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vultour··on Show HN: ImPlot3D – A 3D Plotting Library for Dear ImGui
Strange, those also didn't show up on the first page load, but when I opened it up again after reading your comment they were there.
vultour··on Veo 2: Our video generation model
The most predictable comment is yours, especially since you completely missed the point of the original comment which had nothing to do with the video quality.
vultour··on $8k Suzuki from India received a 5-star crash test rating
Mercedes does not make a G600. If you're not talking about Mercedes then you should specify a manufacturer because I can't figure out what car you mean.
vultour··on I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100
By checking what resources you are spinning up and double checking everything has been removed after you're done. I have used AWS for small projects many times and have never been hit with a surprise bill. The platform is built for actual customers, not your hello world app.
vultour··on GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic
The problem with this is that you lose the entire context around the answer you're given. There might be notes about limitations or edge cases in the documentation or on StackOverflow. I already see this with my coworkers who use LLMs, they often have no idea how or why things work and then they're absolutely perplexed when something goes wrong.
vultour··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
I exlusively watch youtube videos from my homepage and from the related videos section. You can train the YouTube algorithm to not feed you garbage, most of the videos on my homepage are 30+ minutes long educational content. I just wish you could permanently hide the Shorts section (I guess ublock can do this), so that I could see more than 6 at a time.

I also never subscribe to any channels, watching a few videos pretty much guarantees they will pop up on the homepage every once in a while.

vultour··on 'Islands' of regularity discovered in the famously chaotic three-body problem
I am aware, just didn't expect it to modify the displayed timestamp (especially for OPs comment in the post).
vultour··on 'Islands' of regularity discovered in the famously chaotic three-body problem
The article is from almost a week ago, and the original paper from August. Yet, there are two submissions on HN within an hour. Now I wonder where HN posters steal their content from :^)

Edit: Nevermind, according to the timestamps both of these are from 3-4 days ago. Interesting that they both just hit the front page again. I'm not sure why HN is showing both the post and OPs comment as posted "3 hours ago" when the timestamp is several days old.

vultour··on World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
I'd rather read and learn about conkers than another snake oil AI / crypto blogspam.
vultour··on ABC News hacks into popular robot vacuum, watches owner through camera
Because the morons making the product think you need to use it while away from home, which is also conveniently allowing them to send data to their servers all the time. I personally never do, so a bluetooth connection would be sufficient, but they don't give you a choice.
vultour··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
Looks like you're missing an AI to auto-close the PRs for you.

Seriously though, I'm tired of the "helpful" GitHub bots closing issues after X days of inactivity. Can't wait for one powered by AI to decide it's not interested in your issue.

vultour··on The ambition of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
The cities (at least for ETS) are a miniature version with only a couple of streets and some landmarks (in larger cities). It doesn't really come close to reality.
vultour··on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second
You don't connect your TV to the internet.
vultour··on 3K free SVG icons for popular brands
It has existed for years and they actively remove icons when they get a takedown request. I'm sure most companies other than Oracle are happy to be there.
vultour··on GitHub notification emails used to send malware
This is no different from installing a random package through a package manager. If you're running "curl pipe sh" because an email told you to, that's on you.
vultour··on The "email is authentication" pattern
But she is right, unlike your password manager the browser has to store it unencrypted because nobody bothers with setting the master password.
vultour··on OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux
This is hilarious and perfectly sums up my experience with Mac developers. Half of them have no idea Docker Desktop actually installs a Linux VM. They think how amazing their incredibly expensive system is, yet it's mostly a glorified text editor. The WSL experience on Windows convinced me buying a MacOS machine makes no sense.
vultour··on Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel
I've long been of the opinion that UI/UX "experts" cannot be full-time employees, otherwise you will get a constant stream of utterly pointless changes and redesigns to justify their employment. I'm sorry, please design the product you were asked for and move on.
vultour··on How Olympic Timing Works
400ms seems way too long for a blink. 300us is obviously wrong though.
vultour··on Hundred Rabbits is a small collective exploring the failability of modern tech
Offtopic: that website is hosted on a webserver/proxy/LB that appears to have a wildcard certificate for dozens of Google domains. Don't they use SNI and separate certs? This wouldn't fly where I work and the security team is asleep half the time.
vultour··on Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging
I worked for a large company with offices all over the globe where 95% of meetings were online. I worked there for several years and don't remember anyone ever complaining about the setup, even though we were in an open office.
vultour··on I can't use my number pad for 2FA codes
When a website refuses to let me paste my password I open DevTools, manually add a value="password" attribute on the input, and submit the form. I don't know what kind of moron makes these decisions, but thanks, now everybody can see my password in plaintext while I'm putting it in.
vultour··on Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores
Wait what? When did they reveal it's offloaded to workers in India? I remember this being touted as fully automated when it was announced, surely being watched by strangers from creepy angles would discourage a large portion of customers.
vultour··on Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU
The problem is that the less-tech-literate people don't recognize the dark patterns. I like iPhones because it means I don't have to worry about my parents' phones. I am not looking forward to the day when all their contacts and pictures are siphoned off because they downloaded the required "ebook reader" via the big download button on a random website.
vultour··on New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
That's why I was talking about Windows.
vultour··on New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
And they have Linux integrated into the system. I'm amazed how many developers get a Macbook just to install Docker Desktop right after.
vultour··on Motion blur all the way down (2022)
Yes but that one is not moving infinitely fast. If it kept accelerating it would eventually become opaque.
vultour··on Morale plummets at Google as workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'boring'
Reposted Google propaganda by someone associated with the company, at the top of HN. Hilarious.
vultour··on In loving memory of square checkbox
Windows 7 was the last one that let you select the "classical" pre-XP theme. I was the only person I know who used it, and I miss it to this day.
vultour··on Breakdown of faults by car brand: Tesla has replaced Dacia at the bottom
No, it's a Skoda. I mostly just use the navigation which is very usable, plus with a subscription you also get live traffic. There's a few things which annoy me about the infotainment but that's inherent to the whole system (like annoying popups on boot), so CarPlay doesn't fix that.
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