Hacker News: bobx11

New comment by bobx11 in "FFmpeg is not happy with AI generated patches sent by AMD"

bobx11 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:37:23 +0000

Agreed. This reads more like a very junior dev reads static analysis warnings and extracts it into a constant to satisfy the ide. An LLM would at least give the constant a slightly abstracted name.

New comment by bobx11 in "China's AI Earthquake: How DeepSeek's Surprise Model R1 Shook Silicon Valley"

bobx11 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:51:55 +0000

> The Chinese lab reportedly needed only two months of training time to reach performance levels that took Google, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI years to develop.

Sounds a lot like standing on the backs of giants to me. Why would this blow minds that with newer compute and full hindsight, someone could reproduce something more efficiently?

I feel like I’m missing the point and Google didn’t illuminate any deep article that represented this achievement in novel terms.

New comment by bobx11 in "Bill Banning Foreign Adversaries Setting Up Shop Near Critical Areas Advances"

bobx11 — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 05:47:39 +0000

In other countries you are not allowed as a foreigner to buy land near a border. At first, I thought this to be ridiculous but after I put my own aspirations aside, I realized it a tempered approach to request only citizens own the land near borders. It seems logical that we world prevent non citizen owners near military bases or borders for the sake of hampering our advisaries.

New comment by bobx11 in "Tell HN: ChatGPT can't show you a 5.25" floppy disk"

bobx11 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:52:19 +0000

I was so sure I could make it give me the right image, but I was wrong! Even demanding the disk be for Apple IIc and/or describing the softer shell wouldn’t work. It gives some strange windows vaporware when I asked to show how to load that (incorrect) disk into an Apple IIc.

New comment by bobx11 in "China's Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms"

bobx11 — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:46:43 +0000

Before the social media mega companies we had all sorts of weird conspiracy theory nuts, but it was a lot easier to be skeptical when you only hear about it from the one guy who always has those nutty ideas (we all have that one uncle). But his ramblings can masquerade as credible when they are backed by larger groups people regurgitating the same talking points in unison on social media, filled with ai images and any other tool they can use to appear more credible.

IMO we need to go back to email lists. No more algorithmic feeds controlled by mega companies… for the same reason that our government in the USA suffered as a result of senators no longer moving their whole families to Washington during their term - those of us that are consuming content from feed algorithms are only seeing what triggers them to want to scroll more, not a balanced assortment of info from everyone.

New comment by bobx11 in "Mazda’s rotary engine in the age of the electric car"

bobx11 — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 02:48:16 +0000

I think I heard this pitched by Neil Diamond 15 years ago. He had an f body or similar old big body car from the early 80 retrofitted with a rotary engine charging the battery… I’m so glad to hear this finally making production.

New comment by bobx11 in "Poland’s PM says previous government illegally used Pegasus spyware"

bobx11 — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 22:12:01 +0000

The author seems to contradict themselves in many places… maybe they just really want it to be true. For example, “allegedly” and “convicted” in this case:

> He was convicted during Tusk’s previous regime (2007-2014) for allegedly abusing his power while pursuing government corruption with “excessive zeal,” but was officially pardoned by then-new President Andrzej Duda in 2015 – a long-standing point of displeasure for the Polish left.

New comment by bobx11 in "Ask HN: What are your favorite iOS/macOS automations?"

bobx11 — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 13:08:05 +0000

I have a cron job taking a picture of my desktop four times per minute into a dated folder structure. It allows me to zoom back in time (days out weeks back) to figure out what I was doing at a particular time or if I was showing someone a particular bit of code or something like that.

New comment by bobx11 in "Ask HN: Another web app has plagiarized my app's name. How do I deal with this?"

bobx11 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:25:29 +0000

Unless they did business under that name … then they can claim that name in the states where they did business first.

New comment by bobx11 in "Ask HN: Another web app has plagiarized my app's name. How do I deal with this?"

bobx11 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 13:24:45 +0000

Usually not unless you did business under that name. Squatting a name does little to protect you. If you are selling something under that name first, in a given state in the USA, then you can fight off other people from using that name in that state… applying for a trademark or servicemark helps you extend it nationwide but still requires you to fight off people trying to use your name.

New comment by bobx11 in "Next.js App Router Update"

bobx11 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:51:31 +0000

Fwiw, iron session is working ok on client and ssr for me.

New comment by bobx11 in "Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news"

bobx11 — Fri, 12 May 2023 11:20:07 +0000

This is awesome. I have been hoping for this for a long time. It reminds me of reading a paper newspaper from the 90s. It’s all about information being shared, not clickbait. Thanks for making this!

New comment by bobx11 in "Why not tell people to “simply” use pyenv, poetry or anaconda"

bobx11 — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 22:35:38 +0000

This is also my setup. It has the added benefit of being already included on every python install already so there is nothing extra to use.

New comment by bobx11 in "Ask HN: Anyone Replace Jira with GitHub Issues?"

bobx11 — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 21:06:13 +0000

I have ticket only repos where people can create tickets. They get pulled into a project and mentions across repos are still shown with status. We create issues from a user form too! It’s nice to get away from using multiple systems and get conversations so close to the pull requests.

New comment by bobx11 in "Six Recent Studies Show an Unexpected Increase in Classical Music Listening"

bobx11 — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:18:31 +0000

I LOVE that audiobook/course. I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would.

For anyone on the fence, the narrator/instructor is funny and makes you want to listen to more of it. They walk you through history of music and play songs explaining how the song came about. As an adult that loves music, it’s easy to enjoy it because it’s a very informal format but you learn interesting things the whole time.

New comment by bobx11 in "India police detain students gathered to watch BBC documentary on Modi"

bobx11 — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 12:34:42 +0000

You should. It’s well produced and informative and contains a lot of on destination interviews.

New comment by bobx11 in "On Apple’s Upcoming Headset"

bobx11 — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 11:15:08 +0000

We are a family of four. Our oculus quest is awesome but batteries don’t last for 4 people in a row playing with it. In that case we use a normal usb battery pack in a belt and a wire up to the headset. It’s a compromise but you barely feel it when you’re dodging things. The headset is already heavy enough so the wire is also barely felt.

IMO External battieries will make it less weighty on your head which will reduce fatigue from long time wear.

New comment by bobx11 in "What it’s like to have a social media detox"

bobx11 — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:23:05 +0000

Are you sure our more normalized now? The back of magazines and comic books were also full of scams and sleaze when I was a kid. I am 40 and remember people forwarding letters around with a dollar in them for some kind of pyramid scheme.

New comment by bobx11 in "Removal of Heroku free product plans"

bobx11 — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 15:48:51 +0000

Because Salesforce has been internally talking about killing off heroku for quite some time, I've been trying alternatives and found many (eg. DigitalOcean, Render) support buildpacks already, so should be a very easy transition.

New comment by bobx11 in "Ask HN: What should I use instead of Heroku?"

bobx11 — Sat, 07 May 2022 14:16:41 +0000

Digital Ocean has a buildpack based system and is pretty darn nice.