Hacker News: lobster45

New comment by lobster45 in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

lobster45 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:51:21 +0000

Your comment resonates with me due to the cognitive dissonance of seeing the benefits and issues with AI as far as development work. I have been struggling to identify a process improvement that AI can improve not only the development aspect by the overall productivity of our company. We are a dev shop mostly C++ and python. At our company I see the development workflow and it is very inefficient. The biggest issue is communication. AI can certainty increase the coding output and velocity, but the rest of the process relies on humans.

New comment by lobster45 in "Ventoy"

lobster45 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:59:09 +0000

The benefit of Ventoy is that you can continue to use the same USB drive for storage, in addition to have the ability to boot from any number of .iso files on the drive. Extremely useful

New comment by lobster45 in "What Does a 13-Year-Old See on Snapchat in a Normal Week?"

lobster45 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:40:06 +0000

The reality is these platforms are optimized to use any content to increase page views and ad revenue. I am typically not an advocate of regulation, however at the very least restrict these platforms to 18 and older

New comment by lobster45 in "Show HN: An unmetered LLM API–$6/month, no token tracking, no limits"

lobster45 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:25:10 +0000

What type of hardware, GPU are you utilizing? I have the same model self hosted at home

New comment by lobster45 in "Consoles continue their trend of just becoming worse PCs"

lobster45 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:10:19 +0000

I had my fully updated PS5 powered off for about a month. I could not login because it needed a new firmware update. But I could not connect to Ethernet for some reason. Swiched to wifi, downloaded the update but I failed to install. Required a few reboots. Now this is not a typical experience but it is far from the Sega genesis and Nintendo SNES cartridge games that worked flawless

New comment by lobster45 in "Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"

lobster45 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:21:41 +0000

Reading medical texts from 1911 is a great way to see how far psychiatry has advanced. there was a widespread medical and societal belief that masturbation was harmful to physical and mental health. https://britannica11.org/article/14-0628-insanity/insanity?q...

New comment by lobster45 in "Tell HN: YouTube download websites disappearing from Google search results"

lobster45 — Wed, 31 May 2023 18:12:30 +0000

Try invidious. https://invidious.io/ It is a FOSS front end to YT. You can do anything, download in various video and audio formats. Watch any video without signing in. No ads, etc. There are other options as well such as https://newpipe.net/ client for Android and Yattee for iOS. https://github.com/yattee/yattee

New comment by lobster45 in "Why Working from Home Will Stick [pdf]"

lobster45 — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 06:29:59 +0000

When I was at the office, there were always two or three people who stopped by my desk every day, and just wanted to talk about some BS thing. Now with work from home I never hear from them. Because they realize that this was non-work related and if they send me an email or chat, that is going to be on the record

New comment by lobster45 in "Sony’s 2021 TV lineup runs Google TV and fully embraces HDMI 2.1"

lobster45 — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 20:26:17 +0000

No it needs a Google account, but you can setup a burner account

New comment by lobster45 in "Twitter appears to have removed the president's last two tweets"

lobster45 — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:10:42 +0000

Presidential alert text messages to all Americans

New comment by lobster45 in "iMac G3 – The Mac that saved Apple"

lobster45 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 05:00:05 +0000

Also hang out on yahoo chat which was incredibly popular back then

New comment by lobster45 in "In Covid Surge, LA hospitals turn away ambulances and put patients in gift shops"

lobster45 — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 04:54:29 +0000

This hospital is notorious for terrible conditions, many years prior to the pandemic

New comment by lobster45 in "Ask HN: What podcasts do you like listening to?"

lobster45 — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 20:52:51 +0000

Reply all Daily tech news show After On podcast, Rob Reid

New comment by lobster45 in "Give your Mac imaginary unlimited storage thanks to Disk Utility’s bug"

lobster45 — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 22:15:09 +0000

Opera mini on my blackberry made the gprs connection usable 15 years ago

New comment by lobster45 in "What’s the best non-smart TV sold today?"

lobster45 — Sat, 26 Dec 2020 19:09:11 +0000

I suggest to buy a large computer monitor

New comment by lobster45 in "E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS and online services"

lobster45 — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 16:28:06 +0000

How did he manage installing applications such as banking apps from the place store? Unless you’re going to be sideloading the app how do you know that you’re getting official banking app and not just downloading some file online.

New comment by lobster45 in "What would happen if computers never got any faster?"

lobster45 — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:24:54 +0000

Check your power supply. I just replaced a power supply on a pc I built in 2012. The system was unstable and shutting down after five minutes of being on

New comment by lobster45 in "What would happen if computers never got any faster?"

lobster45 — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:58:08 +0000

My Pentium 60 I bought in 1995 for $2200 came with 4 mb of RAM. I later upgraded it to 8 mb. 540 MB hard drive, 2x CD ROM drive. It ran just about everything I had until I built my next computer in ‘98

New comment by lobster45 in "YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them"

lobster45 — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:34:13 +0000

This will drive people to more apps that block ads on mobile

New comment by lobster45 in "World of Warcraft 9.0.2 client runs natively on Apple Silicon"

lobster45 — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 05:23:25 +0000

They do, with Server 2019 for corporate servers. But your point is that no one is running Server 201x as their desktop OS, unlike the NT 4 .1 days, which then was rebranded into windows 2000, or NT 5