Hacker News: ricardobeat

New comment by ricardobeat in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

ricardobeat — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:46:32 +0000

Settled with whom, if nobody showed up to represent AA?

New comment by ricardobeat in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

ricardobeat — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:42:33 +0000

Have you considered blaming Spotify or the music industry instead for how ridiculously closed the entire system is?

New comment by ricardobeat in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

ricardobeat — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:33:11 +0000

Happy to have dropped Spotify years ago.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

ricardobeat — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:17:51 +0000

> no weird soul.md

The “soul document” actually originated from Claude. It’s not a prompt but embedded in its training.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Do you even need a database?"

ricardobeat — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:01:31 +0000

> They'll tell their boss it's impossibly dangerous to make any changes, and they'll replace it with a database.

This, 100%. Development today is driven by appearances though, you can take advantage of that. Give it a cute name, make sure you have AI generate an emoji-rich README for it, publish it as an open source npm package, then trigger CI a few thousand times to get a pretty download count. They will happily continue using it without fear!

New comment by ricardobeat in "Live Nation illegally monopolized ticketing market, jury finds"

ricardobeat — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:46:15 +0000

Airlines need distribution. Concert venues don’t.

Mid/high profile venues know they will sell out regardless, they can shop around the venue rights to the highest bidder.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Show HN: A memory database that forgets, consolidates, and detects contradiction"

ricardobeat — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:30:26 +0000

None of these help resolve the contradiction. The issue (https://github.com/yantrikos/yantrikdb-server/issues/3) doesn't even get the problem presented by the parent right (two CEOS), instead it hallucinated something vaguely related.

Top-quality AI slop. I hate this.

To the author: project aside, it's not a good look to let an LLM drive your HN profile.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Show HN: A memory database that forgets, consolidates, and detects contradiction"

ricardobeat — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:22:23 +0000

"Genuinely" is such a fittingly ironic word to have become a marker for AI-written prose.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

ricardobeat — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:03:15 +0000

It’s funny that the same person asking for linux support would complain about B2 “not being for home users”. I sync my own backups to B2 and would set that up over installing linux any day of the week! It’s extremely easy.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Blurry iPhone Text Picture Problem: Is There an Easy Solution I'm Missing?"

ricardobeat — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:18:50 +0000

Apple applies a really heavy-handed text-enhancing algorithm by default. I first noticed this with the iPhone 16 - in an Apple Store, if you took a picture of the product card sitting on the other side of the table at a specific distance, it would turn into complete hierogyiph-looking gibberish.

That is reproducible with any iPhone. I went back when the iPhone 17 was released and got the exact same result. Only enabling Apple ProRAW in the Pro phones resolves it. I showed it to the Apple employee next to me the first time and they were just as puzzled.

It seems to help with clarity on small letters and the kind of background text you'll usually find in city pictures, which is what most people care about - but I find the results very poor, especially, as the author mentions, compared to older phones.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS"

ricardobeat — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:13:32 +0000

> I built boringBar so I would not have to use the Dock

Does anybody really use the dock as a an app switcher? MacOS is built around shortcuts, alt-tab, show spaces, etc. The dock is there for starting apps – which you can also do via spotlight, and as a “favorites” list after you remove all the built-ins.

New comment by ricardobeat in "447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane"

ricardobeat — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:51:59 +0000

That’s amazing. Do you have a home lab with an atomic microscope where you do your research?

And what’s the reason for going solo vs a research university, where I assume this type of research could be significantly sped up?

New comment by ricardobeat in "I Hate Tailwind and Love Bootstrap"

ricardobeat — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:03:11 +0000

What happens in practice is you use Tailwind with components (React or otherwise), so you build `

New comment by ricardobeat in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

ricardobeat — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:32:59 +0000

Yes, good times! With http2/3 they don't really matter anymore though, you get similar benefits from request pipelining.

New comment by ricardobeat in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

ricardobeat — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:45:47 +0000

Boards like the ESP32-C6, almost 5 years old, are not supported in PlatformIO with Arduino libraries, because they refuse to update the Arduino core in some kind of stand-off with Espressif. This has been going on for years. There is a fork [1] that offers support but none of it makes back upstream.

As a hobbyist I've given up on PIO and moved to a barebones arduino-cli setup instead. Much lighter and less painful.

[1] https://github.com/pioarduino/platform-espressif32

New comment by ricardobeat in "Proton meet isn't what they told you it was"

ricardobeat — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:07:15 +0000

RISC-V is also open. That “some reason” is likely to be power/performance levels being quite far from ARM & Intel for consumer devices.

New comment by ricardobeat in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

ricardobeat — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:03:37 +0000

Given their history, I would guess <$6 a piece for a dev board, <$2 for the chip at scale.

New comment by ricardobeat in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

ricardobeat — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:00:54 +0000

Arduino nano are made by arduino using Espressif chips, and Arduino IDE support is indeed hit and miss.

ESP-IDF, the official C SDK, is a bit more work, and there is drama around platform-io, but it’s significantly more stable.

New comment by ricardobeat in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

ricardobeat — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:58:07 +0000

I hope this one has multiple radios so you can actually use BT/Wifi/Thread simultaneously.

New comment by ricardobeat in "Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was"

ricardobeat — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:55:01 +0000

Power?