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New comment by petralithic in "Collaboration sucks"

petralithic — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:44:46 +0000

This sounds like a non sequitur to me, when did I ever say I disagreed with the fact that "they just want to get shit done?" I am not sure what your comment has to do with the part about misconstruing features for moving parts, for those are two independent things, and still more generally, like I said, people do pay for software that has more features than fewer.

New comment by petralithic in "Collaboration sucks"

petralithic — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:53:40 +0000

> Every delivered feature is a liability not an asset.

> If you don’t believe me, consider two products that make customers equally happy and one has half as many moving parts. Which one is more profitable to maintain?

Wrong analogy, use the word feature in both emphasized terms. Consider two products and one has half as many features, which is more profitable to maintain? Well, it depends whether people are paying for the other half of the feature set or not, as oftentimes people will pay for more features than fewer.

New comment by petralithic in "Collaboration sucks"

petralithic — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:50:17 +0000

Exactly, these two sentences seem at first related,

> No deadlines, minimal coordination, and no managers telling you what to do.

> In return, we ask for extraordinarily high ownership and the ability to get a lot done by yourself.

but can be insidious if implemented incorrectly. High ownership to do what you want, but what happens if what you decide goes against the goals of the manager or the company itself? No company can succeed without at least some sort of overarching goal structure, from which employees will naturally avail and seek to benefit themselves.

New comment by petralithic in "Ask HN: Why has typing on a phone not improved in ~20 years?"

petralithic — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:31:33 +0000

There are keyboard cases like https://www.clicks.tech/ which attach to your phone directly.

New comment by petralithic in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

petralithic — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:27:17 +0000

The same with movie sound mixing, where directors like Nolan are infamous for muffling dialogue in home setups because he wants the sound mixed for large, IMAX scale theater setups.

Meta's Omnilingual ASR: Open-Source Speech Recognition for 1600 Languages

petralithic — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:24:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/facebookresearch/omnilingual-asr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45888319

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Dioxus 0.7: User interfaces in Rust that run anywhere

petralithic — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 02:40:45 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/releases/tag/v0.7.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45883575

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by petralithic in "Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line"

petralithic — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:14:41 +0000

One, people should be using uBlock Origin as you mentioned. Two, there are many search engines without such ads. Three, qBittorrent has a search right inside the client, there is no need to even access the websites to perform searches.

New comment by petralithic in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

petralithic — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:09:16 +0000

For every apple I take, you still have your apple on the tree, because my apple is only a copy of yours.

New comment by petralithic in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

petralithic — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:46:58 +0000

Why ask questions you already know the answers to?

New comment by petralithic in "The Parallel Search API"

petralithic — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 06:13:12 +0000

How would the product work if for example I just wanted to get basic information from various websites, such as "how many calories are in a McDonald's hamburger?" I'm creating a product that tracks calories via natural language and I'd want a structured JSON back of calories, grams of fat, protein, carbs etc. What API would I use for that, the Chat API one?

New comment by petralithic in "Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS"

petralithic — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:44:40 +0000

You're not the average user if you have auto updates disabled. Notice you also said "some" apps, well, most do need to keep up with OS updates or fall behind.

New comment by petralithic in "Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states"

petralithic — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 05:43:38 +0000

Parliamentary systems are not comparable to presidential ones when it comes to voting systems.

New comment by petralithic in "Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states"

petralithic — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:30:46 +0000

What I said is factually true, neither mocking, judging nor telling you off. If you believe saying something like, don't look at the sun or you'll hurt your eyes (and then you look at the sun and say that your eyes are burnt) is telling you off, then we have different definitions of the phrase.

New comment by petralithic in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

petralithic — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:30:21 +0000

Good thing Mamdani is doing both, cutting red tape and constructing new housing, at least that's his plan, we shall see what others in his governance think about it.

New comment by petralithic in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

petralithic — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 08:20:19 +0000

Mamdani is doing both though, in a controlled manner. He voted to oppose NIMBYism as well and has a plan for new construction.

New comment by petralithic in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

petralithic — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 08:16:50 +0000

More housing, regardless of type, is directly correlated to cheaper average rents [0]. So Thiel is right in that regard, the red tape for construction and opposition from NIMBYs must be curtailed.

[0] https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/733977

New comment by petralithic in "Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states"

petralithic — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:50:54 +0000

And what if the executive does not care to administrate and follow those laws, and Congress does not care or more truthfully cannot do anything even if it did?

New comment by petralithic in "Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states"

petralithic — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:49:21 +0000

It's more that voting third party in a first-past-the-post voting scheme is systemically pointless.

New comment by petralithic in "Responses from LLMs are not facts"

petralithic — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 07:47:11 +0000

Maybe it's Gemini, maybe it's another one of their models, but I'm specifically talking about LLMs like Gemini, or, if you want a better example, Perplexity, which crawls web pages first and then cites them, so that there aren't bogus citations.