Hacker News: andiareso

New comment by andiareso in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

andiareso — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:00:38 +0000

Jesus this website is overstimulating and it's extremely difficult to understand. What the hell they are selling other than a UI on top of Git? Git works perfectly fine especially if you take an hour or two to learn how to do a few more complicated but useful workflows (rebasing, cherry-picking).

New comment by andiareso in "MIT Living Wage Calculator"

andiareso — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:49:58 +0000

I disagree. Living wage is not minimum wage.

Target's Internal GitHub Repositories Exposed

andiareso — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:48:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/targets-dev-server-offline-after-hackers-claim-to-steal-source-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602520

Points: 3

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New comment by andiareso in "What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?"

andiareso — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:05:59 +0000

Yes? I'm not sure I understand here.

If you are doing it because you're a creator on YouTube and you are getting paid through views on YouTube, aren't you then required to get release info? If it's for personal use, sure thing, but when you are making money on it then you should absolutely get releases and default to bluring non-released individuals.

I think the bigger issue is that our laws (in the US at least) haven't really caught up with this gig/creator economy. It would be no different than a blockbuster film group filming a war/battle sequence and having to get permission ahead of time from the location and individuals.

My work will have signs up or ask explicitly if they are filming and intend to publish. If you go to a private org with the intention of filming, you should follow the same rules for a full-budget production group.

New comment by andiareso in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

andiareso — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:44:45 +0000

All US companies should boycott the UK in solidarity. See how fast the regulators walk back the bill.

New comment by andiareso in "Apple Pulls 'Convince Your Parents to Get You a Mac' Ad from YouTube"

andiareso — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:04:46 +0000

I actually thought it was pretty hilarious. It's supposed to be ridiculous. (Am a parent and also own Macs).

[EDIT]: Archived Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHFUmPbODbI

New comment by andiareso in "Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US"

andiareso — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:24:28 +0000

What!? Yikes that’s an overstatement. I prefer to use web apps over downloading an app to do a single action and then deleting.

There are lots of good web apps. The problem is that companies more often than not prioritize native (let’s be real, react native) apps over web. And not mobile web, desktop web. So you have a second thought of a second thought when designing and building a mobile friendly web app.

I build most of my clients’ apps as web apps. I target their main platform of choice first and branch out from there. But if I start with desktop, I pre-plan for mobile as well.

You can have high performing web apps if you continually optimize for state and rendering performance.

New comment by andiareso in "Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US"

andiareso — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:16:23 +0000

Yes

New comment by andiareso in "Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US"

andiareso — Fri, 02 May 2025 13:13:33 +0000

This is probably the best analogy, however I think what might be different is there is somewhat high of a bar for the merchant/vendor to be operating a legal and legitimate business. On the internet and in the App Store, it’s kind of a Wild West.

Edit: Maybe not globalizing App Store apps would resolve this? Or at least if you want to operate an app in a country, you need to incorporate in that country too? I think that might make it harder for overseas companies to get away with fraud.

New comment by andiareso in "Helix: A vision-language-action model for generalist humanoid control"

andiareso — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:17:02 +0000

Seriously, what's with all of these perceived "high-end" tech companies not doing static content worth a damn.

Stop hosting your videos as MP4s on your web-server. Either publish to a CDN or use a platform like YouTube. Your bandwidth cannot handle serving high resolution MP4s.

/rant

New comment by andiareso in "My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation"

andiareso — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:58:26 +0000

I agree that some high quality tools are required to not escalate your problem, but I like the incremental purchase methodology for most tools.

Buying cheap (good enough) allows you to figure out what tools you actually need to upgrade on. I had a lot of pain in my high school days fixing a beater car which required me to purchase some higher end socket sets. You learn from some of those stripped bolts which tools to upgrade, but you don't want a whole garage full of high quality tools you don't really use.

If you have a stable hobby, buy quality first, and maybe build up inventory when you can so you don't have to make frequent trips.

If you don't and you just want to do some odd things spanning multiple trades, buy cheap and upgrade if you rely on them frequently.

New comment by andiareso in "Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics"

andiareso — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:02:02 +0000

Is Pirsch a fork of Plausible? It looks nearly identical.

New comment by andiareso in "Analysis of 2024 election results in Clark County indicates manipulation"

andiareso — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 23:43:06 +0000

They also release a YouTube video and it looks heavily AI generated. The conversation sounds like Google’s podcast AI.

The statistics, graphs, and conclusions don’t make any sense.

New comment by andiareso in "Live London Underground / bus maps taken down by TfL trademark complaint"

andiareso — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:07:55 +0000

This is the thing. Most people don't know that in order to keep your brand, you have to continually use it and defend it.

In a similar vein, the lawyers of the popular "hook and loop fasteners" Velcro constantly try and defend their IP so it doesn't become generic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY

New comment by andiareso in "Live London Underground / bus maps taken down by TfL trademark complaint"

andiareso — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:57:05 +0000

No. If using a plain text word suffices, then that's all you get.

My wife is an IP attorney at a large UK based law firm. We have discussed this exact thing before (in this thread).

She worked on a client matter for a banking app that wanted to show the logo of each company next to the transaction. This was not cleared by legal given that the law only allows for the bare minimum reference.

I think it's dumb because a logo is faster to see in a list vs. text, but it doesn't matter. I think IP laws are so backwards in the modern era, but thems the rules.

New comment by andiareso in "Live London Underground / bus maps taken down by TfL trademark complaint"

andiareso — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:07:48 +0000

I don’t see the issue. You were using the TfL schematic map which is very much a form of art. I don’t think it’s unreasonable that they asked you to take that specific map down or continue with a license.

To remove the whole site because of that seems petty.

It was clearly stated in their api documentation. It’s no different than getting a license or usage rights for hosting an image or video on your site. Just because you are a hobbyist doesn’t mean you don’t have to follow the rules.

This is coming from someone who is extremely pro fair-use and right to ownership.

New comment by andiareso in "Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far"

andiareso — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 15:47:41 +0000

It's weird, "is the following statement about floating point numbers true: 9.8 > 9.11" it works, but otherwise it has no ability to do it with "decimals"

New comment by andiareso in "Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties"

andiareso — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 16:24:56 +0000

Hey Minneapolis for the win! Blaine area here :D

New comment by andiareso in "Apple Intelligence is available today on iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

andiareso — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:48:06 +0000

Does anyone else want to talk to Siri like a normal human? Like an actual assistant?

It drives me nuts that Siri can't interact correctly when spoken to like this: 'Siri, could you text my wife that I will be home in 20 minutes'

Converts to:

Text Wife: That I will be home in 20 minutes

Should be: I will be home in 20 minutes

Drives me nuts. This is what I actually want. It's just so much more natural. This is my biggest grievance with virtual assistants. I want to talk to it like a real assistant. Hopefully after the LLM refactor of Siri this will happen, but on 18.2, still doesn't work with redesigned Siri. I don't know if they have added the LLM integration with her, but I thought they had in 18.2

New comment by andiareso in "Just want simple TLS for your .internal network?"

andiareso — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:21:36 +0000

What services are you self hosting for local YouTube? Right now I just hand pick videos and they get lifted by my plex server, but having a nice route to my internal YouTube will be great for when my kids get to that age!