caseyf7's comments

On: Netflix Open Content

[caseyf7]

I would like to see them give us an option to turn HDR off. In some situations it is just too bright and in others too dark.

[ComputerGuru → caseyf7]

I’m still rocking a plasma tv which sidesteps the matter altogether :)

Best tv tech to date, though OLED improvements in the past year mean we might see good panels hitting the market in a few years. The race to produce the brightest panels (and putting them on display for comparison and testing in brightly lit electronics stores in environments that couldn’t be further from the actual viewing experience) resulted in a bunch of mass market crap.

[timc3 → ComputerGuru]

Took down my Pioneer Kuro a couple of weeks ago. OLED is so good now.

Agree with the in store crap and all the processing that’s turned on for the TVs on display. But brightness is useful - can help combat ambient light, and HDR can look amazing.

[Lord-Jobo → ComputerGuru]

Newish QD oled finally hit that threshold of upgrading for me. Plasma definitely had a hell of a run though.

[assimpleaspossi → ComputerGuru]

I wish there was a rubber ducky like thing to give you as a fellow plasma TV user.

[floydnoel → caseyf7]

Wouldn’t that be handled on your TV and/or streaming box? That’s how I control it, at least.

[caseyf7 → floydnoel]

Unfortunately iPads also don’t allow you to turn off HDR

[swiftcoder → caseyf7]

For a long time putting them in low power mode killed HDR, but it seems they patched that bug (feature)

On: OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer

[caseyf7]

Apple should dedicate some resources to making this successful. Metal could use more wins outside of Apple itself.

[vegabook → caseyf7]

see Blender

On: Rivian Autonomy and AI Day

[caseyf7]

Rivian hasn't and never will deliver the features they promised for the Launch Edition vehicles so I'm very skeptical

[DaveZale → caseyf7]

you'll see within weeks

they've been working in secret. watch the presentation

The common stock price is heavily manipulated. Maximum pain theory in options applies. Be careful but the dips are a good place to carefully buy.

On: OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race

[caseyf7]

This is exactly the kind of failure Google is notorious for. Google has put me through their login purgatory multiple times where the only solution was to wait many days and try the same steps again until it works. I think it would be much easier to get this resolved with OpenAI than with Google.

[kirubakaran → caseyf7]

I'm not trying to defend Google (shudder!), just trying to be helpful:

- Enabling 2fa in my accounts has solved this problem for me

- I hear that hardware security tokens are even better to get Google to not worry that you're an imposter, but I haven't done that myself

On: XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox

[caseyf7]

I fondly remember opening up my Xbox to solder a mini board to the Xbox board. Later, they figured out how to add it without the additional board.

On: Ace Frehley Dies at 74

[caseyf7]

I don’t think Hacker News is the right place to post celebrity obituaries (see Diane Keaton earlier this week).

On: Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions

[caseyf7]

This is great. I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time after giving up on Portal. Thank you

On: Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off?

[caseyf7]

Where are you finding the best material for reading/learning?

[bdangubic → caseyf7]

- everything that simon writes (https://simonwillison.net/)

- anything that goes deep into issues (I seldom read “i love llms” type posts like this is great: https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/09/15/ai-unit-of-work/)

- lots of experimentation - specifically I have spent hours and hours doing the exact same feature (my record is 23 times).

- if something “doesn’t work” I create a task immediately to investigate and understand it. even the smallest thing that bother me I will spend hours to figure out why it might have happened (this is sometimes frustrating) and how to prevent it from happening again (this is fun)

My collegue describes the process as Javascript developer trying to learn Rust while tripping on mushrooms :)

On: Ask HN: Are there any modern devices similar to Palm Pilot?

[caseyf7]

Not exactly what you want, but I recently discovered my old Palm Pilot IIIe still works when I put batteries in it.

On: OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August

[caseyf7]

Are they losing so many customers to Anthropic, Gemini, etc that they have to pre-announce this?