Hacker News: oliyoung

New comment by oliyoung in "Lunar Flyby"

oliyoung — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:52:40 +0000

I think they mean "consumer" or "off the shelf" as opposed to "custom build for the mission", we've seen iPhone and GoPro photos

New comment by oliyoung in "Goodbye to Sora"

oliyoung — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:58:00 +0000

So what died first? The Disney deal or the Sora app

New comment by oliyoung in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

oliyoung — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:28:51 +0000

> better off building a war chest and pulling a Valve

They tried, it's called the Epic Game Store

New comment by oliyoung in "Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio?"

oliyoung — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:26:58 +0000

As the author points out, it's not really a "MP3 vs Uncompressed" conversation, it's a "which encoder are you using" conversation ...

because any of us from the late 90s/early 2000s who used the early versions of LAME will tell you in a second how easy it was to pick MP3 over raw, even at 320kb/s

New comment by oliyoung in "AirPods Max 2"

oliyoung — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:48:45 +0000

> what happens at a company like Apple that leads them to not cancel this product and come up with something totally new

I'm in the suburbs of a middling Australian city, nothing special and not in particularly high socioeconomic areas

There is at least two people per bus wearing them (or at least very good comps), they're as common as Sony XM5 or XM6's and while they're not Airpods penetration, they're wildly popular for their pricepoint

New comment by oliyoung in "Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)"

oliyoung — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:36:46 +0000

"reefer madness" has put legitimate research of that plant back immeasurably

New comment by oliyoung in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

oliyoung — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:58:44 +0000

wait, can you _see_ my desk right now?

New comment by oliyoung in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

oliyoung — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:57:40 +0000

> When I watch a movie, I don't care about the artist's life.

And here we come back to the aged old "can you seperate an artist from their art" because I'd argue when you watch a movie you are watching a product of their life

New comment by oliyoung in "Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter"

oliyoung — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:45:23 +0000

Not all VISA or Mastercard transactions are credit backed, I'd argue that the large majority aren't anymore they're more commonly debit VISA/Mastercard

New comment by oliyoung in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

oliyoung — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:30:03 +0000

For pure peace-of-mind managing a family and all our passwords and digtial security, it's value is far more than this monthly cost

New comment by oliyoung in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

oliyoung — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:14:42 +0000

I'm in South Australia, the driest state on the driest continent, we have a backup desalination plant and water security is common on the political agenda - water is probably as expensive here than most places in the world

"The 2025-26 water use price for commercial customers is now $3.365/kL (or $0.003365 per litre)"

https://www.sawater.com.au/my-account/water-and-sewerage-pri...

New comment by oliyoung in "My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood"

oliyoung — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:32:52 +0000

> Of course, the debugging techniques and the debugging and problem-solving techniques that you get from being a professional programmer helps a lot with taking what LLMs give you with a grain of salt, and knowing what they're good at and what they're not. But it is a superpower for sure.

I'm really coming around to the idea for the lucky of us (and I'm assuming a lot about the average HN poster) AI really is a force-multiplying tool

New comment by oliyoung in "My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood"

oliyoung — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:15:52 +0000

This is SUCH a great story. Thanks for writing up both the human and technology parts with equal love and depth.

New comment by oliyoung in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

oliyoung — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:30:40 +0000

> I don't understand why (mostly) young people put so much effort into remaining customers of a service that is actively hostile against them

The Network Effect.

That's it. Their friends are there so they're there.

New comment by oliyoung in "Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord"

oliyoung — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:13:10 +0000

You're using Discord to describe the same thing that could easily be applied to any social network.

Yes, it's borne of teenagers and gaming, but for all it's dark corners it's just the modern IRC. There are good servers, there are bad servers, there are servers full of idiots and there are servers full of very smart people.

(and we're way past monetisation kicking in, the first paid options launched almost 10 years ago)

New comment by oliyoung in "CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook"

oliyoung — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:44:21 +0000

BNW has proven to be far more prescient, and insidiously so, than 1984

New comment by oliyoung in "The Frutiger Aero Archive"

oliyoung — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:10:28 +0000

I don't like that this is reminding me that I'm not in my mid 20s anymore

The aesthetic hasn't aged well, but the nostalgia hits great

New comment by oliyoung in "Autonomous cars, drones cheerfully obey prompt injection by road sign"

oliyoung — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:10:09 +0000

This might be the single most 2026 headline i've seen yet

New comment by oliyoung in "GeForce Now Brings GeForce RTX Gaming to Linux PCs"

oliyoung — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:48:59 +0000

Curious timing https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

New comment by oliyoung in "The sad and self-inflicted decline of the Washington Post, in one chart"

oliyoung — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:46:29 +0000

Probably worth flagging that Silver sold FiveThirtyEight to, and then worked at, WaPo's biggest competitor