Hacker News: YaBa

New comment by YaBa in "Ask HN: Any Microsoft employees/devs here? What's happening to Microsoft?"

YaBa — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:21:11 +0000

An innovative strategy combining AI, layoffs, low-cost labor, and a surprisingly optional QA team...

New comment by YaBa in "Show HN: CulinaryWiki, a Wiki for Culinary Knowledge"

YaBa — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:30:30 +0000

Nice, maybe I could add nutritional values, I have the european table for >1000 different spices/herbs/etc.

New comment by YaBa in "IQ tests results for AI"

YaBa — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:21:52 +0000

Gemini with high score? now that's a good joke.

New comment by YaBa in "One weird trick to making Claude Code palatable to use"

YaBa — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:44:23 +0000

I just tell to avoid explaining and spit out code, 60% of the times I have to correct it or provide detailed instructions, after some cursing and manual fixing, something useful remains.

New comment by YaBa in "ChatGPT-5 System Prompt Leaked"

YaBa — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:16:50 +0000

Fake... GPT acknowledges to be similar but not the real one, and even explains why.

New comment by YaBa in "Ask HN: Why don't subreddits adopt peer review instead of relying on bans?"

YaBa — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:31:53 +0000

Two words: echo chambers

New comment by YaBa in "Microsoft is Cutting 3% of All Workers"

YaBa — Tue, 13 May 2025 19:29:37 +0000

The saddest part is that current workers only knew about this in the news (at least in Portugal). MS is lacking some spine or balls?

New comment by YaBa in "VPN firm says it didn't know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them"

YaBa — Tue, 13 May 2025 19:28:05 +0000

I was one of the affected customers, guy offered me 2 years subscription at cost zero, it's something, but I will never trust this company again, neither lifetime subscriptions.

Same with web hosting, nice 30 bucks deal some years ago, ended this year, saying they cannoy support the costs anymore, wow, who would guess that a business is not profitable when you give stuff away.

Show HN: Mssql to OData Bridge

YaBa — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:41:27 +0000

I’ve been working on a Flask-based project that acts as a bridge between MSSQL and OData, allowing Tableau Public users to access MSSQL data seamlessly. It supports multiple deployment options (standalone, Docker, Composer) and displays information about tables and views.

Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think. Any feedback is appreciated!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43019298

Points: 1

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New comment by YaBa in "Investigating an “evil” RJ45 dongle"

YaBa — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:17:11 +0000

Embedded storage was actually very common some decades ago, remember seeing it in a lot of devices, mostly 3G USB Modems, there was even a AT command to enable/disable it.

Seems that the origin of the "chinese hack" theory can be just resumed to: younger people not being used to this kind of old stuff.

New comment by YaBa in "Never disable Google Play protect"

YaBa — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 00:09:27 +0000

Allow us to filter out China apps and most of the problems with rogue apps will be gone.

New comment by YaBa in "Ask HN: Google forcibly enabled Gemini in our Corp Org. How to disable?"

YaBa — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:11:50 +0000

Privacy, of course. Corporate data is not the same as the e-mails you send to your friends.

New comment by YaBa in "Ask HN: Why do/don't you use C?"

YaBa — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 23:12:26 +0000

I like to keep my mental sanity.

J.K., I really admire who uses C, but it's not for me.

New comment by YaBa in "Show HN: API Parrot – Automatically Reverse Engineer HTTP APIs"

YaBa — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:14:56 +0000

Interesting but... The first website I've tried it (which I'm currently working on due to a change of platform) couldn't find anything other than the main request, and I know for sure there is a POST reguest to the API to get some data (I had a scrapper working, website changed, had to re-do the scrapper again).

I've checked the tutorial, seems that I'm not missing any step, the software simple cannot capture anything if the request is made on the main page, seems to work fine with forms, buttons and "manual" actions.

I can DM you the website plus the expected request that is made, visible with any browser internal debugging tools.

New comment by YaBa in "Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition"

YaBa — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:12:38 +0000

meh... My only issues are: sound/multimedia and inconstant font size/type, other than that, perfect.

New comment by YaBa in "Team 17 Co-Founder Martyn Brown Has Passed Away Aged 57"

YaBa — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 23:34:01 +0000

RIP Martyn. Thank you so much for creating Worms. Decades ago, I got a demo of the game on a magazine CD-ROM. At first, I hated it because there was no documentation, and I kept blowing myself up. However, a couple of years later, I gave it another shot and absolutely fell in love with it. I still play it with my son to this day!

Thank you, Team-17, for making such a timeless game that continues to bring joy to generations.

New comment by YaBa in "Iwantmydomain.com randomly refunded all of my domains and locked me out"

YaBa — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 23:29:54 +0000

I might be wrong, but truly believe that you're another victim of bad implemented AI. Something triggered a bad switch, probably due to buying too many domains in such a small ammount of time? Like if you were using the domains for spam or something. Hope it gets fixed soon.

New comment by YaBa in "Show HN: Autonomous AI agents that monitor the stock market for you"

YaBa — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:44:57 +0000

Eh... doesn't have data after October 2023.

New comment by YaBa in "Snap packages – 10x slower than native"

YaBa — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 01:36:23 +0000

Ah Snap, 1st thing to uninstall :)

New comment by YaBa in "FTC bans hidden junk fees in hotel, event ticket prices"

YaBa — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 23:38:46 +0000

Trust me, you got lucky, they "randomly" selected passengers with those kind of bags for inspection due to measures, 1mm above? charged! Emphasis on randomly, because the pattern was simple: foreigners? charged, locals? go on. We've saw a poor guy squeeze the hell out of his backpack to no avail, it fitted the measuring box, still, charged because "you had to squeeze it"; guess what, plenty of room under the seat, the guy could put two of them. On me? bag had wheels, foreigner, automatically selected for inspection, took the wheels away, still charged because "it had wheels first". I've flew a dozen companies, not even Ryanair, the low of the lowest treats passengers like this.