Hacker News: yalogin

New comment by yalogin in "New Apple TV 4K"

yalogin — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:26:57 +0000

Not a little, am a lot surprised. It started at $79 and then bumped to $150 and now doubled again to 300. Definitely was not expecting this jump.

New comment by yalogin in "Apple HomeView"

yalogin — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:14:15 +0000

The screen is fixed though. You have to huddle around the device where as the phone can be passed around. Homeschool can be done through Apple TV or iPhone.

New comment by yalogin in "MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors"

yalogin — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:02:11 +0000

Very interesting, I worked on something very similar for tremors, just didn’t take it to a product or a startup for reasons. Glad to see someone did it

New comment by yalogin in "Apple HomeView"

yalogin — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:43:21 +0000

Wonder what the real use cases for this are. How often does this get used once the novelty wears off? If they have to resort to “find me a restaurant “ as part of the launch demo, I don’t have a lot of hope for it.

I know Apple will get the security right, no question. So I would use it but not sure it’s worth it. I don’t see a compelling use case personally

New comment by yalogin in "Ideas aren't getting harder to find (2022)"

yalogin — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:43:44 +0000

It’s not that ideas are exhausted but there is a lot of development and we are building layers on top of layers. So one needs to be familiar with them and fully familiar with the outer most layer to generate new ideas, because new ideas utilize and extend this outer most layer.

New comment by yalogin in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

yalogin — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:38:27 +0000

Using an encrypted VM is standard but the encryption is the core issue. Just plain encryption will allow them to proclaim it’s all secure/private. But that is where I don’t trust Meta. Are they using a different key for every user? They are not claiming that meta cannot and will not see the data. Can they say that the user data is not exfiltrated for their own training and analysis? Are they claiming that their developers cannot see user data? What happens when a government request comes? What happens when a bug happens and their admins and devs need to debug? What about a rogue dev/admin?

I don’t trust meta will do any of this

New comment by yalogin in "America.gov"

yalogin — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:16:20 +0000

I am sure a lot of folks tested it but the ai says Biden won the 2020 elections, they did not try to change that or add any qualifiers to the answer like all of the government officials nominated answered with.

New comment by yalogin in "Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows"

yalogin — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:51:33 +0000

What does a full integration of claude or openAI models into the phone even mean? What additional functionality can one get and what are those use cases? Does it actually pull in more users to the voice/Siri interface? I mean even with vastly superior models, does it move the needle enough to attract more users?

New comment by yalogin in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

yalogin — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:04:35 +0000

Why is OpenAI getting away with this crap? They are clearly failing to control their code. If someone did this pre-AI or even ran the exact same set up as openAI did and hacked another site, they would be in jail. OpenAI is not even issuing an apology, they are happily blaming AI and weirdly using this to tout their progress even.

New comment by yalogin in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

yalogin — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:27:19 +0000

How is this expected to work? How is meta going to get access to my data on a phone? Did they build all the integrations needed for every app? This doesn’t look good for privacy, I don’t trust meta at all.

New comment by yalogin in "AirPods 5"

yalogin — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:06:18 +0000

Isn’t Apple expected to release AirPods with cameras in them? Or may be the rumor is they are working on it?

New comment by yalogin in "'Idiocracy' Predicted All of This"

yalogin — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:56:43 +0000

I watched it around the time it released or may be on dvd. I remember thinking the premise is great but the situations are way too exaggerated for comedy and in some ways the movie tries too hard for laughs. Looking back and comparing with today, I would say he did not exaggerate it enough!! To start, he said the country devolves in 500 years, hardly took 20.

New comment by yalogin in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

yalogin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:18:36 +0000

This one doesn’t mention tourist visas, so I am guessing they will be issued? I don’t get what benefit they see by inconveniencing and potentially harming folks that are already in the country legally to just live their lives. I get that this administration’s goal is to completely shut down all immigration and potentially even remove folks here legally too but there will be a cost to bear for the country because of that. It will be slow to come and so they will be able to blame it on the next administration

New comment by yalogin in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

yalogin — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:12:14 +0000

Meta’s stock gained 32billion in value just today on the news. So it’s not even noticeable for them

New comment by yalogin in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

yalogin — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:58:58 +0000

Interesting. One needs to be exposed to a certain level of AI flows to become numb to them. Wonder how they read to someone who isn’t exposed yet.

New comment by yalogin in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

yalogin — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:14:16 +0000

I have already moved away from anthropic for debugging and design in general and this will force me to look elsewhere for coding too

New comment by yalogin in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"

yalogin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:11:51 +0000

Even if they are caught and it’s illegal, as long as the fine for it is less than the roi of running them the companies will not stop.

New comment by yalogin in "Microsoft's AI Sales Mostly Come from OpenAI, Disclosures Show"

yalogin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:41:30 +0000

What does this mean in the larger landscape though? Every company is using AI or trying it out, are they not using the cloud services for it? If so is it still not a big enough pie to show?

New comment by yalogin in "Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights"

yalogin — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:32:46 +0000

Yes I wasn’t questioning that the market and government is controlled by the AI companies. What I am saying is that cannot be a moat. If anything it will be an anchor that will pull these companies down. If anything that is a signal that they don’t have a moat

New comment by yalogin in "Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights"

yalogin — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:02:14 +0000

Sorry this is not true at all. O Those are just corrupt, incompetent practices by an idiot who is drunk on power. It has nothing to do with AI. This is not an answer at all. You tried to shove a square peg into a round hole for what reason. I don’t know