not_your_vase

2,277 karmajoined 4 वर्ष पहले

I'm just your everyday Artificial Idiot

Submissions

YC sending mass spam through GitHub issues

5 pointsby not_your_vase10 माह पहले4 comments

comments

    No results for "porn".

Huhh, are you indexing the same internet that we are using to post these messages?

Multi-word search is doing some interesting things. When I search for "4chan magic ball" I'd expect a picture with a magic 8-ball, but instead I am getting almost random, unrelated results. Similar for "vhdl flip flop" search, I'd expect to see a flip-flop implementation.

Do you plan to keep it online for the long term, or is it more like for your current amusement?

After learning that boneless chicken wings can contain bones, I won't be surprised if United would win this.

4 दिन पहलेdiscuss

Maybe there could be an AI-generated HN mirror: the AI would monitor HN continuously, and filter out the AI related news. Fight fire with fire.

4 दिन पहलेdiscuss

I wonder if it's like a hail mary before going out on a whimper, or if they really have this kind of money to spend

5 दिन पहलेdiscuss

On one hand they can't see. Haven't seen a "give me an svg unicorn" test since a while, but I guess their performance hasn't changed a lot. If you give broad prompts, then that will result usually in some garbage.

As an anecdata, a few weeks ago I was creating some UI with libSDL for an embedded project with Claude, and I was quite impressed with the result. Granted, I specified everything I could think about: I instructed it page by page, iterating button by button and label by label.

6 दिन पहलेdiscuss

Unfortunately it's a bit of an empty article.

    The first reason was the hardware; in the year 2000, the hardware was not capable enough to execute such a complex system

I wonder if there is some source for this. People were able to run SQL servers in 2000 without much of a problem, it didn't need a mainframe to run a DB that fit on a consumer HDD.

6 दिन पहलेdiscuss

    The next decade of gaming will be [...] more creative than anything we’ve seen before.

In the AI era? Lol. Lmao, even.

7 दिन पहलेdiscuss

As long as every phone distro is just a desktop distro shoehorned on a small screen, that's not gonna happen.

IMO it's not a matter of tap to pay and camera quality, rather a matter of whole system paradigm. Having millions of disconnected services in the "do one thing and do it right" spirit and using text based communication and hundreds of python and shell scripts is relatively maintainable and relatively easy to use, but very inefficient when it comes to CPU cycles - and on a handheld every cycle counts.

And of course every app is optimized for desktops/laptops... but I guess that's a chicken-or-egg problem: once there is a working distro, there will be apps too. And once there will be apps to use, there will be a working distro. Maybe.

9 दिन पहलेdiscuss

Everything is swiss quality when it works. My mobile subscription is at Swisscom, but I downgraded it to call/text only PAYG years ago. First I wanted (mobile) internet connection on my phone. I checked on their website, they had some monthly package for 10-or-so CHF, which I wanted.

The customer service never heard of it, and signed me up for a 5CHF/day package without asking me. That was a lot of fun doing it back - initially they were also pointing to random points in the contract. But they could never find the part where I actually asked them to subscribe me to something that I didn't want.

Afterwards they could never make 4G/5G internet work reliably around my home (which is pretty funny, because they have a tower literally above my head, and another 40 meters away), it kept going unresponsive for 30-40 seconds at random times. I did ping-pong with their customer service for about a months before I gave up, cancelled internet part and switched to PAYG.

At least they still send me spam - I keep clicking the unsubscribe link, but they are not bothered by it.

I just want to illustrate that there are bad experiences with all providers.

10 दिन पहलेdiscuss

You know, in Switzerland there is a thing, that if a product or service has the name "Swiss" in its name, then it can be sold for any price regardless of quality - and it will fly off the shelves. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it's true.

Swisscom is the biggest ISP in Switzerland - they charge high prices for very slow internet. But they have the word "Swiss" in their name, so it's okay to sell 100 Mbps connection for 70 CHF, which many people buys. But the same people can get 10 Gbps connection at the same place for 40-50 CHF also by simply visiting a competing store, and spending 15 minutes on it. But that won't have the word "Swiss" in it.

13 दिन पहलेdiscuss

Do you remember the pipa/sopa protests from like a decade ago?

The internet, as we knew it, is over. It has been dead for a few years, but it is getting clear now only. It had its great moments, while it lasted.

14 दिन पहलेdiscuss

What's your goal? If you want just a random site, then WP will do the job. If you want to learn web development, then I'd start it with a local http server (apache/nginx/whatever's your poison) and start writing html/css/js by hand, and see how it builds up line by line.

24 दिन पहलेdiscuss

I don't have lived experience, but "Who is hiring" had only 2 or 3 posts from my country this whole year. Until about 2 years ago there were 5-8 posts in each threads.

(I'm in a small central-European country, that is full of tech companies, both domestic and international)

29 दिन पहलेdiscuss

Probably I would buy some lichi, because I always wanted to taste it, but costs an arm and leg where I live. Not sure what I'd do with the change.

पिछला माहdiscuss

I have a bad feeling that the death of the founder also meant the end of this site: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/memoriam-john-l-young-...

I merely guessing, though.

पिछला माहdiscuss

The most interesting part is that HTC is making smartphones again, something that I totally missed

पिछला माहdiscuss

That's weird... that was one of the very few of his initiatives that had bipartisan support... pretty much everyone was happy with this, except for the employers.

पिछला माहdiscuss

Oh my. The original Spyro games (especially the first) on the venerable PSX are my all time favorite games.

Their modern remake was the only reason why I bought a PS4, I got it exclusively to play that game. And it was the disappointment of the decade. It looks nice, it sounds nice, but it is different enough that muscle memory doesn't work anymore, and it's more annoying than entertaining.

("Funnily" after this I got myself a PS3, and bought the original PSX version in PS Online. It turned out that it runs very badly on the PS3. So I also got myself a PS2, and bought the disc version on ebay, which finally worked as it should. I wish I was kidding.)

Considering that the previous Spyro from Toys for Bob was more on the lackluster side, I won't keep my hopes too high.

पिछला माहdiscuss

Wait a second. You mean that until now you could just open a Stripe account with random personal details, without verification? You could just say "trust me, bro about my details", and Stripe did trust you?

Based on your description this sounds to me like a big KYC hole which they are trying to plug in now.

It would be interesting to know how many such accounts exist...

पिछला माहdiscuss

Is this good for something, beside being an informal, but kinda educated guess at ATS market share? Like are there some tricks how to get through different ATS' automated filters which would make it useful to know what they use?