Hacker News: elboru

New comment by elboru in "Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro"

elboru — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:18:09 +0000

I would bet playing battle mode in Mario Kart 64 with a view like this would be epic.

New comment by elboru in "Small programming tricks"

elboru — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:02:08 +0000

There’s a nice feature that will tell you when you could have used a shortcut instead of the manual thing.

New comment by elboru in "Small programming tricks"

elboru — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:59:12 +0000

Pretty cool, I love when I catch a coworker doing small tricks like this during pairing sessions.

New comment by elboru in "Small programming tricks"

elboru — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:55:34 +0000

C#:

#if DEBUG

    Console.WriteLine("This only compiles and runs in Debug mode.");

#else

    Console.WriteLine("This only compiles and runs in Release mode.");

#endif

New comment by elboru in "Small programming tricks"

elboru — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:52:13 +0000

I was about to mention C#, but I just checked and it’s coming to C# 15 in a couple of months.

New comment by elboru in "We must pace the frontier"

elboru — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:41:10 +0000

Same feeling about the way he refers to “democratic” and “authoritarian” countries. Even if I don’t agree with China politics adding tags in this context is not helpful.

New comment by elboru in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

elboru — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:23:10 +0000

What bothers me is the last few lines where it notes something "important" that you NEED to pay attention to. Just to find out that it is something you already mentioned somewhere in the conversation or that is not related to the current work.

New comment by elboru in "An Alien Mind"

elboru — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 03:10:06 +0000

“Humans have known for thousands of years that there is no objective truth”

Is that objectively true?

New comment by elboru in "Fastpotify"

elboru — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:35:40 +0000

"...and the recommendations are pretty good"

This is so confusing to me, many people say that, but a year ago my wife and I tried to switch to Apple Music. Bad recommendations were the main reason why it didn't stick for us. Every time my children would listen to some kids songs a few minutes later it would start playing "random" songs.

Maybe it's similar to Apple Maps, it works good for the American market, but once you try it in other countries/languages the quality is not the same.

Meta Project OT plan to replace employees with AI agents

elboru — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:01:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thestreet.com/technology/mark-zuckerberg-shocking-message-meta-employee-layoffs-artificial-intelligence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49495009

Points: 13

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New comment by elboru in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%"

elboru — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:05:56 +0000

Why?

New comment by elboru in "Getting arrested in Japan"

elboru — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:54:31 +0000

I can understand the historical reasons related to China and Korea, but Brazil? What did they do to them?

New comment by elboru in "MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be"

elboru — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:12:48 +0000

Back in 2011, when Motorola released a phone that could do something similar, I was sure that was going to be the future. It’s been 15 years.

I still dream of the day when my computer lives on my wrist, and I just have a few dummy screens in different formats that can connect to it so I can consume media or be productive.

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.