Hacker News: fredoliveira

New comment by fredoliveira in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

fredoliveira — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:19:55 +0000

Crazy thing to say without other contextual information - it obviously depends on a number of factors. Do you have an apples to apples comparison at hand?

New comment by fredoliveira in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

fredoliveira — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:27:29 +0000

> Go away, green accounts. Everyone is pretty tired of your presence.

I get the frustration with the overload of new vibe-coded tools, but this particular attitude towards new people - can we not?

New comment by fredoliveira in "Ghostmoon.app – A Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar"

fredoliveira — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:19:37 +0000

> It's just sad that whether you are a user or a developer, Apple Fanbois would rather (ignorantly) place Apple's interest over their own consumer rights.

You think notarizing an app is "placing Apple's interest over" our own?

New comment by fredoliveira in "Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds"

fredoliveira — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:28:39 +0000

Indeed. And adding on to this, in a slightly different realm, Donald Knuth's conjecture that he solved with Claude: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/%7Eknuth/papers/claude-c...

New comment by fredoliveira in "Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents"

fredoliveira — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 21:35:32 +0000

counter-intuitively, the fact that docker on the mac requires a linux-based VM makes it safer than it otherwise would be. But your point stands in general, of course.

New comment by fredoliveira in "I resigned from OpenAI"

fredoliveira — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:02:49 +0000

and you say this based on?

New comment by fredoliveira in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

fredoliveira — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:47:18 +0000

Not gp, but because the way hackernews would render in a web browser versus curl is dramatically different, of course. There's a clear separation of presentation and content, and curl shows you presentation.

Notes being plain text files means that what you get by showing via a CLI is essentially the same as just `cat whatever-it-is.md`. Viewing a note via the CLI interface could have its merits (it could apply its own flavor of presentation), but come on now. Your example doesn't hold.

New comment by fredoliveira in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

fredoliveira — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:54:23 +0000

So you see no value in the learning that comes with the tinkering?

New comment by fredoliveira in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

fredoliveira — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:12:39 +0000

I think you're missing the ethos of the event in general, and the fact that you are pointing to tracks in the ethics track or the arts track in particular.

New comment by fredoliveira in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

fredoliveira — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:59:24 +0000

Can you point to some?

New comment by fredoliveira in "Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed in animal models? Study"

fredoliveira — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 20:09:50 +0000

> all for fame and fortune

I understand the compassion for animals, of course, but not this sentence. Advancing science is not "all for fame or fortune". If it cures people, I can see it. I too would love a world without animal suffering, but I'd also love to not be literally seeing (and I just came back from my parents') my dad slip more and more into nothingness at the hand of this stupid disease.

New comment by fredoliveira in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

fredoliveira — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:51:57 +0000

"Wasting" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

They're effectively bringing on a team that's been focused on building a runtime for years. The models they could throw at the problem can't be tapped on the shoulder, and there's no guarantee they'd do a better job at building something like Bun.

New comment by fredoliveira in "The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind documentary"

fredoliveira — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:35:44 +0000

Well, two things: it's the last sentence of the film; being on hour into something you're calling propaganda is brave.

Anyways. I thought the documentary was inspiring. Deepmind are the only lab that has historically prioritized science over consumer-facing product (that's changing now, however). I think their work with AlphaFold is commendable.

New comment by fredoliveira in "The Thinking Game Film – Google DeepMind documentary"

fredoliveira — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:27:01 +0000

Did you watch the documentary? Would probably fare better if you did, because it'd give you the context for the film title.

New comment by fredoliveira in "Anthony Bourdain's Lost Li.st's"

fredoliveira — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:15:01 +0000

One of the few people that has a voice (written and otherwise) so distinctive that even reading those lists, I read them in his voice. I miss that guy.

New comment by fredoliveira in "The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation"

fredoliveira — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:22:26 +0000

True - but I think that might make the adaptation to a movie easier, not harder.

Like GP said, I think the trick to this book is in the relationship between the 2 main characters, so hopefully they nail that. Judging by the trailer they made it all quite humorous.

New comment by fredoliveira in "Bird flu viruses are resistant to fever, making them a major threat to humans"

fredoliveira — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 07:24:56 +0000

Didn't it literally take someone's life this week in Washington?

New comment by fredoliveira in "Measuring political bias in Claude"

fredoliveira — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:04:41 +0000

> Anthropic have consistently shown they don’t know shit about anything but training LLMs

On what grounds?

New comment by fredoliveira in "Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit"

fredoliveira — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 13:25:57 +0000

What makes you think they lack engineering acumen?

New comment by fredoliveira in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

fredoliveira — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:40:29 +0000

Something happened today as I was closing my car door, where I had the Airpods (Pro 3 as well) make this low but extremely loud rumble-like sound. Something related to pressure and seal, perhaps?

I could replicate it immediately at will. ANC on, nothing playing, sat on the driver seat and closed my door with a little bit of force.