Hacker News: GoblinSlayer

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "The case against JPEG XL"

GoblinSlayer — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:16:47 +0000

I got an impression JPEG XL is not a single format, but many formats put under one brand (same as webp), you still need to choose these formats and transcode between them.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "The case against JPEG XL"

GoblinSlayer — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:49:31 +0000

In the context of the world it's all hair splitting, you can have a big photographic picture in png, or 1% compressed jpeg, or 1% jpeg converted to png. No new format can change it.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master"

GoblinSlayer — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:55:40 +0000

Architecture is the first to be outsourced to AI, because AI shepherds have no idea how to do it.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "A wandering black hole caught feeding on the run"

GoblinSlayer — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:04:05 +0000

If you send light around the universe, is it in one direction?

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "The UN challenges five centuries of cartography"

GoblinSlayer — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:16:25 +0000

How australians see it? Is north up or bottom?

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?"

GoblinSlayer — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:00:17 +0000

They have so many accounts broken daily? Then credential stuffing attacks are not prevented.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?"

GoblinSlayer — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:51:23 +0000

The captcha is not just a checkbox, it's recaptcha.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?"

GoblinSlayer — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:38:31 +0000

For credential stuffing you need only one attempt.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world"

GoblinSlayer — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:20:55 +0000

He's just rambling.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world"

GoblinSlayer — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:14:55 +0000

It's statistics that emerges with very high probability due to the law of large numbers. If you calculate 1+1=2 with 100% probability, then quantum physics doesn't meaningfully participate in your reasoning, not more than brownian motion.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world"

GoblinSlayer — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:30:28 +0000

You mean mind is deterministic and cancels all noise? Then what quantum physics would do there?

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)"

GoblinSlayer — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:21:10 +0000

Share the training data :)

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world"

GoblinSlayer — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:26:08 +0000

Miscalculation doesn't follow from randomness?

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world"

GoblinSlayer — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:23:59 +0000

If particles were zero size, they would be already black holes. That's the fix introduced by string theory: particles aren't zero size there.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world"

GoblinSlayer — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:15:09 +0000

If mind was random, people would miscalculate 1+1 with 50% probability. So earth might be flat, but it's unlikely.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

GoblinSlayer — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:03:45 +0000

Benevolent dictatorship. Just live between stars, then if something blows up, nuke it from the orbit.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

GoblinSlayer — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:56:33 +0000

That's quite hypothetical. I imagine it would be easier to cure psychotic breaks. At least it will start to manifest at small scale.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers"

GoblinSlayer — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:27:42 +0000

>But eventually you'll find the power users who do business critical stuff in excel sheets that you notice can't be done in any other way

What can't be done in any other way?

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers"

GoblinSlayer — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:37:23 +0000

>but because of the different UI

Not a problem in the age of infinite redesign churn.

New comment by GoblinSlayer in "Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel"

GoblinSlayer — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:10:51 +0000

Tree is just a network topology, and if all machines in the network have the same vulnerability, you crack the whole network.