Hacker News: nsriv

New comment by nsriv in "CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'"

nsriv — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:18:52 +0000

Not sure if you're joking but Clearview's primary customers are local or metro police departments.

New comment by nsriv in "Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery"

nsriv — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:57:08 +0000

Love to the point of invention! This looks and feels great.

I'm an Elixir newbie and wondering if I should start with learning Ash or stick with Liveview until I know more. Any thoughts on what Ash solved for you over Phoenix Liveview?

New comment by nsriv in "DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's why"

nsriv — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:56:23 +0000

This is what I'm hopeful for, but haven't researched enough into whether there are hardware startups in this space as I believe the majors will chase the hype cycle. Optane being canned always felt like a poor, shortsighted decision to me.

New comment by nsriv in "Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies"

nsriv — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 03:51:59 +0000

Highly recommend the book "Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich" by Norman Ohler, a podcast promo led me to get the book from the library and I really liked it!

New comment by nsriv in "Affinity Studio now free"

nsriv — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:11:03 +0000

I think they're giving it away to take mindshare away from Adobe among younger creators. The rise of Capcut and similar mobile first software eventually leads to Adobe, Final Cut for video, and Davinci Resolve. This provides a ladder from Canva to Affinity under one banner at low to no cost.

New comment by nsriv in "NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy"

nsriv — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:17:38 +0000

Controlling culture, yes but wild pivot to mention that criminal alongside Karpathy.

New comment by nsriv in "Electron-based apps cause system-wide lag on macOS 26 Tahoe"

nsriv — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:27:05 +0000

I think that's probably a recipe to hit the limits more often and end up being more frustrating, depending on your hardware.

New comment by nsriv in "Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians"

nsriv — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:33:16 +0000

https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up...

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-07/ty-article-ma...

New comment by nsriv in "Anti-*: The Things We Do but Not All the Way"

nsriv — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:14:08 +0000

Completely tangential, but this is a gorgeous personal site.

New comment by nsriv in "iFixit iPhone Air teardown"

nsriv — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 05:40:44 +0000

This isn't a full teardown/repair guide, more a first-look video.

New comment by nsriv in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

nsriv — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 01:29:44 +0000

ITT: HN goes mask off

New comment by nsriv in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

nsriv — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:45:29 +0000

Pixel Call Screen has been a godsend for me since its debut, akin to using uBlock Origin for browsing.

New comment by nsriv in "Robert Redford has died"

nsriv — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:46:41 +0000

"Lions for Lambs" is widely panned, but I think spoke to a particular subset of people interested in doing over talking. RIP to a great.

New comment by nsriv in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

nsriv — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:38:37 +0000

Who do you think gets stopped to meet quotas?

New comment by nsriv in "Tomorrow's emoji today: Unicode 17.0"

nsriv — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:46:44 +0000

I think most chat apps do the same, above commenter just needs to learn to count.

New comment by nsriv in "The MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge"

nsriv — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:17:58 +0000

Protractor app when?

New comment by nsriv in "What is it like to be a bat?"

nsriv — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:36:21 +0000

I love this, hope it takes off like "enhsittification" or "slop" have already.

New comment by nsriv in "Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly"

nsriv — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:42:16 +0000

https://archive.is/Bh8JU

New comment by nsriv in "An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia"

nsriv — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:04:50 +0000

What you're describing, especially with the amount of water "given a detailed list of symptoms" is carrying, is essentially a compute-intensive flowchart with no concept of diagnostic parsimony.

New comment by nsriv in "An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia"

nsriv — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:03:24 +0000

I have a hunch that the whole "chat" interface is a brilliant but somewhat unintentional product design choice that has created this faux trust in LLM's to give back accurate information that others can get from drugs.com or Medline with a text search. This is a terrifying example, and please get her to test it out by second guessing the LLM and watching it flip flop.