<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: RachelF</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RachelF</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:12:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=RachelF" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RachelF in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Another trick I've seen on LinkedIn is job applications open from 12:00 am to 12:01 am.<p>The employer can legally say they advertized the job and had no applicants and need an H1B employee.</p>
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<p>It is a superb project, and a hard thing to do.<p>It is a pity that the apps most business people use everyday, like Word and Excel and Outlook don't work in it (Excel 2010 is the last version that has Platinum status). It is interesting that these are harder to get working than games.</p>
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<p>Australian house transactions are also commonly used for low-million dollar money laundering operations.<p>Australia specifically exempts house purchases and the associated agents and their lawyers from AML laws.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:29:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484390</link><dc:creator>RachelF</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484390</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RachelF in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Churchill's "We will fight them on the beaches speech" at the start of WW2:<p>Output:
I’m fully confident that if we all lean in, stay hyper-focused on execution, and optimize our current workflows, we’re going to successfully defend our core market, navigate this industry disruption, and outlast any competitive threats—even if it takes years of grinding it out solo. That’s the mission-critical objective for the entire leadership team. That’s the vision we’re scaling nationwide.<p>Even as key regions and legacy players face major headwinds or fall under hostile management, we aren’t pivoting. We’re doubling down. We’re going to show up in every channel. We’re going to compete in the field, we’re going to dominate the airwaves, and we’re going to protect our brand equity, whatever the burn rate.<p>We’re going to hustle on the beaches, we’re going to grind at the landing zones, we’re going to perform in the streets and in the boardrooms; we will never exit</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.phoronix.com/review/msi-pro-b850p-wifi">https://www.phoronix.com/review/msi-pro-b850p-wifi</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329974">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329974</a></p>
<p>Points: 25</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:14:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.phoronix.com/review/msi-pro-b850p-wifi</link><dc:creator>RachelF</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329974</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47329974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RachelF in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is the best way of marking regions of RAM as bad in Windows:<p><a href="https://github.com/prsyahmi/BadMemory" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/prsyahmi/BadMemory</a><p>I've used it for many years. It only fixes physical hardware faults, not timing errors. For example if a RAM cell is damaged by radiation, not if you're overclocking your RAM.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.heise.de/en/news/GrapheneOS-Microsoft-Authenticator-does-not-support-secure-Android-OS-11200495.html">https://www.heise.de/en/news/GrapheneOS-Microsoft-Authenticator-does-not-support-secure-Android-OS-11200495.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267120">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267120</a></p>
<p>Points: 7</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:52:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.heise.de/en/news/GrapheneOS-Microsoft-Authenticator-does-not-support-secure-Android-OS-11200495.html</link><dc:creator>RachelF</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47267120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RachelF in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>The amount of money Microsoft makes from the OS apart from corporations is a rounding error.<p>Yes, if you analyse revenue (not profit), sales of Windows count 9% of the total. Microsoft makes around the same percentage from LinkedIn and Xbox as they do from Windows sales.<p>Cloud is by far the the biggest contributor to revenue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:40:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223739</link><dc:creator>RachelF</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RachelF in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Teams is a terrible app, although Electron isn't the only reason for that: It needs a Gig of RAM to do things that older chat apps could do in 4 Meg.<p>The free ride of ever increasing RAM on consumer devices is over because of the AI hyperscalers buying all fab capacity, leading to a real RAM shortage. I expect many new laptops to come with 8GB as standard and mid-range phones to have 4GB.<p>Software engineers need to start thinking about efficiency again.</p>
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<p>I haven't used 3.1 yet, but 3.0 Pro has been frustrating for two reasons:<p>- it is "lazy": I keep having to tell it to finish, or continue, it wants to stop the task early.<p>- it hallucinates: I have arguments with it about making up API functions to well known libraries which just do not exist.</p>
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<p>wow! Thanks for that.</p>
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<p>Yes, it is very lacking in details. The Claude output would have been interesting, or a few logs or protocol dumps.<p>The lack of detail makes me suspect the truth of most of the story.</p>
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<p>Not in my experience with Gemini Pro and coding. It hallucinates APIs that aren't there. Claude does not do that.<p>Gemini has flashes of brilliance, but I regard it as unpolished some things work amazingly, some basics don't work.</p>
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<p>There fans are still good, but not the quietest anymore.<p>Noctua no longer manufactures them, they are now made by YS Tech.</p>
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<p>I don't understand the threat model that banks worry about on rooted phones.<p>What is it? I can access their websites on a PC running as root or Administrator. What is the problem with rooted Android phones?</p>
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<p>Mine is not 200MB on Android - the base apk is 67MB + 32MB for the ARM v8a specific libs. This is the code, the local caching and other data might make up the rest.<p>For Android, you can check [1] Download the apk, rename it as a zip and look inside to see the files.<p>A quick file analysis of the 67MB shows around 58MB of java code and some 32MB of ARM libs, 31MB of this is the libvideochat.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/gmail/gmail-2025-11-17-840487098-release-release/gmail-2025-11-17-840487098-release-android-apk-download" rel="nofollow">https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/gmail/gmail-2025-11...</a></p>
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<p>Interesting timing, given that the PS4 has been hacked via various exploits, and the PS5 has just had its root encryption keys exposed.</p>
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<p>Anna's archive has a great analysis of the Spotify data.<p>They identify a huge surge in tracks that few listen to after gen AI started.<p>The analysis is worth reading. The distribution is (Pareto)^3 ~99% of the tracks played are 1% of the catalogue.</p>
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<p>> iAPX 432 
Yes, this was a failure, the Itanium of the 1980's<p>I also regard ADA as a failure. I worked with it many years ago. ADA would take 30 minutes to compile a program. Turbo C++ compiled equivalent code in a few seconds.</p>
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<p>Windows has been my main operating system for the last 35 years (from version 2). I've used Linux and to a lessor extent BSD and Mac as well, but my main desktop has always been Windows, as it ran most of the apps that I needed.<p>Windows 11 UI and spyware are so bad, that Windows 10 is where my 35 years of using Windows as my main OS has ended.</p>
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