Hacker News: voidUpdate

New comment by voidUpdate in "Want your images back? Sure... That'll be $5!"

voidUpdate — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:40:27 +0000

I've done a couple on a debit card and it's gone pretty smoothly. I paid around £200 for an online service who they effectively ghosted me, so I submitted a chargeback to my bank, and they said they'd get in contact with the provider. I never heard back about it other than getting my money so I'm guessing they ghosted my bank too

New comment by voidUpdate in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

voidUpdate — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:47:42 +0000

Apart from when they're talking about AI generated videos or images, or the marketing people talking about an AI powered rice cooker https://tefalph.com/cooking-appliances/easy-rice-plus-rice-c... or people watching films where an AI takes over

New comment by voidUpdate in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

voidUpdate — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:27:40 +0000

Maybe if marketing people stopped using the incredibly generic term "AI", and started actually saying what something is, it might work better. When you say "this app is powered by AI", do you mean Skynet, an LLM, or a basic machine learning system?

New comment by voidUpdate in "4× RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell on Water, and the One Card That Wouldn't Behave"

voidUpdate — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:41:36 +0000

Is that little computer training LLMs from scratch all by itself? That must take years to get any kind of progress, given the scale of training other providers do. Where do you get the training data from?

New comment by voidUpdate in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

voidUpdate — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:25:51 +0000

I watched the whole thing, and I think it sort of went off the rails over time, probably to keep upping the ante. I think you're fine just watching the first season

New comment by voidUpdate in "'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today"

voidUpdate — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:21:46 +0000

Well luckily, there's a nice article here that you can read to find out all about it

New comment by voidUpdate in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

voidUpdate — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:15:51 +0000

I'm guessing the website is currently being hugged to death, but the images take a while to load, and I'm on a pretty good connection. Maybe try webp with some decent compression to shrink down the filesize?

New comment by voidUpdate in "I wrote 5000 lines of assembly because I was angry"

voidUpdate — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:38:43 +0000

If you click the little "vibeSwitch" text in the bottom left, then click the small toggle in the bottom right of the popup window, you can turn off the animated background, and the website runs a hell of a lot better, on my browser at least

New comment by voidUpdate in "War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now"

voidUpdate — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:57:44 +0000

They did both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo

New comment by voidUpdate in "MapComplete: Maps about various topics which you can contribute to"

voidUpdate — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:36:38 +0000

I opened this up, and immediately saw a contribution I could make. Created an OSM account and fixed it =)

New comment by voidUpdate in "HTML is a native image format, hear me out"

voidUpdate — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:59:12 +0000

Luckily, you can embed raster images inside SVGs https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/E...

New comment by voidUpdate in "Lines of code got a better publicist"

voidUpdate — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:42:13 +0000

> "Augment surveyed 219 engineering leaders and asked them to define “AI-native engineering” . They got 219 different answers."

I mean, if you give 219 people a free text box and ask them to explain anything, you're extremely unlikely to get the exact same answer twice...

New comment by voidUpdate in "HTML is a native image format, hear me out"

voidUpdate — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:34:07 +0000

That's pretty much what I was thinking too. "A way to create an image, with parts that can be edited using tags, that an LLM can deal with... this sounds like SVG"

New comment by voidUpdate in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

voidUpdate — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:10:09 +0000

Yeah, LLMs are bad for a whole different set of reasons than they write bad code

New comment by voidUpdate in "L'Affaire Siloxane"

voidUpdate — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:16:09 +0000

I am mildly concerned about the "normalised deviance" of the siloxanes in the water. It's probably an acceptable amount and it's probably fine, but "eh, its only a bit worse than expected, what's the worst that could happen" is what lost 2 space shuttles

New comment by voidUpdate in "Who's the smartest corvid?"

voidUpdate — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:25:08 +0000

I really like crows and magpies. Crows especially do little hops when they run around and it always makes me smile. I've wanted to make friends with the ones around me for a while but I haven't yet

New comment by voidUpdate in "Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger"

voidUpdate — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:10:16 +0000

> "can't reuse a stylesheet, script or image on a different page (each has to have their own copy)"

Not a problem if you're deploying a single file

New comment by voidUpdate in "How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science"

voidUpdate — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:18:16 +0000

National Aeronautics and Space Administration if people are still confused, I guess

New comment by voidUpdate in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

voidUpdate — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:04:11 +0000

I don't think I've ever owned any headphones with a long enough cable to plug into my tv when I'm sitting at a comfortable viewing position

New comment by voidUpdate in "Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway"

voidUpdate — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:38:11 +0000

Make sure you get one that matches American gauge and isn't one of the the meter gauge mountain trains