<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: TheMiddleMan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=TheMiddleMan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:08:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=TheMiddleMan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheMiddleMan in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>15 years ago: "why is google putting so much effort into building a web browser? it must be because they want to see the web grow and by extension more people will use their services"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:13:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517193</link><dc:creator>TheMiddleMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheMiddleMan in "Experiments with Plotter Art"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/PlotterArt/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/PlotterArt/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:09:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489616</link><dc:creator>TheMiddleMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489616</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheMiddleMan in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Relevant: <a href="https://keepandroidopen.org/" rel="nofollow">https://keepandroidopen.org/</a><p>> Starting in 2027*, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:11:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367851</link><dc:creator>TheMiddleMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49367851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheMiddleMan in "More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They've also been primed to ignore it, citing "fake news". <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:53:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259394</link><dc:creator>TheMiddleMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259394</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheMiddleMan in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This may be the largest AI-generated codebase right now, by a lot. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.<p>Frontier AI software development still falls short in the design/architecture department, in my recent experience. Though it's pretty impressive at making "working" code.<p>This being a fairly direct conversion from one language to another, even keeping the same interfaces across files, means the architecture is already in place.<p>The detailed test coverage is also very helpful for Claude. But even detailed testing can't cover every edge case.<p>So my questions are:
How well did Claude do on the edge cases?
And how maintainable will this codebase be going forward?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 18:26:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139233</link><dc:creator>TheMiddleMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheMiddleMan in "H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's coming along nicely <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Hardware_encoding_and_decoding_support" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1#Hardware_encoding_and_deco...</a><p>Also decoding on a reasonably powerful (non-accelerated) cpu is fast enough for 1080p, not ideal for battery life but still.</p>
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<p>Couldn't this be done on proprietary software as well? Have an agent fuzz an interface (any type) for every bit of functionality and document it. Then have it build based on the document?</p>
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<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139951">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139951</a></p>
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<p>FYI your browser back button should bring you back where you were.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:06:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444735</link><dc:creator>TheMiddleMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444735</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46444735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheMiddleMan in "Sign in with Google in Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't worry about misclicks, Google already tracked your visit when the webpage was loaded.<p>Google One Tap works via a script tag from Google servers: <a href="https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/display-google-one-tap" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/displa...</a></p>
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<p>Very nice. I've been trying to find an image duplicate detection algorithm/system that suits my use-case for a while. Your app seems promising, however, I'm not willing to pay $99 just to see if it works with my (uniquely challenging) duplicate images.<p>After realizing there was no demo I was looking for a way to contact you directly with a few sample images, but can't find contact information on the website.<p>Consider adding a demo and contact info.<p>Otherwise, the app is looking solid. This seems like a great use of AI.</p>
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<p>Yes, but is the inflection point in 12 months or 12 years?<p>Either way, it's pretty wild.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 20:28:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43988827</link><dc:creator>TheMiddleMan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43988827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43988827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by TheMiddleMan in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dems and republicans both do their political corruption, Trump is something else.<p><a href="https://commonslibrary.org/authoritarianism-how-you-know-it-when-you-see-it/#What_are_the_Top_10_Elements_of_the_Authoritarian_Playbook" rel="nofollow">https://commonslibrary.org/authoritarianism-how-you-know-it-...</a><p>What are the Top 10 Elements of the Authoritarian Playbook?<p>1. Divide and rule: Foment mistrust and fear in the population.<p>2. Spread lies and conspiracies: Undermine the public’s belief in truth.<p>3. Destroy checks and balances: Quietly use legal or pseudo-legal rationales to gut institutions, weaken opposition, and/or declare national emergencies to seize unconstitutional powers.<p>4. Demonize opponents and independent media: Undermine the public’s trust in those actors and institutions that hold the state accountable.<p>5. Undermine civil and political rights for the unaligned: Actively suppress free speech, the right to assembly and protest and the rights of women and minority groups.<p>6. Blame minorities, immigrants, and “outsiders” for a country’s problems: Exploit national humiliation while promising to restore national glory.<p>7. Reward loyalists and punish defectors: Make in-group members fearful to voice dissension.<p>8. Encourage or condone violence to advance political goals: Dehumanize opposition and/or out-groups to justify violence against them.<p>9. Organize mass rallies to keep supporters mobilized against made-up threats: Use fearmongering and hate speech to consolidate in-group identity and solidarity.<p>10. Make people feel like they are powerless to change things: Solutions will only come from the top.</p>
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<p>You might be right but consider these old talks:<p>Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species (2016)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Uyfqi_TE8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Uyfqi_TE8</a><p>Elon Musk talks Climate Change and Carbon Tax at the Sorbone 2015
<a href="https://youtu.be/sUFwwlmxRsw?t=978" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/sUFwwlmxRsw?t=978</a><p>It could be that he was just following the trends knowing there was money to be made, but I detect some real passion back in these videos.<p>Of course no motivation comes from a single source and there's some mix of philanthropy and money driving this, among other motivations.<p>Either way his tone has changed a lot, to say the least.</p>
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<p>Not everyone has the precise same definition of hate, and you know what they ^ mean.<p>Elon used to be all about truly advancing society, now he only seems interested in gaining wealth and power.</p>
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<p>Yes, I'm doing exactly this with <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/jest-image-snapshot" rel="nofollow">https://www.npmjs.com/package/jest-image-snapshot</a></p>
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<p>This is a great video on undersea cables <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFt9le2ytW0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFt9le2ytW0</a><p>"Sabatoge" and repair is discussed at 11:45</p>
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<p>Trying out Double now.<p>o1 did a significantly better job converting a JavaScript file to TypeScript than Llama 3.1 405B, GitHub Copilot, and Claude 3.5. It even simplified my code a bit while retaining the same functionality. Very impressive.<p>It was able to refactor a ~160 line file but I'm getting an infinite "thinking bubble" on a ~420 line file. Maybe something's timing out with the longer o1 response times?</p>
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<p>I've found decent success with Googles Cloud Vision API for transcribing cursive writing on the backs of 1000s of family photos.<p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/handwriting" rel="nofollow">https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/handwriting</a><p>I threw together a basic UI with the transcribed text in an editable area next to the image where I would edit any adjustments as it wasn't 100% perfect.</p>
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<p>Yeah it feels weird to me too.<p>Similar/inspired-by software is fine but if a commercial project were to rip off everything down to the style and design of an existing app it would not be okay at all, what makes it okay if it's open source?</p>
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