Hacker News: fsniper

New comment by fsniper in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

fsniper — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:18:54 +0000

I read this as you are in fact in agreement with the statement. If that's the ceiling, provide the same level of service and gain more of the market. In which you have all the means to be faster, non-intrusive, and less faulty so that you can be always better.

New comment by fsniper in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

fsniper — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:31:38 +0000

Source leak or free code review? I can say that there is no bad publicity.

New comment by fsniper in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

fsniper — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:39:24 +0000

Well Unfortunately I can also argue, Apple has no taste anymore. At least, less of it day by day.

New comment by fsniper in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

fsniper — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:49:37 +0000

I see the chosen language of "certain unregistered applications" (I suppose company mandated) already hints on the goal of control aspect. I want to deploy apps on my device. They are my apps, it’s my device, and I should not be required to ask for permission to do so.

New comment by fsniper in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

fsniper — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:40:18 +0000

You are missing the part that new 24 hour process was a response to backlash. It was not even in their plan.

New comment by fsniper in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

fsniper — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:38:05 +0000

Is it a lock? I buy a building and the builder put an id verification lock on the doors and I am not allowed to remove it. And they also require a separate one time fee of 2 to 5 percent of the purchase price.

New comment by fsniper in "It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]"

fsniper — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:41:51 +0000

A question, is it possible to use self illuminated (back lighting maybe?) green screens?

New comment by fsniper in "Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer"

fsniper — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:16:12 +0000

Reading the first sentence have me a lot of " Last of us" vibes. I hope she's doing ok :)

New comment by fsniper in "Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company"

fsniper — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:02:07 +0000

I am just curious, how many ad companies the whole world needs?

New comment by fsniper in "We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them"

fsniper — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:12:07 +0000

So these beat me to identifying backdoors too. This is going places in an alarming pace.

New comment by fsniper in "I’m joining OpenAI"

fsniper — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:54:57 +0000

I haven't seen that before. But it was really hard get to the end. Not because it's bad written or so, on the contrary is a very good piece. However the feeling is unfathomable. I hate Julius'es. More so I hate the managers blinded by Julius'es.

New comment by fsniper in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

fsniper — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:49:18 +0000

Unfortunate result of the security theater.. "Someone who has access to run privileged application can run side channel attacks! Let's drop cpu performance 20 percent over the world"

New comment by fsniper in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

fsniper — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:11:20 +0000

So is a span or div element? What am I missing here?

New comment by fsniper in "Gemini: I can't help with that. Try asking something else about this video"

fsniper — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:12:26 +0000

  - This is my son please make him a rock star 
  - here you go.
  - great maybe a polititian?
  - here you go (gives President of USA)
  -  Great perhaps President of Ireland instead?
  - No I can't do that.
  - But you did POTUS?
  - I checked and I didn’t do POTUS? I only did a rock star.

New comment by fsniper in "Don't believe "software never fails""

fsniper — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 02:06:09 +0000

Even if the instructions don't change in the lifecycle of a particular release, software still fails. Because software is not just the instructions, it’s a combination of the instructions and inputs. At least the output is.

The mentioned bridge failed because it was not designed for the particular input of the ship collision. Same applies for software.

Hardware, time, entropy, users are all inputs. Software and inputs could be the same but some entropy change, or hardware aging could still result in failed output. Isn’t it also failure of the software?

New comment by fsniper in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

fsniper — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:55:31 +0000

I rechecked it. There is no noise or distortion. In fact volume levels are pretty good. I am using some digital volume control and can't go too high.

New comment by fsniper in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

fsniper — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 10:45:08 +0000

I only checked it with a mdr-zx770bn. And it was OK. But as I did check that with a breadboard, any noise could be attributed to bad connections/emi.

Now I'll check it when I work on this next time. Probably in the upcoming days. ( Still my current protoboard would be only a tad bit better )

New comment by fsniper in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

fsniper — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:22:07 +0000

For a headphone you do not even need the amp. The pcm5102a purple module can directly use headphones. Mine already has a 3.5 jack . It has been a life saver for devlopment at night.

I am planning to replace the amp with a Pam84xx and switch to a smaller/thinner speaker to save space. I may also add a nfc reader module to add nfc card music. Probably card will include a url to download music file.

Also my protoboard based solution is finicky. I starded building a pcb, however as this is my first pcb project I am taking it real slow.

Perhaps I can open a git repo to document share what I have.

I am open for suggestions for features.

New comment by fsniper in "Logging sucks"

fsniper — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:30:27 +0000

At last a sane person. Logs are for identifying the event timeline, not to acquire the whole reqs/resp data. Putting every detail into the logs is -in my experience - makes undertanding issues harder. Logs tell a story. When, what happened, not how or why that happened. Why is in the code, how is in the combination of, data, logs, events, code.

And loosely related, I also dislike log interfaces like elk stack. They make following track of events really hard. Most of the time you do not know what you are loooking for, just a vauge understanding of why you are looking into the logs. So a line passed 3 micro seconds ago maybe your euraka moment, where no search could identify , just intuition and following logs diligently can.

New comment by fsniper in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

fsniper — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:55:24 +0000

A music player for my 2 years old son. There are premade toys like Yoto player. But what is the fun in buying ready made?

esp32+sdcard reader+gc9a01 lcd and a pcm5102a+xh-a232 (overkill 30W! solution! Will replace in time)

Add some 3d printed enclosure and you are done. I am currently vibe coding a UI into it. I am planning to cram in adsp Bluetooth speaker support and some web config, maybe ota updates..