Hacker News: charcircuit

New comment by charcircuit in "The Gemini app is now on Mac"

charcircuit — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:57:48 +0000

It still would need to go to the cloud so you can see the chat from another device logged in to the same user.

New comment by charcircuit in "YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes"

charcircuit — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:56:40 +0000

YouTube has multiple different products. YouTube as a company do not call your attention a product. There isn't a product team that is in charge of people's attention as a product.

New comment by charcircuit in "Do you even need a database?"

charcircuit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:41:53 +0000

>So the question is not whether to use files. You're always using files. The question is whether to use a database's files or your own.

It's the opposite. A file system is a database. And databases can recursively store their data within another database.

New comment by charcircuit in "Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson"

charcircuit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:08:54 +0000

Yes, the current meta for ctfs, which includes challenges for exploiting binaries, is to just throw an LLM at it.

New comment by charcircuit in "Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson"

charcircuit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:01:23 +0000

Assembly is still source code so really it comes down to if the copy protection is obscuring the executable code to the point where the LLM is not able to retrieve it on its own. And if it can't someone motivated could give it the extra help it needs to start tracing how outside inputs gets handled by the application.

New comment by charcircuit in "Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome"

charcircuit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:21:50 +0000

>Remote APIs need hand-crafted endpoints for every possible agent action.

They already need a remote API for every possible user action. MCP is just duplicate work.

New comment by charcircuit in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

charcircuit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:22:57 +0000

One thing not addressed is the incentive for large software packages to make their own repositories that bypass this queue in order to have instant updates.

New comment by charcircuit in "The Orange Pi 6 Plus"

charcircuit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:54:06 +0000

Bottom tier computers were more than $25.

New comment by charcircuit in "Claude Code Routines"

charcircuit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:32:39 +0000

>the predictions vs what actually happened is a massive gap

AWS is still charging a highway robbery price for internet bandwidth.

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

charcircuit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:22:12 +0000

Demonetized

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

charcircuit — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:31:03 +0000

I think at this point all videos have ads. Demonized videos not having ads hasn't been a thing for what feels like years.

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

charcircuit — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:05:29 +0000

>hide old videos they cannot monetize

All videos are monetized. Some videos don't do rev share with the author, but YouTube still gets the ad rev.

New comment by charcircuit in "Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V"

charcircuit — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:03:22 +0000

You can hook these benchmarks up to AI and it can automatically find and fix these regressions.

New comment by charcircuit in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

charcircuit — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:02:00 +0000

>It's my data, not their customers'.

Just because data is about you, that doesn't mean it is your data.

New comment by charcircuit in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

charcircuit — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:46:17 +0000

IA always does that. Every download page also links to a torrent. Is that not the same as what you want?

New comment by charcircuit in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

charcircuit — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:45:09 +0000

>listen now

These are dangerous words to use for an archive site for material still protected under copyright.

New comment by charcircuit in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

charcircuit — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:39:48 +0000

Technically yes, but the work for A and B may not be done at the same time so you may want to get a head start on getting A reviewed while B is still being worked on.

As a counter example. Why use multiple PRs when you can always just merge them into a single one. It's possible to make huge PRs with a bunch of different changes all included, but then the GitHub tools with managing stuff don't really work that well and you have to just do everything as comments instead of being about to actually accept a single accepted change for example.

New comment by charcircuit in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

charcircuit — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:35:11 +0000

I agree. It may also require some extra work to figure out what the correct previous origin was, but this will also help legitimate cases where sites send you through 10 different redirects before you get to an actual site (looking at you Microsoft login).

New comment by charcircuit in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

charcircuit — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:30:08 +0000

SPA legitimately insert pages into the history to hijack the back button to make it seem like the user was actually navigating through a site instead of it being a single page. If there is a bug somewhere that causes it to insert too many of these navigations or add navigations that user doesn't personally think should be navigations I could see it being considered as potentially violating this policy.

If this was about intentional abuse the article would not have had to ask all site operators in existence to audit their entire website for this. Even if some random library does this without your knowledge can violate this.

New comment by charcircuit in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

charcircuit — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:12:01 +0000

Google should actually fix this from the browser side instead of trying to seriously punish potentially buggy sites.