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New comment by acid__ in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

acid__ — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:27:05 +0000

In short, another AI-generated slop project.

I've seen this exact UI style a dozen times now and it's always accompanied with tell-tale overly verbose, overly dramatic text.

New comment by acid__ in "GitHub Merge Queue Silently Reverted Code"

acid__ — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:43:43 +0000

Tip: identify PRs with this problem by looking for discrepancies between the metadata (files/lines affected) for PRs via GitHub API and associated commits in the time window.

This was a pain to clean up!

New comment by acid__ in "Shall I implement it? No"

acid__ — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:31:53 +0000

It seems to be particularly bad in Windows/WSL

New comment by acid__ in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

acid__ — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:59:50 +0000

The 8% and 50% numbers are pretty concerning, but I’d add that was for the “computer use environment” which still seems to be an emerging use case. The coding environment is at a much more reassuring 0.0% (with extended thinking).

Edit: whoops, somehow missed the first half of your comment, yes you are explicitly talking about computer use

New comment by acid__ in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

acid__ — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:27:20 +0000

> Most (probably >99.9%) players can't do that at the first attempt

Eh, both myself and my partner did this. To be fair, we weren’t going in completely blind, and my partner hit a Legendary joker, but I think you might be slightly overstating the difficulty. I’m still impressed that Gemini did it.

New comment by acid__ in "Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use"

acid__ — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:55:17 +0000

I didn’t even click the link, just read the top two comments and closed the page before realizing what I had done.

New comment by acid__ in "Lightstep is shutting down March 1, 2026"

acid__ — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:44:02 +0000

After being acquired by ServiceNow in 2021 for $510M and being rebranded to ServiceNow Cloud Observability, Lightstep is now being sunsetted with minimal fanfare.

Lightstep is shutting down March 1, 2026

acid__ — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:44:02 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.lightstep.com/changelog/eol-notice

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45839421

Points: 4

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New comment by acid__ in "FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices"

acid__ — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:07:47 +0000

I can, I’ve written a billing system before (unfortunately). There’s a lot of annoying math/edge cases and systems to sync between.

While I never implemented a restriction like this, it would have prevented a lot of weird bugs/customer support issues and kept the underlying code much simpler.

(Annoying math = time zones, prorations, discounts, billing cycle anchors, etc. see the “falsehoods programmers believe about X” series)

(Systems to sync between = internal DBs, billing APIs, payment processors, etc.)

New comment by acid__ in "Big Tech's underground race to buy AI training data"

acid__ — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 19:13:56 +0000

Top multimodal models have about 200-1000 tokens per image, so the math works out.

New comment by acid__ in "Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor"

acid__ — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:52:39 +0000

My experience from working in the security space is that all the tech is pretty un-sexy (with very good sales pitches), and none of it will save you from a nation-state attacker.

New comment by acid__ in "Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor"

acid__ — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 22:54:18 +0000

Be sure to check out the mentioned catalog. [1]

The NSA's capabilities back in 2008 were pretty astonishing: "RAGEMASTER" A $30 device that taps a VGA cable and transmits the contents of your screen to the NSA van sitting outside! Crazy stuff. Makes you wonder what they've built in the last 15 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANT_catalog

New comment by acid__ in "RTO doesn't improve company value, but does make employees miserable: Study"

acid__ — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 05:33:02 +0000

What gives you confidence that this is a bot account and not a frequent reader of HN that is passionate about growing the number of unique topics discussed here? And what’s up with the strong, inflammatory language?

New comment by acid__ in "The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input"

acid__ — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:23:37 +0000

Wow, only 256 tokens per frame? I guess a picture isn’t worth a thousand words, just ~192.

New comment by acid__ in "Hey, computer, make me a font"

acid__ — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 16:46:41 +0000

Designing fonts for languages that use Chinese characters is often challenging due to the sheer number of glyphs.

This approach to generating fonts is very interesting… feels like it could unlock the creation of heavily stylized fonts that just wouldn’t be feasible otherwise.

New comment by acid__ in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

acid__ — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:34:05 +0000

Prediction: There will soon be a lot more VR “content” available with the proliferation of VR-capable recording devices.

This could be a big push towards making the metaverse more compelling.

New comment by acid__ in "Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies?"

acid__ — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 15:42:41 +0000

Hrm, true, no one’s ever gotten fluent in a language just by reading a textbook.

New comment by acid__ in "Google layoffs Jan 20, 2023 – California WARN public records"

acid__ — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 06:57:43 +0000

Surely if any IC would be in the know, it would be an L9.

New comment by acid__ in "I don’t want to be an internet person"

acid__ — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:19:33 +0000

Oof, that’s a little too relatable. I’ve spent the better part of a decade recovering from that. It has very much colored who I am today but I do my best to not allow it to define me.

New comment by acid__ in "The world is run by people no smarter than you"

acid__ — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:34:36 +0000

Once upon a time, all of that would have been managed on just pen and paper, calculated by humans instead of machines!