Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — phreack

phreack

HN member
Joined
Fri, Dec 04, 2015, 7:47 AM UTC
HN karma
2,913
Public activity
579 items

About phreack

I'm a passionate engineer, and an independent mobile, web, and server developer and consultant, with several years of experience in a lot of languages and architectures.

For contact, reach out at j3softwaresolutions@gmail.com

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #49094653

    That's reassuring, it's exactly how I've always done LLM. It's fine, as long as the gist of what you mean is there you can be real lazy when typing. And I've always been on the che…

  2. comment
    Comment #49018181

    The login page is a very nice reminder to not use Reddit. I have the old reddit redirect extension so this change was the push I needed after the latest very clearly botted hate ca…

  3. comment
    Comment #48980234

    Has a anyone run this on Fedora or similar yet? From the readme it sounds like it could work but I've been surprised before and I can't find a discussion about it.

  4. comment
    Comment #48915116

    I've always wondered, is there a way to visually preview the partials and whole pages? I'm used to modern niceties such as hot reload with Tailwind that I'd like to have with HTMX,…

  5. comment
    Comment #48622640

    Makes one ponder how there really is no moat. If this rolls out as implied, it is immediately easy to switch providers, and I will.

  6. comment
    Comment #48563523

    That Motorola phone that lets you install Graphene can not come soon enough. Pixel phones are not sold worldwide so it feels like they're gatekeeping security. I know that's not th…

  7. comment
    Comment #48462509

    Seeing this literally after my foldable full on broke through the axle after not even half a year makes me concerned for Apple

  8. comment
    Comment #48398999

    I spell it KDE but it might be regional variance (:

  9. comment
    Comment #48328536

    > The bill applies to digitally sold games. However, it excludes games provided via subscription services, free-to-play games, and games that are inherently playable offline indefi…

  10. comment
    Comment #48128784

    Another LLM tell is that they penalize repetition so they'll use as many synonyms as possible. You may end up recognizing the same concept being rehashed with synonyms constantly. …

  11. comment
    Comment #47952880

    The page itself seems vibecoded and a bit of an advertisement, but it does look like the vulnerability is real and high risk. It does explain the big security update I just got, gu…

  12. comment
    Comment #47936656

    Not much, as it only works on very few high end phones not sold in most countries. Hopefully their Motorola partnership will expand its availability but I'm not confident that'll h…

  13. comment
    Comment #47813972

    This has been the worst upgrade so far. Claude Code had been doing great for months, then the past week took a nosedive. And today I find that _continuing_ a session from yesterday…

  14. comment
    Comment #47742776

    That was my immediate impression too! It feels like it's all AI maximalists who seem to have a need to filter their every interaction through an LLM. And the result looks and reads…

  15. comment
    Comment #47468730

    > “It is particularly painful that I made precisely the mistake I have repeatedly warned colleagues about: these language models are so good that they produce irresistible quotes y…

  16. comment
    Comment #47435644

    If I end up using ChatGPT for any reason, I always preface with something like "2 sentences maximum. No emojis. Be professional." at the very least. It tends to improve things a bi…

  17. story
  18. comment
    Comment #46806401

    I took something away from this article. While I enjoyed Blue Prince very much even though I played it alone, the surprisingly most enjoyable aspect of the game came externally - i…

  19. comment
    Comment #46725485

    Wait what? Really? All caps is a bannable offense? That should be in all caps, pardon me, in the terms of use if that's the case. Even more so since there's no support at the highe…

  20. comment
    Comment #46711288

    There's links on the homepage to the soundtrack and credits, the artist is called Synthenia.

  21. comment
  22. comment
    Comment #46705633

    I'm amazed at the amount of work and love that's in this game, that you can play for free. I hope it helps more devs get into the retro scene!

  23. story
  24. comment
    Comment #46692300

    I would honestly have stayed in version 6 of Nova because of the as yet unrecreated magical feature of allowing unread count badges on the home screen for many popular apps, that a…

  25. comment
    Comment #46683339

    If an iPhone is going to be as bad as an Android like that then what's the point. The "premium" feeling is eroded like this.