Hacker News: KolmogorovComp

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

KolmogorovComp — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:51:05 +0000

It's a shame (in practice, although I get the philosophical idea).

I think the lawsuit chances are very low because FAANG right now depend way too much on LLM being legal, so they would not want to shoot themselves in the foot.

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report"

KolmogorovComp — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:47:07 +0000

I wonder how much LLMs have been leveraged to help Asahi lately, there’s extremely powerful for reverse-engineering. Have they written about it?

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "The Boeing 747 begins its final descent"

KolmogorovComp — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:56:32 +0000

No, the highest risk for dual engine failure is bird strike.

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams"

KolmogorovComp — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 12:10:00 +0000

The reality is that the extremely large majority of people (especially in developed countries), have not experienced anything close to Robin William's character, nor do they have the slightest portion of Damon's character knowledge. So it's a weak argument against LLM.

But the extract is just an example for the author, whose thinking really boils down to "human have something that machine will never replace". It's fine if you believe in supernatural force, but otherwise, it's just another jest of human arrogance. That's not to say transformer architecture will be enough to completely outcompete humans, I have the honesty to say I don't know.

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "The AirPods Effect"

KolmogorovComp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:31:46 +0000

So you’re wasting both your time and theirs, for no reasons. Instead, try politely signaling you’re not interested.

That being said, fortunately it’s easy to see people who like to talk.

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "The AirPods Effect"

KolmogorovComp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:28:12 +0000

Thank you, don’t worry you are not alone.

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "The AirPods Effect"

KolmogorovComp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:17:11 +0000

Why is this downvoted? This is correct.

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

KolmogorovComp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:13:05 +0000

Have you read the article?

> that’s not a developer contributing to open source. that’s someone manufacturing the appearance of activity.

> the attacker’s own profile? no bio, no avatar, 499 contributions crammed into january–february 2026.

> this wasn’t random

> i reported the repo to github. the ticket is open. but this raises a question i keep coming back to

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "The AirPods Effect"

KolmogorovComp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:22:08 +0000

I’m reasonably skilled talking to strangers (can last about 3-4 hours in planes/trains/buses if the other party is up to it, after that I usually dry out of conversation), and do that frequently.

However after several years of heavy traveling and hundreds of people talked to, you realize how similar everyone is. It is always the same issues, wife/husband, the kids, the parents…

And it all starts to become a bit superficial. Sure, you can talk, but to what avail? You realize how shallow the situation is because the common ingredient in all stories is that everyone only ever care about their closed ones, which you and them will never be.

And you reassess the book option whose insight or knowledge may very well impact your life much more than yet another seconds to hours long chitchat.

Signed: a disillusioned extrovert.

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst"

KolmogorovComp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:56:12 +0000

I actually think that with LLM we may very well hit a plateau in innovation here, because now the ugly syntax is not a hurdle anymore, since you don’t write it anymore by hand.

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

KolmogorovComp — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:03:32 +0000

Thanks for the writing, which would have been even better had it been written by a human.

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "I hate compilers"

KolmogorovComp — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:01:59 +0000

OK, I don't think it would be the case if it was one of many algorithms offered by Anubis, especially if it's enabled by the webmaster.

That being said I don't know any crypto that would technically fit as a lightweight PoW.

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "I hate compilers"

KolmogorovComp — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:28:19 +0000

it does not answer if it's a conscious design choice or just a technical limitation of the PoW, or just a "patch welcome" issue.

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "I hate compilers"

KolmogorovComp — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:23:01 +0000

what about something (crypto being the only idea I have) that could be leveraged to reward the website owner?

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "I hate compilers"

KolmogorovComp — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:51:56 +0000

I’m still surprised by Anubis’ decision not to make the PoW have a useful output, for example a crypto, protein-folding like, or something else.

And I speak as being generally very critical of cryptos, but here rewarding the website owner with some cents to have access seems fair, and resolves the traditional issues about micro-payments.

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "Apple plans change to Hide My Email that could make it less effective"

KolmogorovComp — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:07:17 +0000

Dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559935

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"

KolmogorovComp — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:13:30 +0000

> Operations like filter and map allocate memory, but that allocation is only necessary if the value escapes. The Swift standard library provides .lazy.map and .lazy.filter, but they don’t work in every case. For logic that only iterates over the filter or map, it’s much more efficient to loop with continue (or use for … in … where) and transform elements into local variables as necessary.

It does feel like a compiler/optimiser failure to have to rewrite those cases.

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "Show HN: Extend UI – open-source UI kit for modern document apps"

KolmogorovComp — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:40:17 +0000

> This page could not load

On mobile Safari…

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

KolmogorovComp — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:32:44 +0000

Certainly not the b52, which arrived after the end of WWII…

New comment by KolmogorovComp in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

KolmogorovComp — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:25:53 +0000

All your RAM are belong to us