Hacker News: AlfeG

New comment by AlfeG in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

AlfeG — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:48:15 +0000

I wonder how this will help combat scammers. Do you really think they don’t have $25 for a fee?

Furthermore, this verification system also functions as a US sanction mechanism—one that can be triggered against any entity the US decides to ban.

New comment by AlfeG in "Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS"

AlfeG — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:47:19 +0000

Like needing to store IDE specific files?

New comment by AlfeG in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

AlfeG — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:29:35 +0000

> The problem is you may pay $20K for gibberish, then try a second time, fail again, and then hire humans.

You can easily pay humans $20k a day and get gibberish in output. Heck, this happen all the times. This happens right now in multiple companies.

Yes sometime humans produce nice code. This happens from time to time...

New comment by AlfeG in "Parental controls aren't for parents"

AlfeG — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 11:34:35 +0000

Same goes for the Google Family Link. There is no way to prevent kid accessing Google Play Store and spam You with requests...

New comment by AlfeG in "Kids who own smartphones before age 13 have worse mental health outcomes: Study"

AlfeG — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:38:09 +0000

Because it's id?

I mean slug is not important - id - is. https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Family/eating-carrots-make-childr...

New comment by AlfeG in ".NET 10"

AlfeG — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 08:37:24 +0000

NHibernate project stumbled upon much bigger break: https://github.com/nhibernate/nhibernate-core/issues/3651#is...

We force to use this workaround for now.

New comment by AlfeG in "American solar farms"

AlfeG — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:52:11 +0000

Because they are not silent. Or sometimes are not. Inverters do have quite large fans.

New comment by AlfeG in "Vite+ – Unified toolchain for the web"

AlfeG — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:53:07 +0000

For us non stable things were sass and Tailwind. Lost a lot of dev work just to upgrade those with no visible benefit at all.

Everything else is smooth and silk

Ohh, yes eslint 8 => 9 migration were also a big pain to handle.

New comment by AlfeG in "Why Self-Host?"

AlfeG — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:58:26 +0000

Not as click click click, but still awesome - copyparty

New comment by AlfeG in "Why drinking coffee in Iran has become so complicated"

AlfeG — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:08:26 +0000

This is my problem in every situation.

Want a car? Here are thousands of options. Want a fridge? Good luck in market research. Want a TV? Nope, I will not help. Too many variables. Bottle of water? Here are hundreds of options. Let's guess why one bottle can cost x100 times more than another.

Sometimes I just want simple things ... Like to drink a cup of coffee.

In my student time. There was a shop where we bought "Beer", "Cognac" or "Vodka", with corresponding simple labels. No trademarks, no info on producers. Very easy to choose.

New comment by AlfeG in "Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code"

AlfeG — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:41:55 +0000

They have a lessons before on order of the expressions and some similiar problems. They were able to solve for 80, but stuck on 40 and asked me.

New comment by AlfeG in "Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code"

AlfeG — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 08:19:16 +0000

Ahha, recently my daugher come to me with 3rd grade math problem. "Without rearranging the digits 1 2 3 4 5, insert mathematical operation signs and, if necessary, parentheses between them so that the resulting expression equals 40 and 80. The key is that you can combine digits (like 12+3/45) but you cannot change their order from the original sequence 1,2,3,4,5"

Grok3, Claude, Deepseek, Qwen all failed to solve this problem. Resulting in some very very wrong solutions. While Grok3 were admit it fail and don't provide answers all other AI's are provided just plain wrong answers, like `12 * 5 = 80`

ChatGPT were able to solve for 40, but not able to 80. YandexGPT solved those correctly (maybe it were trained on same Math books)

Just checked Grok3 few more times. It were able to solve correctly for 80.

New comment by AlfeG in "Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs"

AlfeG — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 13:29:02 +0000

Ohhh, it's scrollable... I wondered why this small article gained so much attention...

New comment by AlfeG in "Making an intersection unsafe for pedestrians to save seconds for drivers"

AlfeG — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:40:17 +0000

Green state is very short. 15 seconds is barely enough for 2-3 cars. My guess this force drivers to speedup.

New comment by AlfeG in "Making an Intersection Unsafe for Pedestrians to Save Seconds for Drivers"

AlfeG — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:36:50 +0000

Its only me, who think that 12 seconds of green light is just too small window. That's why every car try its best to pass through.

New comment by AlfeG in "PostgreSQL 17"

AlfeG — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:08:25 +0000

Is there any analog for Azure SQL Elastic Pools for Postgres anywhere?

We pay in total something around 600 bucks to manage around 250 databases in MSSQL servers (with failover for prod databases, DTU based model)

We pay for log analytics more then we pay for Sql Servers.

Those Elastic Pools is a blocker for us on the way to migrate to Postgres from MSSQL...

New comment by AlfeG in "Show HN: Media Hoarder v1.4.0 Supporting TV Series, Introducing Episode Heatmaps"

AlfeG — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:23:52 +0000

I love pricing page.

New comment by AlfeG in "Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say"

AlfeG — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:50:55 +0000

> What a Ukrainian settlement looks like when taken by Russia is predominantly on the scale of heavily damaged to totally leveled. Whereas Ukraine has taken localities without huge artillery and bombing preparation and have supplied locals hiding in the largely intact settlements with food and water, about whom Russia had forgotten - furthermore they shell and bomb towns with both Ukrainian soldiers and Russian civilians in them.

There is a lot of cities captured by Russia that have near zero damage, because UAF not used them as fortresses. There is even a mem inside UA about cities-fortresses.

> Ukraine targets exclusively war-fueling infrastructure including refineries, ammo/petroleum depots, military airfields and yes, key logistics routes like said bridge that was built by an invading country spanning over to occupied territory.

Belgorod has near zero military infrastructure. Yet missiles shell residential areas on regular basis. Death toll of civilians in this area is quite high already.

New comment by AlfeG in "Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say"

AlfeG — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:42:18 +0000

Literally every week there is a several civilians dead in Belgorod area from Ukraine missiles deliberately fired on residential area.

New comment by AlfeG in "AMD Unveils Ryzen 9000 CPUs for Desktop, Zen 5"

AlfeG — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 06:27:32 +0000

> DDR5 speeds up to 56000MHz (yes, I know that you can use faster RAM)

Not sure that I actually CAN. 56 GHz is already a lot.