Hacker News: lebed2045

New comment by lebed2045 in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

lebed2045 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:13:02 +0000

i pay for crossover license (wine on mac), if i understand correctly, they spend this money on development wine core as well.

New comment by lebed2045 in "OpenAI might pivot to the "most addictive digital friend" or face extinction"

lebed2045 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:52:13 +0000

basically this - it took the social media industry quite a few years to invent a simple-looking thing, short-form video with discorver algo and it became extremely addictive for a huge part of the population. Now imagine an AI that knows your personality type, good at psychology, always supportive. Best friend ever. That creates a far stronger moat than any price or technical advantage of an AI coding tool.

OpenAI might pivot to the "most addictive digital friend" or face extinction

lebed2045 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:52:13 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/lebed2045/status/2020184853271167186

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925866

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by lebed2045 in "Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time"

lebed2045 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:57:25 +0000

what would be really cool (maybeme i missed it?), is for your tool show clear useful info on the "top panel", not just logo. Like mac-stats or littleSnitch do.

New comment by lebed2045 in "Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral"

lebed2045 — Sat, 03 May 2025 17:54:47 +0000

Could you please provide any proof for: “if you look at any large company’s CEO, they’re there because they took these hits or provided plausible deniability for jig boss in the past”. Never thought from this angle, interesting theory

New comment by lebed2045 in "When DOGE hunts 'silly' studies, humanity might loses big wins"

lebed2045 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:02:12 +0000

I’m curious about the reasoning behind this approach. Surely, Elon Musk and his team are smart enough to recognize the legitimacy of such research. Initially, I thought this kind of content was just playing to the lowest common denominator—a form of low-effort clickbait. However, this strategy risks alienating more educated or critical followers.

Given Musk’s intelligence and the capabilities of his team, I’m struggling to understand the logic here. Is it meant to drive engagement by polarizing opinions, or is there some deeper strategic intent that I’m missing?

When DOGE hunts 'silly' studies, humanity might loses big wins

lebed2045 — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:06:28 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/lebed2045/status/1858554473221943756

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174413

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by lebed2045 in "Claude 3.5 Sonnet"

lebed2045 — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 06:07:55 +0000

I wish Claude app has voice input like chatGPT, for someone who's bad at typing like me - it's essential part that is missing

New comment by lebed2045 in "Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models"

lebed2045 — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 02:32:20 +0000

I'm pretty sure you could find justification even for why top models don't support microSD card expansion. The problem with this line of argument is that if they wanted to, they could support both without any issues. The real reason is money. It's more profitable to have Bluetooth only when you also make AirPods, and not include storage expansion when you sell built-in memory options at a 400% markup.

New comment by lebed2045 in "Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models"

lebed2045 — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 02:23:54 +0000

i seems you exclude many android options, that have hidden selfie camera and good working fingerprint scanner. ZTE Axon 20 5G as an example.

New comment by lebed2045 in "How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1?"

lebed2045 — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 01:09:58 +0000

*typo: you can send more than one bit per photon on average

I'm very curious to learn more about 1cm, what is the math behind it? Do you speak about classical music CD with ±700mb of capacity? I was always fascinating by ability of old super scratched optical disks still functioning without problems.

New comment by lebed2045 in "How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1?"

lebed2045 — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 01:00:14 +0000

not 2 but around 10 seems possible https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/9/5/757

New comment by lebed2045 in "Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth"

lebed2045 — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 08:12:17 +0000

Wallet by definition has private key within it. Without key is just an address.

New comment by lebed2045 in "The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster"

lebed2045 — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 02:51:53 +0000

that's truly incredible how much lives can be saved with good electronics and it-systems. I wish the war ends asap, before the autonomous ai-powered drones comes into play... because at that point this might become complete skynet-like hell.

New comment by lebed2045 in "Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive"

lebed2045 — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:19:33 +0000

Many messengers companies started outside of SV,

• Telegram - Founded: Russia, Headquartered: Dubai, Users: 500M+

• WeChat - Founded: China, Headquartered: Shenzhen, Users: 1.2B+

• LINE - Founded: Japan, Headquartered: Tokyo, Users: 84M (Japan)

• Viber - Founded: Israel, Headquartered: Luxembourg, Users: 1B+

• KakaoTalk - Founded: South Korea, Headquartered: Jeju City, Users: 52M+

• Zalo - Founded: Vietnam, Headquartered: Ho Chi Minh City, Users: 100M+

• ICQ - Founded: Israel, Headquartered: Cyprus, used to have big market share

• Skype - Founded: Estonia, Headquartered: Luxembourg/USA, Users: 40M daily

New comment by lebed2045 in "Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding"

lebed2045 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:19:27 +0000

A little offtop for everyone who uses comparisons that "old good days" computers/whatever were more expensive so new generation don't have moral ground to complain. Please don't forget about overall context. In that old day you could afford to buy house and don't spend the most of the income for renting. So it's incorrect to simply compare prices for one specific niche, overall context for expenses should be counted in.

New comment by lebed2045 in "YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin"

lebed2045 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 23:18:19 +0000

a counter take from me, as someone who uses adblocks everywhere possible but used to work for facebook ads department:

ads aren't inherently bad, irregardless of much data do they track. What really bad is how this ads is targeted and how much ads is delivered. I would LOVE to see relevant to my interested and situation ads. I like fpv drones and often see interested ads on instagram and led to a purchase. The problem after that I can't just edit the vector of my interests for ads targeting and keep bombarded with something not relevant to my situation anymore, and boy so much of it I see.

I really don't know why big ads network didn't move forward with user controlled ads mechanics - because we all humans buy something anyway, it's okay of being aware of the options on the market. It's not okay to mentally torture users with irrelevant, annoying and overwhelming amount of ads.

New comment by lebed2045 in "Crypto thief steals $4.4M in a day as toll rises from LastPass breach"

lebed2045 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 22:59:56 +0000

people who managed to migrate to KeePass - was it worth it?

Crypto thief steals $4.4M in a day as toll rises from LastPass breach

lebed2045 — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 22:59:56 +0000

Article URL: https://cointelegraph.com/news/lastpass-breach-hacker-steals-millions-crypto-wallets-zachxbt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38077149

Points: 24

# Comments: 10

New comment by lebed2045 in "Stack Overflow Will Charge AI Giants for Training Data"

lebed2045 — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 20:18:35 +0000

what does it mean in simple words? as one of many StackOverflow contributors (although very small) I don't want that my answers were wall-guarded by SO website, they are free to use advertising revenue from traffic generated by my content to remunerate for creation and supporting the platform, but the content itself is mine, why it shouldn't be that way?