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New comment by phn in "Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out"

phn — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:20:14 +0000

I think part of the issue is that these retailers are also customers of meta/google on the side of purchasing ads, and as a merchant you're highly encouraged to send as much data on your events as you can, or your conversion tracking can be "less accurate"and your campaigns are less efficient.

So it's less about "we're sending the data to $megacorp" and more about "I want the most bang for buck on my own campaigns" when the decision is made.

Using a different email certainly helps, though!

EDIT: highly encouraged by meta et. al! Whether this is a legitimate request to improve results or pure self-interest on the part of meta I don't know!

New comment by phn in "Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out"

phn — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:10:57 +0000

The issue is, even with all the browser protections, you still create an account anywhere or buy something an input your name/email address/shipping address, your "hashed data" immediately gets sent to meta/google as a conversion with "this guy bought a cat toy", and you start getting ads for cat related stuff everywhere.

They don't even need to "track" you properly for this stuff to work and it seems there's no way to escape it.

New comment by phn in "Show HN: How I topped the HuggingFace open LLM leaderboard on two gaming GPUs"

phn — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:47:09 +0000

A fascinating thing for me after reading this is: how can it be that the "circuit input" is compatible with its output to the point where the performance improves? The training process never saw this particular connection just like it didn't see layer 60 output into layer 3 or whatever.

Great read, makes you wonder what else is encoded in these models that might be useful!

New comment by phn in "I built a programming language using Claude Code"

phn — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:37:19 +0000

A good example of this is Rust. Rust is by default memory safe when compared to say, C, at the expense of you having to be deliberate in managing memory. With LLMs this equation changes significantly because that harder/more verbose code is being written by the LLM, so it won't slow you down nearly as much. Even better, the LLM can interact with the compiler if something is not exactly as it should.

On a different but related note, it's almost the same as pairing django or rails with an LLM. The framework allows you to trust that things like authentication and a passable code organization are being correctly handled.

France Is Building Its Own Google Workspace – With Django

phn — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:41:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bhusalmanish.com.np/blog/posts/france-django-lasuite.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856570

Points: 7

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New comment by phn in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

phn — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:09:10 +0000

Very small suggestion: Can you make the entries actual links/anchor tags so that it is possible to copy link, middle-click to open in a new tab, and so on?

New comment by phn in "I’m leaving Redis for SolidQueue"

phn — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:37:09 +0000

You can look at it both ways.

Using the database as a queue, you no longer need to setup transaction triggers to fire your tasks, you can have atomic guarantees that the data and the task were created successfully, or nothing was created.

New comment by phn in "The next two years of software engineering"

phn — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:26:14 +0000

I think the problem starts with the name. I've been coding with LLMs for the past few months but most of it is far from "vibed", I am constantly reviewing the output and guiding it in the right direction, it's more like a turbo charged code editor than a "junior developer", imo.

New comment by phn in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

phn — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:55:29 +0000

Have you tried Roo Code in "Orchestrator" mode? I find it generally "chews" the tasks I give it to then spoon feed into sub-tasks in "Code" (or others) mode, leaving less room to stray from very focused "bite-sized" changes.

I do need to steer it sometimes, but since it doesn't change a lot at a time, I can usually guide the agent and stop the disaster before it spreads.

A big caveat is I haven't tried heavy front-end stuff with it, more django stuff, and I'm pretty happy with the output.

New comment by phn in "A deliberate practice app for guitar players who want to level up"

phn — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:23:45 +0000

And a great way to pick up the guitar every day is to have it ready to go at all times. Keep it outside the bag/case and at arms reach.

New comment by phn in "The Influence of Japanese Archaeology on the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild"

phn — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 09:58:46 +0000

If you're visiting Shinjuku, nearby there's a narrow street called Omoide Yokocho. Just take in the vibe and choose a yakitori spot to grab a bite and drink your poison of choice (tea/beer/sake). I would recommend going at night/dinner time.

Speaking of Shinjuku and videogames, if you've ever played any yakuza/like a dragon game, you owe it to yourself to go to Kabukicho and its big red gate.

In any case, whatever you choose to visit in Tokyo, it will be really nice, and a lot of it will still be waiting when you eventually come back.

Cheers!

New comment by phn in "FFT-based ocean-wave rendering, implemented in Godot"

phn — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:52:21 +0000

The worst so far, and the best when compared to all of your remaining days.

New comment by phn in "The quest for a Wiki-less game"

phn — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:49:56 +0000

I think Elden Ring (and the souls genre in general) IS designed with the assumption players have access to the internet to search for stuff if they want.

The game will still provide quite a challenge even if you know where you need to go and get weapons/items/etc. The bosses won't defeat themselves even if you know the overall strategy to use.

I think of it as kind of a self-regulated difficulty system, if you want to go in blind you are still free to do so.

New comment by phn in "AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules"

phn — Wed, 08 May 2024 18:32:43 +0000

I'm not a scientist by any means, but I imagine even accurate opaque models can be useful in moving the knowledge forward. For example, they can allow you to accurately simulate reality, making experiments faster and cheaper to execute.

New comment by phn in "Employees are feeding sensitive data to ChatGPT, raising security fears"

phn — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 22:44:58 +0000

Employees have been feeding sensitive data to online translators in the same way.

Not to say it isn't a problem, but it's not an AI/chatGPT specific one.

New comment by phn in "Godot 4.0 Stable"

phn — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 17:38:38 +0000

Can you elaborate on why you think that?

IMO, their scripting language is pretty accessible to anyone with a bit of experience with programming and has nice syntactic sugar to integrate with the engine.

New comment by phn in "Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs"

phn — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 15:32:21 +0000

For sure, I'm not saying it'd be better or worse. It's just hard to imagine a world without Chrome.

New comment by phn in "Sergey Brin: Irate Call from Steve Jobs"

phn — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 10:21:01 +0000

Imagine how different the world would be if Google really went with the "enhanced version" of Firefox instead if building Chrome.

New comment by phn in "Soketi: Simple, fast and resilient open-source WebSockets server"

phn — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 22:46:40 +0000

Does anyone know how this compares with centrifugo?

New comment by phn in "Gamedevs not baking in monetization are “fucking idiots”, says Unity CEO"

phn — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 17:06:02 +0000

Fully cross-platform for the usual suspects on desktop, mobile and web.

If you want to publish on consoles you need to pay someone who ported the engine to the console you want to target (or port the engine yourself). The code can't be open source because of licensing issues.

From: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/platform/co...