Hacker News: gagabity

New comment by gagabity in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

gagabity — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:59:50 +0000

Fixed a nasty bug in one of my tests where a mock in a completely different test I had never worked on was incorrectly setup and intercepting my mocks, I don't think I would have found it ever because the amount of effort it would have taken means I would have needed to move on to some other way to test.

Reverse engineered an old audio recorder USB driver which only works in windows 7 and also reverse engineered the custom audio encoding the device uses and the software to convert it to a standard wav file. This took recording the USB traffic with Wireshark for each function in the original software in a VM then disassembling the various dlls and exes and driver files and feeding them into Clause step by step.

That AI button in DataDog not only diagnosed the problem across micro services but also created a fix PR. I think we might be unemployed soon.

New comment by gagabity in "The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review"

gagabity — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:44:16 +0000

I never read the commit messages always straight to changed files.

Also find doing it like this either incredibly hard or have to do a ton of git magic after I'm done to get commits into this state which is very frustrating.

I think it might be the codebase I work on but who knows.

New comment by gagabity in "The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review"

gagabity — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:39:16 +0000

Yes! I once read a great article I can no longer find that talked about 3 types of PRs. Simple ones that you self approve. Ones that you tag someone because you want to spread the knowledge of what has been done. And ones that need actual review. Everything being reviewed is simply unnecessary and exhausting.

New comment by gagabity in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

gagabity — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:39:36 +0000

To replace something with the momentum of React both as tech and an industry "standard" you are going to need something which provides an incredible leap forward and is pushed by someone with very deep pockets, its hard to see it happening. The negatives if any of React simply aren't big enough to go for a less popular framework

New comment by gagabity in "I want to leave tech: what do I do?"

gagabity — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:55:15 +0000

Moving to a much cheaper country is probably the way if you have money saved up or can sell a house.

New comment by gagabity in "High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation"

gagabity — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 22:19:42 +0000

Yandex Browser has been doing this for Russian for a while, if you go to YT it offers to translate to Russian, it does multiple speakers and voices from what I remember. Not sure if all the technicalities are the same.

New comment by gagabity in "Meta Battles an 'Epidemic of Scams' as Criminals Flood Instagram and Facebook"

gagabity — Fri, 16 May 2025 07:34:20 +0000

This is also maybe why a lot of people cant open a FB account without getting immediately banned and demanding you either send id or take a selfie video to prove you are human.

New comment by gagabity in "What should third world dev do in this economy?"

gagabity — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 22:24:53 +0000

You are mostly asking the wrong people, the reality for most in here has absolutely nothing to do with your situation, they can hardly comprehend it.

Look at what other people in your community did or ask them. As someone who left a developing country I would say get a degree any degree really and then get a job and some savings, you can then apply to a masters program abroad, a lot of countries this will be free with or without scholarships you might even get a stipend. EU especially.

New comment by gagabity in "Donkey Kong champion wins defamation case against Australian YouTuber Karl Jobst"

gagabity — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:36:22 +0000

His records have all been reinstated both by Twin Galaxies and Guinness Worls Records for whatever that's worth.

New comment by gagabity in "Review of Mullvad VPN"

gagabity — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:42:25 +0000

CIA

New comment by gagabity in "Kagi Translate"

gagabity — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:58:17 +0000

Some bugs to iron out

"Document Too Long Document is too long to process. It contains 158 chunks, but the maximum is 256. Please try again later or contact support if the problem persists."

New comment by gagabity in "Amazon is trying to trick me into signing up for Prime services"

gagabity — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 08:48:22 +0000

Yep, even for me who has never signed up its constant on every check out, no way to refuse permanently and they keep moving things around until one day I slip up.

New comment by gagabity in "OpenAI is good at unminifying code"

gagabity — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 02:14:14 +0000

Wonder how it does against other obfuscation and general decompiled code fixing.

New comment by gagabity in "Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI"

gagabity — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 02:19:54 +0000

Cool what languages can it do?

Yandex browser does the most impressive version of this and for free but only to Russian I believe, its quite amazing it does appropriate different voices and follows the correct intonation for everyone, just takes a few seconds for a YT video.

New comment by gagabity in "An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus"

gagabity — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 03:21:54 +0000

There are a lot of people who have had this side effect but its difficult to search for info without running into full blown conspiracy theories or people treating you like an anti-vaxer.

New comment by gagabity in "Object that slammed into Florida home was space junk for ISS, NASA confirms"

gagabity — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:22:39 +0000

Time to get paid!

New comment by gagabity in "An FDA approved device offers a new treatment for tinnitus"

gagabity — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 22:01:50 +0000

I also had it before but the 3rd vaccine shot amplified it maybe 3-5x for a few months, it was like a siren when trying to sleep, thank god it back to its normal level which I forget about most of the time.

New comment by gagabity in "Show HN: AI dub tool I made to watch foreign language videos with my 7-year-old"

gagabity — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:09:16 +0000

This is great, I tried to do a similar thing once but my language is one of those that AI doesnt do well.

I think you can look into muting the original voice in the video, I remember I saw there is some AI/tech that can separate audio into voice and nonvoice.

Yandex browser does this in the browser, you open a YT video and it offers to translate, a few seconds later the voices are all in Russian, it's probably the most interesting production use of AI I have seen and for free. It's to Russian only unfortunately.

New comment by gagabity in "Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking apps with no warning"

gagabity — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 05:05:09 +0000

Probably people are using adb to disable ads or something?

Amazon has indicated that they are creating their own TV OS in Rust running ReactNative Apps and going away from Android although it might take a few years.

New comment by gagabity in "How we turned the tide in the roach wars"

gagabity — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:40:57 +0000

You need to go to your local China Town and get the real poison the type that Amazon/Walmart wont sell. Roaches start moving out on their own when they see that stuff.