Hacker News: a012

New comment by a012 in "Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)"

a012 — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:33:00 +0000

Wait until they discovered the port number could go over 9000

New comment by a012 in "New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence"

a012 — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:15:17 +0000

I’m the opposite, I can’t stand the fast speaking videos. But I also speed up 1.2x to 1.5x if the videos were too slow.

New comment by a012 in "Just Use Go"

a012 — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:26:13 +0000

Why the Null handling and in Go is worse than others?

New comment by a012 in "Indian matchbox labels as a visual archive"

a012 — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:55:11 +0000

Yes, there are _40_ necessary cookies which you can’t deny, 40, like it’s basically an ad in disguise

New comment by a012 in "Full-Text Search with DuckDB"

a012 — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:15:47 +0000

How big is your logs volume?

New comment by a012 in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

a012 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:09:45 +0000

Reminds me of my experience when trying to remove my Airbnb account, they require my ID card scans of both sides. I said fuck it and never touch this company again

New comment by a012 in "Parallel agents in Zed"

a012 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:26:09 +0000

I also have this workflow, it’s like you’re on the side quests or on the main story; those are not necessarily in parallel

New comment by a012 in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

a012 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:57:14 +0000

You have all info you need on server side, I don’t believe that you’re totally blind without client tracking

New comment by a012 in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

a012 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:02:46 +0000

And dont forget the scissor keyboard and the fucking touchbar

New comment by a012 in "I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it"

a012 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:22:50 +0000

Shoot at f/64

New comment by a012 in "MacBook Neo isn't innovation: It's Apple correcting a story it pushed for years"

a012 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:31:02 +0000

My experience is it doesn’t work all of the time because many websites add their shenanigan Javascripts to restrict the selection or extracting images

New comment by a012 in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

a012 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:48:05 +0000

In our case, we spent to much time of engineer time just to put up with Azure but there’s no good ROI. It took sometime for the upper management to realize Azure is shit and cut the cost

New comment by a012 in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

a012 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:45:39 +0000

Only C level likes Azure

New comment by a012 in "Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)"

a012 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:47:23 +0000

It’s one step closer to have an agent to go shopping for my recipes or dinner, but hopefully unlike the Son of Anton

New comment by a012 in "Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild"

a012 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:04:54 +0000

I’m on the same boat. I was forced to update to the shitty UI at work, but not on my personal phone.

New comment by a012 in "Excel incorrectly assumes that the year 1900 is a leap year"

a012 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:57:42 +0000

Although it is technically possible to correct this behavior so that current versions of Microsoft Copilot 366 is a leap year, the disadvantages of doing so outweigh the advantages.

New comment by a012 in "The new Apple begins to emerge"

a012 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:35:04 +0000

If they keep the quality of the Magic Keyboard for iPad then I have no doubt in Macbook Neo.

New comment by a012 in "Cloud VM benchmarks 2026"

a012 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:02:58 +0000

Yeah, remember when 4 core 8 threads were the high-end CPUs until AMD Ryzen came out? If AMD didn't do their best job then we're still stuck with the norm of 4 cores for more years as I can imagine.

New comment by a012 in "AMD will bring its “Ryzen AI” processors to standard desktop PCs for first time"

a012 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:49:29 +0000

> This makes them AMD’s first desktop chips to qualify for Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC label, which enables a handful of unique Windows 11 features like Recall and Click to Do.

Microsoft: "Friendship ended with Intel, now AMD is my best friend"

New comment by a012 in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

a012 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:00:08 +0000

You’re lucky that you had a choice. The security policy in my company forces our laptop to be up to date no matter what. You can resist to update for some time but then they’ll force update through management system and sometime it happens in the middle of out meeting