Hacker News: yboris

New comment by yboris in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

yboris — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:58:40 +0000

Try steel manning the argument - the practice of rebuilding an opposing view into its strongest, most logical form before responding to it.

There is literally concerns over mirror life being developed. The point is that if a system that has high reasoning capacity to solve logistical and mathematical problems, it may be able to come up with a mechanism you, puny-to-it-human, may not be able to predict. It may use technology not yet known to humans (one that it has designed itself), or may use already known technology, but figure out how to scale it up enough to cause earth-wide disaster for humans.

New comment by yboris in "Shimano Bicycle Museum Review"

yboris — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:28:08 +0000

I visited the Shimano Bicycle Museum two years ago and it was a delight. Their new museum is even better than the one they had about a decade ago (smaller building inside the large Daisen Park nearby).

When I purchased the ticket I was offered an English version of the history of bikes presentation in the main hall. I politely declined, but was later politely approached with a piece of paper handwritten with a time the English version would play. I attended and was so glad I did. It was a beautifully presented showcase of bikes across history (with individual bikes in the room being thoughtfully-timely lit up as the video described them).

Really worth going. And I super love Japan and the way I've been treated wherever I went. I've been to Japan about a dozen times now over the last 20 years - it's my favorite place to be.

New comment by yboris in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"

yboris — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:55:40 +0000

It's my duty again to point out the popular request of including a 4DWW tag in the description to communicate community interest in the Four Day Work Week

Four characters more in the description is all we ask

New comment by yboris in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

yboris — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:39:25 +0000

The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark

So far read about 20%, seems like a lovely theory tying together a lot about how the mind works.

New comment by yboris in "Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline"

yboris — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:58:50 +0000

I wonder what fraction of Flock cameras will be destroyed during National DeFlock Day (Halloween).

Play Nintendo Switch games on a jailbroken PS5

yboris — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:56:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/you-can-now-play-nintendo-switch-games-on-a-jailbroken-ps5-early-alpha-hits-40-fps-in-lighter-titles-but-chokes-on-zelda

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881824

Points: 1

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New comment by yboris in "Ten lines of code that changed my world"

yboris — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:59:32 +0000

Loved the The speed-up loop section. Smart move!

New comment by yboris in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

yboris — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:29:56 +0000

Resort to Photoshop / editor at that point. I still prefer that over printing, writing, and then scanning.

New comment by yboris in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

yboris — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:43:41 +0000

I was stuck unable to fill out a PDF I-864 for immigration because the required fields were non-editable. And opening the PDF in a PDF editor or Photoshop would require a password that was not available. So I had to create a PDF-to-JPG-to-PDF pipeline:

https://github.com/whyboris/PDF-to-JPG-to-PDF

New comment by yboris in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

yboris — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:41:06 +0000

Porting over Video Hub App - my 8.5 year old app from Electron to Tauri

https://videohubapp.com/ - an application that lets you browse, search, organize, etc the videos you have on your computer, external hard drives, or network drives.

https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

New comment by yboris in "Stockfish 19"

yboris — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:28:03 +0000

TIL: En Croissant https://encroissant.org/

New comment by yboris in "“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain"

yboris — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:49:15 +0000

twitter.new --> redirects to --> tweet.app

New comment by yboris in "Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS"

yboris — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:58:10 +0000

Deeply frustrating - I felt like Mozilla was gaslighting me -- I spent 3 minutes double-checking that even after updating Firefox minutes ago the option is still not visible to me.

Making an announcement when fewer than 40% of your customers will see the feature fees like (unintentional) gaslighting.

New comment by yboris in "Ambient CSS v3 – Blender meets CSS"

yboris — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:09:20 +0000

LiteStep forever in our hearts ♥

New comment by yboris in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)"

yboris — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:04:21 +0000

Please normalize 4DWW - Four Day Work Week

Whoever posts this monthly, please include the tag in your description. Employers need to know this is an in-demand feature we want. I for one will not be taking any non-4DWW jobs.

New comment by yboris in "A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]"

yboris — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:58:07 +0000

I posted this 15 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314380

Glad to see HN visitors finally see it on the front page :)

New comment by yboris in "Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms"

yboris — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:59:34 +0000

You can refer to JPEG XL as its file extension `jxl` pronounced "jixel" ;)

New comment by yboris in "Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms"

yboris — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:55:45 +0000

TIL: wuffs - Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely

https://github.com/google/wuffs

New comment by yboris in "Man Charged with 3 Felonies for Breaking 3D-Printed 'Decoy' Flock Camera"

yboris — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:14:26 +0000

I'm curious about the memespace HN people inhabit. I've been hearing about Halloween is National DeFlock Day for a while -- anyone else come across this rapidly-spreading meme?

New comment by yboris in "Man Charged with 3 Felonies for Breaking 3D-Printed 'Decoy' Flock Camera"

yboris — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:13:19 +0000

Counterpoint: Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole

Basically jury nullification

https://futurism.com/future-society/grand-jury-ohio-flock-al...