Hacker News: xpressvideoz

New comment by xpressvideoz in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

xpressvideoz — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:16:52 +0000

Wow, I didn't know that. Rob Pike is indeed a hypocrite.

New comment by xpressvideoz in "Package managers keep using Git as a database, it never works out"

xpressvideoz — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:48:06 +0000

The article lists Git-based wiki engines as a bad usage of Git. Can anybody recommend alternatives? I want something that can be self-hosted, is easily modified by text editors, and has individual page history, preferably with Markdown.

New comment by xpressvideoz in "TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning"

xpressvideoz — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:21:17 +0000

One thing I don't understand regarding YouTube shorts is that they can't be casted to TV. Whenever I click a short while casting other videos on my phone, it says the casting will be stopped if I continue. Why on earth does such an arbitrary limitation exist?

New comment by xpressvideoz in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

xpressvideoz — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:49:53 +0000

Some HNers said AI overviews sucked and they would never use them, and here it is.

New comment by xpressvideoz in "Stdio(3) change: FILE is now opaque"

xpressvideoz — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 01:29:10 +0000

So many words in the commit message and the announcement article, yet not a single mention of the rationale? I have a bad feeling about their practice.

New comment by xpressvideoz in "OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025"

xpressvideoz — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 06:11:00 +0000

> there will be a proposal at some point to actually have an AI math Olympiad where at the same time as the human contestants get the actual Olympiad problems, AI’s will also be given the same problems, the same time period and the outputs will have to be graded by the same judges, which means that it’ll have be written in natural language rather than formal language.[1]

Last month, Tao himself said that we can compare humans and AIs at IMO. He even said such AI didn't exist yet and AIs won't beat IMO in 2025. And now that AIs can compete with humans at IMO under the same conditions that Tao mentioned, suddenly it becomes an apples-to-oranges comparison?

[1] https://lexfridman.com/terence-tao-transcript/

New comment by xpressvideoz in "OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025"

xpressvideoz — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:33:23 +0000

I didn't know there were localized versions of the IMO problems. But now that I think of it, having versions of multiple languages is a must to remove the language barrier from the competitors. I guess having that many language versions (I see ~50 languages?) may make keeping the security of the problems considerably harder?

New comment by xpressvideoz in "We do not break userspace (2012)"

xpressvideoz — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 02:57:41 +0000

> Btw, why pulseaudio is even trying to access a V4L2 control? I would expect an audio application to take care of its own audio business, and to not try to access other random Kernel APIs.

> In other words, only an application that handles video should be using those controls, and as far as I know, pulseaudio is not a such application. Or are it trying to do world domination?

Mauro's first response does seem a bit defensive, and reads like an attempt to justify his actions. It even feels a bit like an accusation against PulseAudio. I didn't know the exact context at the time, but now that I read the entire email, I think I'm getting why Linus was triggered.

New comment by xpressvideoz in "Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 Design"

xpressvideoz — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:35:11 +0000

Perhaps embarrassingly, I knew the second one, but not the first.

New comment by xpressvideoz in "HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere"

xpressvideoz — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:12:46 +0000

> side note: sad that .NET and C# are not considered "major"...

Even Microsoft does not use C# for their new projects. See the new TypeScript compiler that is being rewritten in Go. So I think it is safe to say C# is indeed a minor language.

New comment by xpressvideoz in ""We ran out of columns""

xpressvideoz — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 20:41:39 +0000

Elasticsearch and OpenSearch have a similar issue. They have a soft limit on the number of "searchable" fields (called "mapping") a table can have (by the way, a table is called an "index" in their terminology. How confusing!), which is 1000. We ran into this problem because we tried to jam all the logs in every single microservice into a single table. Each microservice had a different log format, so after combining them all the number of different fields surged. We did it this way because the operations team wanted to maintain a single table, by the name of simplicity, which to this day is a reason I can't completely fathom. We were surprised because we thought Elasticsearch and OpenSearch were some kind of magic box that can somehow ingest all the data we put yet still are perfectly performant. After that incident, we introduced a common log format that applies to every microservice.

New comment by xpressvideoz in "What's in my location history?"

xpressvideoz — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 19:17:01 +0000

> Best viewed with Netscape Communicator 4.

I wonder if the author actually tests the site with Netscape!

New comment by xpressvideoz in "Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced"

xpressvideoz — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 13:59:40 +0000

Reminds me of the naming madness of the Google messaging services/social media.

New comment by xpressvideoz in "Companies embracing SMS for account logins should be blamed for SIM-swap attacks"

xpressvideoz — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 04:16:28 +0000

No freaking way. I don't use YubiKeys not because they are expensive, but they are less convenient than other options.

New comment by xpressvideoz in "Quicksort with Jenkins for fun and no profit"

xpressvideoz — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 01:45:46 +0000

I didn't know Jenkins was this powerful. Do GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD support something similar? I doubt it because they seem to heavily focus on declarative style, though.

New comment by xpressvideoz in "Losing my son"

xpressvideoz — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:52:15 +0000

Writing such a beautiful article in the midst of such a tragic moment proves your talent. I almost feel like I'm committing a blasphemy because I'm immensely moved by your article. Huge respect.

New comment by xpressvideoz in "Portable Web Documents – An Alternative to PDF Based on HTML5 (2019)"

xpressvideoz — Thu, 18 Jan 2024 03:51:10 +0000

Their Android app and iOS app were also removed from the store, it seems.

New comment by xpressvideoz in "OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions"

xpressvideoz — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:53:48 +0000

Not someone else, but many others. I value projects governed by multiple people because one person cannot be an expert in every field, even though that person is smarter than most people.

New comment by xpressvideoz in "OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions"

xpressvideoz — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:46:29 +0000

I witnessed a similar case while touring D as an outsider. When Rust was new and the concept of lifetime was brought to the D community, it was deemed unnecessary by Walter. A few years later, he brought his own lifetime proposal that is sufficiently different to Rust's and thus even less verified compared to the previous suggestion from the community. Now that I lost my interest in D, I'm not sure of the maturity of the new lifetime feature, but I would be surprised if it is as useful as Rust's.

New comment by xpressvideoz in "OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions"

xpressvideoz — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:38:28 +0000

There are a plethora of languages that allow implementing methods outside of a class block, including Java, Kotlin, Haskell, C#. And many of them are mainstream. Your argument seems weak.