Hacker News: repeekad

New comment by repeekad in "Goodbye to Sora"

repeekad — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:11:08 +0000

More likely the team who put a lot of work into it were unaware of the decision to kill the product, regardless of the final sunset date, until today.

New comment by repeekad in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

repeekad — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:32:51 +0000

Technology Connections referred to this as “algorithmic complacency”, young people don’t like Bluesky because they have to decide for themselves what content to follow instead of a default algorithm feed

New comment by repeekad in "US Military says 3 service members have been killed"

repeekad — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:12:30 +0000

It’s both?

New comment by repeekad in "US Military says 3 service members have been killed"

repeekad — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:31:18 +0000

America is a democratic republic, not a direct democracy. The only restriction is the president can’t declare war, only congress can do that.

They are pretending these strikes are “preemptive” in response to a nuclear bomb being developed, just like the “emergency” that was declared to enact the tariffs.

It’s all illegal

New comment by repeekad in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

repeekad — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:15:57 +0000

I agree with you for a company like Tesla, not only examples of self driving crashes but even the door handles would stop working when the power was cut, people trapped inside burning vehicles... Tesla doesn’t care

Meanwhile, Waymo has never been at fault for a collision afaik. You are more likely to be hurt by an at fault uber driver than a Waymo

New comment by repeekad in "YouTube as Storage"

repeekad — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:47:53 +0000

I once asked one of the original YouTube infra engineers “will you ever need to delete the long tail of videos no one watches”

They said it didn’t matter, because the sheer volume of new data flowing in growing so fast made the old data just a drop in the bucket

New comment by repeekad in "Ring owners are returning their cameras"

repeekad — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:12:15 +0000

Careful what you wish for, local cops have already abused cameras and license plate readers to arrest people just for driving by the location and looking similar to doorbell video, over package theft...

https://youtu.be/37fp2n6p19Q

New comment by repeekad in "Claude Opus 4.6"

repeekad — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:38:13 +0000

This is called context rot

New comment by repeekad in "How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post"

repeekad — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:05:34 +0000

they are not an unbiased news source, they profit from being biased toward what elites with money for a subscription want to hear

New comment by repeekad in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

repeekad — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:55:27 +0000

Now imagine how big the builds are for Instagram's server side doomscrollable feed algorithm, given their inverse incentives to this project.

New comment by repeekad in "Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report"

repeekad — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:46:48 +0000

The primary differentiator for me is that bsky does not have a central algorithm, you only see content from people you follow or explicitly go looking for. Yes the "top today" overall feed is very left biased, but the default is an empty feed that you have to populate yourself.

You can't complain about content on bluesky because unlike every other platform you must choose which feeds you use.

New comment by repeekad in "Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?"

repeekad — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:23:36 +0000

Something like Postgres embedding search works out of the box, but don’t forget any search engine today also needs reranking

https://github.com/with-logic/intent

New comment by repeekad in "Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?"

repeekad — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:58:51 +0000

My concern is if the employee is aware, at least let me quit before I’m silently opted into my boss realizing I can get the same work done with less time at the desk from home

New comment by repeekad in "Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?"

repeekad — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:53:05 +0000

This feels like a much better feature than “they can track your realtime location from the mobile app” as implied in the article? Plus employees will have to opt in?

The tracking is still gross, but limited to opt-in on office WiFi seems a lot less dramatic of a headline, especially given the main concern people have is work from home

New comment by repeekad in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

repeekad — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:23:09 +0000

I can’t remember being more enraged than when I learned my YouTube premium was more expensive per month than it needed to be because I had signed up on iPhone, so many people wasting money every month, and YouTube isn’t allowed to mention the option to pay on web

If they weren’t a public company, you’d think they were the mob. I’ll never trust the Apple ecosystem ever again

New comment by repeekad in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

repeekad — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:16:41 +0000

I called the non-emergency line for the local police department when someone went home with my wallet after I left it on a plane, tracked with an AirTag. 2 hours later an officer said they didn't have probable cause but could knock on the door and ask anyway. I think he basically offered for there to be no trouble if they gave it back, thief claimed they were "going to return it to lost and found", and sure enough I was able to go show my passport at the station and collect it the next day.

New comment by repeekad in "Comic-Con Bans AI Art After Artist Pushback"

repeekad — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:39:13 +0000

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (recently game of the year) got caught leaving a small amount of placeholder AI content in their game and everyone lost their mind

I’m sure reasonable artists agree with you, but many today do not

New comment by repeekad in "Level S4 solar radiation event"

repeekad — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:04:37 +0000

Meant the first and people should do the second, Chernobyl on HBO is great.

It’s also technically not a documentary but historical drama.

New comment by repeekad in "Level S4 solar radiation event"

repeekad — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:01:23 +0000

Queue Chernobyl documentary clip measuring the radiation as low because that’s as high the meter went

New comment by repeekad in "There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape"

repeekad — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:47:33 +0000

Most paper straws use PFAS, meaning we’re actively composting PFAS in a fantasy effort to feel good about our waste without actually giving anything up

https://fortune.com/well/2023/08/24/paper-straws-harmful-for...