Hacker News: rPlayer6554

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "OK, so Anthropic's AI built a C compiler. That don't impress me much"

rPlayer6554 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:11:35 +0000

The binary would not be nearly as useful as the source code. And even if the AI read the binary and copied it, the story is still it reverse engineered and re-wrote a c compiler all on its own. Which is still pretty impressive to me and has real world use cases.

Maybe Anthropic could release the logs to show how the AI was accessing the files.

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Apple Takes Full Control of 'Severance' in Surprise Deal"

rPlayer6554 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:00:22 +0000

I was ok with it opening a new story at the end of season 2 because it’s a fascinating dilemma and I’m happy they wanted to explore a deeper question about the morality of having two souls in one body and how that affects their humanity.

However, it should end next season. This idea it’s going to be a long term project is going to ruin everything and now I am sad.

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial"

rPlayer6554 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:56:36 +0000

Ignoring what I think of the case itself, I hate how many headlines now are just the talking points for one side or the other in a dispute. At least try to pretend you’re being a neutral reporter rather than regurgitating what someone with an agenda says.

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

rPlayer6554 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:59:12 +0000

Another pro tip is to not pay at restaurants. If you can leave the restaurant fast enough before they give you the bill, they must have forgotten to charge you and sucks for them! The trick is not to bring bags so you can fake a trip to the toilet!

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Bugs Apple loves"

rPlayer6554 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:04:26 +0000

You forgot when autocorrect fixes your word the second time, in 50% of cases you hit send too fast and have to send a follow up correction or edit the message

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Why I left iNaturalist"

rPlayer6554 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 03:54:01 +0000

Could you recommend any book in particular?

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

rPlayer6554 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:49:30 +0000

Ok so walk me through how _only_ focusing on the browser core will make them money other than continuing to be dependent on Google. How can they diversify their revenue streams?

I agree they should make the browser core good, but right now they are entirely dependent on their biggest competitor.

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot"

rPlayer6554 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:46:59 +0000

Just to be clear, they are NOT deactivating IntelliSense which suggests classes and functions.

This is an AI inline code suggestion tool using local LLMs.

Not great but may or may not impact your workflow. I love using agents, but Intellijs inline code suggestions (also based on a local LLMs) are usually useless to me.

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Framework Sponsors CachyOS"

rPlayer6554 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:52:15 +0000

Thanks for the clarification. Glad to see your support for the open source community.

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Framework Sponsors CachyOS"

rPlayer6554 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:30:17 +0000

Very interesting that Valve and Framework seem to be throwing their eggs in the Arch basket over Debian/Ubuntu. When I got my first computer, I installed Ubuntu because it was dominant. Maybe it still is for the average Linux downloader, but why are the Hardware companies more into Arch?

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

rPlayer6554 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:27:05 +0000

They have a “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks.” Sure it has a lot of crap but they also have major hits like Squid Games, Stranger Things, (both became cultural phenomena) and Daredevil.

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

rPlayer6554 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 20:09:16 +0000

YouTube has a lot of really positive educational content. I have learned so much from it. For instance, I was able to learn photography from it. Yes it’s still social media in a way, but the benefits can really outweigh the drawbacks with proper use.

Shorts as a whole are incredibly addictive and have a much lower benefit to drawback ratio. Parents should be able to make this cost/benefit decision for their kids. I wish I could turn them off for myself. I settled on only using YouTube on my laptop because shorts don’t have the same appeal in that context.

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team"

rPlayer6554 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 19:58:37 +0000

The writing style and random interjections with eye catching cartoons make it hard to follow.

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign"

rPlayer6554 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:04:41 +0000

Thanks for sharing! Really admire your bravery and trying new things.

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems"

rPlayer6554 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:15:47 +0000

Network level is more effective in blocking porn, but Kids often join unfiltered WiFi networks. Also I think network management is a bit more complicated for the average person than OS settings. I think both are useful

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems"

rPlayer6554 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 14:11:38 +0000

You need both in the world. Blockers are almost useless for adults with an addiction who can easily just buy a new device or figure out a way around.

Kids can’t really join addiction recovery groups, at least not in the same way adults can because it takes a full understanding of the impacts of porn addiction on life and a desire to stop. I can only speak for myself but even with parents who tried to communicate this, I didn’t have that level of maturity then.

Blockers at least can stop them from accidentally finding it, or generic curiosity. At least until the parents decide they are mature enough to handle the unfiltered internet

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Germany: States Pass Porn Filters for Operating Systems"

rPlayer6554 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:27:49 +0000

*This does not seem like a censorship measure.* It seems like it requires OSs to give parents an easy way to filter porn.

I struggle with porn addiction. When I really fall back into it I act out 5-10 times a day. I can’t stop even if I want to. It distracts from work and from my real life relationships and girlfriend.

Everyone on HN loves to rag on social media because it’s so toxic. What about porn? If social media makes it easy to compare my “boring” life with “beautiful” influencer lives, why wouldn’t porn make my normal girlfriend and normal sex seem boring. Part of that is how young I found porn when my brain was still developing and forming how it processed sex and relationships. Porn makes me feel so depressed.

I am sure other people handle porn and social media better than me. And that’s ok, I respect that. *But even if you think porn is ok as an adult, can’t you see why adults should be able to have more control over what their kids see.* Yes if they are motivated kids will find it - I learned a lot of the engineering skills I have now getting around my parents blocker. *Not every kid is that good and this might help many.* If it’s not required to be on in the OS, what’s the harm?

P.S. if you struggle with something similar to me, look up SA, SAA, or SLAA.

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp"

rPlayer6554 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:32:06 +0000

Swapping my phone number every year in the US would be an annoying as hell. Tons of services use phone number as 2FA or a backup recovery. (Including a lot of banks) I use SMS with some people and that would cut contact with them. Same direction if they changed numbers.

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

rPlayer6554 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:56:17 +0000

Every major station I went to in Japan had a huge mall with restaurants connected to it owned by the rail company. Inside stations were rail company owned gift shops, convince stores, etc.

New comment by rPlayer6554 in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

rPlayer6554 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:06:20 +0000

Japan’s rail privatization was extremely successful and it’s considered one of the best rail networks in the world now.