<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: akersten</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=akersten</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:50:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=akersten" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by akersten in "Every Frame Perfect"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Misquote or not, the article is bang on and I think a better interpretation of that sequence of words anyway.</p>
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<p>Thanks for highlighting the "one element cross fades into a totally different one" example. That particular type of animation really makes an app feel ungrounded and unreliable to me, it gives a sense that the UI elements aren't really tied closely to the data and are just barely existing. And somehow I see it all the time across tons of apps.<p>The improved versions where the elements actually <i>transform</i> into each other, sharing the same visual real estate, is so much better.</p>
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<p>> All I’m really getting from this is that I should avoid animations<p>Wouldn't be the worst takeaway from the article. You should avoid animation for animation's sake in general. Imagine if we animated letters flying up from your phone's keyboard into the text field as you type them for example.</p>
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<p>Yeah the difference is that the blur frames are deliberate and purposeful for the overall effect. The animations showcased here are accidental jank that reveal a clobbered together unpolished app.</p>
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<p>The author's example of a conventional commit is not correct anyway IMO, which is maybe why they think the "fix" part is redundant:<p>> fix: prevent foo from bar'ing<p>The whole idea of conventional commit is:<p>> fix: [problem]<p>so the correct conventional commit would be:<p>> fix: foo bar'ing<p>which is succinct and perfectly fine.</p>
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<p>> Agreed, this can't be worse than what it's replacing.<p>The mistake is assuming this replaces anything instead of becoming just one more piece of the tracking puzzle.<p>Even if it did "replace" cookies or whatever, it's strictly worse than "before" because it's giving advertising a front seat in the browser. My browser should be doing precisely nothing to help you attribute your ad impressions or whatever. But now Mozilla et al have to waste their time maintaining and augmenting this opaque piece of mathematical faff.</p>
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<p>It's actually extremely useful and an apt comparison. I don't think the allowed shapes of formed metal should be regulated either.<p>If you do something bad with your tool (knife or LLM), though, that's the problem. And we have laws for that already.</p>
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<p>Yeah, it's clear to see that they'd want to get in front of something like that happening again. My point though is that the pull quote I highlighted is a flimsy reassurance because "it all happens on the device" does not at all prevent "Apple knowing about it," yet the sentence is constructed in a way that (tricks?) people into thinking it would.</p>
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<p>Sure, what I meant is "without actually taking a stance on what the article is about and opinions on Apple's feature aside, I dislike the particular placation presented within"</p>
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<p>> Because the photos and videos are analyzed on your child's device, Apple doesn't receive an indication that nudity was detected and doesn't get access to the photos or videos as a result.<p>Apropos of nothing, I really don't love the construction of this reassurance. This is not actually a reasoned-through guarantee, it's just two things that happen to be true at the same time. But the latter could change at any point, on-device processing does not preclude the device notifying Apple about what it saw.</p>
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<p>It must be a tricky problem to balance. On the one hand, you as Google <i>want</i> people to create 30 seconds of video per month with your cool Omni, Flow, Gemini, etc. tools.<p>On the other hand, as soon as people share those things on the logical platform for sharing videos, they'll be branded with the scarlet letter.<p>I wonder what Google is thinking - that people won't mind? That it won't matter? That Omni is just marketing and they don't actually want people to use it?</p>
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<p>> they incentivize people with power to manipulate the real world in horribly destructive ways to win a bet.<p>How does the same line of argument not also suggest that stock markets be prohibited?</p>
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<p>And the most critical thing about JPG is that the decoding is <i>deterministic</i>. Who's to say this fancy new PICO thing doesn't produce different pixels in a year when the algorithm improves, or the local model changes, etc.<p>Imo, generative AI and its derivatives should be completely shunned as image/video encoders. They are simply an inappropriate tool for the job. And I say that as an AIpilled token addict.<p>It would be like saying hey check out my amazing new text compression algorithm, 97x better than LZMA, then you look at the encoded file and it says "generate a romance story between two characters named Romeo and Juliet"</p>
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<p>IPOing soon at $11B btw</p>
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<p>Personally, having to buy the barely-changed newest yearly edition of half a dozen $300 textbooks per semester of undergrad totally radicalized my view on copyright.</p>
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<p>You are very convinced of your position and I don't think I'll un-convince you, but you have to realize that people with opinions different from yours are not "brain damaged so that's why I must be getting downvoted, and the more I'm downvoted the more correct I must be."<p>I'll leave a variant of your argument here for you to mull over, and consider whether the bathroom-breaker here is just as morally bankrupt as the online ad-blocker:<p>> There is no way to reconcile [over the air TV] where the suckers who cannot figure out [how to leave the room during ad breaks] carry the overhead costs for those who do. It costs money to create the content you consume, it costs money to serve the content you consume. [Broadcast television] is not some magical exemption from standard financial practice going back millennia. The cost is your burden, take it or leave it. But don't take it then do mental gymnastics about why it's not actually something you value while walking away with free,</p>
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<p>> The code it generated was awful. The kind of garbage that people who don’t know any better would ship: it looked right and it worked. But it was instantly a maintenance dead end.<p>In the Tailwind thread the other day I was explicitly told that the intended experience of many frameworks is "write-only code" so maybe this is just the way of the future that we have to learn to embrace. Don't worry how it's all hooked up, if it works it works and if it stops working tell the AI to fix it.<p>It's kind of liberating I guess. I'm not sure if I've reached AI nirvana on accepting this yet, but I do think that moment is close.</p>
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<p>Hmm. I think extrapolating from the reddit people who say "I tried vibe coding an entire app from scratch and all I said was fix this and make no mistakes and it didn't work" is a bad data source and will give you the wrong intuition. Of course it won't work when you hold it like that. But put just a tiny bit of knowledge and guidance into the prompt and AI will nail it.<p>I didn't think this 6 months ago but today after what I've seen these models debug and accomplish in established, messy production monoliths, I'm fully convinced even the worst vibe coders are only a year or two away from being able to actually create something from scratch and have it not blow up 50 files in.<p>So I guess I take the totally opposite stance, today's AI is <i>the worst AI will ever be at coding</i>, and I believe the vested interests behind AI do not plan on making it any worse at this task, so...</p>
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<p>> It's totally, and completely, unambiguous. The internet just has collective brain damage<p>The point that continues to be missed is that instead of taking downvotes as validation that people simply failed to comprehend the argument you're making (they didn't), you should take them as a check to reevaluate whether your conclusion is as unambiguous as you believe.</p>
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<p>Man, I wish folks calibrated their E(I am actually wrong|downvotes). Have you considered what that value could be in this case?</p>
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