Hacker News: aitchnyu

New comment by aitchnyu in "How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025)"

aitchnyu — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:59:57 +0000

Do awnings have vents to avoid forces exerted by wind, like billboards?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Windows 11 is quietly installing OneDrive Photos"

aitchnyu — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:52:23 +0000

My Android used to nag me to install Onedrive and uhh, enter into a contract with them.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Just brute force your embeddings"

aitchnyu — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:37:42 +0000

Umm, is pgvector relevant to this usecase?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

aitchnyu — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:21:58 +0000

I got my first load-bearing in GLM 5.2 weeks back.

New comment by aitchnyu in "GM Backs Sodium Ion Batteries for U.S. Grid Storage"

aitchnyu — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:04:46 +0000

Series hybrid cars which do fuel->electricity->motion are unacceptably inefficient and flopped at sales. Will sodium make them viable? My reckless googling says LFP batteries in vehicles has roundtrip efficiency of 80% and sodium has 95%.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Laguna S 2.1"

aitchnyu — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:41:25 +0000

Are all AI labs in Google's weight class in crawling and ranking the Web's content? I know OpenAI has contractor subject matter experts in all topics.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

aitchnyu — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:20:59 +0000

Load-bearing (whoops) quirks were noticeable months back, but haven't most flagship models become predictable and reliable?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

aitchnyu — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:14:31 +0000

I have enabled "reduced motion", so this site doesnt work for me.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

aitchnyu — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:11:49 +0000

There is an IRL phenomena, glass skin skincare and makeup, where the person's skin is evenly flat and toned and glossy. Did you think they are more plasticky than IRL models?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Dupes took over the world"

aitchnyu — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:00:15 +0000

Yup, need a new term like reputation hacking to use a good reputation to sell lower quality products or increase prices, sometimes from a new owner.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Blender 5.2 LTS"

aitchnyu — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:41:48 +0000

As a Python fan, the mention of a node-based physics engine was a jumpscare.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated"

aitchnyu — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:02:20 +0000

Feels like a captive audience. My tiny company paid a buggy Github competitor even in 2019 and they hiked prices like crazy. They did have a brand new project that deployed multiple projects to our own VPS with zero downtime.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Vāgdhenu: A Sanskrit Chanting TTS System"

aitchnyu — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:58:44 +0000

Looks perfectly functional and clear to the eyes for me. They also included a warning to not background/unfocus the tab on a mobile device so that our generation job (on the cloud AFAICT) doesnt get cancelled.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Dark patterns in Windows are steering users to Edge: Mozilla-commissioned report"

aitchnyu — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:01:52 +0000

A quick search shows dark patterns are illegal in USA and EU under various laws. Are they not enforced at all?

Some apps employing dark patterns were forced to remove them here in India. They are defined in one document AFAIK.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Backtrack-Free Cursive"

aitchnyu — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:33:17 +0000

Also the x thing is common knowledge in India, and maybe most countries with Independence days. I switched to backtrack though.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)"

aitchnyu — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:10:48 +0000

https://old.reddit.com/r/AquaticSnails/search?q=teeth&restri...

New comment by aitchnyu in "OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage"

aitchnyu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:36:23 +0000

Their 2007 version forced us to buy a codec pack when playing MP3s, MP3 was patented so open source implementations were legally grey.

New comment by aitchnyu in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

aitchnyu — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:14:06 +0000

Saw a video of Kia van where the presenter shows of a 3 piece bumper, a food vendor can buy a specific piece if he bashed one corner. Now car bumpers contain sensors and cameras and flush lights and a light hit can cause very expensive damage, and its brushed off with "compared to a 90s car, you can walk away from ...".

New comment by aitchnyu in "Chatto is now open source"

aitchnyu — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:14:07 +0000

Saw so many open source chats happen behind (or "in") Discord. Will this allow community members to drop in and chat and Google the contents?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Better Auth is joining Vercel"

aitchnyu — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:27:37 +0000

How is BetterAuth in terms of vendor lockin? For a hobby project, I once tried a provider which stored all data within itself and required API calls for every user request. Then I tried Hanko which just authenticates and can be replaced relatively easily (very easily if no passwords IIRC).