Hacker News: rdudek

New comment by rdudek in "Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape"

rdudek — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:53:41 +0000

I hear there is a shortage of blades for the turbines.

New comment by rdudek in "Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel"

rdudek — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:08:08 +0000

So does anybody actually have a good alternative to Grammarly?

New comment by rdudek in "Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera"

rdudek — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:45:46 +0000

Makes you wonder if that could actually work

New comment by rdudek in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

rdudek — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:30:14 +0000

The comparison difference of terms and conditions was hilarious and spot on. Well done GN!

New comment by rdudek in "Jellyfin 12.0"

rdudek — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:28:56 +0000

Is Plex/jellyfin even necessary for Infuse? I've been using Infuse for years now and it has direct access to my NAS to look for media content and just directly plays it. It's a such an amazing app and it plays everything I throw at it without any buffering or transcoding issues. The Pro version pretty much has all the necessary codecs, including all the dolby things for hdr/atmos. It just works so well.

New comment by rdudek in "O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11"

rdudek — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:16:53 +0000

I'm approaching a year now on CachyOS and it has been a wonderful experience. All the games that I play run just fine, maybe a few FPS drop compared to Windows, but it's not a big deal for me. I also don't play any competitive online games that require 3rd party anti-cheat spyware. Biggest positives, I got very comfortable with terminal and CLI work. My development work has definitely improved.

New comment by rdudek in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

rdudek — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 03:51:25 +0000

I've been slowly developing my hermes agent to do something similar but is very customized towards my needs. I should spin up another agent and give this one a shot and see what it's capable of. This is hilarious.

New comment by rdudek in "Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership"

rdudek — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:50:10 +0000

Nexsar is taking over Tegna. Currently tied up in courts, but it's pretty much sinclair-like propaganda machine.

New comment by rdudek in "Claude Sonnet 5"

rdudek — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:13:48 +0000

Would love to read that blog post. I'm toying with running local AI model with Claude and GLM as well depending on a task. Pretty decent success but it could be better.

New comment by rdudek in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

rdudek — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:31:08 +0000

We're in late-stage capitalism here. The pitchforks are already out and spreading across the globe. Unless the big companies get broken up, this nation will split into either a police state or socialist state.

New comment by rdudek in "US House rejects FISA Section 702 extension, warrantless surveillance expires"

rdudek — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:55:28 +0000

I have to admire the double-dipping business model of private companies getting paid by local governments to setup surveillance cameras and harvest data. Then the same goverment will pay to get warrantless access to that same data.

New comment by rdudek in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

rdudek — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:31:06 +0000

Do you have a brand of those laces? The original ones on my Brooks runnign shoes are usually pretty good, but overtime they start getting more loose.

New comment by rdudek in "US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

rdudek — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:11:16 +0000

The tidbid they're not talking about are the fact that wages are down .5%

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/12/cpi-inflation-april-2026-.ht...

New comment by rdudek in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

rdudek — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:46:34 +0000

Wouldn't that be WINE?

New comment by rdudek in "The hottest college major [Computer Science] hit a wall. What happened?"

rdudek — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:14:35 +0000

This just reminds me of that old meme where a product manager says something like "Why am I paying you $200k/yr when I can just copy code from StackOverflow?" and the engineer responded "You pay me that because I make sure the code you copied is the right code". I have a feeling we're in a similar situation here for AI. Sure, anyone can create AI slop code, but to fully take advantage of it, you need someone that understands the whole chain of design and development to make it fully work and integrate with existing systems.

I think we're in for an era where many folks will be filtered out and those who know and understand code, will be in high-demand.

New comment by rdudek in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

rdudek — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:48:43 +0000

What about all the age restriction stuff coming online here in the US in various states? Those are cool right?

This service is definitely a honeypot for tracking.

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

rdudek — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:05:42 +0000

Genuine question, what is stopping users from using AI to generate a fake face or ID to bypass this restriction?

New comment by rdudek in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

rdudek — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:01:34 +0000

Wait, was this an oversight on his part about the biometric unlock? My MacBook biometric gets disabled after a bit and requires a password if the lid was closed for substantial amount of time.

New comment by rdudek in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

rdudek — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:59:27 +0000

I honestly think that Waymo's reaction was spot on. I drop off and pick up my kid from school every day. The parking lots can be a bit of a messy wild west. My biggest concern is the size of cars especially those huge SUV or pickup trucks that have big covers on the back. You can't see anything incoming unless you stick your head out.

New comment by rdudek in "OMSCS Open Courseware"

rdudek — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 03:42:17 +0000

You'll get there! Some of them you can take two at a time. I myself only need 3 more!