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alex7o commented on Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target    · Posted by u/bmadduma
missedthecue · 13 hours ago
"It’s verifiable. The books either balance or they don’t. Ledgers either reconcile or they don’t. There’s almost always a “ground truth” to compare against (bank feeds, statements, prior periods). It’s boring and repetitive. Same vendors, same categories, same patterns every month. Humans hate this work. Software loves it."

These are all true statements, but all of those things are solvable with classic software. Quickbooks has done this for decades now. The parts of accounting that aren't solvable with classic computing are generally also not solvable by adding LLMs into the mix.

alex7o · 12 hours ago
They might not be solvable but you can get 5-10% Improvement on them, unfortunately you can't do a new product that is exactly like QuickBooks but 5% better at reconciliation etc.
alex7o commented on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to   huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-... · Posted by u/huijzer
alex7o · a month ago
Yeah but cloudflare is one of the few places with free static hosting so ... Not much of a choice
alex7o commented on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support   github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/... · Posted by u/bertman
KeplerBoy · a month ago
And it's an entirely useless effort. No idea how it is done but the internet is full 4k rips.
alex7o · a month ago
They find devices that are easy to hack (and I mean rip and tear) and extract the decryption keys from each of them, from what I have heard cheap chinese tvs and set top boxes, they extract the keys from the chips (hardware hacking, heard some even use microscopes to read the keys by hand), and then use them to decrypt streams, I heard that they catch them pretty fast to they use like 1 device per season. This is why they use mostly stollen devices.
alex7o commented on The Arduino Uno Q is a weird hybrid SBC   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/furkansahin
dezgeg · a month ago
It'd be interesting to see a setup where a Linux-capable SoC would run the Arduino application on a isolated CPU core with no interrupts handled, so you'd still have real-time guarantee for the Arduino app
alex7o · a month ago
It runs the Arduino app on a separate mcu stm32l4 I think. So you have the realtime as well, but what you describe is already possible with the pi and asymmetric multiprocessing using openamp and zephyr.

I remember reading about this in some blogs so here is one I found that describes just that: https://telmomoya.blogspot.com/2016/10/asymmetric-multi-proc...

alex7o commented on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move   makeuseof.com/androids-si... · Posted by u/josephcsible
spogbiper · 2 months ago
I didn't think a usb port was required since the introduction of wifi adb?

https://www.androidpolice.com/use-wireless-adb-android-phone...

alex7o · 2 months ago
I know that this is how shizuku (0) does it and it is required anyway if you want to install multi apk applications so stiff won't change for most people then?

(0): https://shizuku.rikka.app/

alex7o commented on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?    · Posted by u/ofalkaed
bdcravens · 2 months ago
RethinkDB. Technically it still exists (under The Linux Foundation), but (IMO) the original company's widening scope (the Horizon BaaS) that eventually led to its demise killed its momentum.
alex7o · 2 months ago
Man I loves the original concept for demos but never build anything real with it. Curious if anyone did?
alex7o commented on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account   theverge.com/news/793579/... · Posted by u/josephcsible
gambiting · 2 months ago
Sadly, as a developer there is no beating Visual Studio. Microsoft still makes the best developer IDE that unfortunately only runs on their worst OS. But as a C++ developer there is just no substitute(imho). Not to mention some development toolchains only work on windows(for playstation/xbox/switch) so if you work in games there is very little choice.
alex7o · 2 months ago
Just wait for it, from what I know Sony uses clang for it toolchain, don't know about the others so if enough studios start to switch they will start to offer the tools.

Side note: I have been using msvc in wine for almost 5 years now, so if that works I don't know why the Sony/Nintendo/Xbox toolchain wouldn't.

Have you tried the intellij IDEs? I thought that they were pretty similar in terms of experience, although I have used them for java/dotnet primarily.

alex7o commented on Scm2wasm: A Scheme to WASM compiler in 600 lines of C, making use of WASM GC   git.lain.faith/iitalics/s... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
leptons · 3 months ago
Asm.js runs on the main thread, WASM runs in its own thread.
alex7o · 3 months ago
Not exactly true WASM compilcation is in a different thread, but the execution happens on the same thread as JS if you don't do any webworker stuff.

Edit: https://apryse.com/blog/how-to-enable-webassembly-threads

alex7o commented on Americans crushed by auto loans as defaults and repossessions surge   carscoops.com/2025/09/aut... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
demarq · 3 months ago
> round people who were good with their hands, but in my mind buying a used car isn't a scary matter - you visit the private seller, you look at the vehicle, you check for the things one needs to check for, and you know if it has problems or not.

This has nothing to do with America. The rest of the world has this problem too. Not everyone is a mechanic outside of America.

alex7o · 3 months ago
Come to eastern Europe, nobody here buys a new car (people can't afford it unfortunately). For that exact reason most people have retained the knowledge of how to buy a used car, and choose one that is not awful, or at least the least bad one.
alex7o commented on Google was down in eastern EU and Turkey   novinite.com/articles/234... · Posted by u/nurettin
ruszki · 3 months ago
Even when you do that, it heavily prefers English content. Whenever I search for some hardware for example, there are several non country related results on the first page. The first 2-3 usually from the selected country, after that it’s not that great.

When I search for “sony wh1000xm5” for example, then the first 2 are from Hungary, the 3rd are a generic English sony.com page, the 4th from the country, all the others is in English and not related to the selected country at all. Austria is a little bit better, it still has generic English results, but mostly it just ignores the differences between Germany and Austria. It’s a huge pain point when you want to buy something.

alex7o · 3 months ago
I live in Bulgaria and even google is pretty bad at this, however adding the Bulgarian word for price at the end of it always worked for me both in kagi and in google

u/alex7o

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