Hacker News: OldMatey

New comment by OldMatey in "Flux 3"

OldMatey — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:18:39 +0000

I am very excited for this. 2.3 was excellent and I've seen clips from people who got early access along with reading their reflections on it and I think this will be the new SOTA for home use.

New comment by OldMatey in "Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor"

OldMatey — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:49:29 +0000

Given the time and effort that went into this, and the luck that one diligent person noticed, investigated and discovered what was going on before it could get further... it seems very likely to me that this has happened already in other libraries without being discovered.

New comment by OldMatey in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

OldMatey — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:58:22 +0000

Break free from Google*. As long as you buy a Google phone. I really want to use it, but the Pixel only requirement is a deal breaker

New comment by OldMatey in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

OldMatey — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:23:58 +0000

My Huawei P20 Pro did this in 2018. It was fabulous, turned the OS into a mini-computer with a taskbar, desktop, icons, browser etc. It was still the best phone Ive ever owned (and I used to work at Google). It was no wonder Google killed with GSM. It was light years ahead even back then and they really hate competition.

New comment by OldMatey in "TRELLIS.2: state-of-the-art large 3D generative model (4B)"

OldMatey — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:06:39 +0000

State of the art for Open Source. This is a nice improvement, but far out I cannot wait for a Sparc3D equivalent for local use. Its a step change in quality. I really hope Hunyuan3D-3 is the one to level up to that quality now

New comment by OldMatey in "F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree"

OldMatey — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 05:04:56 +0000

What a disaster this will be. The end of any really open phones. By the time I cannot sideload apps or torrent onto my device, I might as well move to an iPhone and at least get less data tracking and better security.

New comment by OldMatey in "Launch HN: VibeFlow (YC S25) – Web app generator with visual, editable workflows"

OldMatey — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 23:52:35 +0000

This looks great! Can I export my end code / app and host it elsewhere easily? Where else would easily be able to host it?

New comment by OldMatey in "Show HN: Libredesk – Open-source customer support desk. Single binary app"

OldMatey — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:29:28 +0000

Fantastic. This is far overdue and looks like a solid start. I have been particularly surprised by how few options there are in the CS space that are open source and options like Zendesk are SO expensive and the pricing tiers and cost structures are prohibitive for many small organizations.

New comment by OldMatey in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

OldMatey — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:42:32 +0000

We have been in a period of post-truth. We are entering a period of epistemological breakdown

New comment by OldMatey in "SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube"

OldMatey — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 05:14:08 +0000

Is there an equivalent that anyone knows about for Podcasts?

New comment by OldMatey in "Timeshift: System Restore Tool for Linux"

OldMatey — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 23:33:39 +0000

I adore Timeshift. It has made my time on Linux so much more trouble free.

I have used Linux for 10+ years but over the I have spent hours, days and weeks trying to undo or fix little issues I introduce by tinkering around with things. Often I seem to break things at the worst times, right as I am starting to work on some new project or something that is time sensitive.

Now, I can just roll back to an earlier stable version if I don't want to spend the time right then on troubleshooting.

I've enabled this on all my family members machines and teach them to just roll back when Linux goes funky.

New comment by OldMatey in "OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?"

OldMatey — Fri, 17 May 2024 22:59:10 +0000

Well that's not worrying. /s

I am curious how long it will take for Sam to go from being perceived as a hero to a villain and then on to supervillain.

Even if they had a massive, successful and public safety team, and got alignment right (which I am highly doubtful about being possible) it is still going to happen as massive portions of white collar workers loose their jobs.

Mass protests are coming and he will be an obvious focus point for their ire.

New comment by OldMatey in "The Google employees who created transformers"

OldMatey — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 21:54:36 +0000

Agreed. I remember the town hall meeting where they announced the transition to being Alphabet. My manager was flying home from the US at the time. He left a Google employee and landed an Alphabet employee. I know it was probably meaningless in any real sense, but when they dropped the Dont Be Evil motto, it was a sign that the fun times were drawing to an end.