Hacker News: qwertox

Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages

qwertox — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:55:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-More-Than-1500

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516379

Points: 289

# Comments: 180

OVH Grp enters into exclusive negotiations to acquire Gladia, expert in voice AI

qwertox — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:19:02 +0000

Article URL: https://corporate.ovhcloud.com/en/newsroom/news/ovhgroupe-gladia-exclusive-negotiations-voice-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48501779

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by qwertox in "Gemma 4 QAT models: Optimizing compression for mobile and laptop efficiency"

qwertox — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:44:05 +0000

What do you use?

New comment by qwertox in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

qwertox — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:33:56 +0000

> "if the product is free, you are the product"

I feel like this is no longer true. You are now the product regardless of you paying for it or not.

New comment by qwertox in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

qwertox — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:49:16 +0000

CPU (2012)

  Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1265L V2 @ 2.50GHz

Mainboard

  Product Name: P8Z77 WS

GPU

  05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation AD106 [GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB] (rev a1)
  05:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation AD106M High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)

Memory: 32GB

This works.

New comment by qwertox in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

qwertox — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:51:09 +0000

Maybe he was trying to say "look, when I can look this up, it means that you can too, i won't put any effort into it, because i pay you, but if i can use AI, so can you."

Maybe that was his rationale, "to educate" by example.

Absolutely nuts to treat employees this way, sending ChatGPT chats around.

New comment by qwertox in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

qwertox — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:45:47 +0000

I noticed that sometimes discussing the code with a chat instance, and having it write prompts for an in-IDE-agent, then posting the result back to the instance to discuss the results and repeat this loop yields not only good results, but also makes me understand the codebase better. I let both agents know I'm proxying and take part in the conversation.

New comment by qwertox in "Google Antigravity 2.0"

qwertox — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:52:22 +0000

They have completely damaged my install. I no longer have the IDE. Classic Google move.

I did an in-IDE upgrade (!), when i restarted it, it did not show the editor, but the agent manager, and there is no longer a way to launch that ide.

So i installed the Antigravity IDE, which the big brains at Google decide to install to the same location as Antigravity 2, and with both being Electron apps, does not work.

Both `Antigraviry IDE.exe ` and `Antigravity.exe` launch the same agent manager.

Nginx.org/En/Changes

qwertox — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:42:49 +0000

Article URL: https://nginx.org/en/CHANGES

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125757

Points: 11

# Comments: 3

New comment by qwertox in "Googlebook"

qwertox — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:30:34 +0000

This is then the device where Google monitors everything you do, just like on the phones. And decides what you can use and what it reports.

New comment by qwertox in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

qwertox — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:23:57 +0000

They could well use the data from their own developers, couldn't that be enough?

New comment by qwertox in "Veracrypt project update"

qwertox — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:42:51 +0000

~2015, "DevShare". They wrapped open-source software downloads with opt-out adware and PUPs (potentially unwanted programs), without the original developers' consent in some cases. They took over abandoned/unmaintained projects (like GIMP for Windows, VLC, etc.) and replaced the original download with their adware-wrapped version.

New comment by qwertox in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

qwertox — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:52:43 +0000

Maybe that will force the companies to not be allowed to just lock you out of the account.

New comment by qwertox in "“CEO said a thing” journalism"

qwertox — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:46:25 +0000

> Oh and he pays engineers $500,000 to spend $250,000 on Claude tokens.

What he said was that if he's paying 500,000 for an engineer, he expects that engineer to spend at least 250,000 in tokens, to get the most out of those $500,000.

Basically that it would be counterproductive to hire a top tier engineer and restrict his token usage to let's say $200 or $500 a month.

I think he's right on this.

New comment by qwertox in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

qwertox — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:55:15 +0000

This is very likely not true.

At a loss for words? Gen Z is outsourcing the hard conversations to AI

qwertox — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:54:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/07/health/gen-z-ai-conversations-wellness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298317

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine

qwertox — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:29:10 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/theflow0/status/2030011206040256841

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290676

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by qwertox in "Poor Man's Polaroid"

qwertox — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:56:25 +0000

The use of thermal paper was surprising. Great idea, indeed.

New comment by qwertox in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

qwertox — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:33:08 +0000

@sama's did say: "[..] will not be used to independently direct autonomous weapons in any case where law, regulation, or Department policy requires human control". Law is what Trump decides.

New comment by qwertox in "Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction"

qwertox — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:50:55 +0000

> Putting a fake case report on GitHub wouldn't make it any less fake.

Much easier to review for whomever wants to review it.