Hacker News: ycombinator_acc

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

ycombinator_acc — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:47:18 +0000

Are you a therapist?

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right"

ycombinator_acc — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:36:02 +0000

Am I the only one with the opposite experience? I can’t remember the last time GPT told me I was right. It always finds something to nitpick (sometimes wrongly).

Maybe it’s OpenAI being aware of the “attachment” issue and combating it by overcompensating in the opposite direction.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

ycombinator_acc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:23:00 +0000

I got the impression they were kick-started by Anglo countries (the Five Eyes, whatever you wanna call them), then gradually picked up by the rest.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

ycombinator_acc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:21:08 +0000

They are initiated by the same people - the government - and pursue the same goal - mass surveillance. They should 100% be fought against and grouped together.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

ycombinator_acc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:17:38 +0000

There's an ocean of difference between your device changing behavior based on a flag set by individual sites and your device using a blacklist set by some list maintainer - the main difference being that the latter is utterly useless due to being an example of badness enumeration.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

ycombinator_acc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 04:49:14 +0000

Adversary? Unsure if you've been living under a rock, but the US and Europe are the ones starting wаrs and destabilizing half the world. They are the actual bad guys.

I'll get a Chinese company's phone over an American or Euro company's phone (is the latter ever a thing?) any day.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "MacBook Neo"

ycombinator_acc — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:27:58 +0000

iPhone SoCs are very powerful. MacBook SoCs are built on them.

Memory is the bottleneck with all Apple products. I have zero issues in terms of compute with the iPhone 12 Mini and could use it for years to come if the SoC were the bottleneck, but it can't even hold two apps in memory.

This would be a very competent computer if it came with 16 GB.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Bugs Apple loves"

ycombinator_acc — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:47:11 +0000

You have to be very precise with your finger drags because it loves snapping back to the original position. Gbroard doesn’t suffer from this. Part of the reason is it doesn’t do the “free-floating” cursor thing - which I’ve never understood the point of anyway. It’s fancy but useless in 99% of cases on a phone.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Bugs Apple loves"

ycombinator_acc — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:40:14 +0000

This one has always confused me as well. Tapping the screen, as the other commenter suggested, dismisses the whole thing too, so I have to fish for the stop button in the notifications every time.

Maybe there’s “the Apple way” that we’ve yet to discover.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Dead Internet Theory"

ycombinator_acc — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:37:08 +0000

No, that’s a common cope.

Not AI. Not bots. Not Indians or Pakistanis. Not Kremlin or Hasbara agents. All the above might comprise a small percentage of it, but the vast majority of the rage bait and rage bait support we’ve seen over the past year+ on the Internet (including here) is just westerners being (allowed and encouraged by each other to be) racist toward non-whites in various ways.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?"

ycombinator_acc — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:56:25 +0000

What's the alternative? At least they don't comply with takedown requests, which can't be said about archive.org who remove everything even semi-controversial.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it"

ycombinator_acc — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:50:28 +0000

That's modern social media for you. Turn everything into ragebait.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Tell HN: HN was down"

ycombinator_acc — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:41:08 +0000

I couldn't access it in private or regular.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

ycombinator_acc — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:33:43 +0000

Aww man you got me curious for a sec there.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately"

ycombinator_acc — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 04:12:52 +0000

> it does NOT apply to current visa holders

How about transfers?

Transfers technically count as new visas and need to be petitioned. Will every new employer have to shell out 100K? If that's the case, H-1B holders are now actually indentured servants (they were not previously, no matter how many Redditors claim otherwise) because they are now stuck with the current employer with essentially no ability to transfer or find a new employer in case of a layoff.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

ycombinator_acc — Thu, 22 May 2025 02:52:44 +0000

I’m unsure what he’s trying to say either. The gibberish and out-of-context replies ITT are making me think HN, like many other sites, is laden with bots now.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "An end to all this prostate trouble?"

ycombinator_acc — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:18:19 +0000

Just take finasteride. As a nice side effect, you won’t go bald.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Everyone knows all the apps on your phone"

ycombinator_acc — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:55:04 +0000

No you can't.

Even if you could (which you can't, at least on my, modern, phone), it would be a workaround, not a solution.

A solution would be allowing free selection like in the browser or, better yet, ditching "native" apps for web apps, as the person above suggested. As a bonus, this "exodus" will force browser makers to iron out any UX issues very quickly.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "Beej's Guide to Git"

ycombinator_acc — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:15:11 +0000

Git GUIs like Turtois, Cracken, Lens, VSCode's Source Control are opinionated and for some reason all do weird stuff under the hood. If you look at the commands being run, a simple action or click in the menu results in a combination of 2, 3, 4 git commands that often resemble nothing like how I (and I imagine most people) would do it in CLI.

This is just asking for trouble.

New comment by ycombinator_acc in "H1B Leaderboard"

ycombinator_acc — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:55:30 +0000

You can't "send them back home." They'll just find another employer. They aren't the "indentured servants" y'all are trying to paint them to be.