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New comment by austinthetaco in "Eclipse: The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Confuses the Moon and the Sun"

austinthetaco — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:20:44 +0000

only because you're arguing in bad faith. The layperson does not consider the result of standard sensor debayering to be "processed".

New comment by austinthetaco in "Eclipse: The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Confuses the Moon and the Sun"

austinthetaco — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:13:39 +0000

It's still not a jpeg

New comment by austinthetaco in "Eclipse: The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Confuses the Moon and the Sun"

austinthetaco — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:04:04 +0000

raw images exist

New comment by austinthetaco in "Spaghettifying DRAM"

austinthetaco — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:58:17 +0000

I'm not the person you are replying to, but the readme is very clearly written by an AI, and it sounds nothing like his older work. Sometimes it's just super clear to people something is written with AI without you getting some sort of singular "gotcha" word or indicator. It's just writing patterns that would be hard to clearly establish rules for here in an HN comment, but it's incredibly obvious when you learn to spot it.

New comment by austinthetaco in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

austinthetaco — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:19:41 +0000

if you were around long enough, you would know that: A) thats not a rule B) that was added to the guidelines because people were complaining about article choices.

New comment by austinthetaco in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

austinthetaco — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:00:11 +0000

your account is 5 months old, also that's not a rule.

New comment by austinthetaco in "How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026"

austinthetaco — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:46:07 +0000

I'm getting very tired of the redditification of HN. This place used to not be like this.

New comment by austinthetaco in "Our position on open-weights models"

austinthetaco — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:40:02 +0000

This has gotta be a troll man. They aren't responsible for poor security measures. They are only responsible for what is outlined in the thing they pay for. I'm gonna mute this thread purely because I'm pretty certain you're trolling for the sake of it. If for some reason you aren't trolling, take a business ethics and responsibilities course, there's some free ones online, or you could talk to a lawyer you might know, either one should help you understand.

New comment by austinthetaco in "Our position on open-weights models"

austinthetaco — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:41:11 +0000

that is not correct in the slightest. It would only be your blame if you built and managed the lab. The lab is not US owned or managed, it's up to the lab who claims they can safely work on dangerous viruses to ensure that they keep it contained. They still own and manage and are responsible for the lab, the US just paid them for research. It's no different than the US contracting space onboard SpaceX rockets, the US isn't then suddenly responsible if the rocket misdirects and hits someone's house.

New comment by austinthetaco in "Our position on open-weights models"

austinthetaco — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:13:27 +0000

What does that have to do with anything? If I pay the salary of a driver and they decide to drink and run over a family it's in no way my fault.

New comment by austinthetaco in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

austinthetaco — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:59:38 +0000

> Modern UX is bad because many front-end programmers fundamentally just do not care about the UX, it's not about the specific tech they use.

This is untrue and is weird misunderstanding on your part. Most of modern UX and UI is designed to fit the needs of the customer for the frontend team/dev: the product or marketing or sales department. The user of the website is very rarely the customer for the dev.

New comment by austinthetaco in "Making"

austinthetaco — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:24:05 +0000

The level of effort is minimal. It's not a quantitative definition, its qualitative. Also absolutely in no way shape or form is it anywhere near the level of decision making of a director. Your average director of some low budget B netflix slop is still making thousands of decisions per day, organizing teams, reading and writing documents, going over shot review with DP's. A director is the CEO of a film production, not some ideas guy. They require and utilize a technical understanding of all parts of the production.

New comment by austinthetaco in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

austinthetaco — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:29:51 +0000

The experts in the sciences usually back their claims up using citations, and can be disproven through the normal methods of disproving citations. not through "vibes"

New comment by austinthetaco in "Making"

austinthetaco — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:51:44 +0000

yes, they would, they still didnt make the coffee though. They would likely get banned from said coffee shop if they then went around the room claiming they made the coffee.

New comment by austinthetaco in "Making"

austinthetaco — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:49:35 +0000

It's the level of effort and involvement (also if you listen to any director talk they will never say "I made", they will say "we made"). Similarly to AI, nobody gives credit to the guy who "thought of the idea for the movie", they give credit to the leadership of the movie who worked alongside the crew. Directors dont just give an outline of a movie and then step away from set, they put real effort in to every aspect.

New comment by austinthetaco in "How to Read a Painting"

austinthetaco — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:50:10 +0000

im so tired of seeing AI writing on articles like this. We've been studying classical art for hundreds of years theres so many resources I beg readers to just pick up one of the countless books or articles written by a human and i beg the "author" of the site to please just write the copy yourself if you are knowledgeable on the topic.

New comment by austinthetaco in "Kimi Work"

austinthetaco — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:02:17 +0000

there is a pretty stark difference between independent US companies copying each other and a state backed chinese company taking data and IP from american citizens.

New comment by austinthetaco in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

austinthetaco — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:40:59 +0000

This is weird and reactionary. Lots of organizations are continuing to refuse to use chinese models due to security and IP concerns. Anthropic/american models aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

New comment by austinthetaco in "Show HN: Analog Watch"

austinthetaco — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:58:43 +0000

my only issue is that it cares if you are off by 1 minute, meanwhile in the real world a lot of analog clocks have continuously moving minutes and a lot of others have ticking minutes (they only move right at the minute mark).

New comment by austinthetaco in "TypeScript 7"

austinthetaco — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:53:36 +0000

Its not essential. Good organization. Good functional configuration. Proper separation. Good variable naming. All of these things are what make it more than easy to work without type declaration. People have been working on huge code bases without types for a VERY long time with no issue, especially in functional paradigms.