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makach commented on On Getting Hacked   ahmeto.com/post/on-gettin... · Posted by u/ahmetomer
makach · a month ago
It is an humbling experience the moment when you accept that getting hacked is something that can happen to anyone, including the best of us. No one is too good not to be hacked.
makach commented on AI coding assistants are getting worse?   spectrum.ieee.org/ai-codi... · Posted by u/voxadam
renegade-otter · a month ago
They are not worse - the results are not repeatable. The problem is much worse.

Like with cab hailing, shopping, social media ads, food delivery, etc: there will be a whole ecosystem, workflows, and companies built around this. Then the prices will start going up with nowhere to run. Their pricing models are simply not sustainable. I hope everyone realizes that the current LLMs are subsidized, like your Seamless and Uber was in the early days.

makach · a month ago
AI is built to be non-deterministic. Variation is built into each response. If it wasn't I would expect AI to have died out years ago.

The pricing and quality on the copilot, codex (which I am experienced in) feels like it is getting worse, but I suspect it may be my expectations are getting higher as the technology is maturing...

makach commented on Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/rayrey
DiabloD3 · a month ago
Bose hardware quality is rather low and, and their sound quality is sub-par, while forcing you to pay the Bose brand tax, riding the corpse of Amar around for profit.

I'd avoid, even if they happened to do this.

makach · a month ago
Some of their high priced noise cancelling headphones have excellent quality. I purchased the QC-25 ages ago, and when it stopped working I reached out to support, this was beyond their 3y warranty, provided serial number and they sent me a new QC-35 no questions asked replacement unit.

I am very happy with my QC-35 headphones. They are probably 5y+ now and they go with me everywhere. I think it is unfair to state their hw quality is low. It is much better than low.

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makach commented on Tally – A tool to help agents classify your bank transactions   tallyai.money/... · Posted by u/ahmedatia
Fiveplus · a month ago
This feels like the peak of resume driven development. The maker of this has taken a deterministic problem (substring matching transaction descriptions) that could be solved with a 50-line Python script or a standard .rules file and injected a non-deterministic, token-burning probability engine into the middle of it. I'll stick to hledger and a regex file. At least I know my grocery budget won't hallucinate into "Consulting Expenses" because the temperature was set too high.
makach · a month ago
This is an actual hard problem he is trying to fix. 50-line python? Pfff..! My current personal 400-line rule script begs to differ not to mention the PAIN of continuously maintaining it. I was looking into using AI to solve the same problem but now I can just plug and play.
makach commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now   dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin
makach · 2 months ago
I want to read each and every halluicinated post. Detectic deep fakes for seniors... Microsoft Office sub for 40$

yes

makach commented on Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector   downdetectorsdowndetector... · Posted by u/gusowen
fragmede · 3 months ago
What are you, an LLM? You point the first one at the second one and create a loop instead of an infinite "one more" chain
makach · 3 months ago
I wish.
makach commented on Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector   downdetectorsdowndetector... · Posted by u/gusowen
makach · 3 months ago
Slippery slope- just matter of time before someone makes a downdetector for the downdetector for downdetector. Ad nauseum.
makach commented on Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem   blog.cloudflare.com/18-no... · Posted by u/eastdakota
makach · 3 months ago
Excellent write up. Cybersecurity professionals read the story and learn. It’s textbook lesson in post-mortem incident analysis - a mvp for what is expected from us all in a similar situation.

Reputationally this is extremely embarrassing for Cloudflare, but imo they seem to get their feet back on the ground. I was surprised to see not just one, but two apologies to the internet. This just cements how professional and dedicated the Cloudflare team is to ensure stable resilient internet and how embarrassed they must have been.

A reputational hit for sure, but outcome is lessons learned and hopefully stronger resilience.

makach commented on ZOZO's Contact Solver for physics-based simulations   github.com/st-tech/ppf-co... · Posted by u/vintagedave
embedding-shape · 4 months ago
Was Two Minute Papers always so sensationalistic or is that a recent change? I remember seeing the videos many many years ago, and don't recall him being so overly enthusiastic and borderline sensationalistic, like this video seems to be.

Even the title of the video is straight up clickbait ("The Worst Bug In Games Is Now Gone Forever") since the context is all wrong, the metrics on the top left even shows "time/frame: 3.38 min", how could that be useful for games? The problem with physics in games is in real-time simulations, not in cached/animated "physics".

Don't get me wrong, the simulations are impressive, and hopefully will have a big impact on simulation stability for real-time and not, I was just taken aback by the video.

makach · 4 months ago
hey, what a time to be alive

u/makach

KarmaCake day1488October 22, 2014View Original