Hacker News: halapro

New comment by halapro in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

halapro — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:27:39 +0000

If you remember Windows Phone 8, it has already been tried and nobody (ahem, no company) wanted that.

No company is stupid enough to give up their content and infra and get none of the screen real estate.

I can see a parallel with hotels and OTAs, but in that case appearing on an OTA brings in sales. Showing $userA's content on $userB's screen won't earn any money from $company.

New comment by halapro in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

halapro — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:22:33 +0000

You have to manually start the change, it doesn't do it continuously.

For the vast majority of services, even if this action fails and the wrong password is saved (!?) you're still just a "forgot password" click away.

New comment by halapro in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

halapro — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:19:37 +0000

> everything was fine

Everything was fine best viewed in IE5.5 at 1024x768. Time has changed.

New comment by halapro in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

halapro — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:19:07 +0000

If only you could add 500 bytes of CSS so the content fits the screen.

New comment by halapro in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

halapro — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:18:33 +0000

> Does not require JavaScript

Who mentioned JavaScript?

New comment by halapro in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

halapro — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:23:48 +0000

Ew. I mean 500 bytes of CSS would make this so much better.

New comment by halapro in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

halapro — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:16:38 +0000

I wish so too, but clearly this is not in any way practical. The EU is the closest thing we got to "fewer borders"

New comment by halapro in "New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections"

halapro — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:38:20 +0000

I'm surprised that they're working on HB cures since there's been an HB vaccine for 40 years.

I'd love to see more work done towards other incurable viruses like HSV (no vaccine) and HPV (limited vaccine)

New comment by halapro in "New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections"

halapro — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:32:55 +0000

Isn't half the selling point of antiretroviral therapy that you're no longer contagious?

https://i-base.info/u-equals-u/

U=U probably does not apply to all diseases for the reasons you mentioned though.

New comment by halapro in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

halapro — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:30:02 +0000

> without knowing how it was built

It helps to understand the constraints of a medium, but you really don't need to know every level down to the electrons moving through the silicon.

New comment by halapro in "Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen"

halapro — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:37:58 +0000

People don't make a company. Stripe exists as is because it's not a EU company.

New comment by halapro in "The desperation of NYTimes"

halapro — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:10:32 +0000

This is why I love Apple's Hide My Email. I use it ALL the time and the unsubscribe button is always there. It's not the most polished interface, but it works perfectly.

Also, for any subscription for which I don't use HME, I will immediately "mark as spam" any minimally-spammy email I get. The ones described in the article would be insta-marked due to the lack of Unsubscribe button.

New comment by halapro in "Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding"

halapro — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:51:39 +0000

Which it makes perfect since this it's the same company which "deprecated" MP4 support a long while ago in an effort to push to WebM.

New comment by halapro in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

halapro — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:40:48 +0000

> 3. Time passes

Correct, protectionism still saved the industry for years, it did its job perfectly.

Look at the car makers in Europe, they had decades to produce affordable electric cars, even lawmakers pushed their own population to buy electric cars with timelines and incentives, and they still failed miserably. How?

Tariffs are a last-ditch effort to buy more time. If you fail to use this time effectively, you will close shop. If you don't have tariffs, you close shop today.

Europe sells gasoline shitboxes for €30K when China could easily sell EVs for €20K, Europe (and the US) already lost.

New comment by halapro in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

halapro — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:49:56 +0000

Protectionism by who? By definition protectionism cannot kill your own country's car industry.

New comment by halapro in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

halapro — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:44:59 +0000

I'm so addicted I'd find a way around. It's incredible how many times I type x[enter] in my browser even if I'm met with a login screen. Being logged out stops me from mindlessly scrolling, but won't stop me from going on auto-pilot and opening X three times in a row.

New comment by halapro in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

halapro — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:33:28 +0000

In a few languages MAI means no/never, so it's an apt name for a Microsoft offering.

New comment by halapro in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

halapro — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:21:01 +0000

> Not having a browser at all on your phone

I would not last 5 minutes.

I'm occasionally offline outside planes and the amount of times I pull out my phone to "google something really quick" is high.

You can already disallow apps without an MDM, but I'm curious what else you can do with it. I generally uninstall apps like Instagram so it takes a minute to even download it again, but it gives me a way to download it, post something and delete it once a week or so.

New comment by halapro in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

halapro — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:13:21 +0000

npm is so bad at everything it's insane.

SIXTEEN YEARS of development and they can't even resolve a tree of dependencies in the correct manner unless you nuke the lockfile and node_modules.

Dependency resolution is literally the number one task and they fail at it. How can you expect them to be good at anything else? Absolute joke.

New comment by halapro in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

halapro — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:50:59 +0000

Doesn't make it any less moronic. Next they're gonna arrest you for boarding the plane with Da Bomb hot sauce.