Hacker News: hostyle

New comment by hostyle in "Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain"

hostyle — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:45:11 +0000

> Even if you have an mp3 collection, the streaming apps are good for discovery, recommendations ...

No they are not. Hi there. We noticed you have been listening to Rage Against the Machine, Metallica and Deftones. Why not have a listen of this Robbie Williams song too ... blasts out some pop song at extra high volume.

New comment by hostyle in "Network of Scottish X accounts go dark amid Iran blackout"

hostyle — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:18:14 +0000

It would disrupt UKs defence (nuclear submarines in particular) and energy (oil fields) both of which currently are primarily based geographically within Scotlands territory. This is classic Russian tactics. Its not about whether Scotland joins EU or stays with UK, or which is economically or politically the best decision - its about seeding chaos and uncertainty within one of Russias largest antagonists.

New comment by hostyle in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

hostyle — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:55:45 +0000

Most people spend maybe 1/4 of their working age life at a job working for someone else. Why would you deliberately sabotage that by checking out mentally and waste all that time on sub-standard work? How do you expect to earn a promotion? You can produce good code at work and even better code at home for yourself. Deliberately producing slop at work will not help anyone.

New comment by hostyle in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

hostyle — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:49:44 +0000

Not everything is about money. Have you never wanted to be good at something because you enjoy it? Or do something for the love of the craft? Have you heard of altruism?

New comment by hostyle in "Ask HN: Does anyone understand how Hacker News works?"

hostyle — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:45:40 +0000

Popular isn't necessarily good, and success can be measured in many different ways.

New comment by hostyle in "Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending"

hostyle — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:39:28 +0000

Maybe don't use Azure? It's not like there are no other options ...

New comment by hostyle in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

hostyle — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:36:22 +0000

wasn't it always?

New comment by hostyle in "Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation"

hostyle — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:44:36 +0000

> Democracy will eventually decay. It's not permanent.

Can a (more or less) two party system where the population hovers around 50/50 support for each side truly be called a democracy?

New comment by hostyle in "Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI"

hostyle — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:18:28 +0000

Its hit and miss to be honest. They do have a day/night mode. One camera is indoors in a shed - it picks up moths (as birds) and even a bat a couple of times. One camera that is outdoors regularly detects the fox that visits us almost every night. However another camera pointed at his next destination never picks the fox up at all. The main difference between the two camera environments appears to be third party lighting - there are street lights in the direction of the one that does not detect the fox, and also the glow of a robot mowers charger light. One or both seems to be putting off the cameras ambient light sensor and prevents night mode from kicking in. The simicams do have some configuration for night mode also, none of which I have tried out yet. Options like infrared lamp vs white lamp vs dual, and day-night mode of "photoresistor" vs "scene brightness" and also some "color to black luma" and "black to color brightness" settings. I should really play with those some more, but they've been left as defaults so far.

New comment by hostyle in "Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI"

hostyle — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 07:38:45 +0000

I picked up a bunch of 4k POE "simicam" cameras from AliExpress for 25 euros each. These serve up RTSP streams to frigate. I made some minor frigate config changes - I set it to keep 7 days of full recordings (just because i am paranoid), so this uses approx 1Tb of storage (5 cameras currently, more to go online soon). Frigate is running on an old laptop with a Coral AI USB and 2Tb NVME for storage. I enabled detection of cars and animals as well as the default of just humans. It works pretty well, but has some annoying quirks, e.g. if a dog runs past where a car is parked it will trigger an alert for both a dog and a car. It also detects weird conglomerate shapes as human sometimes, e.g. a bucket left at the end of some rolled up bird netting with some pieces of timber sticking out underneath can be vaguely human shaped when viewed from a height. I run the free open source version, and I'm sure I could get better results if I played with the configuration more.

New comment by hostyle in "Ollama's new app"

hostyle — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:16:33 +0000

This link is for the existing cli version, not the new gui app.

New comment by hostyle in "My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]"

hostyle — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:41:41 +0000

Wait. Were you were investing in that burger?

New comment by hostyle in "Manipulating trapped air bubbles in ice for message storage in cold regions"

hostyle — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:06:43 +0000

Won't the tree die if covered for an entire year, and thus when you ... EOFError: Please remove tarp

New comment by hostyle in "New EU rules on digital accessibility to come into force"

hostyle — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 07:58:15 +0000

The part that you may be missing here is that Europe puts people first. America (in particular, but not exclusively) puts business (or money) first.

New comment by hostyle in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

hostyle — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:45:35 +0000

For a long time there has been back chatter on how to turn programming into a more professional field, more like actual engineering where when something goes wrong actual people and companies start to take security seriously, and get held accountable for their mistakes, and start to actually earn their high salaries.

Getting AI to hallucinate its way into secure and better quality code seems like the antithesis of this. Why don't we have AI and robots working for humanity with the boring menial tasks - mowing laws, filing taxes, washing dishes, driving cars - instead of attempting to take on our more critical and creative outputs - image generation, movie generation, book writing and even website building.

New comment by hostyle in "Microsoft Research chief scientist has no issue with Recall"

hostyle — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 10:02:05 +0000

"Move fast and break things."

"Its easier to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission."

There are many other well known mantras that i can't recall right now. SV and VC companies do not care in the slightest about users and their data - only about making more money (which these days always seems to involve stealing^Wwarehousing more and more data).

New comment by hostyle in "Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers"

hostyle — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 07:18:57 +0000

Its to level the playing field. Licensed national broadcasters already have to pay a fee which ends up supporting local news / content. International streamers charging money to Canadians for their attention do not currently pay this fee. It seems only fair that all broadcasters / streamers should have to pay the same fee to access the same market.

New comment by hostyle in "Starting emails with "BEGIN PGP MESSAGE" will fool the filter"

hostyle — Sat, 18 May 2024 07:07:30 +0000

I have vague memories of it being a Microsoft thing to insert two spaces at the end of every sentence? I could be misremembering.

The bug here was not "begin" followed by two spaces, but rather its "begin" followed by some other text followed by two spaces, which if i recall correctly is exactly what Microsoft would auto-format your text to.

New comment by hostyle in "Firefox search update"

hostyle — Wed, 15 May 2024 16:26:14 +0000

That says more about the web developers that you know than it does about Firefox.

Its anecdotal I know, but would have to say that I know more web devs who use Firefox as their daily driver (or use more than one browser), than those who use just Safari or Chrome only. The better web developers (better able to solve bugs, and write less error prone code) are the ones who don't use Chrome for everything.

New comment by hostyle in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

hostyle — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:31:12 +0000

$ dpkg-query -W liblzma5

liblzma5:amd64 5.4.1-0.2