Hacker News: Lockal

New comment by Lockal in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

Lockal — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:32:18 +0000

No separate Wikipedia page -> just another Erdős problem.

There is no universally agreed-upon "central" conjecture (like "P vs. NP" in CS), but here are some pillars:

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_ending_problem

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadwiger_conjecture_(combinato...

3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_conjecture

New comment by Lockal in "Show HN: A Dark Cave – Minimalistic Graphics in the Age of AI Slop"

Lockal — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:35:18 +0000

From the Reddit: "Dude puts A Dark Room through an AI filter and called it his game".

Unfortunately, that's not the whole story. You added ads and micro-donations (to the incremental game, yes). Also original game is open-source - https://github.com/doublespeakgames/adarkroom, your clone is not.

New comment by Lockal in "Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs"

Lockal — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:48:33 +0000

Knowing how compressors work, even official rar may produce an archive with different hash, even within the minor updates.

New comment by Lockal in "Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview claimed he was a sex offender"

Lockal — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:52:50 +0000

Mix up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_MacIsaac? I think Ashley MacIsaac will have a hard time trying to proof that Alphabet wanted to cause harm and defame. Practically, without SEO, Google tends to index first sections of Wikipedia articles - and that's all. For example, many people are unlucky to have surnames of well known serial killers, and it is impossible to outplay the common nature.

New comment by Lockal in "The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility"

Lockal — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:34:36 +0000

The blog post is somewhat similar to AI MJ Rathbun (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729), the difference is it does not call names, instead it calls "Google and the maintainers of gemini-cli".

I see that somebody has some frustration; the reality is that slop pasta does not help. One needs to explain the root cause of frustration first (personally, not via LLM rant), otherwise it will never be fixed. There is also a chance to find a solution during an explanation.

New comment by Lockal in "Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16"

Lockal — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:57:20 +0000

Ah, going back to "ActiveState Python". "ActiveState Python" is 100% compatible with community Python but is automatically built from vetted source code using a secure, SLSA-compliant build service in order to ensure its security and integrity. Secure your Python software supply chain. Contact our sales team for a monthly subscription plan.

New comment by Lockal in "Website streamed live directly from a model"

Lockal — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:40:41 +0000

Interesting, for me your "permalink" shows SSD labeled as DDR4/DDR5, cooler named as CPU, "Praer Caplu", no M.2, etc. I guess it regenerates images ever so often, so can't predict what will be shown next time.

New comment by Lockal in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

Lockal — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:10:00 +0000

No, I am still blocked (for every page on https://stephvee.ca/). "Cloudflare Ray ID: 9efd477aef431473", if it helps somehow. My IP is not in any common blocklist, I experience no errors with other Cloudflare protected websites (using standard Chrome on Linux). It is very likely that stephvee.ca is configured excessively strict (rejecting by OS, or by large IP ranges, or idk)

New comment by Lockal in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

Lockal — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:03:12 +0000

Here is a bit of meta humor. When I open https://stephvee.ca I see:

  Sorry, you have been blocked. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

Did I ever open this website? I guess no. Did I ever attack this website (or did any AI crawling)? Also no. Implying the allegation is criminal, Cloudflare falsely accused me, should I seek legal counsel?

I still was able to access the article via webarchive. And what I want to say, from my POV, I've done nothing wrong, website owners attack me. I don't see it every day, but I think it is more often than cases when people are kicking AI-powered food delivery robots.

New comment by Lockal in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

Lockal — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:47:40 +0000

You forget that Polymarket is just a casino, and the house always wins.

For example, recent events show that any bet can be selectively disputed by arbitrary reason ("we found insiders", "we found this immoral/illegal", etc.).

And for perpetual events - there is not a single week without a hack (https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/)

New comment by Lockal in "Am I German or Autistic?"

Lockal — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:25:52 +0000

Peoples, I have a big announcement

This man is gay and European!

New comment by Lockal in "LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file""

Lockal — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:21:58 +0000

This thing already exists for multiple years - see https://deepwiki.com/ (99% it is autonomous, but it can be manually structured - see https://docs.devin.ai/work-with-devin/deepwiki#steering-deep...). There were also multiple attempts to replicate it with local LLMs.

The problem is that it is still a slop: not only it adds a lot of noise ("architecture" diagrams based on some cherry-picked filenames, incomplete datatables, hyperfocusing on strange things), it also hallucinates, adding factually incorrect information (while direct questions to LLM shows correct information).

Gentoo GNU Hurd

Lockal — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:28:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/04/01/gentoo-hurd.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602199

Points: 15

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New comment by Lockal in "Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor"

Lockal — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:08:02 +0000

1) Not free, also violates AGPL license

2) Please don't call black overlay rectangles as "Redact" - it is maliciously misleading. I checked https://pdfcrowd.com/inspect-pdf/ and I see original parts that I covered with these rectangles (images are stored twice: as originals and as images with cut out regions).

New comment by Lockal in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

Lockal — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:39:52 +0000

Nightshade[1] 2.0? As if both tools were built by incompetent developer to distract attention from a real solution - publishing an llm-friendly version in an machine-friendly format (which is not really difficult and helps not only LLMs: e. g. cache, disable fancy complex syntax highlight, offload to github, provide clients and MCPs, optimize clients for common use cases). This example is simply a failure:

  
    Amazing high quality data here!

Dumb curl-based LLM won't visit display:none links. Smarter browser-based navigators won't even render this link.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39058428

New comment by Lockal in "Wikipedia bans AI-generated articles"

Lockal — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:10:59 +0000

* English Wikipedia. Each language edition has their own set of rules.

New comment by Lockal in "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars"

Lockal — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:58:40 +0000

But the header is just "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars". No conclusion, just some random fact.

The problem is that this title is editorialized, and the fact is cherry-picked. Why not =0? Why not >1000? This is just a dashboard, it highlights "Interesting Observations", but stars statistics is not there.

New comment by Lockal in "Thousands have swooned over this MAGA dream girl. She's made with AI"

Lockal — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:04:08 +0000

Good ol Putin's strategy, even visually similar to Natalia Poklonskaya, used to push political agendas in wartime, used to divert attention from actual problems and fill headlines, while other topics become inaccessible due to war censorship. I wouldn't be surprised if it was proposed by the same political strategists. AI is not really needed here.

New comment by Lockal in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

Lockal — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:02:47 +0000

Not sure if this in line with HN guidelines (per "tangential annoyances" rule), but god, that "animation: drift 2s ease-in-out infinite alternate;" on body kills me, literally - it redraws the whole page with 120 fps, draining the battery, while nothing changes. I don't think it is even "too common to be interesting" - I rarely see this (or actually, I see such tech for the first time). It is specifically annoying because the article attempts to talk about modern software quality.

New comment by Lockal in "Is X.com currently degraded?"

Lockal — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:14:31 +0000

Nitpick: better something that will never respond:

  0.0.0.0 x.com

Otherwise it hits local dev server, if any.