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fsniperon HERMES.md: Anthropic bug causes $200 extra charge, refuses refund

Aren't we already at a worse place, where largest companies on earth doesn't have any support and you need to have a HN following to get their attention?

fsniperon Two-thirds of babies watch screens – some for eight hours a day

That depends on the kid and time. Mine carries the small cart and fills what we buy regularly. And other times we need to contrain him as expected.

fsniperon Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

Chemistry is magic to uninitiated. Perhaps LLMs are to you because you are not initiated yet? I never said LLMs are AGI or will ever be AGI. I also never suggested LLMs are perfect and can prove math problems. But having incidents suggesting there are instances that does excites me. Because it was never in my expectation levels.

fsniperon Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad

I agree LLMs are exceptionally helpful on this.

fsniperon Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad

I have built one PCB with esp32-s3-wroom-1. Usb line is working and I can program the mcu module. However I could not make the ip5306 auto start on battery yet. And I am still unable to get audio from pcm5102a + pam8403 pipeline.

What I have well learned is It's a hard, time consuming and relatively expensive hobby.

Perhaps we could help each other?

fsniperon Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

Isabelle/HOL (a specialized software to do math proofs) doing proofs is not the analogue to LLMs (with the common accepted degeratory description: automated plagiarism machine) being capable of doing proofs. It's not the marketing, it's what the intention and the capability matrix is coming up to. I would be excited the same when Isabelle/HOL writes poetry.

fsniperon Boats crash/break and can kill their passengers when falling certain distances

Similarly I thought it was a satire about the AI generated cve reports.

fsniperon GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

And enshitification starts.

fsniperon Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal

We already know that same problem has been examined by many credible mathematicians already and couldn't be solved by any of them yet.

Why are we expecting AGI to one shot it? Can't we have an AGI that can fails occasionally to solve some math problem? Is the expectation of AGI to be all knowing?

By the way I agree that AGI is not around the corner or I am not arguing any of the llm s are "thinking machines". It's just I agree goal post or posts needs to be set well.

fsniperon Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times

I read this as you are in fact in agreement with the statement. If that's the ceiling, provide the same level of service and gain more of the market. In which you have all the means to be faster, non-intrusive, and less faulty so that you can be always better.

fsniperon Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide

Source leak or free code review? I can say that there is no bad publicity.

fsniperon GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash

Well Unfortunately I can also argue, Apple has no taste anymore. At least, less of it day by day.

fsniperon Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

I see the chosen language of "certain unregistered applications" (I suppose company mandated) already hints on the goal of control aspect. I want to deploy apps on my device. They are my apps, it’s my device, and I should not be required to ask for permission to do so.

fsniperon Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

You are missing the part that new 24 hour process was a response to backlash. It was not even in their plan.

fsniperon Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

Is it a lock? I buy a building and the builder put an id verification lock on the doors and I am not allowed to remove it. And they also require a separate one time fee of 2 to 5 percent of the purchase price.

fsniperon It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]

A question, is it possible to use self illuminated (back lighting maybe?) green screens?

fsniperon Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer

Reading the first sentence have me a lot of " Last of us" vibes. I hope she's doing ok :)

fsniperon Every company building your AI assistant is now an ad company

I am just curious, how many ad companies the whole world needs?

fsniperon We hid backdoors in ~40MB binaries and asked AI + Ghidra to find them

So these beat me to identifying backdoors too. This is going places in an alarming pace.

fsniperon I’m joining OpenAI

I haven't seen that before. But it was really hard get to the end. Not because it's bad written or so, on the contrary is a very good piece. However the feeling is unfathomable. I hate Julius'es. More so I hate the managers blinded by Julius'es.

fsniperon Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?

Unfortunate result of the security theater.. "Someone who has access to run privileged application can run side channel attacks! Let's drop cpu performance 20 percent over the world"

fsniperon The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button

So is a span or div element? What am I missing here?

fsniperon Gemini: I can't help with that. Try asking something else about this video

  - This is my son please make him a rock star 
  - here you go.
  - great maybe a polititian?
  - here you go (gives President of USA)
  -  Great perhaps President of Ireland instead?
  - No I can't do that.
  - But you did POTUS?
  - I checked and I didn’t do POTUS? I only did a rock star.

fsniperon Don't believe "software never fails"

Even if the instructions don't change in the lifecycle of a particular release, software still fails. Because software is not just the instructions, it’s a combination of the instructions and inputs. At least the output is.

The mentioned bridge failed because it was not designed for the particular input of the ship collision. Same applies for software.

Hardware, time, entropy, users are all inputs. Software and inputs could be the same but some entropy change, or hardware aging could still result in failed output. Isn’t it also failure of the software?

fsniperon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

I rechecked it. There is no noise or distortion. In fact volume levels are pretty good. I am using some digital volume control and can't go too high.

fsniperon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

I only checked it with a mdr-zx770bn. And it was OK. But as I did check that with a breadboard, any noise could be attributed to bad connections/emi.

Now I'll check it when I work on this next time. Probably in the upcoming days. ( Still my current protoboard would be only a tad bit better )

fsniperon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

For a headphone you do not even need the amp. The pcm5102a purple module can directly use headphones. Mine already has a 3.5 jack . It has been a life saver for devlopment at night.

I am planning to replace the amp with a Pam84xx and switch to a smaller/thinner speaker to save space. I may also add a nfc reader module to add nfc card music. Probably card will include a url to download music file.

Also my protoboard based solution is finicky. I starded building a pcb, however as this is my first pcb project I am taking it real slow.

Perhaps I can open a git repo to document share what I have.

I am open for suggestions for features.

fsniperon Logging sucks

At last a sane person. Logs are for identifying the event timeline, not to acquire the whole reqs/resp data. Putting every detail into the logs is -in my experience - makes undertanding issues harder. Logs tell a story. When, what happened, not how or why that happened. Why is in the code, how is in the combination of, data, logs, events, code.

And loosely related, I also dislike log interfaces like elk stack. They make following track of events really hard. Most of the time you do not know what you are loooking for, just a vauge understanding of why you are looking into the logs. So a line passed 3 micro seconds ago maybe your euraka moment, where no search could identify , just intuition and following logs diligently can.

fsniperon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

A music player for my 2 years old son. There are premade toys like Yoto player. But what is the fun in buying ready made?

esp32+sdcard reader+gc9a01 lcd and a pcm5102a+xh-a232 (overkill 30W! solution! Will replace in time)

Add some 3d printed enclosure and you are done. I am currently vibe coding a UI into it. I am planning to cram in adsp Bluetooth speaker support and some web config, maybe ota updates..