Hacker News: yazan94

New comment by yazan94 in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

yazan94 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:30:08 +0000

How do the new Deepseek, Qwen, and Kimi models compare against GLM 5.3?

New comment by yazan94 in "Object that slammed into Florida home was space junk for ISS, NASA confirms"

yazan94 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:42:54 +0000

Sooo... was this damage covered by insurance?

New comment by yazan94 in "DUSt3R: Geometric 3D Vision Made Easy"

yazan94 — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:28:49 +0000

Could this somehow be used to generate a Zillow-style tour of a physical space?

New comment by yazan94 in "Pyobd - a free and open source program for car diagnostics"

yazan94 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 16:03:49 +0000

For better or for worse, there are no such mandatory inspections nor certificates required when selling your car in the USA. Its a common trope/issue that people can often get misled by sellers when buying a vehicle, either by the seller clearing the engine codes or some other shady practice that would keep the car looking good until it drives off the lot

New comment by yazan94 in "Go with PHP"

yazan94 — Thu, 11 May 2023 14:09:48 +0000

I know NodeJS well but have never used PHP, but I can attest that using PM2 is a pain and node_modules deps issues can be a hair-pulling event. But the package.json scripts provide a simple and built-in way to run basic build tasks. There's always an ~~app~~package for that, no matter what "that" is. There are also tons of tutorials, examples, and snippets for everything you want to do to get up and running quickly. TBH I really enjoy working with Typescript, it really brings sanity to JS (as long as you are consistent with it) and Express is dead simple and just makes sense.

Would you mind sharing your insights into why one should go with modern PHP+Laravel instead of NodeJS+Express+Typescript? what does the PHP equivalent of pm2 load-balancing look like and how does it compare?

New comment by yazan94 in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

yazan94 — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 20:52:40 +0000

This is actually really cool, I may have to give it a shot! Thanks for sharing

New comment by yazan94 in "Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply with their policy"

yazan94 — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 16:12:49 +0000

What apps do you recommend one to download from F-Droid?

New comment by yazan94 in "Google officially launches Equiano subsea cable"

yazan94 — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 14:18:54 +0000

Can you elaborate some more please? This is blowing my mind right now, -0?

New comment by yazan94 in "Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?"

yazan94 — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 14:30:21 +0000

Wow, the premise of the game sounds really cool! Do you plan on adding a multiplayer mode to the game? Me and some friends have been on the hunt for a new fun mp strategy game for a while

New comment by yazan94 in "Many Americans not aware of being tracked with facial recognition while shopping"

yazan94 — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 13:30:41 +0000

This has to be one of the most worthless articles I've ever read. The title here is really the TL:DR, the only additional piece of info in the article not present in the title is the numbers. The source of the data for this article is here:

https://piplsay.com/face-recognition-tech-in-retail-are-amer...

New comment by yazan94 in "Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?"

yazan94 — Fri, 21 May 2021 13:34:53 +0000

What do you like about induction cooktops?

New comment by yazan94 in "The Unmarked Federal Agents Occupying Washington, D.C"

yazan94 — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 17:03:00 +0000

President Andrew Jackson famously shrugged off the US Supreme Court decision in Worcester v. Georgia by (probably not) saying "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!". Like you said, "Laws are worth zero if the law enforcers ignore them with impunity". This is why we need a system to police the police. At some point, we as a society need to commit to forcing those who swear to uphold the laws to also live by them.

New comment by yazan94 in "De-Escalation Keeps Protesters and Police Safer"

yazan94 — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 13:12:02 +0000

Honestly, it is funny to me that the group most dedicated to standing up and fighting against a tyrannical government and refuses to believe that the military would be called in against peaceful protesters is still standing on the sidelines and watching the violence unfold. The day they realize that they and the BLM movement are mostly on the same side for this issue (anti government heavy-handedness) will be the day that these protests start getting seriously scary.

New comment by yazan94 in "92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people"

yazan94 — Thu, 14 May 2020 13:33:02 +0000

Sorry for the tangent, but that sounds really interesting! Would you feel comfortable sharing more info about how you did the processing? Astrophotography is a hobby I've been wanting to get into and learn about, but I can't justify purchasing an expensive camera for just one hobby.

New comment by yazan94 in "Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the hacker who stopped the WannaCry attack"

yazan94 — Wed, 13 May 2020 14:54:28 +0000

This man wasn't exactly jailed for jaywalking [1].

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/3659523.stm

New comment by yazan94 in "Confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the hacker who stopped the WannaCry attack"

yazan94 — Tue, 12 May 2020 12:50:19 +0000

That logic doesn't make sense. Everyone has the potential to do something bad. If you have a concealed carry firearm with you, should you get rewarded for not shooting someone on a particular day?

New comment by yazan94 in "Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ about education"

yazan94 — Fri, 01 May 2020 14:16:08 +0000

I fail to see how an ISA is better than an unforgivable loan, and to be honest, this seems a lot more like indentured servitude/wage slavery without the pretense of a loan. If the investor (Purdue in the article) has to step in and say we won't make more than 2.5x our investment on you, you know the student is being taken advantage of. The problem is that the ISA model is still bound to the private market by virtue of the fact that the investors are private and not public entities. The carrots and sticks that are in place are not there to benefit the student.

I wonder how society would react by making student loans forgivable. Would banks stop giving out loans because there is no collateral? Or would they require a cosigner to rope in an adult with collateral to lose? Would schools get cheaper as a result of people not being able to afford the already high tuition, would they become a status symbol for the mid-upper class who can afford it? It is definitely an interesting thought experiment.

New comment by yazan94 in "The Pandemic Is Showing Us How to Live with Uncertainty"

yazan94 — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:26:16 +0000

Times definitely have changed in the past few decades. There was widespread looting going on during the 1977 blackout in NYC [1]. I hope that you're right and everything is being blown out of proportion, but lets not forget that:

* everything is possible * looting and pillaging has happened before in lesser times * it doesn't help to be unprepared

I honestly think that if we had a firmer, more coordinated, and less fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants government response and action plan, anarchy would definitely be reigned in and less of a concern in people's minds.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_blackout_of_1977

New comment by yazan94 in "CNN-generated images are surprisingly easy to spot for now"

yazan94 — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 16:35:38 +0000

Seriously? You want to be able to join a community you might not be familiar with and understand the lingo/jargon off the bat? Of course people will abbreviate things when the word/phrase is sufficiently long, commonly used, and the abbreviation mutually understood (brb, tldr, OOP, etc.). There is no elitism involved, if you don't understand something either Google it or ask. No reason to act snobbish because people cater the the most common denominator in a community rather than the lowest.

New comment by yazan94 in "Boeing fired midlevel executive following embarrassing emails"

yazan94 — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:00:46 +0000

+1. In Morgan Stanley, the title/promotion hierarchy is associate -> vice president -> executive director -> managing director. You can get VP within 5 years or so.