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hackeman300··on September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
Hell even the text has bad AI vibes
hackeman300··on How to Exist
I kept waiting for the punchline of the author turning out not to be a human after describing in detail what it thinks of the human experience. The text has all the hallmarks of AI writing at least
hackeman300··on New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections
Agreed.

>AI Engineer @Varnan Labs

Bingo. A glance at their comment history shows this is a pattern for them

hackeman300··on Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
I've tried this without much luck. In my experience they get too bogged down on surface things and don't have the necessary business requirements/context to understand and find actual bugs.

How have you set yours up that works well for you?

hackeman300··on CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers
It's a shame, this seems like an interesting topic but I can't get past the blatant AI-isms littered throughout.

>This is not raw shellcode — it is a fully formed ELF executable

hackeman300··on The woes of sanitizing SVGs
Someone did this already and did call it tinyVG! https://tinyvg.tech/
hackeman300··on The woes of sanitizing SVGs
Seems like someone already implemented your idea. https://tinyvg.tech/
hackeman300··on Why weekends are under threat
It's also got a lot of hallmarks of AI written prose
hackeman300··on Show HN: I put an AI agent on a $7/month VPS with IRC as its transport layer
Are you an ai
hackeman300··on Better to Skip a Year for Hardware Upgrades?
>These aren’t the actions of early adopters—they’re the moves of a community that’s decided it’s not worth it at the moment.

These aren't the words of a human – they're the words of an LLM

hackeman300··on I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed
Seriously I thought I was going crazy with this. So many "it's not just x it's y". Short punchy sentences. Emdashes galore.
hackeman300··on Anthropic is Down
I hear you on the west coast, but two thirds of the population lives east of the Mississippi and is in working hours
hackeman300··on Disrupting the largest residential proxy network
Try browsing from any Mullvad vpn. You will be "blocked by network security"
hackeman300··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
What's this?
hackeman300··on iCloud Photos Downloader
Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it. Does Apple provide any APIs for interacting with this metadata or was this something you had to implement yourself with lower level DB lookups?
hackeman300··on iCloud Photos Downloader
If you manually edit the date on a photo, is that also stored separately from the image file itself? Wondering because I've noticed photos I've backed up to Immich from iOS photos don't respect that edited date and reflect whatever the original date was.

I've been thinking about looking into a fix for this since it's bugged me a bit.

hackeman300··on The 70% AI productivity myth: why most companies aren't seeing the gains
Yup, closed as soon as I saw the classic "it's not x, it's y" pattern.
hackeman300··on GPT-5.2
Gravity isn't 9.8m/s/s across the universe. If you're at higher or lower elevations (or outside the Earth's gravitational pull entirely), the acceleration will be different.

Their point was the 9.8 model is good enough for most things on Earth, the model doesn't need to be perfect across the universe to be useful.

hackeman300··on Two billion email addresses were exposed
Unfortunately strongbox was sold a few months ago to a somewhat notorious app firm that has the nasty habit of buying popular apps and adding a whole bunch of telemetry. Not something I'd want in a password app.

I've switched to KeePassium. Not quite as polished UX, but works for me

hackeman300··on Poison, Poison Everywhere
Where can I read more about Wirecutter's infiltration? Disappointed to hear since I largely trusted their reviews
hackeman300··on New #1 open-source AI Agent on SWE-bench Verified
Surely there are no other macroeconomic factors that could have played a role in this decline too
hackeman300··on Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?
Can you elaborate? Is twilio a bad actor?
hackeman300··on Someone at YouTube needs glasses
Perhaps the incentives of said UX team don't align with those of the user. They might be optimizing for maximal time spent on the site, for instance.
hackeman300··on Careless People
The thing Tom Brady is accused of (deflating footballs) is scientifically proven to be a result of the ideal gas law. The NFL admitted they had no idea that was a thing when they levied the accusations at him.

Even if you believe the NFL and it was "more probable than not" that he was "generally aware" of a scheme to deflate the balls, let's not pretend that accusation is even in the same universe as what Bonds and Armstrong did

hackeman300··on U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts
The president has called him that on occasion
hackeman300··on Show HN: I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less
Overtime pay? Is this common for oncalls? Never gotten it myself, every time I ask they reply with "just take the time back on another day" as if my time is fungible. Weekend time is worth far more to me than weekday time
hackeman300··on Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024
I think they finally changed this recently to allow you to paste in- I've resorted to the same workaround in the past though.
hackeman300··on The European Union's remarkable growth performance relative to the United States
Agreed. Also just so you know, invaluable is one of those weird words that is intensified with in-, not negated. It means even more valuable, not worthless
hackeman300··on AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
Mullvad is an NSA honeypot? Got any sources on that?
hackeman300··on Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff
>Unless there's some kind option where youtube or twitch signs a contract with select creators and then hands them huge sums of cash upfront for the costs of future content production

For the record this exact thing does exist for bigger streamers. See Ludwig for example, he switched to YouTube exclusively because it was a better deal than his twitch offer.

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