Hacker News: stevenwliao

New comment by stevenwliao in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

stevenwliao — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:30:53 +0000

I last tried Ubuntu as a daily driver in 2009. How has Linux reliability improved for consumers since then?

New comment by stevenwliao in "1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023)"

stevenwliao — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 02:53:54 +0000

It might have been that the OP wanted to try for themselves using an app or some source code.

New comment by stevenwliao in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

stevenwliao — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:37:35 +0000

I check prices on my reciepts. I shop at Costco, Walmart, 99 Ranch, Sprouts, and Trader Joe's.

I'm fairly certain the error rate for all those shops is less than 5%.

New comment by stevenwliao in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

stevenwliao — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:40:57 +0000

Same as any other ad supported services- the service is useful or entertaining.

New comment by stevenwliao in "I miss using em dashes"

stevenwliao — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 03:57:55 +0000

Provenance matters because LLM writing is cheap compared to actually having to think about what to say.

I only have a limited amount of time to read. Skipping someone's Internet comment because it looks like spam often means I get to engage with something else.

New comment by stevenwliao in "Show HN: hcker.news – an ergonomic, timeline-based Hacker News front page"

stevenwliao — Fri, 23 May 2025 20:05:25 +0000

Thank you for the keyword filter!

New comment by stevenwliao in "New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot, Cursor: Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents"

stevenwliao — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 20:17:40 +0000

Not sure about internationalization but at least for English, constraining to ASCII characters seems like a simple solution.

New comment by stevenwliao in "New Vulnerability in GitHub Copilot, Cursor: Hackers Can Weaponize Code Agents"

stevenwliao — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 20:16:27 +0000

There's an interesting paper on how to sandbox that came out recently.

Summary here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/

TLDR: Have two LLMs, one privileged and quarantined. Generate Python code with the privileged one. Check code with a custom interpreter to enforce security requirements.

New comment by stevenwliao in "Goodbye, Slopify"

stevenwliao — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:21:35 +0000

Unless I'm missing something, the opt-out is one click away. I don't understand the problem.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/2tLoFkQ

New comment by stevenwliao in "Ask HN: What's Your Experience with eSIMs?"

stevenwliao — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 22:23:03 +0000

Airalo works well on my iPhone for travel. I had super fast data in Europe (including UK), Japan, Mexico.

IIRC the rates are not competitive compared to local plans though, so not sure if it's worth it for you.

New comment by stevenwliao in "Google is overhauling search results with AI overviews and Gemini organization"

stevenwliao — Tue, 14 May 2024 20:50:28 +0000

> unattributed

Plenty of AI models cite their sources.

New comment by stevenwliao in "Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro"

stevenwliao — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 13:54:32 +0000

I'm skipping 2 hours of ads per month for $15. IMO it's a pretty good deal.

(Assumptions: I watch 10 hours of YouTube videos per week, YouTube shows 30 seconds of ads per 10 minutes of video)

New comment by stevenwliao in "Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff"

stevenwliao — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:23:45 +0000

Twitch subs remove ads for subscribed channels, so OP doesn't buy subs.

Which is the more likely scenario?

1. OP buys bits and throws them at their favorite streamers despite not being willing to pay for subscriptions.

2. OP pays nothing for Twitch and doesn't watch a single ad.

New comment by stevenwliao in "Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO"

stevenwliao — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 07:59:40 +0000

You think he could be personally liable for eight figure plus damages?

Where is the precedent for this?

New comment by stevenwliao in "Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO"

stevenwliao — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:11:34 +0000

Unless D'angelo has some expensive eight figure lifestyle, he's not going to a poorhouse anytime soon.

> He was chief technology officer of Facebook, and also served as its vice president of engineering, until 2008.

> D'Angelo was an advisor to and investor in Instagram before its acquisition by Facebook in 2012.

New comment by stevenwliao in "OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO"

stevenwliao — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 23:55:31 +0000

> Free AGI

Who pays for the R&D?

New comment by stevenwliao in "Vehicles with higher, more vertical front ends pose greater risk to pedestrians"

stevenwliao — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 07:24:07 +0000

Emerging markets don't buy small cars as a conscientious environmental decision, they buy them because it fits their budget. Small cars cost less than large cars to buy and run.

New comment by stevenwliao in "They can and will ruin everything you love"

stevenwliao — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 20:32:20 +0000

- Google (Search, YouTube, Android)

- Facebook (Groups, Messenger)

- Amazon (Store, Audible)

- eBay

- Spotify

New comment by stevenwliao in "We are retroactively dropping the iPhone’s repairability score"

stevenwliao — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 03:46:44 +0000

When my phone was taken in an armed robbery, it ended up in Ho Chi Minh City.

No threats though... I assume they just parted it out.

New comment by stevenwliao in "Texas paid Bitcoin miner more than $31M to cut energy usage"

stevenwliao — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 06:01:04 +0000

> if paying these miners to stop has the desired effect of reducing the load on the grid, miners not existing would surely have a similar effect.

In a privatized system, a large, predictable, static load would attract additional infrastructure. Assuming how that's how Texas' system works, if these miners did not exist, the peak capacity would be lower.