Hacker News: bobsoap

Netflix Void Model: Video Object and Interaction Deletion

bobsoap — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:38:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Netflix/void-model

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627998

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Users say Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed app

bobsoap — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:31:41 +0000

Article URL: https://piunikaweb.com/2026/04/01/adobe-creative-cloud-rewrites-hosts-file/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617463

Points: 71

# Comments: 13

New comment by bobsoap in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

bobsoap — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:50:47 +0000

Every time I open Google Photos, it does this. Every single time. It's insanely hostile.

New comment by bobsoap in "Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com"

bobsoap — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:52:16 +0000

That may be, but mozilla.org isn't exactly a brand like google.com. Most people have never heard of it.

If you're trying to get non-technical people to try an underdog browser, simplicity helps. A single, straightforward brand name is better.

New comment by bobsoap in "Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com"

bobsoap — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:21:11 +0000

Finally! No more "You know, you should really get Firefox, it's super easy. First you need to go to this other website though. Yes, I know, I know. Just trust me, okay?"

New comment by bobsoap in "Redis is open source again"

bobsoap — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:28:49 +0000

I agree. That ship has sailed, at least for the foreseeable future. We switched to Valkey and it's our choice for a couple upcoming projects as well. To switch back now after this whole ordeal would make no sense at all.

New comment by bobsoap in "2025 Recession Indicators Hit Fashion and Wall Street at Once"

bobsoap — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:09:53 +0000

Not OP, but a) "to them", and b) I would add that they are being nudged - ever so slightly - to believe in an exaggeration of the facts.

New comment by bobsoap in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

bobsoap — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:11:05 +0000

To what end? To gain a casus belli for a terminal crackdown on the "woke" press?

I mean, if something is imaginable, there's a chance it is indeed so, but still - this would be on a whole other level.

New comment by bobsoap in "Scheming reasoning evaluations – o1 results"

bobsoap — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 22:19:51 +0000

In other words, the AI does exactly as instructed, including resorting to deception, to self-preserve, so it can carry out its assigned task. It quite literally does what it was told to do. Lacking a foundational ethical core, lying is acceptable.

New comment by bobsoap in ""The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" – Irwin Shaw (1939)"

bobsoap — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 23:32:50 +0000

Especially on a Monday.

New comment by bobsoap in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

bobsoap — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:18:25 +0000

Someone was very quick to update Bret Taylor's Wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Taylor

> On November, 21st, 2023, Bret Taylor replaced Greg Brockman as the chairman of OpenAI.

...with three footmark "sources" that all point to completely unrelated articles about Bret from 2021-2022.

New comment by bobsoap in "Google Calendar down – 500 error"

bobsoap — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 14:15:57 +0000

Fun: the title tag says "Error 500 (Server Error)!!1"

Haven't seen that meme in a while.

New comment by bobsoap in "Traffic safety “nudges” can cause number of crashes to increase (2022)"

bobsoap — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 08:51:43 +0000

Color has a measurable effect on humans. There's an extensive body of research on the psychological effects of color; every designer worth their salt knows this. The fields of branding and marketing use color purposefully every day as well.

Green has a soothing, calming effect on people because it's most common in our natural surroundings. For example, TV shows use "green rooms" filled with plants (and sometimes even painted green) to calm down guests before they go on stage for this very reason.

Orange, on the other hand, excites people and can elevate their heartbeat. It's a cross between red (hot-blooded, passion, rage) and yellow (energy, happiness, attention). You could say it encourages your emotions to interfere with rational thought.

So you can keep your appetite for large-scale redesigns! Just add a step to incorporate color psychology.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_psychology

New comment by bobsoap in "Wagner coup in Russia? Wagner declared war on the Russian army"

bobsoap — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 23:51:27 +0000

I wouldn't be so sure. Prigozhin founded the Internet Research Agency (Russian troll farm) for Putin back in 2013. He's the go-to guy for disinformation.

New comment by bobsoap in "About GitHub’s use of your data"

bobsoap — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:39:26 +0000

I use gitolite as well, it's great. Currently working on integrating it into a CI/CD pipeline, which admittedly proves to be a slight challenge, but I'm sure I'll get there eventually.

New comment by bobsoap in "Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems: study"

bobsoap — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:27:08 +0000

I don't think you can infer that a person answers a 10-minute anonymous online quiz more honestly because they refuse to take a hint out of principle.

It would be a stretch to consider the hints cheating; they are an integral part of the game, they are clearly explained and carry a penalty if used.

New comment by bobsoap in "Intelligent people take longer to solve hard problems: study"

bobsoap — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:11:39 +0000

Just because something is the current status quo in your country doesn't mean you can't have a different opinion. I think the question is perfectly valid no matter where you live.

The irony is, faulting the question because "that's just the way it is here" beautifully illustrates the exact premise of the experiment. I'd say that explains a 3.4 score (at least in this game).

New comment by bobsoap in "Diablo Pitch Document (1994) [pdf]"

bobsoap — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 10:59:40 +0000

> If one of those arrows ends up killing the fighter, that character will be erased completely from the hard-drive and the player must start from scratch.

Love the choice of words here. This sounds so very retro today; it's reminiscent of the early days of computing on several levels.

Before savegames, before checkpoints, before cloud... there was simply the hard-drive, and you erased stuff from it. Fascinating.

New comment by bobsoap in "Reddit is removing moderators that protest by taking their communities private"

bobsoap — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 09:37:17 +0000

Thanks, I'd read about Lemmy in various threads on here and finally decided to check it out.

Unfortunately, it seems to be down right now.

New comment by bobsoap in "Ask HN: What's a good, privacy focused bookmark manager?"

bobsoap — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 10:37:51 +0000

I second Raindrop. I've been looking for a good bookmark manager for a long time until I discovered it earlier this year. Haven't looked back.