Hacker News: elboru

New comment by elboru in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

elboru — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:32:37 +0000

There’s definitely a way to prove it, ask it to spell out a moderately complex program.

New comment by elboru in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

elboru — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:53:33 +0000

I remember being excited about Edge, I even started using it because it was fast and had a couple of built-in features I liked. It was a big improvement over the old IE, it felt like Microsoft was going the right direction, but then they kept using dark patterns to change my default search engine to Bing.

New comment by elboru in "The MacBook Neo"

elboru — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:38:09 +0000

Or their constant use of dark patterns to push you into using Bing and Edge. I was actually an Edge user myself. I liked a few of its built-in features, and it felt pretty fast. But then they started tricking me into changing my default search engine to Bing. I fell for it a couple of times, and then I quit.

New comment by elboru in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

elboru — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:18:42 +0000

I hear people saying that every day in Slack and Teams

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

elboru — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:23:35 +0000

That era taught me how much regular users can tolerate awful, slow interfaces.

New comment by elboru in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

elboru — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:21:31 +0000

Wow, so it has surpassed humans.

New comment by elboru in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"

elboru — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:41:53 +0000

And now Apple started to lose it.

New comment by elboru in "Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal"

elboru — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:26:24 +0000

I read the other day that one of their devs has a vanilla CC setup that consists of 10 agents running in parallel. Why doesn’t he just ask one of those agents to fix it??

New comment by elboru in "The future of software development is software developers"

elboru — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 07:56:59 +0000

Still, code describes what and how, but not why.

New comment by elboru in "Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time"

elboru — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 07:27:31 +0000

Tip: Look for someone selling their grownup children’s Lego collection. I recently found a couple selling their children’s old Lego collection in Facebook Marketplace. I got an enormous bag of them for just a few bucks. It was a headache to filter out the garbage in them (small non-LEGO toys, unique pieces that were not really useful, a few mixed mega blocks, broken pieces, etc) but it was worth it, my children love them!

New comment by elboru in "Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time"

elboru — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 07:11:09 +0000

For some reason comments were moved from the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315583

New comment by elboru in "Bring bathroom doors back to hotels"

elboru — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:18:50 +0000

I’m as confused as you

New comment by elboru in "iPhone Pocket"

elboru — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:13:05 +0000

I sincerely believe one day we'll get an official release of one of those Airpod straps: https://www.yahoo.com/news/hilarious-accessory-reminds-us-at...

New comment by elboru in "The problem with farmed seafood"

elboru — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:41:24 +0000

Build a wall?

New comment by elboru in "Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)"

elboru — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:26:26 +0000

Previous comment thread has an interesting conversation about why it hasn’t became a thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45793466#45793922

New comment by elboru in "Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model"

elboru — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 03:55:44 +0000

I recently spent some time in a country house far enough from civilization that electric lines don’t reach. The owners could have installed some solar panels, but they opted to keep it electricity-free to disconnect from technology, or at least from electronics. They have multiple decades old ingenious utensils that work without electricity, like a fridge that uses propane, oil lamps, non-electric coffee percolator, etc. and that made me wonder, how many analogous devices stopped getting invented because an electric device is the most obvious way of solving things to our current view.

New comment by elboru in "YouTube: Robotic translation annoys users and cannot be turned off"

elboru — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:16:50 +0000

By auto-play I mean in the feed, there’s an option to stop it from doing that, but after a while YouTube decides to turn it on again. It also has an option to hide Shorts, but same thing, they simply ignore it. About the dub thing, I get it could be tunnel vision coming from english-only speakers, it didn’t occurred to them that outside their circles is common for people to be bilingual or even multilingual, but that auto dub thing hasn’t been fixed for years there are tons of complains, the way I “fixed” it was setting my language to English, but from time to time I get my own language dubbed to English.

New comment by elboru in "YouTube: Robotic translation annoys users and cannot be turned off"

elboru — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 03:10:12 +0000

Premium users still get auto dubs, still cannot completely disable auto play, still cannot completely hide Shorts.

It’s amazing how UX hostile companies can get when they don’t have real competition.

New comment by elboru in "Japanese scientists develop artificial blood compatible with all blood types"

elboru — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 03:23:47 +0000

“No need for compatibility testing” – I think that’s a really important feature. Not everyone can accept all types of blood. It becomes a real challenge when a person requires constant transfusions and can only accept one specific blood type.

New comment by elboru in "Meta Wants More AI Bots on Facebook and Instagram"

elboru — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:00:39 +0000

Wow, the amount of ads I get is insane. For every three posts, one is an ad:

  - Post (from a friend)
  - Ad
  - Post (from a random page I don't follow)
  - People you may know (I don't know any of those people)
  - Ad
  - Group post (from Group I don't follow)
  - Post (from a random page I don't follow)
  - Ad
  - Post (from a friend)
  - Post (from a page I follow)
  - Ad