlook.

hk1337on Thunderbird for iOS

I don't care for the Material Design, even when Google did/does it.

hk1337on New Apple TV 4K

Other than Siri AI upgrades, I wonder how much different this is compared to the previous Apple TV 4K with usage primarily being connecting to Jellyfin.

hk1337on AWS Lambda Web Functions

Feels like they’re placating to those that keep bundling their entire application, php or node, into a single lambda.

hk1337on Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier

Ideally, yes, but not everyone is able to setup a complete server solution at home and also make the app publicly available. Also, there may be some benefits to hosting it on a service like Cloudflare.

I self-host a few projects on forgejo in my local homelab but the build deployed to Cloudflare or Heroku. The CI is on my homelab too.

I still have primary control over those projects in Heroku and Cloudflare though.

hk1337on Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?

Seems like a fun project but ultimately not worth it. Just setup a calendar alert to remind you to put the bins out and pull them back in, they're usually picked up on a schedule so it couldn't be too difficult to figure out when to go pull them back to the house.

hk1337on Apple Pass Designer

Apple had a version that was a Sinatra app at one point.

hk1337on How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it

AI can do an awesome job at UI and come up with really nice look but I feel like there’s a lot of psychology behind UX that AI cannot necessarily pick up on the human element.

hk1337on How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it

That sounds like basic project management

hk1337on Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests

And if you want to see how they all interact together in AWS, that's why you have a development sandbox AWS account.

hk1337on Don't couple your Go code to GitHub

It's a rather internet focused language. Even if you don't point it to github, some other packages will and you still have to point it to something (i.e. gitlab, codeberg, or your personal git server). Then what happens if those servers are no longer available?

hk1337on GitLab Outage

True, my thought was a site that just makes it easier to see all the various users. Like GitHub but links to users and orgs actually go to each person’s server.

hk1337on GitLab Outage

I like what tangled seems like it could be but it's still too new to really use. It'd be nice if it was more of an aggregator for git servers where still access a git server whether tangled is up or not.

hk1337on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy

Also, dealing with the nuclear waste can be problematic. Even if you recycle it like France, it still costs to re-enrich it and still produces waste itself.

hk1337on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

Proof is in the pudding. Put up or shut up.

hk1337on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors

Isn’t that site the one the maintainer is known for altering pages or something?

hk1337on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera

I feel like most of this was already known when someone here in Dallas figured out they had wifi connectivity you could connect and get access. I may not have the details exactly correct but I think someone got access then.