Hacker News: deminature

New comment by deminature in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

deminature — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:14:24 +0000

Nobody is taking the side of the IRGC here, it's an awful regime that should fall in a just world. But it's inevitable they will retaliate against their neighbors, if their neighbors are complicit in attacking them. Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait are not innocent, they picked a side and are paying for it.

New comment by deminature in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

deminature — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:55:30 +0000

Its neighbors are hosting US bases which were used to launch attacks on Iran. Bahrain in particular hosted the largest US radar station in the region which was being used as the control centre to coordinate the attack on Iran [1]. These countries were absolutely not 'non-aggressors'.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddq7j48p35o

New comment by deminature in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

deminature — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:20:15 +0000

Intel has just released a high VRAM card which allows you to have 128GB of VRAM for $4k. The prices are dropping rapidly. The local models aren't adapted to work on this setup yet, so performance is disappointing. But highly capable local models are becoming increasingly realistic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcIWhm16ouQ

New comment by deminature in "Show HN: Lux – Drop-in Redis replacement in Rust. 5.6x faster, ~1MB Docker image"

deminature — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:02:27 +0000

Adding some tests that prove equivalent functionality to Redis would make people much more likely to adopt this. Very cool project otherwise.

New comment by deminature in "Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?"

deminature — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:22:15 +0000

All of Apple's software is rotting, from OSX to iOS to the developer tools. Massive bugs like the keyboard no longer working properly [1] are left unresolved for years. Whichever executive or engineering leader used to keep the quality bar high must have left or stopped paying attention. There also seems to be little culture of quality and ownership at the IC level.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo

New comment by deminature in "Whats Up with Claude Lately?"

deminature — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:20:42 +0000

They've just gotten some substantial amount of traffic of defectors from ChatGPT, so their system may be creaking under the load. They have previously said they don't degrade their models under excessive load, but the models sure behave like they do.

New comment by deminature in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

deminature — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 02:35:07 +0000

Selecting a server is one of the reasons the fediverse appears to have not seriously challenged incumbents. As soon as a non-technical user sees this, they bounce.

New comment by deminature in "LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review"

deminature — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:33:04 +0000

Other manufacturers are likely to use the same panel as the new XDR and Studio display. The peak display tech this year will be the same glossy, high refresh rate mini LED used in the Apple displays, sold by third parties for a more reasonable price. You have to compromise a bit on the design, but in return you get a sensible price, much greater input connectivity and 'dual mode' which is useful if you want to also use it for gaming.

Here's the third party version of the upcoming 5K studio display refresh - 271KRAW16, 5K 27" 165hz glossy with mini led backlight https://www.tweaktown.com/news/109565/msi-unveils-worlds-fir...

New comment by deminature in "LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review"

deminature — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:34:21 +0000

Apple has updated Studio Display and XDR coming out soon, they just filed for regulatory approval in China, which historically has meant 1-3 months until release [1]. The updated models are expected to have a 2000+ zone Mini LED backlight and 120hz refresh rate, while the LG is old technology - 60hz and edge lit, plus the matte coating is anecdotally quite blurry and loses a lot of the detail of the 6K panel. May be worth waiting to see what Apple has in store for this product category before putting down thousands of dollars.

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/15/new-studio-display-or-p...

New comment by deminature in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

deminature — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:22:18 +0000

Apple hasn't followed their own HIG for quite some time now. I'm not sure they even remember it exists.

New comment by deminature in "France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year"

deminature — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:52:51 +0000

This whole thread is confidently wrong people arguing about legislation they have no understanding of. Social networks have already very accurately estimated your age for the purposes of selling advertising to you. The legislation expects them to use this estimate to restrict access to under 16s. So far it seems to be working pretty well in Australia, only children have been affected.

New comment by deminature in "France targets Australia-style social media ban for children next year"

deminature — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:51:20 +0000

>A ban on social media for children is a different way of saying ID Verification for the entire population.

ID verification was not required for adults in Australia. Age was inferred based on activity. In fact, blanket verification was disallowed by the legislation.

New comment by deminature in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

deminature — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:52:28 +0000

>not a fan of the government approach of "everyone must prove their age online now", which I believe is how the AU law is done

This is not how the law is implemented. The vast majority of verification is being done by 'age inference', ie analysis of the content the user consumes or posts to infer likely age. Only accounts suspected to be children by the inference process are being required to verify or have the account disabled. In practice, the inference process means very few accounts are required to provide any proof of age. Personally, I haven't been asked to verify by even a single website.

The age inference process is described on this page under 'What is Age Assurance?' https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/your-privacy-rights/social-m...

New comment by deminature in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

deminature — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:52:19 +0000

As an Australian experiencing this first hand and considerably older than 16, absolutely nothing has changed. It seems like all the social networks are doing age estimation of accounts and only taking action on those that fail and are detected as underage. The change is otherwise completely invisible if you're an adult user. Obviously I'm only a sample size of 1, but I've not heard of any other adults being adversely affected by this, so it seems the estimation is accurate.

Pretty well executed - I'm impressed. Given how seamlessly this occurred, it will undoubtedly be rolled out in Europe next year, as the EU has expressed an interest in doing so, but was waiting to see how the implementation went in Australia.

New comment by deminature in "Instacart uses AI to charge customers different prices for the same items [video]"

deminature — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:21:07 +0000

A law in New York came into effect recently that requires disclosure of algorithmically derived prices. Such prices must be labelled with 'THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.'

https://www.regulatoryoversight.com/2025/11/new-york-begins-...

New comment by deminature in "Uber's Festering Sexual Assault Problem"

deminature — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:19:21 +0000

In New York at least, Uber's vehicles are licensed through the same agency that licenses taxis - the Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC). They are held to the same standards as taxis and can be delicensed for violations.

Epic CEO says Apple still hasn't approved Fortnite iOS, suggests obstruction

deminature — Thu, 15 May 2025 14:14:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/epic-ceo-says-apple-still-hasnt-approved-its-fortnite-ios-submission-suggests-its-obstructing-the-process/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43995316

Points: 7

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New comment by deminature in "Google will stop serving political ads in the EU, including on YouTube"

deminature — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:03:02 +0000

I've reported deepfake scam ads of famous people for months and Google does nothing. It's also not uncommon to see adwords links to phishing sites pretending to be banks above the legitimate bank link, and those ads seem to stay up indefinitely. Very disappointing to see they choose money over ethics.

New comment by deminature in "A lonely man in his 30s found welcome and community at spin class"

deminature — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 05:51:32 +0000

I agree that friendships with women can be really fulfilling, but I've never had it work long-term without lines getting blurred and usually instigated by the woman. Friendships with men are reliably less complicated.

New comment by deminature in "Why time seems to pass faster as we age"

deminature — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 23:29:50 +0000

Piano requires adaptation in the corpus callosum of your brain to coordinate two-handed playing - it takes time to develop. Competent players have usually been playing for years to a decade before they're at a level of public performance.