Hacker News: permalac

New comment by permalac in "Claude Opus 5"

permalac — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:01:18 +0000

I know companies paying for AI and not training people to use it, so spending is higher than usage on those.

New comment by permalac in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

permalac — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:19:33 +0000

Very similar argument to those who want to ban encryption.

Why do you need to encrypt your network traffic with ssl, is you have nothing to hide....

New comment by permalac in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"

permalac — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:30:54 +0000

Midterm may accelerate the process.

New comment by permalac in "Grok Build is open source"

permalac — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:21:00 +0000

Pretty easy.

Nazi salute. Supporting all nazi and far right movements in Europe, publicly. Inventing DOGE so he could fire judges and pave his way out of trouble.

Yes. Is easy to see why some hate him, for life.

New comment by permalac in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

permalac — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:43:16 +0000

Shall we be concerned that not many are even able to read assembler code? I'm not talking about reading machine code, produced by the assembler, but the assembler code itself.

Machine code was hard, but one could make it pretty efficient. Not efficiently.

Assembler was still pretty performant, for today's standard it is tip top.

So, moving on 10, 20 years from now, can someone read c++? Even html?

New comment by permalac in "The Tower Keeps Rising"

permalac — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:39:43 +0000

All have its space. Small team, do monolith or you'll stop moving. Big teams, be wary of Conway's law, and don't fight it, probably some services will emerge.

New comment by permalac in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

permalac — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:42:26 +0000

Hey. Yes. I did vive code one as an exercise yo learn how to publish to apple store.

Listen and transcribe felt like the easiest thing to do.

Distavo.com

The source is open for anyone to use, and the builds are in github.

I found quite interesting that claude didn't help too much on how to publish to SetApp until Fable.

New comment by permalac in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

permalac — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:55:50 +0000

Is that the nvidia spark?

New comment by permalac in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

permalac — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:54:51 +0000

Similar with forgejo. I mirrored all gh then flipped the ones I was using the most. The biggest win was on running apple runners in my mac, so the free gh actions can do other stuff.

New comment by permalac in "We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps"

permalac — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:26:08 +0000

Having 'local runable' to compare would be awesome. For example I have a 48G MacBook.

New comment by permalac in "Espionage Against the European Parliament"

permalac — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:08:45 +0000

The catalan MEPs also were targeted with Pegasus, and I don't remember the details but at that time the only client were nation states, so Spain was the one to hire the service. Nothing happened.

New comment by permalac in "The Wisdom of Quinn the Eskimo (Apple Developer Technical Support Engineer)"

permalac — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:06:45 +0000

I don't get it. What is this all about?

New comment by permalac in "Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]"

permalac — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:34:40 +0000

Pretty big space.

New comment by permalac in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

permalac — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:17:48 +0000

What percentage of his earnings does represent?

New comment by permalac in "TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election"

permalac — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:43:04 +0000

Nothing has been learnt from Cambridge analitica?

Is our society this simple?

New comment by permalac in "TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election"

permalac — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:18:26 +0000

Why is not relevant?

He hosts, he decides, he buys.

Are we so naive that one can think stakeholders are not involved in decision making?

He had more decision power than most shareholders ever will.

New comment by permalac in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

permalac — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:29:38 +0000

What is the irony here?

New comment by permalac in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

permalac — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:40:32 +0000

The next generation of leaders know there are no consequences to cheating, that's what I get out of this.

New comment by permalac in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

permalac — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:15:57 +0000

Used them both for years.

Outlook eats Gmail for breakfast. The way shared accounts, lists, and work assignments are done in Outlook require their backend (share point inheritance), and google drive is pretty good even for some small files, but when all is considered O365 wins.

Then if you are in Europe, you should not use any of those and other very good solutions are currently growing super fast.

New comment by permalac in "Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec"

permalac — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:45:45 +0000

I'm currently working on a tui which includes photorec and foremost among others.

I have also created my first dockerhub image, as the plan is to run it as container on top of a zfs in Truenas.

I'm basically on a hunt for all data, I have 7 disks and some USB that I have imaged and I need to get data out, and I will need to organised all that data (this part is still a work in progress), ideas welcomed.

https://github.com/joanmarcriera/hdd-recovery