Hacker News: firtoz

New comment by firtoz in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"

firtoz — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:31:26 +0000

Improvement in what way?

New comment by firtoz in "The August 17 outage"

firtoz — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:26:38 +0000

A lot of these projects and commits would benefit a ton from proper decentralisation. What functionality of GitHub are you *actually* using?

New comment by firtoz in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"

firtoz — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:55:37 +0000

Why?

New comment by firtoz in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

firtoz — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:35:41 +0000

It's so that they can sell more things to enterprise customers

New comment by firtoz in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

firtoz — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:01:22 +0000

Is the policy now to "harvest whatever we can ASAP" without any regard or consideration for the future or the environment?

New comment by firtoz in "LLM Honeypot"

firtoz — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:46:01 +0000

There are dozens of us!

New comment by firtoz in "The AI industry is pouring millions into US elections"

firtoz — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:32:30 +0000

I got mine to build me an interactive quiz for the UK elections, unsure if that's better or worse... It felt not so biased but who knows right?

New comment by firtoz in "A Tesla Crashed Through a Harris County Home. Is the Car to Blame?"

firtoz — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:31:47 +0000

@wingdiction please always link to the direct article: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/tesla-autopilot-c...

New comment by firtoz in "Boeing 787 Dreamliner Loses Door at Remote Pacific Airport, Puzzling Engineers"

firtoz — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:08:35 +0000

Reminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM - "Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off"

New comment by firtoz in "Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits"

firtoz — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:57:35 +0000

I see that people are recommending rclone instead

New comment by firtoz in "Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM"

firtoz — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:49:38 +0000

vibrant colours that don't match

X. Y. SUPER Z. heading

X. Y. SUPER Z. in subheading

excessive purple and gradients

--> arrows

cards, cards, cards, cards

doesn't just X, emdash, it [SUPER Y]

more cards

ridiculous awful contrast in copy that makes things unreadable (grey on black etc)

New comment by firtoz in "Bun's unreleased Rust port has 13,365 unsafe blocks"

firtoz — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:53:20 +0000

> Bun's Rust port has not shipped in a released build yet. The Bun you install today still runs the original Zig implementation. This audit is the pre-release pass over the port.

That's good to see. I was getting a bit worried but now feeling better about it.

New comment by firtoz in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

firtoz — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:51:59 +0000

I guess they'll be able to vibecode a replacement pretty quickly

I hope they make it open source!

New comment by firtoz in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

firtoz — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:59:34 +0000

Even with the latest updates?

> Jury Finds Live Nation Acts as a Monopoly in a Victory for States In a verdict that could have far-reaching consequences in the music industry, the live colossus that includes Ticketmaster was found to have violated antitrust laws.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/arts/music/live-nation-an...

New comment by firtoz in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

firtoz — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:58:39 +0000

Pretty good. I test it every now and then from random photos. Sometimes spot on, sometimes gets very close, unless it's really ambiguous.

New comment by firtoz in "What being ripped off taught me"

firtoz — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:46:17 +0000

Article contains this:

> I’ll happily tell you who they are - get in touch

New comment by firtoz in "Full Report: What Claude Code Actually Chooses"

firtoz — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:34:49 +0000

Ran into this in an X thread, description from website: A systematic survey of 2,430 tool picks from Claude Code across 3 models, 4 project types, and 20 categories

Full Report: What Claude Code Actually Chooses

firtoz — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:34:49 +0000

Article URL: https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks/report

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660713

Points: 3

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New comment by firtoz in "When do we become adults, really?"

firtoz — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:57:40 +0000

Archive link: https://archive.is/g3Bok

New comment by firtoz in "When Do We Become Adults, Really?"

firtoz — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:54:24 +0000

I can't access the article so I will respond to only the title.

I use a rough threshold of how much responsibilities they can, or, have to endure, and manage to take care of in a good enough way.