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New comment by fl0id in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

fl0id — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:03:14 +0000

Just writing your own bloat is not the way to go though, especially when it makes the codebase quickly balloon...

New comment by fl0id in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

fl0id — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:01:11 +0000

AI does this when it's not warranted, and even happily writes two functions with the same purpose.

New comment by fl0id in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

fl0id — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:37:16 +0000

Not only fable. Opus does this too. Which is exactly why I want to review. Like recently for some task it was convinced in a site dump images are not there and convinced itself db and files were skewed. But it didn’t check the actual site … if I hadn’t stopped it, it would have fine on and on or wasted tokens on some elaborate ‘fix’.

New comment by fl0id in "Web Security is Too Hard"

fl0id — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:49:52 +0000

in my experience, usually it knows this (it is in the system prompt) but it can still get confused. Especially with skills for example, some skills might only work in claude code/outside of sandbox or in desktop but not on web. And it would sometimes not know if it was on the web or desktop.

New comment by fl0id in "Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM"

fl0id — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:54:22 +0000

with games, afaik that is mostly necessary for assets. For an OS, this would basically like a VM and is slower/more overhead.

New comment by fl0id in "ChatGPT, Roblox to Fall Under Strictest EU Rules for Platforms"

fl0id — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:53:07 +0000

Which is also with good reason, as there's tons of ways to make your profit basically zero or even negative.

New comment by fl0id in "ChatGPT, Roblox to Fall Under Strictest EU Rules for Platforms"

fl0id — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:52:07 +0000

You don't need to "wager" robux for it to be gambling. You pay real money for robux (or whatever intermediate "currency") then spend robux to buy lootboxes (for example) which then by having very bad odds to get the thing you actually want, counts as gambling.

New comment by fl0id in "Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac"

fl0id — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:45:52 +0000

heating up is normal, that cannot be avoided. it should become laggy, but you just have very little RAM (I assume 16 GB?) So most models are too big with other stuff running.

New comment by fl0id in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

fl0id — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:13:10 +0000

At the time, the job market was quite different. But even now, I would assume it is very difficult to get good information to do this, similary as it is difficult to have people fill out accurate dating profiles. Both the company as well as applicants have at least a partial incentive to not be truthful, omit some things, or just write what they think they are like, as opposed to what it is really like.

New comment by fl0id in "Show HN: ReasonGate- An explainable gate that blocks LLM prompt injection"

fl0id — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:34:24 +0000

what is this garbage readme? Reads like you llm'd the crap out of it, and I still don't know if it's something real or slopware

New comment by fl0id in "Reynard: A real Firefox web browser for iOS 13 or later"

fl0id — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:02:12 +0000

TrollStore is just for old devices. On devices which natively support alternative stores, enabling something like altstore the first time is annoying (because apple makes it so) but after that it's not a problem and doesn't need to recertificate afaik.

New comment by fl0id in "Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves"

fl0id — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:02:40 +0000

It's all a question of price, based on the article. And not planning how much it takes to start up. In any case it's also not feasible to keep a plant on standby, just in case you need it one day.

New comment by fl0id in "30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format"

fl0id — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:53:10 +0000

What is the easily accessible part? Just that they are on one website? At first I thought there would be more explanation or other addons.

New comment by fl0id in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

fl0id — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:48:52 +0000

Because it explicitly has tooling for custom boot objects etc, and stated by asahi developers, maybe also apple people they know.

New comment by fl0id in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

fl0id — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:36:42 +0000

Sometimes, sure, but as someone new, you have no power to change it. Department head might, I cannot really say. In addition, I believe funding agencies have the bigger role, and they also have such requirements.

New comment by fl0id in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

fl0id — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:34:04 +0000

If they were real about risk, they would have to block a lot more models.

New comment by fl0id in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

fl0id — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:51:15 +0000

There are not if you are working in it. Some grants for example include provisions that you publish in tier so and so journals. If that is the case, there might be one of those that is open-access / independent, but more likely there is not.

New comment by fl0id in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

fl0id — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:43:43 +0000

When their jobs don't depend on it. (as in it is evaluated for hiring and promotion) Ofc it differs depending on discipline.

New comment by fl0id in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

fl0id — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:06:28 +0000

You don't need money for the UG either. You might need money for operating expenses later etc, but that's not what OP complained about and should be similar for an LLC. (Depending on type of business, location etc)

New comment by fl0id in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

fl0id — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:04:45 +0000

There's other types of companies. Like UG or freelancers or GbR.