Hacker News: shriek

New comment by shriek in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

shriek — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:06:22 +0000

A simple on/off toggle isn't going to prevent them from using your data. If your data is in their server then it's going to be used one way or another. Whether in an anonymous way or shipped to where there are no privacy laws.

New comment by shriek in "Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API"

shriek — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:44:59 +0000

to build what you don't understand is to suffer in future

New comment by shriek in "I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13"

shriek — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 14:59:54 +0000

Yep, did the same thing too. It's nice that you just need one tool to unscrew, screw things and everything is labelled well that you don't need to go dig to multiple websites on how to do repair/replace parts. But of all things, replacing keyboard was the most tedious one in framework with so many screws, haha.

New comment by shriek in "DOGE puts $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards"

shriek — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:11:04 +0000

Yep. They've made a decision to pay premium price for your service so you know you're worth more now.

New comment by shriek in "A decade later, a decade lost (2024)"

shriek — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:54:29 +0000

It never occurred to me to lookup the creator of the tool[1] that I used to use so often. It's so easy to overlook that there are actually humans with their own story (tragic or not) behind the tools that we use. I should learn to appreciate people behind the code more. And, I'm so sorry what you had to and are going through, Mr. Meyer.

[1]. https://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

New comment by shriek in "FFmpeg by Example"

shriek — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 15:28:15 +0000

Or maybe calling a cab and telling the cab driver each direction to get to the destination instead of the cab driver just taking you there.

New comment by shriek in "Tabby: Self-hosted AI coding assistant"

shriek — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:07:58 +0000

Wait till they come with auto review/merge agents, or maybe there already is. gulp

New comment by shriek in "Why making friends as an adult is hard"

shriek — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 17:56:54 +0000

Because they have a common goal. The challenge for atheists is to find group of people with the same goal as theirs.

New comment by shriek in "We're Leaving Kubernetes"

shriek — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 16:31:28 +0000

And the reason they suck is the feedback loop is just too high as compared to running it locally. You have to jump through hoops to debug/troubleshoot your code or any issues that you come across between your code and output of your code. And it's almost impossible to work on things when you have spotty internet. I haven't worked on extremely sensitive data but for PII data from prod to dev, scrubbing is a good practice to follow. This will vary based on the project/team you're on of course.

New comment by shriek in "TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'"

shriek — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 19:06:19 +0000

Oh for sure. I use it as smart(ish) autocomplete to avoid typing everything out/looking up in docs everytime but the thought of prompt engineering to make an app is just bizarre to me. It almost feels like it has more friction than actually writing the damn thing yourself.

New comment by shriek in "TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'"

shriek — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:29:45 +0000

Most of the time the entire apps are just a timer app or something simple. Never a complex app with tons of logic in them. And if you're having to write paragraphs of texts to write something complex then might as well just write that in a programming language, I mean isn't that what high-level programming language was built for? (heh). Also, you're not the only one who's had the thought that someone is vested in someway to overhype this.

New comment by shriek in "Claude 3 beats GPT-4 on Aider's code editing benchmark"

shriek — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:46:16 +0000

Yeah, I'm curious how others are using too. For boilerplate code and configs, they're great in a sense that I don't have to open docs for reference but other than that I feel like maybe I'm not fully using it to its full potential like others are mentioning.

New comment by shriek in "Open Policy Agent"

shriek — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 14:48:26 +0000

Yeah, that's what I've noticed too. Conceptually, they're more or less same giving an option of RBAC, ABAC or ReBAC and each offer their own DSLs (e.g. Oso, Ory Keto etc) and deployment strategies. It's been a bit harder to pick one honestly but I guess I'll just have to just use them to find which one fits for me.

New comment by shriek in "Open Policy Agent"

shriek — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 02:34:25 +0000

This feels very much like OpenFGA[0]. I've been evaluating authorization tool for one of my side projects and honestly most tools feels like creating relationships in a graph-like database and querying to see if there is/isn't relationship between two entities. Is there more to this (besides the implementation details) or am I missing something from these tools?

[0] https://openfga.dev/

New comment by shriek in "Disillusioned with Deno"

shriek — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:22:14 +0000

Heh I had the same experience but with bun. Lots of subtle bugs on stream and crypto packages where I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what was wrong only to find that it's a known bug in bun. I would have understood that there'd be bugs in relatively new runtime that's undertaking this huge task but it's not drop-in replacement for node as it claims to be and I wouldn't say v1 is stable at all.

New comment by shriek in "FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s"

shriek — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 20:53:15 +0000

Because the chance of you dying when something goes wrong in an aircraft at high altitude is significantly higher (almost 100%) than you dying in a car crash. There's still a chance of you getting ambulance on road accidents but you're plummeting to your death on major aircraft malfunction.

New comment by shriek in "The Unix timestamp will begin with 17 this Tuesday"

shriek — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 04:45:46 +0000

What's even remarkable is 999999999,9/9 has 11 9s.

New comment by shriek in "ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool”"

shriek — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 05:29:03 +0000

Likewise, same result for me too but I get it. It's a language model. It makes a best guess based on the information it was provided so I trust it on the things I'm familiar with but verify on those that I'm not.

New comment by shriek in "Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange"

shriek — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:32:36 +0000

Perhaps you and I have different level of trust for ChatGPT but I have to double verify its responses on topics that are unfamiliar to me still.

New comment by shriek in "Inside The Decline of Stack Exchange"

shriek — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:58:02 +0000

> the answers that are technically correct but "weird"

In ChatGPT's instance they can be downright wrong and I have to verify if what it's saying is indeed correct on many occasions.