Hacker News: DevX101

New comment by DevX101 in "I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search"

DevX101 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:01:00 +0000

You need to cache search queries.

New comment by DevX101 in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

DevX101 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:05:20 +0000

The median user isn't going to change default settings, so your app is as secure as whatever the default it.

New comment by DevX101 in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

DevX101 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:04:24 +0000

Anything similar for iOS?

New comment by DevX101 in "TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875"

DevX101 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:28:03 +0000

Chemistry would be a great space to explore. The last quarter of the 19th century had a ton of advancements in chemistry. It'd be interesting the see if an LLM could propose fruitful hypotheses, made predictions of the science of thermodynamics.

New comment by DevX101 in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

DevX101 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:16:05 +0000

I’m glad it was blocked. Amazon gives law enforcement and ICE access to Ring camera footage. I have no doubt they’d eventually be letting cops spy inside our homes with these vacuum cleaners.

New comment by DevX101 in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"

DevX101 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:49:08 +0000

Software has been moving in the right direction. Tons of open source projects for every application imaginable. But hardware has gotten more closed. You can't replace batteries in phones, they get pre-loaded with state level spyware, laptops today have about the same hard drive space as 10 years ago to drive cloud usage, and GPUs and now memory seem to be becoming increasingly cost prohibitive for consumers.

New comment by DevX101 in "Eight Sleep adds 'outage mode' to smart beds after AWS problems left them frozen"

DevX101 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:24:33 +0000

If you care about your data privacy don't get this bed. There's really no good reason for it to phone home and tell the CEO (YC company), when you're sleeping, if you're sleeping with someone else, and when you're sick.

New comment by DevX101 in "Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani"

DevX101 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:48:48 +0000

If I had to classify the current era we're in, it'd be the "Age of the Edgelords".

New comment by DevX101 in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

DevX101 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:36:05 +0000

Enshittification really should be upgraded to a fourth law of thermodynamics.

New comment by DevX101 in "Trevor Milton's Nikola case dropped by SEC following Trump pardon"

DevX101 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:19:37 +0000

For anyone here planning on doing corporate fraud, just make sure you leave a $1-2MM line item for regulatory assistance.

New comment by DevX101 in "US to put economic data on 9 blockchains"

DevX101 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:36:14 +0000

His base doesn't read BLS reports.

New comment by DevX101 in "US to put economic data on 9 blockchains"

DevX101 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:24:55 +0000

Yup, the president just fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner when unfavorable jobs numbers were released.

Blockchain does absolutely nothing to address this trust issue.

New comment by DevX101 in "The Folk Economics of Housing"

DevX101 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:32:28 +0000

Increasing the supply of the high end market often occurs while simultaneously reducing the supply of the low end market. This happens when landlords renovate their buildings. So it's very possible that adding supply can limit price inflation on the high end, while increasing costs on the low end.

New comment by DevX101 in "A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008)"

DevX101 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:45:17 +0000

It still is? Few engineers could build a good spell checker without external libraries, giving a database of valid words.

New comment by DevX101 in "Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)"

DevX101 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:08:24 +0000

0.2% should be about the correct rate. WeChat in China has zero transaction fee in the system and a 0.1% fee on withdrawals. Visa/MasterCard amounts to a private tax on the economy. Unfortunately I don't see this changing anytime soon, since the US allows rent-seeking middlemen like Visa/MC, TurboTax, and PBMs (pharmacy drugs), to continue their operation as long as they keep funding the right politicians.

New comment by DevX101 in "How YouTube won the battle for TV viewers"

DevX101 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 22:00:06 +0000

I'm not sure the economics of big budget TV series work anymore unless you catch lightning in a bottle so I understand them cutting prod costs.

YouTube's economics are just so much better. YT provides no up front payment for content. The channels are almost infinite, microtargeted to everyone's interest. And the payout is proportional to the success of the content, and paid AFTER the audience has viewed. TV on the other hand has to make big bets before they know whether a show will be a hit.

I've had a TV for years but don't have cable and never watch broadcast. My TV is just a large ipad.

New comment by DevX101 in "Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized"

DevX101 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:17:52 +0000

Do you have longitudinal resting heart rate data? Would love to see how it changed over the years.

New comment by DevX101 in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

DevX101 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:41:43 +0000

There were some enterprises that refused to send any data to OpenAI, despite assurances that that data would not be logged. Looks like they've been vindicated in keeping everything on prem via self-hosted LLM models.

New comment by DevX101 in "Tesla falls after Commerce secretary recommends buying stock"

DevX101 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:06:42 +0000

A big part of TSLA's valuation was being a meme stock. Was never actually worth $1T.

New comment by DevX101 in "The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available"

DevX101 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 04:53:45 +0000

Now would be a good time to have a functional FTC commissioner. Doing a bait and switch like on a product that was sold with a set of features should be illegal. If I buy a car and the sales guy stops by my house the next day to take back the wheels, it would rightfully be seen as ridiculous.