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Pier Bover

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https://pierbover.com/

https://github.com/PierBover

Working on: https://wavekit.app/

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pier25··on VSL Performer (AI generated orchestral tracks)
VSL is probably unknown to the HN crowd but in the media composer world they are quite a big deal.
pier25··on Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
> These are also people who aren't accustom to cleaning up their own mess, so what do they care if something goes wrong

They certainly don't care when a model hallucinates or an agent does something it shouldn't be doing. It's your fault and they charge you for the tokens.

pier25··on Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout
> But the stock is down 8%

It's down more than 60% since it peaked in September 2025.

pier25··on Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
> disconnect the wireless radio from the main board

Why?

pier25··on The Ocean 'Was the Color of Chocolate.' Mexico Declares War on Seaweed.
Not that bad actually. They probably clean this beach daily for tourists.

Back when I lived in Cancún I remember 1-2 meters high mountains of sargassum in less touristic beaches like Playa Coral.

Eg: https://irp.cdn-website.com/f070c7e5/dms3rep/multi/Sargazo+C...

pier25··on The Ocean 'Was the Color of Chocolate.' Mexico Declares War on Seaweed.
I lived in Cancun 10 years ago and this was already a huge issue back then.
pier25··on Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
God only knows how many skeletons like this are in Bun now
pier25··on Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning
I just migrated from Proton to Mailbox.

The mail server works great so far and their plans are super generous. Their web client is kinda shit and no mobile apps but any IMAP client will do the job fine.

pier25··on Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning
> and (had) a lot of soft capital in the form of a good trusted name and goodwill

"had" is the right word.

pier25··on Alphabet shares tumble in $500B rout
> Philipp Schindler, chief business officer at Google, admitted “AI mode” queries [...] were eating into traditional search and led to “lower monetisation” via ads.

Spending enormous amounts of cash on infra and AI is one thing but sacrificing the core revenue generator of your business is on another level of bad.

pier25··on Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning
> “Due to insufficient velocity,” Proton is not on track to achieve its annual recurring revenue target by the end of the year

I'm a Proton customer and other than some UX improvements I'm not missing any big features. This idea they need more velocity is a failure in management.

pier25··on Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements
Fly.io really needs to explain what happened here.
pier25··on New iMac with M6
Absolutely. The display on the iMac 5K was amazing. Ended up giving that machine to a nephew of mine when I moved to Apple Silicon but Apple really dropped the ball here.
pier25··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
Of course they did. AI companies have pirated and stolen all sorts of content. What we know of is probably only the tip of the iceberg.

As for the training being fair use, this is still disputed:

https://www.courthousenews.com/ai-training-of-copyrighted-ma...

pier25··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
if they had actually reached AGI they would simply fire +90% of employees and make a huge announcement
pier25··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
or maybe they just need to lower their operating expenditure because they're spending too much money...
pier25··on Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
This is not even a remotely wild claim.
pier25··on AI compute is the new oil–and needs a new market
We’re trying to get rid of fossil fuels…
pier25··on There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
Maybe the author does have a point. There are millions of PHP websites and do we know of any that was pwned?
pier25··on Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
> Getting Zuck to blab is what they're looking for

That but also I would imagine getting information on the record from the exhibits etc.

pier25··on PHP web runtimes (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619)
sounds like they are trying to get rid of users of Amazon Linux honestly
pier25··on PHP 8.2.35
> OpenAI and these security companies sat on this for 2 months

The PHP team knew about it since September 21st.

pier25··on PHP 8.2.35
Apparently about 40% of PHP apps are still on PHP 7 and 5...
pier25··on Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)
Hopefully it didn’t get hacked…
pier25··on Anthropic recorded a staggering $80B net loss in the first half of 2026
Their net loss in 2025 was like $40B with $4B of revenue.

Looks like 2026 will be so much worse.

pier25··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
> I think it might have more meaningful impact on high volume use cases, i.e. where cumulative run time is still significant

For sure but those high volume use cases are extremely rare.

pier25··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
Now we're getting somewhere. This is a great example because obviously speed depends on the context.

Obviously a shovel is quite an improvement for home gardeners but big constructions need a completely different tool.

For +99% of TS projects going from eg 10ms to 1ms is not going to make any difference even though it's a 10x improvement. In part because most monitors refresh at 60hz (16ms per frame) but even with +120hz monitors this is not going to have an impact on any workflow. Even for CI network latency is going to be a much bigger factor than improving TS compilation beyond the performance that TSGO already provides.

pier25··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
do you go to the supermarket with an F1 car?
pier25··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
> Is the TS compiler unbearably slow?

It's not. Even the JS compiler is still fast enough for many projects given the single core improvements in hardware (eg Apple Silicon).

pier25··on Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust
TSGO is already plenty fast and overkill for most projects.

Sure the Rust version is faster but the difference is probably only noticeable in the top 1% largest projects.

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