Hacker News: admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=admax88qqqHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:53:50 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"]]>The conspiracy version of this is each bad windows release is purposefully extra bad so the next "good" version is perceived as artifically well.

It's a shame too, I feel like the underlying OS has some really good engineering in it, but the layers of cruft and anti-features on top make for a poor overall product.

]]>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:13:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506836admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506836https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506836<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"]]>This follows the standard windows pattern of every release alternating between bad/good.

98 good

ME bad

XP good

Vista bad

7 good

8 bad

10 good

11 bad

When 12 comes windows will be tolerable again.

]]>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:22:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504002admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504002https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47504002<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"]]>I would wager all of those are distributing malware.

]]>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:55:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925319admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925319https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925319<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "xAI joins SpaceX"]]>> This looks increasingly a good idea.

Why?

]]>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:12:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46863569admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46863569https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46863569<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)"]]>Right I get tha. The point I’m making is that from a users perspective it’s functionally very similar. A non deterministic llm or a non deterministic company full of designers and engineers.

]]>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:43:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784194admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784194https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784194<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)"]]>Web apps kind of already do that with most companies shipping constant UX redesigns, A/B tests, new features, etc.

For a typical user today’s software isn’t particularly deterministic. Auto updates mean your software is constantly changing under you.

]]>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:28:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784041admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784041https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45784041<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now"]]>> You're strictly correct, but the rules for chess are infamously hard to implement

Come on. Yeah they're not trivial but they've been done numerous times. There's been chess programs for almost as long as there have been computers. Checking legal moves is a _solved problem_.

Detecting valid medical advice is not. The two are not even remotely comparable.

]]>Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:05:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42217741admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42217741https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42217741<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "Bpftune uses BPF to auto-tune Linux systems"]]>It’s not a questions of being able to reverse. It’s a question of being able to diagnose that one of these changes even was the problem and if so which one.

]]>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 14:57:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42164502admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42164502https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42164502<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "We're experimenting with advertising"]]>Seeing ads can still affect you psychologically even if you don't click them.

Also lots of ads prey on people with worse impulse control who bankroll the rest of us who don't click ads. Similar to how casinos are bankrolled by the addicts at the slot machines or many games are bankrolled by the addicts spending all their savings on in game items.

Doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy.

Plus there's something just aesthetically pleasing about an ad-free experience. I started paying for youtube premium to avoid ads and I must say its a much nicer experience.

]]>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:54:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138982admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138982https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138982<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains"]]>Awesome!

]]>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:23:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42128026admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42128026https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42128026<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains"]]>I find the bus tracking of this app in my city is pretty poor unfortunately. Probably not the apps fault probably an issue of the municipality but still annoying.

That being said, if this app could convince cities to also be used for payment that would be a game changer. Uber for public transit would really remove so much friction from using transit.

]]>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:25:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42127433admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42127433https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42127433<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "New Windows driver signature bypass allows kernel rootkit installs"]]>Sure I guess, I don't know why UAC gets so much hate while sudo gets so much praise.

UAC is strictly better than sudo IMO.

Does UAC solve security for windows? Of course not, but we were comparing against sudo here.

]]>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 20:37:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41957555admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41957555https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41957555<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "New Windows driver signature bypass allows kernel rootkit installs"]]>The main difference is that UAC is automatically triggered by the OS and takes over the whole display making it harder to fake/intercept. It’s trivial to put a fake sudo in someones PATH and steal their password

]]>Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:04:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955598admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955598https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955598<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)"]]>> I'm convinced computers are much better at it, but lawyers suffice.

This is just wrong though. The effect of the law is only what humans determine it to be.

Computers can't be better at it by definition. If a computer claims a law says one thing but a judge/court determines the other, the judge wins because the law is a human system.

]]>Fri, 25 Oct 2024 20:33:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41949391admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41949391https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41949391<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "Starship Flight 5 license issued by FAA"]]>Don’t need landing legs/gear on the ship. Saves weight

]]>Sat, 12 Oct 2024 18:59:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821506admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821506https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41821506<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "Five ways to reduce variance in A/B testing"]]>> Maybe if the product is shit, the color of the buttons doesn't matter.

This should really be on a poster in many offices.

]]>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:22:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41688802admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41688802https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41688802<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "SAML: A Technical Primer"]]>They are suggesting that it’s easy to make mistakes when writing the JWT auth code as opposed to just talking to the IdP using TLs

]]>Sat, 28 Sep 2024 01:28:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41677158admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41677158https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41677158<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "Uber charges more if you have credits in your account"]]>Were there tolls on your trip?

]]>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:57:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41620816admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41620816https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41620816<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "Warning: DNS encryption in Little Snitch 6.1 may occasionally fail"]]>Totally, but most IoT customers are not homelab hobbyists, so I think its defensible for IoT vendors to just hard code known good DNS in their devices instead of relying on broken ISP resolvers.

Related story, there was a period of time where my ISP's resolver that would replace hostnames with no DNS record with their own ad filled garbage page.

So you mistype google.com to foofle.com or something and instead of getting "host not found" you get... ads.

Disgusting behaviour IMO.

]]>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 18:40:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41583838admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41583838https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41583838<![CDATA[New comment by admax88qqq in "Warning: DNS encryption in Little Snitch 6.1 may occasionally fail"]]>Most isp resolvers are shit and broken

]]>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:52:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41575607admax88qqqhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41575607https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41575607