Hacker News: biggestfan

New comment by biggestfan in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

biggestfan — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:46:24 +0000

What's a book you would recommend instead? I quite like what I've read from those authors but I would be interested in something with a different appeal.

New comment by biggestfan in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

biggestfan — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:47:41 +0000

That happens if you close the app while on a Short. Otherwise it opens to the homepage.

Surf Social

biggestfan — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:36:51 +0000

Article URL: https://surf.social

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616736

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Matadisco – Decentralized Data Discovery

biggestfan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:45:52 +0000

Article URL: https://matadisco.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519845

Points: 64

# Comments: 10

New comment by biggestfan in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

biggestfan — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:42:52 +0000

I disagree, I find that the grok replies are terrible product UX. Not only do they clog up the replies of every popular post, they're also constrained to extremely short answers with no sources. The community notes system, while also flawed in its own ways, is at least not nearly as disruptive and usually provides a link.

Trying to make social media a source of truthful information is always an uphill battle and doubly so for X.

New comment by biggestfan in "Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report"

biggestfan — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:34:13 +0000

So ~3 million DAU? Would you consider publishing your own statistics?

New comment by biggestfan in "Can you use GDPR to circumvent BlueSky's adult content blocks?"

biggestfan — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:53:42 +0000

The age verification is client side and can easily be bypassed with a third party client or even with a userscript https://gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e27b24a83838202908808ad528...

Bluesky's apps have the verification, but everything else using the protocol can just not implement it.

New comment by biggestfan in "Claude for Chrome"

biggestfan — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:11:15 +0000

According to their own blog post, even after mitigations, the model still has an 11% attack success rate. There's still no way I would feel comfortable giving this access to my main browser. I'm glad they're sticking to a very limited rollout for now. (Sidenote, why is this page so broken? Almost everything is hidden.)

Anisota, experimental Bluesky/ATproto client

biggestfan — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:48:13 +0000

Article URL: https://anisota.net

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45029091

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by biggestfan in "Build Log: Macintosh Classic"

biggestfan — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:12:49 +0000

Are these old computers viable to use daily? Is there any advantage over using an emulator on more modern hardware? (Obviously not the point of this project.)

New comment by biggestfan in "Making LLMs Cheaper and Better via Performance-Efficiency Optimized Routing"

biggestfan — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:01:03 +0000

Between these kinds of optimizations, improved data center efficiency, and smaller models being more capable, I wonder how long it will be before someone manages to make a profitable AI business. Maybe when they race to train better models slows down and they don't need to constantly upgrade capacity.

New comment by biggestfan in "ChatGPT is pulling from Google Search to answer your questions"

biggestfan — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:32:58 +0000

Two questions in my mind:

1. Why is Google helping their largest competitor here?

2. What's does this mean for the OpenAI/Microsoft partnership?

New comment by biggestfan in "What about using rel="share-url" to expose sharing intents?"

biggestfan — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:56:53 +0000

Does anyone even use share buttons? I always just copy the link, and it seems that anyone I see sharing things does the same. It feels more like a way for the social media companies to advertise/track, and those sites have been sending less and less traffic for years, so I wonder why every site still has them.

New comment by biggestfan in "Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license"

biggestfan — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:09:08 +0000

I would guess it's because of regulatory compliance. You really don't want to release slots with a major payout but, and if you do, you want to be able to throw the blame at Unity.

LibreOffice 25.8: smarter, faster and more reliable

biggestfan — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:01:53 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/20/libreoffice-25-8/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44963139

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by biggestfan in "Building Bluesky comments for my blog"

biggestfan — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:43:27 +0000

They did this for a few years (specifically selling domains to use as a username), not sure if they do anymore.

They also sold a bunch of shirts as a stunt against Meta earlier this year, and the shirt sales were more revenue than the domains had been.

New comment by biggestfan in "2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results"

biggestfan — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:27:43 +0000

"49,000+" makes this the least responses the survey has gotten since 2016 ("over fifty thousand"), every year in between has been in the 65-100k range. Seems as though enthusiasm around SO has diminished significantly over the past year.

My guess is that pro-AI devs have abandoned the site, and anti-AI devs are upset with their collaboration with AI companies.

New comment by biggestfan in "Zorin OS"

biggestfan — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:22:00 +0000

That's about normal system updates. Upgrading between versions appears to still require a full reinstall: https://github.com/elementary/os/wiki/Release-Upgrades

Also, strange to move those into settings IMO.

New comment by biggestfan in "Zorin OS"

biggestfan — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:08:56 +0000

And in place upgrades! It was a massive problem for years with Zorin (and still exists with other "user friendly" distros like Elementary), requiring a full system reinstall every time a new version released.

That being said, I still think this is a bit of a strange option when there's several Ubuntu flavors with more Windows-esque desktops, plus Linux Mint which offers a lot of these benefits with a much larger userbase and therefore better support (though Zorin is more "modern" looking). Not a bad option but not one I'd think to recommend often.

New comment by biggestfan in "Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable"

biggestfan — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:52:43 +0000

The Pixels had the worst option for a while: the under-screen optical sensor. Slow and prone to failure. They've since switched it out for an ultrasonic sensor, but it was shockingly bad for a few years.