Hacker News: voxic11

New comment by voxic11 in "Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS – with directed prompts"

voxic11 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:25:33 +0000

voice is determined by the voice parameter, you can't control it via the prompt, the prompt only directs how the chosen voices delivers the lines.

New comment by voxic11 in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

voxic11 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:38:03 +0000

I put mine behind caddy on a long unguessable path prefix. So that acts as a sort of password that you need to know before you can access it at all. So far it's seemed to work great. The advantage to using a path prefix vs like caddy basic auth is that its compatible with all the normal jellyfin clients.

New comment by voxic11 in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

voxic11 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:29:27 +0000

TSA doesn't even need an ID, if you don't have one they just take your information and check it against some databases to "confirm" your identity.

New comment by voxic11 in "Meta, Google under attack as court cases bypass 30-year-old legal shield"

voxic11 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:39:36 +0000

Users are already liable for their content under 270, it doesn't protect the producers of content it only protects the distributors. But yeah I guess YouTube could force producers to carry insurance or something so that if YouTube is also found liable for their content then the insurance could indemnify them.

New comment by voxic11 in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

voxic11 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:35:01 +0000

Check the breakdown page. Like yes the magnitude is reduced obviously for individual services. But they all show the same trend.

New comment by voxic11 in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

voxic11 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:51:46 +0000

> Copilot is for entertainment purposes only. It can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended. Don’t rely on Copilot for important advice. Use Copilot at your own risk.

Seems pretty clear to me, do you really think people need a lawyer to understand that?

New comment by voxic11 in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

voxic11 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:51:17 +0000

Because even in the worst case what we are really talking about is just much higher risk than the government is claiming, but its still far more likely to succeed than fail. Plenty of people would take a 1 in 10 or 1 in 100 chance of dying if it meant they could walk on the moon.

New comment by voxic11 in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

voxic11 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:42:53 +0000

Him and his family will be richer and more famous than ever. I don't think he cares about legacy beyond that.

New comment by voxic11 in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

voxic11 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:52:55 +0000

But isn't ChatGPT access free through the browser? What do you mean already paid in currency?

New comment by voxic11 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

voxic11 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:50:20 +0000

Kids version has been around my entire life (baseball cards) it even used to come with bubblegum!

New comment by voxic11 in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

voxic11 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:54:20 +0000

> What is a new code hosting platform offering.

For me its providing uptime. Github is barely reaching one nine of availability these days.

New comment by voxic11 in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

voxic11 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:02:48 +0000

They have been under a lot of pressure for years to disable e2e messaging because it prevents them from monitoring messages for child abuse. This was a central point of the trial. While they haven't given a reason for the change I think its reasonable to infer it is in response to this pressure.

However there is another possible explanation

> Tom Sulston, head of policy at Digital Rights Watch, said rather than acceding to law enforcement demands, the move was more likely due to Meta deciding against moving messaging on WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram to a single platform.

New comment by voxic11 in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

voxic11 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:59:08 +0000

Wasn't it Congress who passed 5 U.S.C. § 7311. which says a person may not “accept or hold” a federal job if they “participate in a strike” against the U.S. government.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/7311

originally passed as

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=2023&num=0&req=g...

So arguably if Reagan had not fired them he would be failing to uphold the laws of the United States.

New comment by voxic11 in "How to defer US taxes"

voxic11 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:38:40 +0000

Well I think the idea is it wasn't already taxed in many cases. If you have assets that have greatly appreciated then that appreciation was never taxed.

New comment by voxic11 in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

voxic11 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:12:30 +0000

But these police don't work for the state government. They worked for the Adams County government. The immunity waiver you linked explicitly only applies to the state government.

> (A)(1) The state hereby waives its immunity from liability,

and then "state" is defined in https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2743.01

> (A) "State" means the state of Ohio, including, but not limited to, the general assembly, the supreme court, the offices of all elected state officers, and all departments, boards, offices, commissions, agencies, institutions, and other instrumentalities of the state. "State" does not include political subdivisions.

> (B) "Political subdivisions" means municipal corporations, townships, counties, school districts, and all other bodies corporate and politic responsible for governmental activities only in geographic areas smaller than that of the state to which the sovereign immunity of the state attaches.

Additionally even if the officers did work for the state, the immunity waiver still would not apply to the action of breaking down a door while executing a search warrant.

> (3)(a) Except as provided in division (A)(3)(b) of this section, the state is immune from liability in any civil action or proceeding involving the performance or nonperformance of a public duty

and Ohio state law specifically authorizes breaking down doors to execute search warrants so this action would be one "involving the performance or nonperformance of a public duty"

> (A) When making an arrest or executing an arrest warrant or summons in lieu of an arrest warrant, or when executing a search warrant, the peace officer, law enforcement officer, or other authorized individual making the arrest or executing the warrant or summons may break down an outer or inner door or window of a dwelling house or other building

https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2935.12

New comment by voxic11 in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

voxic11 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:17:02 +0000

The government has sovereign immunity which is why you usually have to sue the people involved rather than the government directly.

New comment by voxic11 in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

voxic11 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:30:24 +0000

No that is the date at which the bulk archive ends and the 5 minute update files begin, so it should not be updated.

New comment by voxic11 in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

voxic11 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:29:35 +0000

That is just the archive part, if you just would finish reading the paragraph you would know that updates since 2026-03-16 23:55 UTC are "are fetched every 5 minutes and committed directly as individual Parquet files through an automated live pipeline, so the dataset stays current with the site itself."

So to get all the data you need to grab the archive and all the 5 minute update files.

archive data is here https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-index/hacker-news/tree/...

update files are here (I know that its called "today" but it actually includes all the update files which span multiple days at this point) https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-index/hacker-news/tree/...

New comment by voxic11 in "It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]"

voxic11 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:27:04 +0000

If you look at the github page it was an LLM that wrote all the code. Makes sense as corridor are not software developers.

New comment by voxic11 in "DOJ to Allow Hiring of US Prosecutors Straight Out of Law School"

voxic11 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:43:55 +0000

He was actually indicted for "false statements and obstruction in congressional testimony".