Hacker News: mastazi

New comment by mastazi in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

mastazi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:50:57 +0000

I'm interested in knowing more about this topic, do you have any resources about the relationship between Swhartz and Altman?

New comment by mastazi in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

mastazi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:38:06 +0000

I would not just rely on situations that are explicitly seen as "dating", such as bars or dating sites.

In my experience joining an IRL group activity is what works best (volunteering, community service, church, local band/orchestra/choir, group lessons, team sports etc) - even if you don't find your future partner there, at least you can make a few IRL friends and you will feel less lonely.

New comment by mastazi in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

mastazi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:30:19 +0000

But sticking around doesn't solve the scenario mentioned by parent.

1. some interesting projects gets to HN main page

2. author of the project is not on HN so creates a green account and interacts

even if that person would have the patience to stick around, by the time they would be able to respond, it would be too late for it to be relevant to the (now stale) discussion.

New comment by mastazi in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

mastazi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:27:32 +0000

Same here, I don't know anyone who might send me an invite unfortunately. It's unlikely for this topic to come up organically in a conversation as in "hey by the way are you on lobste.rs" so my previous attempts were by sending messages in my company's notice board asking if someone is there. But in the last few years I have worked in smaller startups so the sample size is too small for this strategy to succeed.

Spanish company releases free compressed AI model

mastazi — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:54:13 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/24/spanish-soonicorn-multiverse-computing-releases-free-compressed-ai-model/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47151469

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by mastazi in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

mastazi — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:37:45 +0000

I had the same issue, and in my case it turned out it was caused by Logitech G Hub which was running in the background. I uninstalled it and did not experience the issue again. My suggestion is to check any background process that might be doing that.

New comment by mastazi in "Researchers develop a camera that can focus on different distances at once"

mastazi — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 10:21:49 +0000

Interesting. So if I understand correctly, it's like a nonlinear version of a "tilt lens"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt%E2%80%93shift_photography...

New comment by mastazi in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

mastazi — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:18:48 +0000

My limited understanding is that they are focusing on B2B and short-term milking B2C until it lasts.

New comment by mastazi in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

mastazi — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:20:40 +0000

For many types of users, Windows is no longer viable. I have friends who work at a .NET shop and most of that team now uses Macs. Unthinkable just a few years ago. Meanwhile, I checked ProtonDB and now 90% of my Steam library is Platinum or Native. So I finally switched my gaming PC to Linux. Microsoft's priorities are elsewhere, Windows doesn't have a bright future.

New comment by mastazi in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

mastazi — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:30:45 +0000

Where do you live? Are tractors not taxed as motor vehicles in your country?

The simple cult camera that inspired Instagram (2017)

mastazi — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:06:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171113-the-toy-camera-that-inspired-instagram

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46253433

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by mastazi in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

mastazi — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 02:34:53 +0000

I have the exact setup shown towards the end of the article - HTPC and K400 keyboard/touchpad. I have tried all "smart" platforms in the past, and this setup is an order of magnitude better in everything. I used to have issues where a specific content provider doesn't have an app for my type of smart TV[1], this is no longer an issue because I just use a browser to access anything. And I can browse the web when I'm not watching something[2] (in fact I'm using my HTPC right now as I write this comment).

The only change I had to make starting from a "standard" Linux UI is bumping the screen zoom level to 150%. This may vary depending on your TV size and how far your couch is from your TV.

Building the HTPC was very cheap, I just boughs a horizontal form-factor case, and used spare "donor" parts coming from our household PCs after upgrades.

[1][2]For comparison, the only streaming platform that had all apps I wanted was Apple TV, but that one doesn't have a browser.

New comment by mastazi in "Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming"

mastazi — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:03:13 +0000

People who are not new Linux users might prefer a distro which is part of the same "family" of distros they are already familiar with.

Steam OS I believe is based on Arch. Bazzite is based on Fedora. Personally I have experience with Debian distros so if I wanted a gaming-focused distro I would pick maybe something like Pop OS.

New comment by mastazi in "Be Like Clippy"

mastazi — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:47:33 +0000

Clippy was chosen precisely because it was so famously bad.

The point of choosing Clippy is to imply that much of what we have now is more anti-user than one of the most anti-user pieces of software of the 90's.

New comment by mastazi in "1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18"

mastazi — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:44:17 +0000

Ubuntu with a custom DE that has pre-set options to look like Windows or MacOS, so that people moving to Linux from another OS find themselves at home. The custom DE is based on Gnome according to the Wikipedia page[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorin_OS

New comment by mastazi in "Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay"

mastazi — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 01:18:11 +0000

I am Italian, that was one of the proudest moment in our history.

The Achille Lauro episode was an example of Italy choosing what's best for the region rather than what's best for the people across the Atlantic. Hundreds of hostages' lives were saved by the actions of the Italian Government that day.

For context, in the post WW2 era, hundreds of Italian civilians were killed in accidents caused by US military operations in Italy, and our spineless leaders did nothing. In many cases they actively helped covering up the truth. Two of many examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itavia_Flight_870

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Cavalese_cable_car_crash

The Curious Database Powering America's Hospitals [video]

mastazi — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 01:49:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g1K-tLEATw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46000299

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mastazi in "Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N"

mastazi — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 12:28:17 +0000

What's roughly the period when this kind of shenanigans started being common among major automakers? I'm not a car guy and thinking about a used car soon[1], Not sure how far back I should go in terms of year. I am in Australia BTW.

[1] would be family's 2nd car. We have another recent car with all the online crap, I hate it

New comment by mastazi in "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux"

mastazi — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:52:20 +0000

I've been using this for a long time and it works better than the official client (which I use on another computer) because it has less bugs.

For example the official client has a bug where it will open chats in a separate window even when the user did not intend to (has to do with the first click being ignored while Teams it's out of focus, and the second click being interpreted as a double click). The unofficial Teams for Linux doesn't have this problem.

New comment by mastazi in "SIMA 2: An agent that plays, reasons, and learns with you in virtual 3D worlds"

mastazi — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:20:41 +0000

AI has existed for several decades before the first LLM was ever created.[1][2][3]

And that's not even considering machine learning and deep learning which also have existed for many years before LLMs.

Even if you consider the current usage of the word AI in popular culture, it includes things that are not an LLM like Stable Diffusion and Suno

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Blue_(chess_computer)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine#Historical_contex...