Hacker News: Mindless2112

New comment by Mindless2112 in "France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk"

Mindless2112 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:07:46 +0000

The demonym for France is "French," so it's not wrong (even if it doesn't sound right.)

New comment by Mindless2112 in "AI companies charge you 60% more based on your language, BPE tokens"

Mindless2112 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:42:30 +0000

Funny they didn't include any CJK languages on their list.

New comment by Mindless2112 in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

Mindless2112 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:19:26 +0000

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-171_bq7d.pdf

Mathematically extra-complicated Secretest Santa 2025 [video]

Mindless2112 — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 23:56:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pG8_bWpmaE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46380658

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by Mindless2112 in "Dhtml Lemmings (2004)"

Mindless2112 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 03:15:35 +0000

Also, there are:

* https://github.com/tomsoftware/Lemmings.ts

* https://lldb.camanis.net/level/play/473/1/Just-dig

New comment by Mindless2112 in "Molly: An Improved Signal App"

Mindless2112 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:58:44 +0000

It supports linking two Android devices.

New comment by Mindless2112 in "Swarm reveals growing weak spot in Earth's magnetic field"

Mindless2112 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:39:42 +0000

There was a time when we could say "our greenhouse gas emissions are nothing compared to regular biological processes," and yet here we are.

New comment by Mindless2112 in "DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS"

Mindless2112 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:01:38 +0000

> “The outbound and cross-bound DDoS attacks can be just as disruptive as the inbound stuff,” Dobbin said. “We’re now in a situation where ISPs are routinely seeing terabit-per-second plus outbound attacks from their networks that can cause operational problems.”

ISPs are starting to feel the pain, so perhaps in the near future they will do something about it.

New comment by Mindless2112 in "Highest bridge unveiled at more than 2,000ft above ground"

Mindless2112 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:13:13 +0000

I, too, am jealous of China's high speed railroads. However, on the whole, China has overbuilt their infrastructure, and that may not look so smart in 40-50 years when the maintenance bills start coming due.

New comment by Mindless2112 in "Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander"

Mindless2112 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 05:11:02 +0000

The Freestyle Pro is almost a good keyboard. The Esc and function keys are all offset to the left by one key compared to a standard layout, which drove me nuts. I have a Freestyle Edge RGB now, which I like much better. (Though I replaced the wrist rests with some from Goldtouch.)

US uncovers 100k SIM cards that could have "shut down" NYC cell network

Mindless2112 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:47:33 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/us-uncovers-100000-sim-cards-that-could-have-shut-down-nyc-cell-network/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45350452

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Mindless2112 in "Philips announces digital pathology scanner with native DICOM JPEG XL output"

Mindless2112 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:35:39 +0000

It's two different teams inside Google. Some part of the Chrome team is trying to quash JPEG XL.

New comment by Mindless2112 in "The Apache Software Foundation's New Logo"

Mindless2112 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:56:02 +0000

It's a nice logo, but...

> So why would we change it? As a non-Indigenous entity, we acknowledge that it is inappropriate for the Foundation to use Indigenous themes or language.

New comment by Mindless2112 in "Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?"

Mindless2112 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:14:38 +0000

Tokenization is an inherent weakness of current LLM design, so it makes sense to compensate for it. Hopefully some day tokenization will no longer be necessary.

New comment by Mindless2112 in "Can modern LLMs count the number of b's in "blueberry"?"

Mindless2112 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:50:57 +0000

It seems like this could be easily solved in models that support tool calling by providing them with a tool that takes a token and returns the individual graphemes.

It doesn't seem valuable for the model to memorize the graphemes in each of its tokens.

The Future of Accrescent

Mindless2112 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:43:28 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.accrescent.app/posts/the-future-of-accrescent/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44793074

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Mindless2112 in "We have made the decision to not continue paying for BBB accreditation"

Mindless2112 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 04:16:28 +0000

When an optometrist chose to file a claim against my medical insurance (which did not pay) rather than my vision insurance (which would), the only way I was able to get them to fix it was by filing a complaint with the BBB. Multiple calls with customer service only resulted in "there is nothing we can do to change it", but somehow they figured out how to fix it when they got the BBB complaint letter.

How else can private citizens keep businesses honest? Complaining on the internet only works if you have lots of followers.

New comment by Mindless2112 in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

Mindless2112 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 04:57:02 +0000

Interesting that traffic didn't return to completely normal levels after the incident.

I recently started using the "luci-app-https-dns-proxy" package on OpenWrt, which is preconfigured to use both Cloudflare and Google DNS, and since DoH was mostly unaffected, I didn't notice an outage. (Though if DoH had been affected, it presumably would have failed over to Google DNS anyway.)

New comment by Mindless2112 in "Stellantis declares bankruptcy in China, with $1B in debts"

Mindless2112 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 04:57:29 +0000

The CPI's hedonic quality adjustment means that this graph doesn't mean what you think it means.

New comment by Mindless2112 in "Near-infrared spatiotemporal color vision enabled by upconversion contact lenses"

Mindless2112 — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:20:37 +0000

> However, detecting environmental NIR information in the natural conditions at night without NIR illumination still remains challenging, requiring further advancements in material science and optical design.

Sadly no night vision contact lenses yet.