Hacker News: nyc_pizzadev

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

nyc_pizzadev — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:55:34 +0000

No, because AI is still unprofitable and could even be called a speculative venture given the crazy spending amounts. Let the speculators take the risk and reap the rewards. When profitability and all the other conditions are met, I’m happy for the greater market to buy in at the price the market determines. I think everything is functioning as designed.

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "The Rotary Un-Smartphone (2023)"

nyc_pizzadev — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:59:16 +0000

This one is wifi based, made for kids, it has a free plan, safety and security features. Pretty well put together.

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "The Rotary Un-Smartphone (2023)"

nyc_pizzadev — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:44:00 +0000

Worth mentioning the Tin Can phone: https://tincan.kids/

All their batches are sold out, I guess it’s pretty popular. Interesting tidbit, it needs to be plugged in at all times, not meant to be mobile.

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP"

nyc_pizzadev — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:52:29 +0000

Social security is self funded and is actually a buyer of US debt. So there is no direct connection between social security shortfalls and US gross federal debt.

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

nyc_pizzadev — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:22:47 +0000

I was in the Google Domain sold to Squarespace boat too. To this day, that sale makes zero sense, mind boggling they would offload such a critical part of consumer infrastructure. Anyway, I had zero trust in Squarespace, so I spent some time and moved all my domains to Cloudflare and couldn’t be happier. Lots of nice bonus features also popped up.

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

nyc_pizzadev — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:16:01 +0000

Very nice. I actually spent a bit of time browsing a few topics, which is something I rarely do these days!

A few things... when I click an article and try to jump to a new topic, the top search box (labeled "Search titles and full text...") doesn't work. Second, when I first came to the site, I was a bit stuck. It took a bit of time to realize I need to click on "Articles" or even "Topics" to start browsing. Not sure why, maybe I expected the image to let me enter the site somehow...?

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate"

nyc_pizzadev — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:46:41 +0000

If you control the domain, LetsEncrypt will happily issue you a fresh certificate.

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate"

nyc_pizzadev — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:20:45 +0000

How realistic is for a TLD “owner” to take over a domain like this?

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate"

nyc_pizzadev — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:42:52 +0000

Random question, does cargo have a way to identify if a package uses unsafe Rust code?

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "S3 Files"

nyc_pizzadev — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:28:56 +0000

This is very close to its first official release: https://fiberfs.io/

Built in cache, CDN compatible, JSON metadata, concurrency safe and it targets all S3 compatible storage systems.

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro"

nyc_pizzadev — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:02:37 +0000

Genuine question, does Rust know if `expensive_to_compute()` has side effects? There are no params, so could it be compiled out if the return value is ignored? Ex: `expensive_to_compute()` What about: `(void) expensive_to_compute()`?

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro"

nyc_pizzadev — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:49:38 +0000

This is just a symptom of a bad assert() implementation, which funny enough is the standard. If you properly (void) it out, side effects are maintained.

https://github.com/fiberfs/fiberfs/blob/7e79eaabbb180b0f1a79...

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro"

nyc_pizzadev — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:49:22 +0000

The nice thing about assert() is you can just define your own:

https://github.com/fiberfs/fiberfs/blob/7e79eaabbb180b0f1a79...

In this case, the ability to see the actual values that triggered the assert is way more helpful.

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "So where are all the AI apps?"

nyc_pizzadev — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:18:37 +0000

A friend of mine who is tech savvy and I would say has novice level coding experience decided to build his dream app. Its really been a disaster. The app is completely broken in many different ways, has functionality gaps, no security, no thought out infrastructure, its pretty much a dumpster fire. The problem is that he doesn't know what he doesn't know, so its impossible for him to actually fix it beyond instructing the AI over and over to simply "fix it". The more this is done, the worst the app becomes. He's tried all the major AI vendors, from scratch, same result, a complete mess of code. He's given up on it now and has moved on with his life.

Im not saying that AI is bad, infact, its the opposite, its one of the most important tools that I have seen introduced in my lifetime. Its like a calculator. Its not going to turn everyone into a mathematician, but it will turn those who have an understanding of math into faster mathematician.

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views"

nyc_pizzadev — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:04:58 +0000

Ya, I like when it’s automatically done on my featured photo, gives the phone a very 3D look and feel.

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "Is a movie prop the ultimate laptop bag?"

nyc_pizzadev — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 13:02:48 +0000

It’s not in my opinion. Look how wide the bottom is, so the laptop will rest diagonally across the bag which makes it not ideal to carry or put other items inside. I’m all for the perfect laptop bag, this isn’t quite it.

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me"

nyc_pizzadev — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:17:46 +0000

Google has been a hot mess for me lately. Ya, the AI is awful, numerous times I’m shown information that’s either inaccurate or straight false. It will summarize my emails wrong, it will mess up easy facts like what time my dinner reservation is. Worst is the overall search UX, especially auto complete. Suggestions are never right and then trying to tap and navigate thru always leads to an mis-click.

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad"

nyc_pizzadev — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 12:39:25 +0000

I got this ad, and ya, I was truly bewildered to get such an ad and then shocked that it came from my Wallet. I then spent the next hour searching how to disable this new marketing stream and it looks like nothing can be done. Anyway, glad to see I’m not alone here.

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "Chrome Returns 206 when the Server Returns 403"

nyc_pizzadev — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:56:19 +0000

So if you get less HTTP bytes than expected, then it’s a HTTP response error and you throw the whole thing away. For example, this sort of situation happens when streaming HTTP. The server first has to send the response headers, which would be a simple 200/206, then the data, which could have a much more complicated code path. If there is an error in that data code path, all you can do is close the connection and trigger an HTTP error since less bytes were delivered than advertised. Client needs to detect this and retry. While this may seem uncommon, this is well understood behavior for HTTP systems.

New comment by nyc_pizzadev in "Multispectral Imaging and the Voynich Manuscript"

nyc_pizzadev — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:46:56 +0000

A lot of people were speculating he would make his findings official and didn’t want to over share. I do see a comment about his theory being debunked. That would be expected, the language used was a mashup of several existing languages, so it’s possible a lot of what was written is copy-pasta gibberish. However, the video points out of a lot of cultural aspects of the book which support a Romani origin.