Hacker News: fyrabanks

New comment by fyrabanks in "Claude Fable 5"

fyrabanks — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:07:51 +0000

"don't make any mistakes" /s

New comment by fyrabanks in "Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say"

fyrabanks — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:20:10 +0000

not to sound callous, but that's not good parenting.

my partner and i have reasonably good jobs, but we work 12-14hrs. we make mortgage and have some extra money. we are currently debating whether or not it is financially, morally, or ethically responsible to bring a child into this world and be able to provide them with the attention that they need and deserve.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say"

fyrabanks — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:06:01 +0000

good parenting, as always, remains the best solution

New comment by fyrabanks in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

fyrabanks — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:43:16 +0000

only time i ever have to deal with this anywhere (and i move physical sites a lot) is when using a commercial VPN provider. odd.

New comment by fyrabanks in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"

fyrabanks — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:40:28 +0000

Thank you. Exactly this.

There were so many fundamental problems with the infrastructure even before the person gave a poor prompt to an agent.

If you're using the same API key for staging and prod--and just storing it somewhere randomly to forget about--you're setting yourself up for failure with or without AI.

New comment by fyrabanks in "10 years: Stephen's Sausage Roll still one of the most influential puzzle games"

fyrabanks — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:21:22 +0000

i so badly want to spoil the story of stephen's sausage roll for you. i feel bad even spoiling that there is a story. play it.

New comment by fyrabanks in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

fyrabanks — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:44:12 +0000

Subtitle settings turn off between episodes

you can enable global subtitles in settings.

Let me sort by file size so I can watch the disk gobbling files first

you can kinda deduce that if you sort by bitrate.

it sounds like you figured out a solution for yourself, already, but there's a lot of existing utilities like tinyMediaManager, WebTools-NG, Raddarr, Sonarr, etc. for doing media management. Plex is just a media server/player.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Claude.ai down"

fyrabanks — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:44:22 +0000

Yeah, sems fine?

New comment by fyrabanks in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

fyrabanks — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:40:43 +0000

they kindamostly cared when it was OS X. everything's been a bit of a mess since it became macOS while trying to make a unified platform for all their hardware

New comment by fyrabanks in "Why vampires live forever"

fyrabanks — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:32:06 +0000

does this imply that you're just giving shitty blood to people that need life saving procedures?

New comment by fyrabanks in "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info"

fyrabanks — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:31:06 +0000

Same. I built my first wheel according to his specs. His whole website is so helpful and thoughtfully written. RIP.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction"

fyrabanks — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:46:58 +0000

There were 20 people working on this game when they started development. Total. I think they expanded to a little over 100. This isn't some huge game studio that has time to do optimization.

GTA5 had well over 1000 people on its team.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros"

fyrabanks — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:08:01 +0000

Netflix also wants HBO / HBO Max. They're just leaving the Discovery stuff.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

fyrabanks — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:03:49 +0000

The Pitt, The Penguin, Hacks, White Lotus, The Rehearsal, The Last of Us, The Chair Company--all shows off the top of my head that debuted or aired a season in 2025. A few of which won several Emmys, and all of which are critically acclaimed.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

fyrabanks — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:47:43 +0000

Buproprion is an anti-depressent with some stimulant properties, but it isn't a stimulant. It generally takes several weeks of treatment before it has any therapeutic effects on ADHD. Stimulants work immediately.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Hunter S Thompson's death to be reviewed more than 20 years later"

fyrabanks — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:53:52 +0000

Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan is essentially the evolution of gonzo journalism.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads"

fyrabanks — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:40:55 +0000

i use this for things i repost on IG with commentary. i would rather not have a huge folder of downloads of random stuff i'm not even sure i want to revisit. (and i'm bad about clearing out space on my phone.)

New comment by fyrabanks in "Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 is coming to Playstation 5 on December 8th"

fyrabanks — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:33:41 +0000

even PlayStation exclusives are showing up on PC/other platforms later... Last of Us Remastered, Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding, FF7 Remake, etc.

the only reason to buy a traditional console these days if you want day 1 access to a game.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version"

fyrabanks — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:05:12 +0000

fwiw, my wife played through it on SD while i played through on my PC. it's a completely different experience, but it's very do-able. she also went on to replay it 4 more times after that, which is 5 more times than i finished the game.

New comment by fyrabanks in "Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts"

fyrabanks — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:17:57 +0000

I was at a Whole Foods last year and was tired from driving for about 6hrs straight. I scanned one item, set up a paper bag on the right, and then mindlessly bagged every other item in my cart without scanning. I paid probably $3-4 on a $60 purchase.

As soon as I got to the hotel and figured it out, I went back to correct the mistake--but imagine getting harassed or taken to the back for a careless error? I'm sure that happens more often than I hear about.

(PS I am genuinely surprised their weight sensor, that flags an attendant, didn't go off. That thing usually trips if you breathe on it funny.)