Hacker News: raydev

New comment by raydev in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

raydev — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:24:31 +0000

I don’t think excel can give me the instructions for building a house or how to cook a particular meal or write my emails for me. The potential output of LLMs is quite obviously more broad than excel.

New comment by raydev in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

raydev — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:13:45 +0000

Not really, the purpose of Excel is pretty clear cut and the scope is small.

Preventing a human-like general purpose textbot from engaging in certain discussions and performing certain tasks seems like a natural thing to do given the massive scope of its capabilities. None of these tools are sold with free license to do whatever with them anyway.

New comment by raydev in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

raydev — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:43:30 +0000

It's a cute and funny name.

New comment by raydev in "The real cost of owning a home"

raydev — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:26:07 +0000

I'd rather not get a bunch of ticks while walking to my door.

New comment by raydev in "The real cost of owning a home"

raydev — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:05:40 +0000

How would you keep it from filling up with weeds in any reasonably grass-friendly climate?

I just pay someone $50/week to mow my lawn and I pay zero attention to it. If we have a mini-drought and the grass turns brown, oh well.

New comment by raydev in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

raydev — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:51:59 +0000

Unfortunately we get the inflation anyway from military action in/around Iran.

New comment by raydev in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

raydev — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:25:28 +0000

Hopefully there's a way to opt out of the inevitably worse experience for those of us who like scrolling through TikTok.

The web was already getting bad with ads and popups, but the EU's sloppy legislation loopholes somehow encouraged all websites to show cookie popups (and never remember my selection), so the experience is even worse.

New comment by raydev in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

raydev — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:26:36 +0000

This style of layoff seems far more common post-2020 than targeted "restructuring". I've lived through a few layoffs now, survived most of them, but each time and at each company I've gotten by on an apparent roll of the dice and nothing more. Every time I've seen some truly important ICs get let go, their EMs having no input.

New comment by raydev in "The RAM shortage could last years"

raydev — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:02:34 +0000

> We're doing Electron because the ability to create truly cross-platform interfaces with the web stack is more important to us than 300 MB of user memory.

It's closer to 1GB but trust me, everyone is well aware of your priorities.

New comment by raydev in "The RAM shortage could last years"

raydev — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:07:47 +0000

It won't be "happening" until Slack, Teams, and Discord leave Electron behind. They are the apps that need to be open 24/7.

New comment by raydev in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

raydev — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:51:58 +0000

If the page is lazy loading content then the local ctrl+f is not going to work, obviously.

If you’re hinting at an argument about whether lazy loading content should exist, that’s a separate discussion. In my experience, pages that override ctrl+f do it for a good reason

New comment by raydev in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

raydev — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:07:43 +0000

That is a great question for those in power to figure out before the masses get upset enough to harm them.

New comment by raydev in "Meta: A Cautionary Tale [video]"

raydev — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:44:21 +0000

Content creator Michael Palmisano of Guitargate shares his experience of having his verified business account on Instagram deactivated without any warning, explanation, or clear path for appeal

The state of Maryland has agreed to investigate and take his case to Meta

Meta: A Cautionary Tale [video]

raydev — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:44:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNCQ5kV-cKs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640708

Points: 1

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New comment by raydev in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

raydev — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:19:22 +0000

It's been more than 10+ years that I've been able to Option+Click the green button to fill the screen. Works for any app, and always has, unless that app explicitly disallows resizing. That's not recent.

New comment by raydev in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

raydev — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:58:47 +0000

The video you linked is from 2019. A lot has changed with Thunderbolt capability and the Studios now have enough ports/bandwidth to handle audio processing needs to multiple boxes.

New comment by raydev in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

raydev — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:39:28 +0000

Like I did with regex some years earlier, I worked on a project for a few weeks that required constant interactions with jq, and through that I managed to lock in the general shape of queries so that my google hints became much faster.

Of course, this doesn't matter now, I just ask an LLM to make the query for me if it's so complex that I can't do it by hand within seconds.

New comment by raydev in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

raydev — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:25:03 +0000

Luckily I'm near the median age, so it actually has been like that for most people. :)

New comment by raydev in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

raydev — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:37:01 +0000

Respectfully, whether it "actually happens" is irrelevant. We want to prevent it from happening.

New comment by raydev in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

raydev — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:07:33 +0000

Why are you comparing prices from a time when most people in the US weren't even born yet?

Comparing with the 90s seems reasonable because nothing is dramatically different about the experience except there are generally better seats now.