Hacker News: andro_dev

New comment by andro_dev in "Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish"

andro_dev — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 04:14:59 +0000

The Turkish sentence's expansion would be pretty much like the mathematical expansion of the expression order.

New comment by andro_dev in "Show HN: I made a fireplace for your wrist (and widgets)"

andro_dev — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 03:30:12 +0000

I wish there was no tracking. I don't want to be tracked because I installed a looping animation.

New comment by andro_dev in "Why AC is cheap, but AC repair is a luxury"

andro_dev — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:26:55 +0000

Private Equity is the main driver of price increases in this type of stuff.

https://www.marketplace.org/story/2024/10/24/private-equity-...

New comment by andro_dev in "Meta readies $25B bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off"

andro_dev — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 07:14:51 +0000

Think of your 401k getting wiped out, they will let your 401k pay for these data centers. Think about it, these bonds have a 40-year lifespan.

"The social media group had hired Citigroup and Morgan Stanley to raise up to $25bn in debt, ranging from five to 40 years in maturity, "

New comment by andro_dev in "Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change"

andro_dev — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:24:31 +0000

It’s nice and dandy, but most job postings are fake or ghost jobs.

New comment by andro_dev in "My original Palm IIIx"

andro_dev — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 01:52:17 +0000

IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/imax-emulates-palmpi...

New comment by andro_dev in "Why AI hasn't taken your job – And any jobs-pocalypse seems a long way off"

andro_dev — Thu, 29 May 2025 03:58:57 +0000

It’s utter nonsense. None of my graphic design or illustrator friends, who are highly established professionals with great talent and impressive portfolios, can find jobs for an extended period. I know many of them personally. The current job market has been extremely challenging for them, and it’s not because of COVID-19. These artists were enjoying stable jobs in the past decade.

New comment by andro_dev in "KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader"

andro_dev — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 01:30:16 +0000

KOReader is the best ereader.

New comment by andro_dev in "Simplewall Has Been Discontinued"

andro_dev — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 23:38:51 +0000

I recommend https://github.com/pylorak/TinyWall as a simpler firewall management alternative.

New comment by andro_dev in "Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?"

andro_dev — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:29:08 +0000

Thanks for the additional information. The thing is the Trump administration is about to fire 200k probationary federal employees meaning they were hired within in the last year or so. These numbers don't add up either.

New comment by andro_dev in "Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?"

andro_dev — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:20:59 +0000

I am not a Trump supporter and I didn't vote for him, but the fact is that Biden's BLS numbers were always manipulated to portray the former president as successful. These statistics are unreliable, in addition, the underlying premise of relying on job postings was flawed from the start which was my initial argument.

Take a look at this, the previous administration hired hundreds of thousands of gov workers to inflate the employment numbers.

https://x.com/VladTheInflator/status/1891600635167981904

New comment by andro_dev in "Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?"

andro_dev — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:01:16 +0000

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fake-job-listing-ghost-jobs-cbs...

New comment by andro_dev in "Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?"

andro_dev — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:47:04 +0000

The scams and fake job postings on the market are also increasing rapidly, outpacing the growth of overall job listings. This trend is significantly affecting the accuracy of employment and job availability tracking.

New comment by andro_dev in "Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?"

andro_dev — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 02:21:34 +0000

The number of job postings means nothing. 75% of the job postings are either scam or ghost postings.

New comment by andro_dev in "Show HN: I Made an iOS Podcast Player with Racket"

andro_dev — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 07:15:15 +0000

Four things that matter to me in a podcast app

- Privacy

- OPML support

- Ability to import from Apple Podcast

- Dark theme

New comment by andro_dev in "Ink Pen Records Handwriting and Creates Digital Copies"

andro_dev — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:35:50 +0000

These types of products have been around for a long time. I sued to have one a decade ago. It wasn't LiveScribe. Wacom also had a product like for this type of use.

New comment by andro_dev in "xAI's Grok iOS app is querying "featureassets.org" which is an OpenAI domain"

andro_dev — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:28:33 +0000

That makes sense. Thanks.

xAI's Grok iOS app is querying "featureassets.org" which is an OpenAI domain

andro_dev — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:42:24 +0000

I was examining the DNS queries of the new Grok AI app on iOS. I observed that it sends requests to "featureassets.org", which OpenAI lists as one of their own domains. This caught my attention, given the rivalry between these two entities.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9247338-network-recommendations-for-chatgpt-errors-on-web-and-apps

"OpenAI uses the below domains. Please make sure that they are not blocked in your company network by your IT team -> and that any web/URL filtering is not responding with unexpected content.

- featureassets.org "

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42660602

Points: 3

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New comment by andro_dev in "Orbit by Mozilla"

andro_dev — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 08:35:50 +0000

Mozilla first needs to regain the trust of its users. They aren't privacy-first at all, they run a lot of telemetry on their users. Have you ever checked the number of DNS queries and IP requests that go to Firefox servers every minute? If you haven't, I have, and it is a lot. They literally ping home every minute in the name of network connectivity and other things, if you believe it. I don't mind using Mozilla products, but I just don't trust their motives and data practices.

If you want privacy first AI in the browser here are the tools

https://ollama.com

https://github.com/n4ze3m/page-assist

New comment by andro_dev in "Turkish language has a gossip tense"

andro_dev — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 21:18:24 +0000

Actually there is no such thing as Ottoman Turkish, it is still Turkish with heavily borrowed phrases. It is not a distinct language. You won’t have any hard time understanding the spoken Turkish in Anatolia of that time. So called Ottoman Turkish was mostly limited to the government and literature use. Here is a recording of “Ottoman Turkish” from that time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fmNl4gcufBU&pp=ygU0RXNraSBrYXl...