Hacker News: youniverse

New comment by youniverse in "The Car That Watches You Back: The Advertising Infrastructure of Modern Cars"

youniverse — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:17:33 +0000

At least Tesla is doing something right with direct sales and no suffering through a dealership just adding on cost.

New comment by youniverse in "Rectal cancer deaths rising rapidly among millennials: 'It's a medical crisis.'"

youniverse — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:29:32 +0000

A cool study actually just came out linking the rise to a common pesticide. Hope the EPA investigates asap and we get more funding for the cool methodology. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04342-5

New comment by youniverse in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

youniverse — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:12:08 +0000

Yeah I think there will be a time in a few years (1-2?) when both Google and Apple will get to eat their cake. They aren't playing the same game of speed running unpolished product releases every month to double their valuation. They have time to think and observe and put out something really polished. At least that's the hope! :)

New comment by youniverse in "Tell HN: Reddit now demands to know why you won't use their app"

youniverse — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:56:10 +0000

I'd wager it's more just more addiction/engagement since people/kids probably develop a deeper habit scrolling on a phone instead of a bigger screen.

New comment by youniverse in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

youniverse — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:53:10 +0000

I love and have been using handy for a while too, what we need is this for mobile apps I don't think there's any free apps and native dictation is not always fully local and not as good.

New comment by youniverse in "OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio"

youniverse — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:01:26 +0000

Now we need an open source self hostable Loom.

New comment by youniverse in "Solana Drift Protocol drained of $285M via fake token and governance hijack"

youniverse — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:05:19 +0000

What a nice retirement fund!

New comment by youniverse in "Show HN: A P2P messenger with dual network modes (Fast and Tor)"

youniverse — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 03:17:58 +0000

Is this pronounced keovo/keyovo? Just thoughts for a shorter name. Cool project!

New comment by youniverse in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

youniverse — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:52:41 +0000

Yep i have nontech friends and even the younger generation students talking about how Claude is better at certain tasks or types of homework problems lol.

If it's used as a tool not just search, then people will definitely talk about the other stuff. Students who rely on free tiers will also definitely just have everything bookmarked.

New comment by youniverse in "Netscape News Feed Straight Out of the Late 00s"

youniverse — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:48:02 +0000

As someone who isn't old enough to have experienced this era of internet, the contrast of efficient utility for the user between this and modern news websites is really upsetting. :(

New comment by youniverse in "Show HN: TopMail – LaunchFest Winner, $20/Mo Unlimited Email, Coding Agents API"

youniverse — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:03:29 +0000

We love when new users join hn don't we :)

New comment by youniverse in "Show HN: TopMail – LaunchFest Winner, $20/Mo Unlimited Email, Coding Agents API"

youniverse — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:58:34 +0000

We are reaching new heights of comment slop

New comment by youniverse in "Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs"

youniverse — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:08:23 +0000

I was just looking into the custom anthropic sans and serif fonts used for the claude app, I really like those!

New comment by youniverse in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

youniverse — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:02:13 +0000

I've heard 'just ai it' from high schoolers.

New comment by youniverse in "Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?"

youniverse — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:13:46 +0000

My mind goes to simple solutions like established communities having a $1 entry fee, for privacy use a privacy crypto maybe but that's a decent amount of friction for average folk with the current UX.

Another interesting idea that comes to mind is that every post/comment made needs the user to physically use their fingerprint scanner on their device which I assume plenty of devices have already. As long ad it can't be spoofed it works but not sure about the details about reliably securing that.

It would be some friction but I feel like it would be fine?

New comment by youniverse in "The behavioral cost of personalized pricing"

youniverse — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:49:19 +0000

My friends just booked a trip to Hawaii on booking.com and they were each shown different prices for their hotels: $1300, $1500, $1700

Ridiculous.

New comment by youniverse in "I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon"

youniverse — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:56:37 +0000

Let's salute dang for his service.

New comment by youniverse in "M5 MacBook Pro"

youniverse — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:58:05 +0000

I would guess they are mostly talking to game devs for now, but man in a few years if Apple can get me to throw out my windows rig that me and I imagine many others have around just for gaming I wouldn't hate that!

New comment by youniverse in "Hacker News Live Feed"

youniverse — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 23:35:32 +0000

I wonder what % of users submit posts and browse new submissions on here and on reddit.

New comment by youniverse in "Show HN: Privacy-First Voice-to-Text for macOS"

youniverse — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:55:38 +0000

I believe audio is normally processed on device but transcripts can be sent to apple.

Even apps like superwhisper I'm looking to ditch because during an update they swapped my local models to cloud models which is a crazy breach of trust.

Very happy to see this stuff!