Hacker News: thimabi

New comment by thimabi in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

thimabi — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:11:18 +0000

Meta does both. It has long been said that businesses have little organic reach in Meta’s platforms, as an incentive for them to use ads.

New comment by thimabi in "We Will Not Be Divided"

thimabi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:59:15 +0000

> I'd prefer to see board (or executive) level signatories over lay employees -- the people who can enforce enterprise policy rather than just voice their opinions

Although it would be nice to have some high-level signees there, I think we shouldn’t minimize the role of lay employees in this matter. Without having someone knowledgeable enough to build and operate them, AI models are worthless to the C-suite.

New comment by thimabi in "We Will Not Be Divided"

thimabi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:29:31 +0000

> The Department of War is threatening to […] Invoke the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to serve their model to the military and "tailor its model to the military's needs"

This issue is about more than the government blacklisting a company for government procurement purposes.

From what I understand, the government is floating the idea of compelling Anthropic — and, by extension, its employees — to do as the DoD pleases.

If the employees’ resistance is strong enough, there’s no way this will serve the government’s interests.

New comment by thimabi in "We Will Not Be Divided"

thimabi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:00:17 +0000

I agree. And even if those workers stay in the U.S., there’s absolutely no guarantee that they’ll do their best to favor the government’s interests — quite the opposite, if anything.

At the end of the day it’s a matter of incentives, and good knowledge work can’t simply be forced out of people that are unwilling to cooperate.

New comment by thimabi in "We Will Not Be Divided"

thimabi — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:44:32 +0000

The problem with forcing public policy on companies is that companies are ultimately made from individuals, and surely you can’t force public policy down people’s throats.

I’m sure nothing good can come out of strong-arming some of the brightest scientists and engineers the U.S. has. Such a waste of talent trying to make them bend over to the government’s wishes… instead of actually fostering innovation in the very competitive AI industry.

Apple accuses Brazilian banks of seeking a 'free ride' in NFC probe

thimabi — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:27:08 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/19/apple-accuses-brazilian-banks-of-seeking-a-free-ride-in-nfc-probe/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47094867

Points: 3

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New comment by thimabi in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

thimabi — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:32:40 +0000

> A lot of people now reach for ChatGPT by default instead of Google, even with the AI summaries.

I’m one of those people, and the reason for that is that Google’s AI summaries are awful more times than not. With ChatGPT I can (kind of) set how much “thinking” to do for each query and guide the model into producing better results via prompting.

In Defense of Papyrus

thimabi — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:31:09 +0000

Article URL: https://designforhackers.com/blog/papyrus-font/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46264237

Points: 3

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New comment by thimabi in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

thimabi — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 00:42:14 +0000

> Downtime doesn't allow multi-day hour settings. For instance, try setting downtime from 8pm - 8am.

I’m running iOS 18.7.1 and I can do that just fine. Maybe it wasn’t possible before, but it certainly is now.

New comment by thimabi in "Backblaze says HDDs are "lasting longer""

thimabi — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:51:10 +0000

Thanks for letting me know, I hadn’t seen the previous discussion.

Backblaze says HDDs are "lasting longer"

thimabi — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:33:46 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/backblaze-owner-of-317230-hdds-says-hdds-are-lasting-longer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618689

Points: 16

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How Duolingo Reignited User Growth (2023)

thimabi — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:55:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-duolingo-reignited-user-growth

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45560244

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Amazon announces new Kindle Scribes, including one with a color screen

thimabi — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:45:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/788289/amazon-kindle-scribe-e-ink-digital-notepad-stylus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427829

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by thimabi in "Ollama Web Search"

thimabi — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:18:49 +0000

They can always pivot to their Search-via-API business :)

It takes lots of servers to build a search engine index, and there’s nothing to indicate that this will change in the near future.

New comment by thimabi in "Just let me select text"

thimabi — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:58:08 +0000

Besides disabling copying, another annoying practice is when websites hijack the clipboard to add copyright info to copied text fragments.

I can barely understand showing a pop-up to request source attribution when copying content online.

However, actively interfering with things people copy is a big no-no to me. It creates a usability problem where there was none, and probably does little to discourage plagiarism.

New comment by thimabi in "LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users"

thimabi — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:44:48 +0000

These days LinkedIn is a cesspool of AI-generated feel-good “inspirational” content anyway… I don’t see anything good coming out of training models from its user data.

New comment by thimabi in "Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices, FTC says"

thimabi — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:13:50 +0000

I for one find it much, much more fair to have the queue or the lottery systems. If it can be paired with anti-scalper measures such as truly non-transferable tickets or banning resales at a profit, even better.

But of course the problem runs deeper when we consider what you and others have been saying: it’s just too convenient for artists to reap the profits of the current system and have Ticketmaster as their scapegoat.

New comment by thimabi in "Processing Piano Tutorial Videos in the Browser"

thimabi — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 21:22:59 +0000

Great idea and execution, congratulations!

I used to learn songs from piano tutorials like these, too, and had to do the manual work of annotating keys and chords. It’s nice to see a very real pain point being eliminated — maybe I’ll even find some new songs to learn :)

DB Browser for SQLite – open-source and cross-platform GUI

thimabi — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 16:51:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45150869

Points: 5

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Google AI Mode – a new way to search

thimabi — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 00:26:14 +0000

Article URL: https://search.google/ways-to-search/ai-mode/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45145320

Points: 2

# Comments: 0