Hacker Wisdom
A collection of wisdom found in the answers to Ask HN questions.
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Tell HN: H&R Block tax software installs a TLS backdoor
https://www.hrblock.com/tax-center/support/software/technical-issues-software/fix-ssl-error/
https://michael.team/zoom/
Are AI Agents like von Hammerstein's industrious and stupid?
https://despair.com/products/incompetence
Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify#comment-1048914
https://cobertos.com/blog/post/finally-cancelling-my-spotify
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Basic-plans-Users-are-getting-ads/idi-p/7378835
https://duckass.bearblog.dev/how-spotify-silently-updates-itself-and-how-to-stop-it/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy
https://github.com/sentriz/gonic
https://isitbandcampfriday.com/
https://lukecyca.com/2025/listen-to-music-like-its-2005.html
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440869
https://store.hiby.com/pages/hiby-digital-miku
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-developers-havent-written-a-line-of-code-since-december-thanks-to-ai/
Why isn't the NSA categorized as an APT?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group
How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?
https://www.404media.co/ai-psychosis-help-gemini-chatgpt-claude-chatbot-delusions/
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.462628/page/n43/mode/2up
https://archive.org/details/peanutscomics19502000/Volume%201%20%281950%20to%201952%29/page/12/mode/2up
https://claude.ai/share/47145af0-47d1-451b-813c-131ec48e7215
https://claude.ai/share/f791a444-d4d6-4e2a-8012-30d7ab836ebf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanuts
https://freethoughtblogs.com/stderr/2025/01/18/ai-art-just-regurgitate-existing-images/
https://gipplab.uni-goettingen.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/181122_mediabiasprocess-800x602.png
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg_b036e24b-3211-4655-bd77-dabe0c8e01f3
https://gwern.net/doc/statistics/stylometry/truesight/index
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031580
https://nexivibe.com/avoid.civil.war.web/
https://nexivibe.com/intj.html
https://nexivibe.com/winter.html
https://old.reddit.com/r/aifails/
https://petergpt.github.io/bullshit-benchmark/viewer/index.v2.html
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5696634/
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/swod8/charlie_brown_has_4_fingers_and_a_thumb/
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/
https://tv.cctv.com/2026/03/15/VIDEmX0VdYf9DeKI87GYEfqF260315.shtml
https://variety.com/2015/film/spotlight/charlie-brown-steve-martino-peanuts-blue-sky-studios-1201657959/
Is vibe coding a new mandatory job requirement?
https://antirez.com/news/159
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=architect.new&sort=byDate&type=comment
What are the greatest discoveries in the last few years?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
The new wave of AI agent sandboxes?
https://github.com/nickaggarwal/sandbox-test/blob/main/FULL_BENCHMARK_REPORT.md
TTal – CLI that turns Claude Code into a multi-agent software factory
https://dev.flicknote.app/notes/5a95cdcd-bb63-4eb6-9961-70079b79c0eb
How to Find a Job in the UK
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47219668
Are you using a Pivotal Tracker successor? Which one?
https://mandate.run
How are Iranian drones getting their guidance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNSS_jamming
https://www.techspot.com/news/108579-russia-field-testing-new-ai-drone-powered-nvidia.html
Tell HN: If working with agents means this, robots, please take my job
https://hbr.org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry
Open AI is actively censoring information about voting today in the US
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/chicago-primary-election-2026-everything-you-need-to-know-about-voting-march-17/#VoteByMail
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079
