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New comment by unsungNovelty in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

unsungNovelty — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:36:01 +0000

Sure. But it will be trickled down into project by google which will effect us all and we won't have a say.

New comment by unsungNovelty in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

unsungNovelty — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:01:21 +0000

Why should there by any reason to look at the above ones? We are talking about this B2C company which effects a lot of our lives. The discussion isn't about that or this. The discussion is about JUST this specific company.

New comment by unsungNovelty in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

unsungNovelty — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:23:05 +0000

It's google. They are good at engineering. Not at creating trust. After the bizillionth time they have broken trust, there is no need for benefit of the doubt.

New comment by unsungNovelty in "Hello, me. It's been a while"

unsungNovelty — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:35:51 +0000

Been talking about it for a while now. U need to let ur brain absorb all of the things you are consuming. Let it marinate.

https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/04/2025/you-dont-need-ai...

New comment by unsungNovelty in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

unsungNovelty — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:35:02 +0000

Checkout OpenStreetMap. You can add a map snippet using leaflet. It's trivial. Just that it won't be Google maps which people might be looking for.

New comment by unsungNovelty in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

unsungNovelty — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:54:55 +0000

Perfect. Will keep this website bookmarked. Thanks.

New comment by unsungNovelty in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

unsungNovelty — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:01:04 +0000

Would love to filter this by states so that I can go to the interesting temples in my state first before trying out other places. Would make it more functional.

New comment by unsungNovelty in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

unsungNovelty — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:48:29 +0000

> If I run a local script or an LLM that needs to fetch a web page from your site and you block that script or LLM as being a bot, you hurt me, the user. I wanted the information and I have no way of getting at it without investing my own time and effort in going to your website.

You remind me of a friend who asks TLDR for every single thing! If u aren't bothered to consume the content as envisioned by the OP/Author, go away. You have plenty of other sources. We are living in the age of abundant information.

Otherwise? Play by the rules. Even when you are doing this on a service u paid for. If it's not on their terms and conditions, u are simply not supposed to use it that way.

New comment by unsungNovelty in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

unsungNovelty — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:10:28 +0000

Why was this downvoted? Lennart Poettering/Systemd project didn't even think for a minute before implementing this with nobody asking for this. I thought we were supposed to have good discussions here instead of ganging up.

New comment by unsungNovelty in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

unsungNovelty — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:03:08 +0000

> Haven't video games solved this a long time ago with age ratings on the games themselves? Sony and Microsoft's parental controls are convoluted garbage with logins galore. But Nintendo's, at least on the Switch 1, was dead simple. You enable parental controls, set an age rating, and password. Done. There's an app to set time limits, whitelist/blacklist games, etc. That was the easiest UX I've seen.

Repeating what @aceazzameen replied for better visibility. There is no need for age verification in this form that are being pushed at us.

New comment by unsungNovelty in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

unsungNovelty — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:08:55 +0000

I personally think the whole bleeding edge argument is funny. Imagine me telling macOS27 is bleeding edge. Or any stable version of software u use is bleeding edge and that we should wait 6 months before using it.

Arch reflects the state of linux. I will never say it's perfect. But rolling releases give u the latest stable version of software. Like I said, I've found arch to be easier to fix. I've been burned too many times cos of Ubuntu and the lots.

New comment by unsungNovelty in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

unsungNovelty — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:03:26 +0000

Which is exactly why I use Arch. I've has more papercuts from point releases than arch. My argument is not even Arch. But rolling releases.

New comment by unsungNovelty in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

unsungNovelty — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:56:48 +0000

I've had more problems in point releases in my last 15years of using Linux. The problem and issues usually happen because of the said holding off of outdated software. If it's desktop computing, Arch (or rolling releases) are the best option. Arch, when it breaks, it's also the easiest to fix. I'll agree with you if it's about server side of things.

I wrote a lil about it all here: https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/01/2024/a-linux-distro-r...

New comment by unsungNovelty in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

unsungNovelty — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:02:21 +0000

We are not using LLMs to solve the issues. We are using LLMs for speed. Like we were using VC funded speedruns for "speed". Quality was never even in the picture. We just added LLMs to the current setup for speed. Neither the structures, architectures or decision makings changed. We just added another thing.

I keep thinking about another thing as well. Software development might be the only place were stability is punished. If your software works swellingly well, there is less people needed. You'll lose your job when the software is stable. So you either need a new project or the software needs to be crappy enough. And the companies don't give a damn about you.

Keep in mind we did have WhatsApp created with just 32 engineers until facebook bought it. Lichess.org has 2 people working on it serving to the number of people it does (millions?). It's the way we are making it. "Move fast and break things"is the shittiest way to make software.

All of the above works when the desired outcome is money. Not when it is quality of the product.

New comment by unsungNovelty in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

unsungNovelty — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:35:54 +0000

Arch is not "bleeding edge" . It's latest stable version of packages/software.

New comment by unsungNovelty in "Safari Technology Preview 248 Released"

unsungNovelty — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:24:37 +0000

PWA for starters? They are not interested in Indie devs anyways. Might as well let us use PWA no?

New comment by unsungNovelty in "Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years"

unsungNovelty — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:22:56 +0000

> Not sure what to do now, should I find a wife with a better claim?

Naah. You start an AI company!

New comment by unsungNovelty in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

unsungNovelty — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:31:00 +0000

As soon as we start conditioning ethics, we give up and undermine the principles behind those ethics.

- @Nevermark

New comment by unsungNovelty in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

unsungNovelty — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:00:41 +0000

Imagine you writing in your style. Now imagine 1000s of you writing. That's LLM. Just like you don't like eating the same thing everyday, it gets boring very easy. It irritates even more easily.

It's not about the end output. End output is already good IMO. Now, the sentiment is "if you don't give a damn about writing what's on your mind, why should we give a damn about reading it?"

It doesn't matter how bad your writing is. You have a flavour to it. You write and make it better.

Not to mention, everytime I write something, my thoughts get clearer and clearer. Vibing an article kills this process. It's about the unknown unknowns. You don't even know what you don't know until you start writing. LLM doesn't help you here. It might help you get some likes.

New comment by unsungNovelty in "The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?"

unsungNovelty — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:58:28 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I think business tied with google is definitely taking a hit. I agree.

And with those kind of websites comment, I meant heavily SEO optimised website. Their content and website are for Google search engine. Not for humans.

Also, I am coming from indieweb POV which isn't about making business out of it. But I do empathise with indie businesses such as yourself. Hope things get better for you.