Hacker News: odo1242

New comment by odo1242 in "Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem"

odo1242 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:17:26 +0000

They mentioned it was a temporary fix that they removed after finding and fixing the true root cause, though.

New comment by odo1242 in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)"

odo1242 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:09:10 +0000

Can you name a YouTube channel that experienced a drop in viewership, subscribers, any metric whatsoever, after a sponsorship read turned out to be a scam?

New comment by odo1242 in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

odo1242 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:34:44 +0000

People do it with Steam games, too.

New comment by odo1242 in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

odo1242 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:31:05 +0000

Do you have a suggestion for a Windows laptop that’s a better buy than the MacBook Neo? I kinda want a Windows laptop (for being able to run simple games, mostly) but not sure which one

New comment by odo1242 in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

odo1242 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:42:49 +0000

I mean, that's the point yes

New comment by odo1242 in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

odo1242 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:17:18 +0000

I mean, Gnome being in JavaScript makes it easier

New comment by odo1242 in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

odo1242 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:32:46 +0000

> If you have CapsLock set to change your keyboard language

Yes

New comment by odo1242 in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

odo1242 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:02:47 +0000

Personally, I think they should at least drop the $25 fee if you publish outside of Play Store.

New comment by odo1242 in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

odo1242 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:40:56 +0000

The link you link literally explains how GrapheneOS doesn’t support Play Integrity and apps should use the Hardware Attestation API instead.

New comment by odo1242 in "Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?"

odo1242 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:56:45 +0000

For a less biased source, check out BSBench (where Claude dominates, and the highest rating GPT is 2x worse): https://petergpt.github.io/bullshit-benchmark/viewer/index.v...

New comment by odo1242 in "Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?"

odo1242 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:24:48 +0000

Nope, I use GitHub Copilot (agentic mode) and I end up having to use the (more expensive) Claude model because ChatGPT never second-guesses me or even itself. Gemini is slightly worse though.

New comment by odo1242 in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

odo1242 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:20:36 +0000

Before he went in for Trump he created an obviously fake, insanely expensive system that could never work in practice (Hyperloop) just to slow down California rail projects

New comment by odo1242 in "Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?"

odo1242 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:13:53 +0000

Claude Opus 4.6 is the best possible model to use in this test, with the least sycophancy. OpenAI and Gemini models are bad in comparison.

New comment by odo1242 in "Honda is killing its EVs"

odo1242 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:48:13 +0000

Hybrids are kinda the worst of both worlds though - you have all of the disadvantages of a internal combustion engine (maintenance costs, carbon footprint, fuel dependence), and all the disadvantages of a battery (car is more expensive, battery can die) and the only advantage is range.

New comment by odo1242 in "Honda is killing its EVs"

odo1242 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:21:04 +0000

Those options don’t really exist though. The cars that cost 3x as much (new ones at least) are also doing the same thing.

New comment by odo1242 in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

odo1242 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:56:15 +0000

You can get that in wireless headphones too though? Most of those have a similarly shaped cable that goes across the headphones; there’s not a separate Bluetooth receiver on each side.

New comment by odo1242 in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

odo1242 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:28:03 +0000

All good wired headphones and earbuds (“IEMs”) have replaceable cables. And the ones that don’t are super cheap.

New comment by odo1242 in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

odo1242 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:26:02 +0000

I tested this and based on my testing it’s (3). The AirPods microphone actually gets (slightly) better in quality if you don’t play something through the speakers while using it. Even then the 3.5mm ones were better tho

New comment by odo1242 in "Your phone is an entire computer"

odo1242 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:51:27 +0000

Windows Phone couldn't run the majority of desktop Windows apps (those developed with the "Win32" API). They developed an entirely separate API for Windows Phone apps and it was similarly locked down as iOS/Android.

New comment by odo1242 in "E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May"

odo1242 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:28:18 +0000

Probably a one off? Instagram’s e2ee was opt-in from the start- and meanwhile Facebook Messenger is now “e2ee for everyone” and none of this is affecting the main e2ee messaging apps people use - WhatsApp, Signal, and iMessage