Hacker News: yRetsyM

New comment by yRetsyM in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

yRetsyM — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:25:55 +0000

Holy shit. This wasn't "intentional" this was just openai letting their testing run wild.

New comment by yRetsyM in "Apple reports fourth quarter results"

yRetsyM — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:53:44 +0000

Interesting that Google and Apple matched their quarterly earnings in revenue .

New comment by yRetsyM in "GPT-5"

yRetsyM — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:14:50 +0000

Still only 256k input tokens/context. Do they not see utility in larger context?

New comment by yRetsyM in "DeskHog, an open-source developer toy"

yRetsyM — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:05:06 +0000

Something like this https://www.mylocalbytes.com/products/localdeck?

New comment by yRetsyM in "Gemini 1.5 Pro Now Available in 180+ Countries"

yRetsyM — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 21:23:56 +0000

Not available in the UK - this seems quite common with Google lately, why is that?

New comment by yRetsyM in "High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF/.heic)"

yRetsyM — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:05:17 +0000

What is the patent situation for JPEG XL vs AVIF?

New comment by yRetsyM in "Cloudflare Experiencing Latency Issues"

yRetsyM — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 20:43:15 +0000

I'm impressed they've updated their status page so quickly, unlike some of their cloud competitors

New comment by yRetsyM in "Old CSS, New CSS (2020)"

yRetsyM — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 21:27:22 +0000

Side note: the comments in this are all almost as valuable as the content itself. Remember when comments were a way people used to enhance content rather than attack or degrade it?

New comment by yRetsyM in "Many of the root certificates on Windows are not needed"

yRetsyM — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:40:55 +0000

You do trust one company with thousands of employees though, there's layers/levels of trust on this

New comment by yRetsyM in "TikTok has recently traded at valuations of $105-110B on private markets"

yRetsyM — Wed, 20 May 2020 21:35:55 +0000

Wasn't the same said about Facebook?

New comment by yRetsyM in "Gitlab was down"

yRetsyM — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 11:52:21 +0000

There has been a theme of instability with Gitlab.com over the last week or two. I'm not sure if it's growth related (they've seen a steady increase of users/traffic) and they've reached a scaling peak. OR if it's technically related - they've been doing a number of different infrastructure changes over the last few weeks which make a material difference to the main layers of the service.

For me the real test here is how they respond to this. As a paying customer I want to understand the issue, the efforts to prevent this in future and how they communicate this.

New comment by yRetsyM in "CockroachDB 19.2"

yRetsyM — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:30:28 +0000

CockroachDB seems to be getting a lot of attention and marketing cycles lately... What has made it the focus of late?

New comment by yRetsyM in "The Google Squeeze"

yRetsyM — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:29:04 +0000

Many people seem to complain about the low quality Google search but don't often offer any better alternatives. I can't help but feel like sometimes the quality of the Google search results reflect the quality of the web in general: stocked with a whole lot of spam content that people actually consume.

How do we fix the web?

New comment by yRetsyM in "Google's harvest of medical data includes names and full details of millions"

yRetsyM — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 16:22:38 +0000

What is actually happening here? A lot of rhetoric about the "Transfer of data" etc, but other times this just reads like a Google Cloud Infrastructure play, with some consulting on top.

Also - The deal was only just signed, e.g. the transfer hasn't happened yet?

There's a lot of hearsay in all of this reporting...

New comment by yRetsyM in "[dead]"

yRetsyM — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:34:14 +0000

The infrastructure/SRE team at gitlab are tracking and monitoring the problem here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/issues/132...

Latest updates suggest that it is related to their SQL services being slow, possibly as a result of a big import

New comment by yRetsyM in "Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?"

yRetsyM — Sun, 20 Oct 2019 09:34:42 +0000

I'm curious about this as well, I'm more in a hybrid role now where less and less coding effort and I'm living in Chrome anyway for most of my tasks...

New comment by yRetsyM in "Monzo: How our security team handle secrets"

yRetsyM — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 17:28:00 +0000

Their outages have not affected everyone and often affect a small slice of the service.

Also, other banks have the same kinds of outages, often, but are not as transparent or communicative as Monzo.

I've been full Monzo for the last 18 months and have never had an issue.

New comment by yRetsyM in "South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”"

yRetsyM — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:01:11 +0000

Just as a counter to this, war invokes similar behaviour and a lot of people often support that.

New comment by yRetsyM in "Microsoft announces dual-screen Surface Neo"

yRetsyM — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:30:50 +0000

"Partnering with Google" - Be very interesting to see how deep that goes. The google logo was on the homescreen of the demo device...

New comment by yRetsyM in "Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone"

yRetsyM — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:29:10 +0000

"Partnering with Google" - Be very interesting to see what that partnership entails.