Hacker News: yobid20

New comment by yobid20 in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

yobid20 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:07:09 +0000

i thought it was always 5 minutes? ive been telling people 5 minutes for months so i dont think this is anything new?

New comment by yobid20 in "E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May"

yobid20 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:12:44 +0000

because they want to read your messages for training ai and for advertising

New comment by yobid20 in "Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division"

yobid20 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:11:16 +0000

Bubble go pop

New comment by yobid20 in "Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video"

yobid20 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:53:51 +0000

Guess that means they dont need that $1 donation anymore

New comment by yobid20 in "QUIC and the end of TCP sockets"

yobid20 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:50:57 +0000

^^^^ this. I work for a big company (15k engineers). Trying to use anything that is not TCP or UDP simply doesnt work here. For years, even UDP was blocked and the answer we got was always "why are you using UDP, use TCP instead". Yep you read that right. Most of these folks are very short sighted or narrow minded. We tried to use SCTP for one project, major blunder. Zero support from network teams. Sctp is blocked everywhere. All their custom software and scripts for network deployments only work with tcp and udp. And they will not change that. And that comes from higher ups the ppl in charge. They are set in there ways and will not budge. As for as QUIC support? Never gonna happen here.

New comment by yobid20 in "Vibe engineering"

yobid20 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:05:35 +0000

These people havent deployed anything to a production environment that requires reliability and support. For that, you need a real software engineer to take apart the mess of vibe coded kludge and create real software that can actually be given to people to use. I wouldnt worry about this. Vibe coding trend is already on its way out as people discover this.

New comment by yobid20 in "Testing Bitchat at the music festival"

yobid20 — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 22:34:10 +0000

You'd have better luck using smoke signals than trying to do anything using bluetooth.

New comment by yobid20 in "Claude Code weekly rate limits"

yobid20 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 00:16:40 +0000

Someone should do a study then file a class action if their marketing material is false.

New comment by yobid20 in "The United States withdraws from UNESCO"

yobid20 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 15:33:54 +0000

Honestly im ok with this one, despite disagreeing with most of the other ludicrous bs from the current asinine administration.

New comment by yobid20 in "Giving Up on Element and Matrix.org"

yobid20 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:30:45 +0000

Every time it was suggested to adopt matrix into our platform, we took one look at the protocol docs and said NOPE.

New comment by yobid20 in "A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up"

yobid20 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 22:46:38 +0000

Can't you just use a sphere with a small single flat side made out of heavier material? That would only ever come to rest the same way every single time.

New comment by yobid20 in "A new pyramid-like shape always lands the same side up"

yobid20 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 22:43:35 +0000

Doesnt the video start out with laying on a different side then after it flips? Doesnt that by definition mean that its landing on different sides?

New comment by yobid20 in "Radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica"

yobid20 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:51:13 +0000

Keep on the lookout for any cloaked ships and most definitely dont enter any ancient looking circular chambers

New comment by yobid20 in "The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)"

yobid20 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 21:36:04 +0000

Can't speak for obs and raspbian, but jitsi definitely is more of a hobby project than a stable reliable product. I have dealt with it firsthand for years and its a complete mess and unstable with poor quality and reliability and zero support. It tries to do one thing, and does it horribly. Users HATED it. Ending up costing our company millions in wasted dev time and hosting fees. Probably the biggest project failure ive personally witnessed. This is not something you want to use to offer some service to users. There are better and cheaper products out there.(it costs more to host crappy jitsi than it does to just pay for zoom licences).

New comment by yobid20 in "GitHub Copilot Coding Agent"

yobid20 — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:53:10 +0000

So far, i am VERY unimpressed by this. It gets everything completely wrong and tells me lies and completely false information about my code. Cursor is 100000000x better.

New comment by yobid20 in "A Texan who built an empire of ecstasy"

yobid20 — Sun, 04 May 2025 16:13:51 +0000

So I was a heavy user. Every weekend, up to 5 pills a night, for years through college and into early 20s. This was back in the late 90s early 2000s. Now I am in my 40s. Top rated software engineer by my peers, sharp as hell, getting even sharper every year as my knowledge still grows, described as a true 10x expert engineer because of how much I do and code circles around everyone else. I am not saying this to brag. My point is simply that if there were some sort of permanant damaged cognitive effects, it never affected me like that. I never had any negative side effects ever. Or perhaps there was and I could have been the next Einstein but damaged myself to be where I am now. Guess I'll never know. I havent done again since I was around 22 or 23. It just stopped being enjoyable to me and everyone else I knew had already moved on past the party phase of their lives.

Also, a weird coindidence, during the heaviest usage phases, those were also my highest grades during college.

Do I regret using it so much? Not really. That was probably the happiest I've ever been in my entire life. I have very good memories , some of the best I've ever experienced. Often I think back I wish I could go back and do it again. Being an adult and getting old simply just sucks.

New comment by yobid20 in "Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI"

yobid20 — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 19:25:13 +0000

I think the more pressing issue is how to learn in the age of ai. As the older generation retires and the young ones rely on these tools, there will be a massive skill gap and most new software will be so bloated and bug ridden that the entire software industry is going to go upside down bc nobody will know how to fix anything.

New comment by yobid20 in "Hacking the call records of millions of Americans"

yobid20 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:11:47 +0000

No exceptions for FAANG. There is technical incompetence all over in there too.

New comment by yobid20 in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

yobid20 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:11:51 +0000

This is not specific to Apple. Its the modern "agile" culture of hacking shit script kiddies pushing early, regardless of known bugs and broken features, under direction of management. Then management forcing you to move onto the next hack without allowing you to go back and clean up your previous work. Its probkem is now endemic to the modern era of software development. Agile is the worst fucking thing ever created for our industry.

New comment by yobid20 in "Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice"

yobid20 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:38:55 +0000

I have so many questions. Is the model running client side? I was expecting to see webrtc used to send audio to a backend service, but instead i think i the audio waveform processing is done client side? Is it sending audio tokens over websockets to a backend service that is hosting the model? 1/16 slices are enough to accurately be able to recreate an audible sentence? Or is a speech to text model also running client side and are both text and tokens being sent to backend service? Is the backend sending audio tokens back or just text , with the text to speech running 100% client side? Is this using mimi codec or facebook's encodec?