Hacker News: neuralkoi

New comment by neuralkoi in "Edit store price tags using Flipper Zero"

neuralkoi — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:48:55 +0000

Yesterday I went to Walmart, and at the self-checkout the system quirked out and an attendant came by. She reviewed some sort of draconian overhead cam video of me trying to locate a tag out for a product to scan. Gave me "guilty until proven" innocent vibes. Are these systems actually effective?

New comment by neuralkoi in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

neuralkoi — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:26:37 +0000

I hope they will turn Siri around with these changes.

New comment by neuralkoi in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

neuralkoi — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:41:37 +0000

The one on their website is now $100, not $75 as per the article.

Surely someone can build a more privacy-friendly decentralized solution?

It doesn't take much for Tin Can to start charging $50 / month for a subscription.

New comment by neuralkoi in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

neuralkoi — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:33:19 +0000

This post feels a bit ideological in nature. There are recurring processes at organizations to assess someone's fit in a given role. Generally when someone is no longer performing as expected, they're given time to correct their ways or retrain. If the organization has no system in place, then it really falls on the organization. I wonder if the author overestimates the amount of people who really want to be in a role they're not good at.

New comment by neuralkoi in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

neuralkoi — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:19:01 +0000

Ad hominem attacks are never good approaches. They're irrational in nature. Ad hominem is one of the first fallacies taught in a critical thinking class.

What makes a translation great? (2018)

neuralkoi — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:42:59 +0000

Article URL: https://scroll.in/article/876969/what-makes-a-translation-great-ten-literary-translators-from-across-the-world-weigh-in

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181033

Points: 1

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New comment by neuralkoi in "US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private"

neuralkoi — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:47:43 +0000

This is why most tech founders who go big never retire, even as billionaires. The power they gain, only the wisest would refuse.

How to DeGoogle Myself?

neuralkoi — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:48:02 +0000

I recently started a non-profit, and after being approved for Google Nonprofits I tried to enroll in Google Workspace.

I created an account but upon login it prompted me for a phone number for "additional security". After entering my cell, I got the message: "This phone number has already been used too many times for verification."

There seems to be no way around this whatsoever short of getting a new phone number. There's no way to contact a human being for support. Removing my cell # from other accounts (i.e. college, work) seems to have no effect.

A scary thought came to mind: If Google ever decides to kick me out of their system for my main account, I'm toast. I use it for everything.

How can I begin to practically "deGoogle" myself?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46793668

Points: 12

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New comment by neuralkoi in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

neuralkoi — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:20:30 +0000

> The most common category is that the models make wrong assumptions on your behalf and just run along with them without checking.

If current LLMs are ever deployed in systems harboring the big red button, they WILL most definitely somehow press that button.

New comment by neuralkoi in "You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass"

neuralkoi — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:41:49 +0000

"The people who are leading the AI revolution, 'the tech titans', many of them are thinking in a way which is really alien to most of the people on the planet. People sometimes think 'Oh, these tech titans, they want money. They want power.' They want something far more ambitious than money or power. They want to change the course of the evolution of life and even of the evolution of the cosmos. In the minds of some of them, sometime in the future, millions, billions of years in the future, when they write the history of the universe, it will be like: 'Okay, the Big Bang - 14 billions years ago, 10 billion years later - the emergence of life on earth, the only life we know about so far in the universe, 4 billion years later - Elon Musk and the beginning of AI'. This is the timeline they have.”

- Yuval Noah Harari, Ideas for the Future

New comment by neuralkoi in "Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?"

neuralkoi — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:43:19 +0000

You might be interested in Arweave or IPFS:

Arweave network is like Bitcoin, but for data: A permanent and decentralized web inside an open ledger. [0]

The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a decentralized protocol, hypermedia, and peer-to-peer (P2P) network for distributed file storage and sharing. The shadow libraries Anna's Archive and Library Genesis host books via IPFS. [1]

[0] https://www.arweave.org/

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

New comment by neuralkoi in "Have Taken Up Farming"

neuralkoi — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:24:51 +0000

After leaving my job at a FAANG, I did consulting for a large company for the first two years, working for 20 hours a week. I focused on my mental health which I'd self-neglected for years, by seeking therapy. I also went along the same route as the author, reconnecting spiritually and improving my diet by teaching myself how to cook. I was pretty much eating out every day before this.

At the same time, I began reducing my living costs. I sold my townhome and rented a room in a siblings house. I was able to bring my total core expenses down to around $25k-$30k/year.

Last year I started a nonprofit related to art (fieldsofcolor.org). I found a lot of joy and meaning in this endeavor. We recently received 501(c)(3) exemption, and I am planning to begin fundraising soon. I hope to someday make my living doing this. If not, my lifestyle is frugal enough I can manage via small consulting gigs here and there, or through a side job.

New comment by neuralkoi in "Have Taken Up Farming"

neuralkoi — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 10:02:09 +0000

At least for me it was the realization that I didn't really know why I was doing what I was doing.

I wanted to change the world and make it better, and it felt good to pursue a career with a high salary and prestige, but after years of working in software I was not seeing my work actually make the world better. In fact it was making me feel sick, tired, and depressed.

There was a short period of time in the 2000s when it did feel like tech was beginning to transform peoples lives and society for the better, but after the algorithms and rougher edges of our collective human nature took it over, it all seems to have drastically changed course.

New comment by neuralkoi in "Have Taken Up Farming"

neuralkoi — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:51:45 +0000

There's a story about Diocletian, the emperor who guided Rome through one of the most turbulent periods of its history, and later voluntarily abdicated and retired to his villa. When they begged him back to resolve some conflicts that had arisen he stated:

"If you could see the cabbages I have planted here with my own hands, you surely would never have thought to request this."

New comment by neuralkoi in "Apple Withdraws iOS 18 Security Updates"

neuralkoi — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:51:20 +0000

Forced obsolescence due to the iOS 26 bloat triggers a forced upgrade cycle.

More iPhone sales! Some VP up there is popping champagne after getting the genius idea to disguise it as a security feature and force it down people's throats.

New comment by neuralkoi in "All of Apple's services are abysmal"

neuralkoi — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:58:33 +0000

Some of these problems likely arise from the fact that they're probably already stretched thin working on the next "Liquid Glass". Radars which are not P1 or P2 essentially get punted to the bottom of the PQ, and many of these often end up being age old bugs i.e. not a regression i.e. not a priority.

Recently I tried sync'ing a 10 minute video from my iPhone to my Mac through iCloud. I gave up after waiting for more than 30 minutes and just used Google Drive because airdrop for some reason is just completely broken.

New comment by neuralkoi in "Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?"

neuralkoi — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 02:52:03 +0000

This exercise was part of a 3-day weekend team-building workshop which was part of a voluntary work thing.

This particular exercise was assigned as "homework" by the coaching staff: "You will give a hug to a minimum of 5 people who you don't know before returning to tomorrow's session (no children)".

I think the goal was to 1) Step outside your comfort zone 2) Learn to take rejection less personally 3) Learn something about trust

I did my "homework" by going to Chipotle (some people put up a sign at the hotel lobby with the text "free hugs") and asking the cash register attendant and people inside. I remember going to this older lady who seemed like she had just gotten off a looong shift. She looked up and gave me the warmest smile and said "oh this is excellent! Is this part of church or something?" I got the biggest hug ever and it felt amazing. I had a similar experience with the other four hugs.

New comment by neuralkoi in "Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?"

neuralkoi — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 02:18:11 +0000

Start with the low hanging fruit: your family.

There was a period when I put space between myself and my main friends which resulted in loneliness, but I found this created a new space to connect with my siblings who were really interesting and had grown in ways I hadn't noticed.

Also, as Charlie Munger always said: "Invert! Invert! Invert!". Try doing the opposite of what you normally do. This requires of course paying attention to what you normally do (or don't do). Instead of waiting for others to reach out to you, for example, you might instead approach them.

Be okay with the fear of rejection. When we are kids we make friends so easily because we haven’t yet learned to protect ourselves from rejection.

An interesting exercise I had to do recently as part of a teambuilding exercise: offer a hug to 5 random strangers. I promise this will teach you something about yourself, and about others.

New comment by neuralkoi in "How did DOGE disrupt so much while saving so little?"

neuralkoi — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:26:28 +0000

“If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences—and infer the motivation.”

― Carl Jung

New comment by neuralkoi in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

neuralkoi — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:05:00 +0000

"Apple in China" was pretty good! I can second that one. If you haven't checked it out, "Chip War" is also pretty good and along the same style. I'm reading it right now.