Hacker News: piyuv

New comment by piyuv in "Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent"

piyuv — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:46:55 +0000

Do you realize this thread is about a suicide preventation website? Can’t you separate between public services and profit-based ones?

New comment by piyuv in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

piyuv — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:33:09 +0000

I’ve read many horror stories from Indian developers about how they’re treated. They can’t escape it since almost every company in India will treat them the same. Their only escape is a remote job or to relocate.

I believe we’ll see this play out in a global scale. Once every employer paying a good salary does this, we won’t be able to pick and choose, without forfeiting a huge chunk of income. At that point I’d rather become a baker.

New comment by piyuv in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

piyuv — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:34:27 +0000

I hate this so much that I strongly considered creating a family Apple ID. Nowadays I’m just considering leaving Apple ecosystem altogether. Hopefully soon.

New comment by piyuv in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

piyuv — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:39:47 +0000

Jitsi has audio rooms like discord?

New comment by piyuv in "Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective"

piyuv — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:19:52 +0000

YMMV, but I was too horny to actually make use of my superior fluid intelligence in my 20s, so I’m content with the tradeoff here.

New comment by piyuv in "Swift in the Browser with ElementaryUI (Swift FOSDEM 2026 Talk) [video]"

piyuv — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:20:00 +0000

You listed “corporate backing” as a good thing and “no adoption outside Apple ecosystem” as a pain point. Why would it get adopted outside Apple ecosystem if Apple decides what happens to it?

New comment by piyuv in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

piyuv — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:56:36 +0000

Swift being maintained by the open source community is an illusion. The community was very against function builders. Apple went ahead and did it anyway because they needed it for SwiftUI. The open source community just provides discussion, and Apple gets its way either way.

New comment by piyuv in "Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant"

piyuv — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:27:23 +0000

Being a well respected dev and being active on Twitter are contradictory

New comment by piyuv in "How I estimate work"

piyuv — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:21:40 +0000

Not a good analogy. Once you build a bridge, it’s done. Software nowadays is never “done”, and requirements constantly change. It’s more akin to building a rope bridge and trying to upgrade it to accommodate cars while it’s in active use.

New comment by piyuv in "Bugs Apple loves"

piyuv — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:49:47 +0000

I’m using native mail app of iOS/macos and search bar works for me. However, iOS has a persistent issue of not fetching new mails, even from iCloud, which has support for push updates. I inadvertently build a habit of opening mail app and refreshing.

New comment by piyuv in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

piyuv — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:06:07 +0000

None of the examples you provided were being sold as “intelligence”

New comment by piyuv in "OLED, Not for Me"

piyuv — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:01:35 +0000

How close are you sitting to those monitors?

New comment by piyuv in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

piyuv — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:13:06 +0000

“Irrefutable part” is easily refutable. Malware ran by governments and agencies is still malware.

New comment by piyuv in "The Post-American Internet"

piyuv — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:54:10 +0000

He wrote “calculations”

New comment by piyuv in "BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal"

piyuv — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:19:20 +0000

Is that a fancy way of saying “communist” China has real, authentic capitalism and “capitalist” US has monopolies all over?

New comment by piyuv in "Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games"

piyuv — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:38:56 +0000

Fortunately, GenAI will never be as good as human artists.

New comment by piyuv in "Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games"

piyuv — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:33:25 +0000

There’s a section “The Specific Use of Gen AI Matters” in the article. Arc Raiders uses GenAI to voice npc characters. I wish it didn’t, but this is not something that’d affect gameplay much.

New comment by piyuv in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"

piyuv — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:22:46 +0000

Addendum to 2: have a blog with thousands of readers which you can use to publicize your case, otherwise Apple won’t give a damn, like they did to Buttfield-Addison. He had the receipts, Apple didn’t care.

New comment by piyuv in "iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited"

piyuv — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:00:47 +0000

Your theory is real but its not the main purpose, it’s a happy accident for Apple. Otherwise there’d be a class action.

New comment by piyuv in "YouTube's CEO limits his kids' social media use – other tech bosses do the same"

piyuv — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:29:37 +0000

Switch is an overall better choice for kids anyway, lots of kid friendly high quality games and they can even get some exercise in (switch sports, warioware, fitness boxing, Mario tennis)