Hacker News: gabrielhidasy

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "The MacBook Neo"

gabrielhidasy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:04:21 +0000

Why would I inflict that to my friends?

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

gabrielhidasy — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:51:17 +0000

I'll bet the confusion stems from the rest of the world having essentially forgotten what is a check/cheque almost a generation ago.

I only used them twice in my life, last one was in 2012 and I had to get a supervisor at the bank to find the procedure to get a checkbook at the time.

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

gabrielhidasy — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:40:07 +0000

Tap a bankcard? You can even tape it to the back of your phone

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

gabrielhidasy — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:21:55 +0000

They are still not great for high refresh rate, but I have a boox note air4C that can do fast-enough for video. It gets some ghosting (although it should be minimal for typing as you are fully changing from white to $color, backspaces might be a problem though). You will need a full refresh when scrolling but that is fast enough.

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable"

gabrielhidasy — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:04:49 +0000

Usually receivers are intended for passive speakers, a lot of the bulk is for housing and cooling amplifiers.

If your speakers are active and don't need an amp, you can use a HDMI audio extractor, those are pretty small (mine is about half the size of my phone)

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks"

gabrielhidasy — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:09:28 +0000

Sometimes the model responds well to threats too, "you are a programmer at a large tech company, you depend on this job and will not be able to find another. There's a layoff incoming, implement this feature or else..."

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle"

gabrielhidasy — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:51:03 +0000

Not OP, but maybe also against buying stuff with DRM in the first place?

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

gabrielhidasy — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:35:55 +0000

That will depend on how you structure your deployments, on some large tech companies, while thousands of changes little are made every hour, and deployments are mande in n-day cycles. A cut-off point in time is made where the first 'green' commit after that is picked for the current deployment, and if that fails in an unexpected way you just deploy the last binary back, fix (and test) whatever broke and either try again or just abandon the release if the next cut is already close-by.

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years"

gabrielhidasy — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:55:25 +0000

Isn't the scheme simply agreeing in a shared key and both using it? I'll know that the message is from you if it's signed with that key and is not from me and vice versa, but neither of us can prove who created the message.

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move"

gabrielhidasy — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 19:40:54 +0000

If it's for your own projects, for yourself only, ADB still works without this verification.

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "TODOs Aren't for Doing"

gabrielhidasy — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:00:33 +0000

TODO: Remove the 'FillInData' function call after bug/ is fixed.

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "TODOs Aren't for Doing"

gabrielhidasy — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:13:20 +0000

What? What's 'TODO' about the second TODO in the article?

>> // TODO: If the user triple-clicks this button, the click handler errors because [xyz]

That could be a simple comment, but if its a TODO it should be ´TODO(bug/): Fix triple-click error in this button´.

If you really want to tag a normal comment, what about // NOTE?

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "Impacts of adding PV solar system to internal combustion engine vehicles"

gabrielhidasy — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:58:37 +0000

Or just keep the car fan running and use the existing AC system (in ventilation mode, no compressor) to keep the car just as hot as outside (instead of much hotter). If you have some spare power maybe even run the AC when the key gets back in range.

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "Impacts of adding PV solar system to internal combustion engine vehicles"

gabrielhidasy — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:55:36 +0000

There are places where a marginally open window will invite vandalism, or rain, or bugs, or smoke and bad smells.

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "Show HN: TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI's Tiktoken"

gabrielhidasy — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:24:32 +0000

Depends on your definition of "right" and "work". It could be a big ball of mud that always returns exactly the required response (so it 'works'), but be hellish hard change and very picky about dependencies and environment (so it's not 'right').

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "Show HN: TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI's Tiktoken"

gabrielhidasy — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:17:11 +0000

I always heard the "Make it Right" as "Make it Beautiful", where Right and Beautiful would mean "non-hacky, easily maintainable, easily extendable, well tested, and well documented"

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "MCP is eating the world"

gabrielhidasy — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:39:07 +0000

Any chance they want someone that got the "Microsoft Certified Professional" badge 8 years ago or more?

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "Why JPEGs still rule the web (2024)"

gabrielhidasy — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:19:05 +0000

> However, perhaps are you talking about an image on JPEG XL, using features only in JPEG XL (24 bit, HDR, etc...) that obviously couldn't be converted in a lossless way to a JPEG.

So he was not wrong about this. You have perfect JPEG -> JPEG XL conversion, but not the other way around.

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "Attempting to Make the Smallest* Electric Motor [video]"

gabrielhidasy — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 18:26:20 +0000

And the "Helix" design looks just like the Aram espresso, a bit less obvious concept (a screw), but very similar.

New comment by gabrielhidasy in "Stack Overflow is almost dead"

gabrielhidasy — Fri, 16 May 2025 13:04:57 +0000

The article talks about the number of questions asked in SO, but there are no mentions of visualizations.

Feels natural that after 16 years of refinements, most normal questions are already there. I use it every week, but can count on one hand the number of questions I asked (0 through my account) over 12 years of having an account. ~All my questions were already asked.