Hacker News: codefreakxff

New comment by codefreakxff in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

codefreakxff — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:40:24 +0000

just what an AI bot would say! ;)

New comment by codefreakxff in "Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware"

codefreakxff — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:17:11 +0000

No, skills are telling the model how to run a script to do something interesting. If you look at the skillshub the skills you download can include python scripts, bash scripts... i didn't look too much further after downloading a skill to get the gist of what they had done to wire everything up, but this is definitely not taking security into consideration

New comment by codefreakxff in "Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU"

codefreakxff — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 03:33:53 +0000

I agree with the comment above. I have not logged into hacker news in _years_ but did so today just to weigh in here. If people are saying that the audio sounds great, then there is definitely something going on with a subset of users where we are only hearing garbled words with a LOT of distortion. This does not sound like natural speech to met at all. It sounds more like a warped cassette tape. And I do not mean to slight your work at all. I am actually incredibly puzzled here to understand why my perception of this is so radically different from others!

New comment by codefreakxff in "Recursively summarizing enables long-term dialogue memory in LLMs"

codefreakxff — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 18:04:10 +0000

I haven't read it yet to be certain, but my impression is that rather than using lossless compression of entire chats, this uses lossy summarization to get the gist of chats. There will be tradeoffs between the two methods, hopefully this paper covers that.

New comment by codefreakxff in "Why is division so much more complex than other arithmetic operations?"

codefreakxff — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:39:45 +0000

Not being snarky, at the simplest level by knowing x ahead of time you can change your code from y = n/2 into y = n * 0.5. Not wildly important by itself, but in a loop - maybe… I suspect compilers optimize for that already.

New comment by codefreakxff in "Bard uses a Hacker News comment as source to say that Bard has shut down"

codefreakxff — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 03:27:58 +0000

In some areas it does a good job of giving me a better answer than me checking 5-10 random stack overflow and blog posts with different answers over 20 years...

But, it is completely incapable of saying "I don't know the answer to that" and will spew the wrong answer to anything. For fun I have arguments with ChatGPT that it is just making things up and it should just tell me "I don't know" and it will happily say "I'm sorry, you are right. Here is the right answer " and it will do so generating random garbage indefinitely.

The problem is that I can't trust it to provide facts any better than asking my bull-shitting co-worker who is convinced he is right about everything and when called out says "yeah, that's what I was saying, "

New comment by codefreakxff in "Researchers generate hydrogen more efficiently from water"

codefreakxff — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:13:24 +0000

I believe the name is hydrogen fuel cell. It takes hydrogen as a fuel and generates electricity like a battery, instead of combusting it like a typical gas powered motor

The output of a hydrogen fuel cell is water, so it is a fairly sustainable loop if you can capture the water and generate hydrogen from it. But you need an efficient process to convert water into hydrogen

New comment by codefreakxff in "Scaling Mastodon is impossible"

codefreakxff — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:52:43 +0000

They would also make a Microsoft owned version of the protocol to support features only their client and server supported

New comment by codefreakxff in "Show HN: AI magics meet Infinite draw board"

codefreakxff — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 17:31:41 +0000

It is a text based laughing emoji

New comment by codefreakxff in "GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code"

codefreakxff — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 21:55:25 +0000

There have been a number of stories about musicians being copyright claims. Here is the first result on Google

https://www.radioclash.com/archives/2021/05/02/youtuber-gets...

For being sued for looking at source here is the first result on Google

https://www.wired.com/story/missouri-threatens-sue-reporter-...

New comment by codefreakxff in "Show HN: GraphQL Client in the Terminal"

codefreakxff — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 21:27:08 +0000

It is an interactive query builder that understands the schema, and lets you arrow between fields and input values.

New comment by codefreakxff in "Ask HN: Any experience switching from a Senior Manager role to IC?"

codefreakxff — Sun, 29 May 2022 16:13:39 +0000

I’ve switched back to IC. But my tendency to manage things has pushed me into a hybrid tech lead role that feels like a blend of IC and management. But the things I’m managing are cost savings, migrations, rearchitecting… so I’m very happy with this role. I don’t know what the jobs and roles are where you are, but I’m at a young company that is still growing and have been able to forge my own path. If you can use your management connections, find a technical area that is lacking and that you have the unique technical skills to solve, that could lead to some exciting work.

I’d worry that working on just any other team that you don’t feel passionate about would make you start questioning the move

But. Careers are not just about maximum growth. It sounds like you need to take some time to take your foot off the gas. Switching to an IC role could let you focus on what YOU want to do for a while and then pick something new when the time comes

New comment by codefreakxff in "Proper use of Git tags"

codefreakxff — Tue, 24 May 2022 06:28:09 +0000

I’m not sure what you mean by “bumping the version in source after a release”. If it’s after a release then you released it with the old version? Or do you mean prep the repo for the next version by incrementing it optimistically, in which case it probably depends on your branding model. But I don’t understand the “immediately” part of your question.

Where I work we don’t increment until we know what branch/version we are working on, and determine the semantic version, and then we still use tagging because we tag the version + build id which is computed at build time

New comment by codefreakxff in "A lock-free, concurrent, generic queue in 32 bits"

codefreakxff — Sat, 14 May 2022 22:07:50 +0000

Do you mean this part

“This is a busy-wait loop, which makes for a simple illustration but isn’t ideal. In a real program I’d have the producer run a job while it waits for a queue slot, or just have it turn into a consumer (if this wasn’t a single-consumer queue)”

New comment by codefreakxff in "Tell HN: Don't Use Cloudflare"

codefreakxff — Wed, 11 May 2022 07:17:58 +0000

300TB is a lot. No idea what your business is. But that is a lot of data for a medium sized business.

I remember an article here about someone optimizing their cloudflare setup with something else and sending tons of data through some peering agreement. Its 2am and I don’t remember the details. Anyone else remember seeing that?

New comment by codefreakxff in "Hyper-realistic digital humans in Unity"

codefreakxff — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 22:11:42 +0000

Probably going for this market

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/02/the-mandalorian-was-s...

New comment by codefreakxff in "Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge"

codefreakxff — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:48:04 +0000

During start up it asked me if I wanted to change my browser settings and I said no. My settings were not changed. Either you clicked yes without realizing what it would do, or there was something that made it not ask you. I think the wording of the question was something along the lines of “internet security”, which is Microsoft’s way of tricking users, so you may not have realized what it would do when you said yes

New comment by codefreakxff in "Ask HN: Is it just me or do 99% of SWE jobs offers seem completely pointless?"

codefreakxff — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 17:47:06 +0000

You are not wrong. After 20 years of work I agree that being a drone to squeeze out more profit for the shareholders is unfulfilling. At best you could argue that working with a good group of people at a company with a good workplace culture makes it OK in some ways. But not everyone works that way.

It sounds like you’d be happier doing solo work. Maybe make a good library, piece of software, saas application etc. working for yourself and having time to do what you want to do is great for many people.

Find something that you are comfortable doing to make money. Who knows, maybe you will enjoy it.

New comment by codefreakxff in "Focalboard open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana"

codefreakxff — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 04:20:21 +0000

Haha. Love the toxicity here. Downvoting my simple question about what looks like they cloned notion. They have different color schemes, icons, wording, menus. I don’t see anything that struck me as a clone. Just high level similarities.

New comment by codefreakxff in "Focalboard open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana"

codefreakxff — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 07:54:08 +0000

I looked at notion and this app and don’t see clone similarities? Do you have specific concerns?