<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Our_Benefactors</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Our_Benefactors</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:55:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Our_Benefactors" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This won’t be the metric measured for success. It will be something more tractable like tickets completed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:31:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746503</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47746503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in ""Negative" views of Broadcom driving VMware migrations, rival says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This sounds a bit tinfoily but given HSBCs history not impossible; can you show any additional sources to follow?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:46:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721418</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, so reform the H1B program entirely, since it has been abused by the elites.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:45:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719861</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719861</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47719861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, but this doesn’t answer why I only have to do this on Mac and not windows/linux, where I have literally never run into an issue as a result of not doing it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:58:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663558</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Usenet Archives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Usenet must be a generational thing, because it was not widely available or used when I was in university. We were all concerned with if we were allowed to torrent content and how strict they were with enforcement. I recall friends on some campuses had very strict policies where two strikes could mean you had no internet service in the dormitory for the remainder of the year.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:53:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662557</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662557</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Hillary Clinton was to the left of Bernie Sanders in 2016<p>No, this is so factually untrue as to be offensive.<p>Hillary is a party stooge through and through, it’s why she was essentially installed as the 2016 dem candidate, in spite of voter preferences. They did Bernie dirty</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:53:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661723</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, 8GB is still the bottom of the market, and the ram shortage is past its worst days already.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:44:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648841</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47648841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Quantum computer researchers: Bitcoin encryption breakable in a few years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who wants to offer me this bet?<p>This will be forever 5 years away, like commercial fusion</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:03:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631504</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How old must an account be before expressing a consistent opinion in order for you to take those opinions in good faith?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:29:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625915</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625915</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47625915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Ask HN: Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lots of cope here about how the inferior tool is actually better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:06:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536431</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536431</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Zero Days: Electric Motorcycles Are a Security Nightmare"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool article. Take out the dumb proselytizing about AI use, it’s totally out of place.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:51:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536275</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536275</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Ask HN: Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Try running yourself a local model on a sufficiently beefy laptop<p>I don't understand why you think the solution to using a well tuned and intelligent model is to use one that is a dumbass</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:31:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47497156</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47497156</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47497156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "You are not your job"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this perspective is false. You have no way of knowing how many more opportunities and success you would cost yourself by being not nice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:55:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494980</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494980</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "General Motors is assisting with the restoration of a rare EV1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>NiMH batteries suck too</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:30:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494688</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494688</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47494688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The CPU is an 11700k it’s not the beefiest. Maybe the high end AMD chips make this a more viable choice</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:55:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036607</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036607</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The encoding speed with my CPU was less than real time. This was unacceptable performance to me.<p>Maybe my CPU settings weren't right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:02:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030751</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, I wrote a python script that uses FFMPEG and detects the bitrate of the file and determines approximately what CQ to use. If the original file has a low bitrate, by reencoding it with a high CQ you can actually increase the file size (lol).<p>Normal CQ = 28
Aggressive CQ = 34<p><pre><code>  # Thresholds to detect ultra-low-bitrate inputs (use more aggressive encoding)
  # (width, height) → min sensible bitrate (bps). If stream <= threshold, use aggressive profile.  

 LOW_BITRATE_THRESHOLDS = [
       ((3840, 2160),  13_000_000),  # 4K  ≤13 Mbps → use aggressive encoding
       ((2560, 1440),   8_000_000),  # 1440p
       ((1920, 1080),   5_000_000),  # 1080p
       ((1280, 720),    2_500_000),  # 720p
       ((854, 480),     1_200_000),  # 480p
   ]</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:05:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030082</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030082</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use “slow” GPU encoding. I optimized my pipeline for minimal quality loss, not maximum file size savings. I wouldn’t recommend using consumer grade CPUs to reencode because to get a reasonable speed you’ll need to use “fast” presets which tank the quality. Anecdotally fast CPU method saves closer to 60-70% file size.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:00:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030046</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030046</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47030046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Court orders Acer and Asus to stop selling PCs in Germany over H.265 patents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s such a shame as h265 is such an amazing codec breakthrough. I’m in the process of converting my library for space saving and the h265 files are literally 50% of the original size (give or take), with imperceptible quality difference. I can reencode around 100-200GB/day typically, using a 3090</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:41:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027878</link><dc:creator>Our_Benefactors</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027878</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Our_Benefactors in "IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mac can run larger models due to the unified memory architecture. Try building a 512GB nvidia VRAM machine. You basically can’t.</p>
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