Hacker News: conradfr

New comment by conradfr in "Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners"

conradfr — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:33:02 +0000

> Okay so which specific cultural religious and ethnic backgrounds are causing trouble and what empirical evidence do you have of this happening on a large scale?

Feigning to not know, is knowing.

New comment by conradfr in "Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI"

conradfr — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:26:49 +0000

For the few pages I saw on X it's actually tiresome to read.

Lots of short sentences. Lots of weird metaphors. Many infamous "it's not x, it's y".

New comment by conradfr in "Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI"

conradfr — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:24:09 +0000

Well, he has been evicted from the Goncourt.

New comment by conradfr in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

conradfr — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:58:08 +0000

No Twitter was also sometimes walled off. Elon Musk actually opened it back at the start.

Instagram is also hard to browse without an account.

It's all so annoying.

New comment by conradfr in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

conradfr — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:25:24 +0000

I have a website with some adsense ads (that pay for the server).

I try blocking the most obvious scams by blocking the announcers but it's basically impossible because the same dodgy ones keep coming back with a new name.

Also hard because they're not always in a language you understand.

I don't think I should do all this work instead of the biggest ad company in the world just to earn 5€ per day, but I'm also not aware of any better alternative.

New comment by conradfr in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

conradfr — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:37:22 +0000

And it was a fork.

New comment by conradfr in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

conradfr — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:27:19 +0000

It feels like Alexa / Google Home all over again.

New comment by conradfr in "Asahi Linux on M3"

conradfr — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:49:25 +0000

They had a revenue of $416 billion in 2025.

That would be like you buying something at the dollar store.

New comment by conradfr in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

conradfr — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:38:09 +0000

Soulseek is working fine.

But to be honest I never found TPB (or rarbg etc.) really useful for music.

New comment by conradfr in "Gmail to end support for "Send as" for third-party addresses, such as @yahoo.com"

conradfr — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:45:18 +0000

You can have a google account using a not-gmail email.

New comment by conradfr in "GPT-6 Astra"

conradfr — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:22:33 +0000

That's not far off the ads for smartphones with things that I never see people doing in real life.

Currently there's a Google Pixel ad where a grandma takes a photo of a board and Gemini automatically fills her calendar with all the events. Yeah sure.

New comment by conradfr in "GPT-6 Astra"

conradfr — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:16:25 +0000

My new AI personal trainer app will be cheaper than you /s

New comment by conradfr in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

conradfr — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:45:42 +0000

I got it twice today (it was not even warranted).

Usually for me is when you ask it's opinion about part of the code.

New comment by conradfr in "Ending my elixir exploratory writing"

conradfr — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:11:14 +0000

Well the irony is that Claude is very good at writing Elixir ;)

New comment by conradfr in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

conradfr — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:24:29 +0000

> They honestly don’t need to, because they’re making an avalanche of cash from the iPhone.

Why would they produce "low-end, low-margin Macs" then?

New comment by conradfr in "OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before"

conradfr — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:59:18 +0000

That seems excellent.

I wonder if they finally change the caption editing with the weird timing reference, probably not.

edit: this is what I'm talking about: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenShot/comments/1s27wre/the_way_c...

edit: can't really try as it crashes on my M1 Sequoia (maybe the install being named OpenShot-v4.0.0-x86_64.dmg was not a good sign ;))

New comment by conradfr in "XCancel and Nitter are receiving C&D letters from XCorp"

conradfr — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:31:57 +0000

To be honest it was quite closed as well before he bought it.

Before AI or whatever reason for being closed again he actually open it back.

New comment by conradfr in "OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell"

conradfr — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:18:13 +0000

Also the PhysX cards. Not sure how long they were useful.

New comment by conradfr in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

conradfr — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:10:01 +0000

> A couple of things to note:

I have Claude Code PTSD.

New comment by conradfr in "AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it"

conradfr — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:36:06 +0000

Ownership of what then?