<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: widerporst</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=widerporst</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:40:45 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=widerporst" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "4o Image Generation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It very much looks like a side effect of this new architecture. In my experience, text looks much better in recent DALL-E images (so what ChatGPT was using before), but it is still noticeably mangled when printing more than a few letters. This model update seems to improve text rendering by a lot, at least as long as the content is clearly specified.<p>However, when giving a prompt that requires the model to come up with the text itself, it still seems to struggle a bit, as can be seen in this hilarious example from the post: <a href="https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/21nVyfD2KFeriJXUNLbLFN/a54cf3e09e9d3560ec092d4856808769/perodictable.png" rel="nofollow">https://images.ctfassets.net/kftzwdyauwt9/21nVyfD2KFeriJXUNL...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2025 07:21:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43479657</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43479657</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43479657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "Samsung bricked their home theater systems through automated firmware update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>True, that would be preferable, but alas Samsung is bent on making their products as big of a pain in the arse as possible.<p>At least with my Samsung soundbar, the remote can change the volume, the subwoofer volume and change between modes (standard, surround, game). But if I want to enable night mode, I <i>have to</i> use the SmartThings app. There's no way to enable it using the remote. What's worse, the app often hangs when connecting to the soundbar, requiring me to force stop and restart it. So sometimes toggling a feature that should be a single button on the remote takes me over a minute.<p>Samsung is right next to HP on my list of brands I will never ever buy in my entire life.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 17:06:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364664</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364664</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43364664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If 1.2 PB is a problem, then why don't they just specify a bandwidth limit of say 1 PB? They specifically say "unlimited bandwidth", so yes, what they are doing _is_ scummy because there is a very obvious incongruity between what they claim and what they actually offer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2025 23:03:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42718432</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42718432</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42718432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "OpenAI to become for-profit company"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The fact that this has just disappeared from the front page for me, just like the previous post (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651548">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41651548</a>), somehow leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:16:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41657463</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41657463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41657463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "Own a weather station? We want your data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same thing in Germany, with WetterOnline ruminating data from DWD (the German meteorological service) and then suing them when they offered their DWD WarnWetter app for free. Unfortunately, they were successful: <a href="https://www.heise.de/news/BGH-Urteil-Staatlicher-Wetterdienst-muss-Gratis-App-beschraenken-4681828.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.heise.de/news/BGH-Urteil-Staatlicher-Wetterdiens...</a> (Couldn't find an English source, sorry.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2024 16:37:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618713</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40618713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "Recovery after HP tech support bricked my father's laptop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm continually amazed by the (lack of) quality of their laptops and the scenario described really reinforced my opinion of HP.<p>At work, I've used a ProBook, a ZBook, and two EliteBooks, all of which had major issues. Sleep mode never worked on any of them (immediately turning back on again with <i>powercfg /lastwake</i> showing no reason), and my current EliteBook frequently shuts off without warning and then won't turn on for five minutes. The ProBook and one EliteBook failed randomly and needed to be replaced.<p>The ZBook's workstation CPU overheated even at light usage, making it unbearably slow. Despite IT saying nothing could (and should) be done, I disassembled it and found it was missing thermal paste, or what little there was had hardened into a brittle, useless mess. Reapplying thermal paste about tripled the Cinebench score.<p>Given all this ridiculousness, I can't imagine how much worse their consumer laptops must be. It's baffling how anyone but the most naive non-tech people still buys from them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2024 16:20:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40610108</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40610108</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40610108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "Claude 3 model family"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They claim that the new models "are significantly less likely to refuse to answer prompts that border on the system’s guardrails than previous generations of models", looks like about a third of "incorrect refusals" compared to Claude 2.1. Given that Claude 2 was completely useless because of this, this still feels like a big limitation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 14:23:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39590839</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39590839</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39590839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "Google Chrome goes native for Windows on Arm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And Firefox as well if I'm not mistaken. On their download page, I can choose "Windows ARM64/AArch64" as platform: <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2024 14:19:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39166006</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39166006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39166006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>It tells me at a glance whether some area is a forest or just a field. Everything's just the same color in Google Maps.<p>Thank you. Everyone is talking about the color of the water or the roads, but this doesn't even bother me. But having all vegetation of any kind in the same color is an absolutely mind-bogglingly stupid decision. I can't be the only one who uses Maps to check the extents of a forest, for example. Or who uses shapes of different land uses to quickly orient oneself on a map.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Nov 2023 09:07:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38401922</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38401922</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38401922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "Bugs – opinionated Jira CLI for those of us who hate Jira"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not the network that's the bottleneck, but the Javascript-bloated mess of the frontend.<p>edit: That isn't to say that Jira and Confluence are the only offenders. They aren't even the worst. Slack/Teams/Rocket.Chat are all just as bad and make me consider switching to a career without computers on a regular basis.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2023 16:28:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36381719</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36381719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36381719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "Bing Image Creator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I asked Bing Chat why it says it can't create images for me.<p>>The Bing Image Creator feature is a new feature that allows you to create images with your words. It is currently available in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom.<p>So just one hour after Google Bard we have yet another senselessly geoblocked feature.<p>edit: Okay, the separate link (<a href="https://www.bing.com/images/create" rel="nofollow">https://www.bing.com/images/create</a>) works, so I'm even more confused why Microsoft wouldn't allow access to this from Bing Chat.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:42:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35248779</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35248779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35248779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Glad to hear I'm not the only one who can't stand the new design.<p>Fortunately, I found that Wikipedia allows to select the old design in the account preferences when you're logged in. You can even switch back to the very old pre-2010 theme.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Mar 2023 23:25:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35214260</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35214260</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35214260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "Errors for the Twilio Rest API impacting multiple services"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I migrated to Aegis a few months ago and would recommend it.<p>Exporting the configuration was a bit tricky, but I found a guide on GitHub: <a href="https://gist.github.com/gboudreau/94bb0c11a6209c82418d01a59d958c93" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/gboudreau/94bb0c11a6209c82418d01a59d...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 19:57:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34839639</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34839639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34839639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Huh. When I compare RAW output from my D5300 (using the default 18-55 mm lens) and a Pixel 6, the difference is staggering. Granted, the JPG output from the Pixel is usually on par with the JPG from the DSLR, high dynamic range is something where the Pixel is even a bit better most of the time.<p>But once you take RAW photos and hit the Auto button in Lightroom, the Pixel doesn't hold a chance against the D5300.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:24:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33829626</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33829626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33829626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "OpenAI ChatGPT: Optimizing language models for dialogue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Q: If you were a large language model trained by OpenAI, which large language model trained by OpenAI would you be?<p>A: I would be GPT-3, the largest and most advanced language model trained by OpenAI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2022 22:37:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33808948</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33808948</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33808948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "Apple Rankings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Eh, different people like different tastes, sure. I wouldn't judge someone for liking the taste of a Red Delicious. But there are some practically universally disdained qualities, like mealiness. And Red Delicious is definitely one of the worst offenders in that regards, making it an (almost) objectively bad cultivar.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2022 18:06:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33643024</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33643024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33643024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "German rail operator says train disruption caused by sabotage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cables in both Berlin and Dortmund were severed around the same time. This smells of a larger, coordinated oepration.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2022 13:13:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33132014</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33132014</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33132014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "YouTube currently testing 5 to 10 unskippable ads before video starts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I simply cannot reconcile it with my conscience to not only indirectly but also directly pay a company that now practically operates according to the motto "be evil".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2022 11:25:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32835665</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32835665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32835665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "Covid: Summary of lab-origin hypothesis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This ignores the fact that these labs are often built closely to where the viruses in question naturally occur.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 12:59:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32736488</link><dc:creator>widerporst</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32736488</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32736488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by widerporst in "Greg Robinson fixed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, reluctantly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As of yet, there was only this one big strike that is a real problem. The frequency of micrometeoroids of this size and energy was predicted to be fairly low, so it isn't certain yet if this was extremely bad luck or if these events are more frequent than anticipated (which would be very bad news).<p>The JWST performance report[1] says on page 18/19: "It is not yet clear whether the May 2022 hit to segment C3 was a rare event (i.e. an unlucky early strike by a high kinetic energy micrometeoroid that statistically might occur only once in several years), or whether the telescope may be more susceptible to damage by micrometeoroids than pre-launch modeling predicted."<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.stsci.edu/files/live/sites/www/files/home/jwst/documentation/_documents/jwst-science-performance-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.stsci.edu/files/live/sites/www/files/home/jwst/d...</a></p>
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