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New comment by EnnEmmEss in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

EnnEmmEss — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:19:00 +0000

Even if you've ticked that box, the conversation can still be trained on if you:

(a) Click thumbs-up/down in the conversation [1]

(b) Have the conversation flagged for potential safety concerns

[1]: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is....

FastJSON Broke Again. Why?

EnnEmmEss — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:16:55 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.vonng.com/en/cloud/fastjson-boom/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150477

Points: 1

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New comment by EnnEmmEss in "The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin"

EnnEmmEss — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:48:12 +0000

Hi, Since you're here, I just wanted to alert you to the fact that the link you posted w.r.t donating to Jellyfin doesn't work. https://jellyfin.org/donate gives a 404 and the correct link for donating is at: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/contributing/direct-donati...

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction"

EnnEmmEss — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:00:24 +0000

Card acceptance may be up (I can't comment one way or another) but last I was in India, a large number of POS seem to straight up block international Credit Cards.

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "What to learn to be a graphics programmer"

EnnEmmEss — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:10:20 +0000

Isn't that GP's own 3d engine?

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "My favorite keyboards"

EnnEmmEss — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:03:05 +0000

As someone who's tried several keyboards, a key feature I've found myself unable to go without is contouring of the keyboard. Keyboards like Kinesis Advantage 2, Kinesis Advantage 360 and the Glove 80 essentially. I've personally found it the biggest gain to reducing strain on my left hand.

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "The new HTTP QUERY method explained"

EnnEmmEss — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:44:57 +0000

Not exactly. OPTIONS lets servers tell you that QUERY is supported if the client requests it and Status Code 405 lets servers tell you that QUERY is not supported. That's very different from the current landscape where several proxy servers and web servers simply ignore the Body of a GET request.

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "The new HTTP QUERY method explained"

EnnEmmEss — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:43:22 +0000

To clarify, by REST spec I meant the state of access defined by https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/....

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "The new HTTP QUERY method explained"

EnnEmmEss — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:11:14 +0000

Using GET with a Body doesn't work if you try using it in the browser with JS fetch for example[1]. Additionally, a lot of existing web servers by default ignore GET requests with a body.

The use case of QUERY is because POST conveys non-safe, non-idempotent requests which can potentially modify stuff according to the REST spec. GET requests on the other hand convey retrieval of a resource. However, due to GET requests not having a body, there's a limit to the amount of data you can put in the URL and you also cannot put sensitive data in it.

Additionally, GET requests are meant to be highly cacheable by default while a lot of the QUERY type requests are usually meant more for one-shot access.

QUERY is meant to address these limitations.

[1]: https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/551

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file"

EnnEmmEss — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:54:12 +0000

Was reminded of this article when I read what you said: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2026/06/19/waiting.html

I have an ancient Windows 98 computer which I used to use at my grandparents' home until a few years ago. All the problems you mentioned did exist. However, the machine still felt more responsive than today's laptops. Something being objectively slow is very different from it feeling slow when you use it. As an example, I never had Word autosave turned on. It was always explicit (even if this meant I'd usually lose what I was working on when the computer lost power)

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "A nearly perfect USB cable tester"

EnnEmmEss — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:03:45 +0000

It's fun to see the Treedix tester come up on HN. I got one a few months back and have quite enjoyed using it. One thing which I did find interesting was that one of the cables had the emarker data lie. IIRC, the emarker data would suggested it supported much higher speeds and wattage than it did. Fortunately, the other testing screens successfully detected it only had USB 2.0 wires even though it claimed to support 40 GB/s.

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections? – The Old New Thing"

EnnEmmEss — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:49:41 +0000

People say this but I really don't consider it to be as true as it once was. I can't even move my taskbar to the side in windows 11 without installing a third-party program to patch explorer.

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "Sampling and structured outputs in LLMs"

EnnEmmEss — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 05:07:39 +0000

Happy to help :)

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "Sampling and structured outputs in LLMs"

EnnEmmEss — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 03:52:24 +0000

This is off-tangent but I find it a bit odd that the blog uses a URL fragment to load different articles when it's usually used to navigate within a page.

A consequence of this seems to be that clicking the link to a different article leaves you at the bottom of the page even though the article itself has changed.

This seems to be using JS to fetch the markdown and then render it but I do feel that it may be better off to simply pre-convert the markdown as part of the deployment process and serve the static page.

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "The Limits of NTP Accuracy on Linux"

EnnEmmEss — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:35:59 +0000

You're probably looking for https://scottstuff.net/posts/2025/06/10/timing-conclusions/ which discusses the overall conclusions of NTP vs PTP and is the culmination of several blog posts on the topic.

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "Kitten TTS: 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source Voice Model"

EnnEmmEss — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 05:58:01 +0000

Many of those rules are kind of hazy though. Curly Quotes, em-dash, etc are also signs of using MS Word for writing for examples.

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "The hype is the product"

EnnEmmEss — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 05:25:14 +0000

The report is definitely worth reading although I don't think the data is strong enough to draw significant conclusions from. I personally think that this should be studied more in depth over a longer time period since the current study had a 50 hour threshold (not exactly but close enough). One thing which is mentioned in the research paper[1] is:

> However, we see positive speedup for the one developer who has more than 50 hours of Cursor experience, so it’s plausible that there is a high skill ceiling for using Cursor, such that developers with significant experience see positive speedup.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.09089

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "Quantitative AI progress needs accurate and transparent evaluation"

EnnEmmEss — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:20:27 +0000

TheZvi had a summarization of this here: https://thezvi.substack.com/i/168895545/not-announcing-so-fa...

In short (there is nuance), Google cooperated with the IMO team while OpenAI didn't which is why OpenAI announced before Google.

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "I'm switching to Python and actually liking it"

EnnEmmEss — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:46:58 +0000

The problem is twofold:

- all generated console scripts hardcode the path to python during creation for the shebang

- some of the binaries generated by install processes can link to absolute paths in the venv

Conda does quite a bit of work under the hood to reduce disk space and ran into related issues described here: https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/stable/dev-guide/dee...

New comment by EnnEmmEss in "Uv: Running a script with dependencies"

EnnEmmEss — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 03:42:29 +0000

This is a pretty nice feature which I use quite often. There are still some edge cases where it cannot be used to the fullest extent though. https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/14472 for example.