Hacker News: Asraelite

New comment by Asraelite in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

Asraelite — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:32:05 +0000

Why are you unwilling to say the other country?

New comment by Asraelite in "Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload"

Asraelite — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:43:31 +0000

The "How PMG Works" section on Github does not actually explain how it works

New comment by Asraelite in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

Asraelite — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:10:55 +0000

> Shouldn't entirely new life develop all the time on earth?

The fact that it doesn't is a pretty simple solution to the Fermi Paradox.

New comment by Asraelite in "Dates That Don't Exist (2015)"

Asraelite — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:36:50 +0000

I would say it's almost never appropriate unless you're directly quoting source texts.

If you are talking about a historical event from Egypt in 500 BCE, you would say "this happened in 500 BCE", not "this happened in year 26 of the 27th dynasty".

The distinction is important in the context of doing historical research, but it is no more appropriate to write dates in secondary sources using the Julian calendar than it would be to try to explain Egyptian history by spouting hieroglyphics at people.

New comment by Asraelite in "A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants"

Asraelite — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:04:33 +0000

> At least in this article the author explicitly explains the notation at the very start

They explain one particular aspect of the notation but never define the variables used. What is k? q? S?

It's obvious if you've studied machine learning before, and for some of them you can make an educated guess, but it makes the article mostly opaque if you don't already have some domain-specific background knowledge.

New comment by Asraelite in "Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS"

Asraelite — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:14:55 +0000

No it's not. There is a legal distinction in IP law between the act of observing information and the act of using that information for some kind of personal gain.

New comment by Asraelite in "Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS"

Asraelite — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:25:00 +0000

> The vast majority of processors are optimized for floats now and some operations (e.g. division) are actually faster.

This seems backwards. Hardware is optimized for floats because people use floats. If people used fixed point, hardware would become optimized for that instead.

Given an equal number of transistors, I'm pretty sure fixed point would be a lot faster on equally optimized hardware for almost all operations.

New comment by Asraelite in "Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS"

Asraelite — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:14:11 +0000

Permission to access is not the same as permission to use.

New comment by Asraelite in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

Asraelite — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:16:03 +0000

Backdoors are often (almost always?) designed to look like incompetence so that there's plausible deniability.

New comment by Asraelite in "Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?"

Asraelite — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:25:44 +0000

> Any time I try to use the site while logged out I immediately hit all sorts of rate limits and spam prevention measures.

When this started happening to me I realized that I can't rely on Github as infrastructure anymore. I now vendor all the repos I need.

Self-hosted forges like Forgejo make it pretty easy to mirror repos so you have everything locally. You don't get issues though.

New comment by Asraelite in "Steam Machine launches today"

Asraelite — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:23:20 +0000

Discounted doesn't necessarily mean at a loss. It could just mean a smaller profit margin than normal.

New comment by Asraelite in "Bias Compounds, Variance Washes Out"

Asraelite — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:12:57 +0000

It's active voice. Intransitive verbs cannot be put in the passive.

New comment by Asraelite in "Bias Compounds, Variance Washes Out"

Asraelite — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:06:02 +0000

> "$1m in stocks" is a thing that is having appreciation done to it.

How? "appreciate" in this sense is not a transitive verb. There cannot be an agent.

In any case, I don't think you need to defend this. It's not about humans never using that pattern, it's about how frequent it is relative to LLMs. Individual counterexamples do not disprove a trend.

New comment by Asraelite in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

Asraelite — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:22:35 +0000

It's not "we should live in the same environment we evolved in to be happy", it's "the things that make us happy are a product of the environment we evolved in, and we should take that into consideration".

New comment by Asraelite in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

Asraelite — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:26:52 +0000

I hate that this discussion is about OpenAI vs. Anthropic and not OpenAI+Anthropic vs. Google.

Google put up so little of a fight against the DoW for their use of Gemini that we didn't even hear about it. They are clearly the worst of the evils here, but OpenAI is the one getting all of the negative press.

New comment by Asraelite in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

Asraelite — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:51:52 +0000

You are conflating obnoxiousness with directness.

New comment by Asraelite in "Performance of Rust Language [pdf]"

Asraelite — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:03:13 +0000

> GPU-friendly? Scalable? Energy-efficient? Reliable? User-friendly? Maintainable?

Nobody uses "performant" to refer to any of those. It usually means either high throughput, or some aggregate of high throughput + low latency + low memory usage.

New comment by Asraelite in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

Asraelite — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:47:25 +0000

> Widespread vulnerabilities discovered

This is a good thing

New comment by Asraelite in "Nordstjernen Web Browser"

Asraelite — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:33:18 +0000

Did this project exist in some form since 1997? The Wayback Machine shows that the website was previously completely different - a fan site for someone connected to the Norwegian royal family.

New comment by Asraelite in "Kickstarter is forced to ban adult content by payment processors"

Asraelite — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:24:58 +0000

> You can use your imagination to come up with many reasons these result in more chargebacks than normal purchases.

No I can't. Can you elaborate?