Hacker News: rtavares

New comment by rtavares in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

rtavares — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:18:57 +0000

> I wonder if this is related to the pretty serious security incident about Github which got published today

It is not. From the first footnote in the blog post:

> We've been discussing and putting together a plan to leave GitHub for months, and this blog post was written over a week ago. We only made the final decision this week.

Introducing: React Best Practices

rtavares — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:06:15 +0000

Article URL: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-react-best-practices

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46631869

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by rtavares in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"

rtavares — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:49:52 +0000

Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help.

1730 points, 1045 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252114

New comment by rtavares in "Models of European metro stations"

rtavares — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:29:50 +0000

I guess... https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by rtavares in "Apple highlights Brazilian study on domestic App Store performance"

rtavares — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:38:16 +0000

In the end of the first page:

> Apoio financeiro e dados para este estudo foram fornecidos pela Apple.

> As conclusões e opiniões expressas são exclusivamente do autor.

Translates to

> Financial support and data for this study were provided by Apple.

> The conclusions and opinions expressed are solely those of the author.

New comment by rtavares in "Apple highlights Brazilian study on domestic App Store performance"

rtavares — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:22:12 +0000

Link to the study, in Brazilian Portuguese: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/pdfs/2025/09/apple-ecosystem-...

Apple highlights Brazilian study on domestic App Store performance

rtavares — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:05:16 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/04/apple-highlights-brazilian-study-on-domestic-app-store-performance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45182108

Points: 20

# Comments: 11

ChatGPT now lets free users generate up to two images per day made by DALL-E 3

rtavares — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 11:30:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/8/24216348/chatgpt-free-users-dall-e-3-images

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41200810

Points: 11

# Comments: 3

New comment by rtavares in "Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering"

rtavares — Mon, 06 May 2024 14:32:52 +0000

Yes, you can see the site announcement here: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415962/new-official... (Feb. 2022)

New comment by rtavares in "Stolen masterpieces that are still missing"

rtavares — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:42:26 +0000

Probably. In the FAQ, for example, there is a repetition that is usually generated by LLMs:

> What is the current status of the investigation into the missing Ghent Altarpiece panel?

> The current investigation status of the missing Ghent Altarpiece panel (...)

> Is there any information about the security measures that were in place at the Mohamed Khalil Museum during the thefts of Poppy Flowers?

> Regarding the security measures at the Mohamed Khalil Museum during the theft of Poppy Flowers by Vincent van Gogh (...)

> What is the value of The Storm on the Sea of Galilee today?

> The value of The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt, if it were to be sold today, is challenging to estimate (...)

New comment by rtavares in "AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source"

rtavares — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:59:48 +0000

Later in the same thread:

> ROCm is a brand name for ROCm™ open software platform (for software) or the ROCm™ open platform ecosystem (includes hardware like FPGAs or other CPU architectures).

> Note, ROCm no longer functions as an acronym.

Lessons learned scaling PostgreSQL database to 1.2B records/month (2019)

rtavares — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 11:33:50 +0000

Article URL: https://gajus.medium.com/lessons-learned-scaling-postgresql-database-to-1-2bn-records-month-edc5449b3067

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39054272

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rtavares in "Elevator Saga: An elevator programming game (2015)"

rtavares — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 13:46:24 +0000

A problem with the floor selector in the hall is when some people enter the elevator together without selecting a floor. The system thinks that there is still space in the elevator, but in fact it is full, so it stops at different floors without anyone being able to enter. I've seen this happen quite often in a corporate building during the end of business hours and lunch hours.

New comment by rtavares in "Live worm found in Australian woman’s brain"

rtavares — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:56:31 +0000

According to Wikipedia[1], you need 501 karma points:

> Hacker News does not allow users to downvote content until they have accumulated 501 "karma" points.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News

New comment by rtavares in "Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown (2013)"

rtavares — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:46:54 +0000

The first book I read was Angels & Demons, illustrated edition[0]. I was ~11 years old and my professor took my class to an used bookstore and we had to choose a book and summarize it. Oh God, how lucky I was to have this book recommended to me and to find the illustrated edition. The book's plot and illustrations complemented each other in such a way that I was entertained as children are entertained today with a smartphone.

I don't remember if I read the last book in the Robert Langdon series, but I have to say that after reading Inferno, I had to read Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

Nowadays I'm always reading something. This first experience was important and the books I chose evolved as I matured in reading.

  0: https://www.ebay.com/itm/184865824842

YouTube is testing a new feature for A/B thumbnail testing

rtavares — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 11:28:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/23/23771045/youtube-test-and-compare-a-b-testing-thumbnails-feature

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36445400

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by rtavares in "Stack Overflow Is Down"

rtavares — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 14:51:07 +0000

They did not discountinue it. They are uploading June data dump and it's expected that the automatic data dumps are re-enabled by end of day Friday: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/390200

YouTube locks 4K playback behind Premium subscriptions in latest test

rtavares — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 11:13:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/4/23386782/youtube-premium-subscription-4k-quality-resolution-restriction-google

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33078779

Points: 39

# Comments: 48

New comment by rtavares in "Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI"

rtavares — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 11:54:44 +0000

This happened to me too. I'm using Brave and I needed to disable its Shields. Maybe you have some extension impacting the site, like an ad blocker?