Hacker News: simplyinfinity

New comment by simplyinfinity in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

simplyinfinity — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:30:05 +0000

I've also used portable AC inside my home, it was horrible, a lot of heat creeps in due to bad insulation for the heat exhaust pipe, also creates vacuum since it exhaust air, which in turn sucks in more hot air

New comment by simplyinfinity in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

simplyinfinity — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:50:02 +0000

European windows open sideways not up and down. So we can't just stick an ac unit on the window.

New comment by simplyinfinity in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

simplyinfinity — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:29:59 +0000

PirateSoftware predicted this would happen and got death threats, swatted, multiple videos hating on him. Like he is the villain. Lobby groups, politics and copyright law are the issues.

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

simplyinfinity — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:18:18 +0000

Came here to say this. Files in OneDrive get removed from your local storage and are downloaded ON DEMAND. given that you can have 1TB+ onedrive folder, backblaze downloading all of that is gonna throttle your connection and fill up your disk real fast.

New comment by simplyinfinity in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

simplyinfinity — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:59:03 +0000

the interactive console is built into Visual Studio, no extension needed

New comment by simplyinfinity in "Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction"

simplyinfinity — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 01:49:01 +0000

There is - albeit a dwindling - community that does reimplement entire backends for mmo games. Look up the ragezone forums. I grew up around Mu Online private servers. And I'm sure in time a private server for HD 2 will appear if arrowhead don't release one themselves :)

New comment by simplyinfinity in "Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature"

simplyinfinity — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:14:16 +0000

I self host a bunch of apps that have SSO as enterprise feature. i want to invite my family/friends into these apps, i don't wanna spend additional 20 000$ for the SSO part, but it be real sweet if i could use it. It would eliminate so much questions like "hey.. what was my login to X?" or "can you reset my password to Y" if i could just use SSO.

New comment by simplyinfinity in "Apple announces App Store changes in the EU"

simplyinfinity — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:55:32 +0000

What have they innovated in the last 10 years?

New comment by simplyinfinity in "Microsoft Edit"

simplyinfinity — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:36:26 +0000

low income countries don't have the money for iPads. My parents run on a 300 Euro computer bought 5 years ago. My dad is technical enough to get around a computer, but he's in his 60s now. My mom can open Facebook and youtube. Sometimes either of them downloads stuff, and opens them. So your solution is "make millions consumers spend $$ on overpriced hardware and even more closed off system, so few hundred open source devs don't spend 500$ to verify their app (which they will have to do if they want to release on the iOS platform either way)" Ain't no way.

New comment by simplyinfinity in "Microsoft Edit"

simplyinfinity — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 13:59:40 +0000

Good. This might suck for opensource devs, but for normies that might get a random exe link this is good. I've gotten numerous phone calls from relatives when they try to run some unrecognized app, most of the time is benign, but on few occasions it was something malicious.

New comment by simplyinfinity in "'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe"

simplyinfinity — Sat, 10 May 2025 22:40:57 +0000

You're verifying your own claims. That's not good enough.

> research aided by my agent Also not good enough.

As an example: Yesterday i asked Claude and ChatGPT to design a circuitry that monitors pulses form S0 power meter interface. It designed a circuit that didn't have any external power to the circuit. When asked it said "ah yes, let me add that" and proceeded to confuse itself and add stuff that are not needed, but are explained and sounds reasonable if you don't know anything. After numerous attempts it didn't produce any working design.

So how can you verify that the therapist agent you've built will work with something as complex as humans, when it can't even do basic circuitry with known laws of physics and spec & data sheets of no more than 10 components?

New comment by simplyinfinity in "'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe"

simplyinfinity — Sat, 10 May 2025 20:53:15 +0000

Even today, leading LLMS Claude 3.7 and ChatGPT 4, take your questions as "you've made mistake, fix it" instead of answering the question. People consider a much broader context of the situation, your body language, facial expressions, and can come up with unusual solutions to specific situations and can explore vastly more things than an LLM.

And the thing when it comes to therapy is, a real therapist doesn't have to be prompted and can auto adjust to you without your explicit say so. They're not overly affirming, can stop you from doing things and say no to you. LLMs are the opposite of that.

Also, as a lay person how do i know the right prompts for to work correctly?

Don't get me wrong, i would love for AI to be on par or better than a real life therapist, but we're not there yet, and i would advise everyone against using AI for therapy.

New comment by simplyinfinity in "How to Delete Your 23andMe Data"

simplyinfinity — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:54:01 +0000

In the USA. In Europe and such, I'm not saying it's zero chance, but it's extremely unlikely. As Europeans don't rely on insurance for healthcare, but we use government for that :) ( the exception being, if you want private insurance if your government provided one isn't enough)

New comment by simplyinfinity in "Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet"

simplyinfinity — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 01:17:39 +0000

I follow the channel, can you give me few examples of these errors, as I have not noticed any (I'm not a subject matter expert, or maybe not paying attention enough)

New comment by simplyinfinity in "Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers"

simplyinfinity — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 09:53:56 +0000

in europe 2fa is mandatory for all (or almost all) online purchases, especially first time purchase from a merchant when your card hasn't been authorized. Sites using stripes' link get away with no 2fa most of the time, but not all the time. Make it mandatory on visa/mastercards level, and you won't loose much sales, as all transactions would require it and people will have to 2fa everywhere.

New comment by simplyinfinity in "Show HN: Open-sourcing my failed startup Buzee – A file search application"

simplyinfinity — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 21:20:52 +0000

Based on your explanation and my very very limited knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint, sounds you were trying to implement SharePoint!

And there's a lot of enterprises that use that and pay a lot of money for it! The business side problem i can see is : how do you convince MS focused companies to use your product instead of SharePoint? Could your product be built on top of it?

Can you for example also enhance gSuite?

Thank you for open sourcing this, so others may learn from you or build upon your work!

New comment by simplyinfinity in "ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day"

simplyinfinity — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:58:54 +0000

Thanks, i will look into it.

New comment by simplyinfinity in "ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day"

simplyinfinity — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:48:33 +0000

In my case it's genetic. My mom & sister also have it. My grandmother has Parkinson's, so I'm extremely likely to also get it at some point. I've tried all recommended vitamins, supplements, etc. nothing really helped as much as Concerta.

New comment by simplyinfinity in "ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day"

simplyinfinity — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:43:04 +0000

tDCS seems to have some merit, according to research https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32418073/ So this product doesn't completely strike me as snake oil.

New comment by simplyinfinity in "ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day"

simplyinfinity — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:41:54 +0000

I'm also going to stick to the meds, as they work very well for me, with that said tDCS seems to have some merit, according to research [0]. But there doesn't seem to be a lot of data with larger sample sizes yet. So this product doesn't completely strike me as snake oil, but i have my reservations until more data is available or at least FDA approved

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32418073/