Hacker News: input_sh

New comment by input_sh in "Stolen Buttons"

input_sh — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:43:36 +0000

Too bad they're just static, as the website doesn't copy the hover state or the on-click animations.

New comment by input_sh in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

input_sh — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:55:35 +0000

After this strike, the only AWS region in the ME that remains operational is the one in Tel Aviv (a bit ironic if you ask me).

UAE has been down for months, Bahrain is now offline, Saudi Arabia is still under construction.

New comment by input_sh in "EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps"

input_sh — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:24:18 +0000

PDFs of decisions in case somebody wants to learn more:

Google Search decision: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/digital_markets_act/cases/2...

Android decision: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/digital_markets_act/cases/2...

New comment by input_sh in "Cheap self-hosted Kubernetes on Hetzner cloud (2025)"

input_sh — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:42:33 +0000

I wanted to compare the prices to the current prices:

> That puts us up to €26,97 a month on our six machines so far.

The cost for this same calculation has risen to €41,94 for the exact same configuration (3x CX23, 3x CX33).

> These two additional load balancers (lb11) bump up the price with €5.39/mo.

lb11 is now €7,49 x 2 = €14,98

> A public IP address costs €1,70/mo which adds an additional €10,20

According to Hetzner's pricing page, this is now free on CX23, but costs an additional €0,50 on CX33.

> ...making our total €47,95/mo pre-VAT

€41,94 + €14,98 + €1,50 = €58,42, or roughly a 22% increase. Still over €10 cheaper than the prices the article quotes for a managed cluster on AWS/GCP, but as someone that does this for a living, €10-15 extra is a very negligible price to pay to avoid the amount of headaches you'll get by having to manage and upgrade the cluster yourself.

New comment by input_sh in "That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing"

input_sh — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:32:49 +0000

The most absurd thing that has happened to me more than once is that I found a YouTube video, not by searching through Google, not by searching through YouTube, not by asking an LLM to find it for me, but by finding an old article that embedded it. That embed is of course long broken by the changes on YouTube's side, but once I use inspect element to find its Youtube ID, surprise, surprise, it's still there!

It's usually uploaded by a channel with like 20 subscribers and has maybe like 300 views, but YouTube would rather show me some artist playing a similar genre on the other side of the continent with millions of views that was recently uploaded than a video from an event I specifically typed into a search bar.

New comment by input_sh in "That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing"

input_sh — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:26:03 +0000

One of the things I do semi-frequently is look for the evidence that some concert took place 15+ years ago. Or maybe I already definitively know it happened, but not exactly at which venue or the exact date of the concert. This I feel like is a non-trivial task, but one with a very definitive answer whose evidence more often than not still exists somewhere online.

In my experience every LLM out there is utterly useless and quickly defaults into "here are other concerts that took place around that time near that location". Google Search (ignoring the AI overview) is even more useless, as it refuses to show literally any webpage that's older than say 5 years. YouTube search is genuinely better than Google at surfacing old and grainy fan-made videos uploaded in like 2010, but also defaults into synonyms nonsense pretty quickly.

But, the search functionality of exactly one forum and three local news websites that I know have an archive that dates back long enough beats every single one of those abovementioned every single time. Three people are talking about their experience at a concert on a random 15+ year old forum thread? It happened. The tiny list of 5 or so (Google-hosted!) Blogspot blogs I have bookmarked? They usually have a photo of the ticket that Google Images refuses to show me.

Not only are search engines completely dead as a category, but LLMs are a shit replacement for them. "We" (okay, Google specifically) has truly committed a crime comparable to burning the Library of Alexandria. Everything older than a decade that wasn't properly documented on Wikipedia is just gone, never to be seen again.

New comment by input_sh in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

input_sh — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:38:01 +0000

Definitely depends on the ratio of first time visitors since the introduction of the EES system (whose data needs collecting) vs returning visitors (whose data only needs verifying). I was going by my last experience, but I waited way longer than an hour in the past.

New comment by input_sh in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

input_sh — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:35:14 +0000

> The better they get, the more they need a data center.

That's true.

> So, the ‘better’ Chinese AI gets , the more it will just be a service run on Chinese hardware competing with ‘our’ lower latency AIs .

This is not. Them being open models means that any hosting provider in the world can host them as well. You get to pick and choose the provider the same way you'd pick and choose where to run a Linux server.

New comment by input_sh in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

input_sh — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:59:41 +0000

With the introduction of EES system (whose implementation was completed only a few months ago), the full data of non-EU citizens gets collected the first time we enter the EU and then we have to verify it every subsequent time.

Not much of a hassle at airports due to the availability of self-service kiosks, somewhat of a hassle when crossing with a car, and infuriatingly annoying when using a mass transit option like a bus or a train where everyone has to step outside and wait in line to do that, adding about 20-30 minutes to the border crossing.

New comment by input_sh in "The state of open source AI"

input_sh — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:34:42 +0000

It's their own fonts: Mozilla Headline and Mozilla Text.

No idea why they'd be using the display font for the abstract though, that kind of defeats the whole purpose. It's supposed to be quirky and bold, but used far more sparsingly.

New comment by input_sh in "The lost joy of music piracy"

input_sh — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:09:24 +0000

Add a download gate to the mix, remove the optional payment (I promise you nobody's gonna do that) and you're basically describing https://hypeddit.com/.

Instead of paying to download music, the users "pays" by following you across social media / streaming services. Granted it's mostly used for copyright-violating edits, but some musicians use it for original tracks too.

It's how basically any electronic music producer makes a name for himself before they ever sign a contract with a label.

New comment by input_sh in "Show HN: Super Dario"

input_sh — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:01:19 +0000

On the "bright side", it's impossible to die!

New comment by input_sh in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

input_sh — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:20:00 +0000

AGPL-licensed: https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr

(Not updated in years though.)

New comment by input_sh in "How to Hide from Killer Drones"

input_sh — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:19:24 +0000

> Are paywalls ok?

> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic. More here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

New comment by input_sh in "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"

input_sh — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:11:26 +0000

Well for one thing, China wasn't adamant about annexing territory belonging to a European nation like half a year ago.

New comment by input_sh in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

input_sh — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 07:55:20 +0000

> ...about what exactly their core product is.

It's ads. They have an infinite money glitch called ads, allowing them to waste billions chasing other pipe dreams. The fact that so many of those pipe dreams turned into nothing doesn't hurt them one bit.

New comment by input_sh in "Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine"

input_sh — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:43:56 +0000

The end goal shouldn't be "monopolies, but European", the end goal should be no monopolies.

New comment by input_sh in "Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other"

input_sh — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:58:00 +0000

Those messages are originating from here and the same thing happens whenever someone shares any type of an anonymous messaging board.

New comment by input_sh in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

input_sh — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:55:32 +0000

I see his barely a year old "awkward hand gesture" or tuning into AfD's and Tommy Robinson's streams isn't enough of an evidence for some.

New comment by input_sh in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

input_sh — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:21:32 +0000

No it does not. Extremely simple to prove: https://xcancel.com/grok/with_replies