<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Quarrel</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Quarrel</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:42:19 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Quarrel" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Quarrel in "Reverse engineering my ADHD test"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What are they? Are there papers on this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:01:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517106</link><dc:creator>Quarrel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517106</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Quarrel in "Glacier Mice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was amazed equatorial / tropical glaciers are much of a thing.<p>A sad search later:<p>"projected to vanish entirely in late 2026 or 2027"<p>They're at 4600m in elevation:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carstensz_Glacier" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carstensz_Glacier</a><p>They've apparently disappeared and returned a few times since the last iceage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:59:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498262</link><dc:creator>Quarrel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498262</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49498262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Quarrel in "When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FWIW, I quite enjoyed this write up of it, and the state of AI investment at the moment. It doesn't entirely dwell on the blowup, but I found it worth the read:<p><a href="https://xcancel.com/porterstansb/status/2083606266388029691" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/porterstansb/status/2083606266388029691</a><p>(I also enjoyed the meandering in to Amex and Wells & Fargo's founding stories)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:26:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300057</link><dc:creator>Quarrel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300057</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Quarrel in "GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It would be about as bad, although nothing, AFAIK, actually systematically sends it as telemetry.<p>This GDID is essentially a similar concept though, but not as hardware tied, but is reported in telemetry.</p>
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<p>FWIW, YogaDNS stops these bypasses if you tick a settings box ("Block plain DNS over TCP from System Resolver"). Or use similar DNS forcing techniques against port 53.<p>Windows falls back to the normal resolver in that case.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:35:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054449</link><dc:creator>Quarrel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Quarrel in "GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Indeed, I think this is the correct take.<p>If they'd done their VPN/dirty work in a linux VM/container, with the VPN running in that, they'd have been fine.<p>Clean-them would have had their GDID on their normal ISP IP or equivalent, and Dirty-them would have had everything through the VPN from their no-telemetry dirty-host.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:30:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054418</link><dc:creator>Quarrel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Quarrel in "Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They took the slavery / serf distinction seriously in the Slavic world. While the distinctions might have mattered in the 1800s, by any modern-slavery standard the serfs were slaves, as you rightly say.<p>Whatever we might now think with hindsight of the communist revolution in Russia, if ever there was a country primed for the peasants to rise up against the ruling class, it was Russia.<p>Russia might have been a land of art, music, dance and literature, but you were pretty fucked if you weren't in the 20%.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:26:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881897</link><dc:creator>Quarrel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48881897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Quarrel in ""An AI Job Apocalypse?" – Goldman Sachs Report [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FWIW I think Acemoglu writes very well & I loved his book "Why Nations Fail" for introducing lots of interesting ideas to me, while also helping me understand my own (non-failed) society better.</p>
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<p>conductor.build is Mac only ..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:54:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716605</link><dc:creator>Quarrel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Quarrel in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>and, as the articles points out, it is literally out of copyright.<p>For profit journals need to die.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:32:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687105</link><dc:creator>Quarrel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687105</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Quarrel in "The last Romans are still around"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The earliest Roman records of Slavs are of the Veneti, who lived in roughly western Ukraine, Belarus, south-east Poland.<p>Very much in Europe.<p>Then, like now, they were the people east of the German speakers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:06:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682208</link><dc:creator>Quarrel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Quarrel in "Show HN: Pagecast – Publish Markdown/HTML Reports to Cloudflare Pages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TFA:<p><pre><code>    npx pagecast publish "/absolute/path/report.html" --password "your-password" --json
    npx pagecast publish "/absolute/path/report.html" --no-password --json   # remove it</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:17:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640616</link><dc:creator>Quarrel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640616</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Quarrel in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah, thanks, yeah, I just looked it up.<p>I had no idea.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:20:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570936</link><dc:creator>Quarrel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570936</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Quarrel in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mistral have moved to actually trying to make money, and been relatively successful; at least if we lived in a normal world.<p>They've got a heap of contractors working to help industry adopt LLMs. It is just classic consulting work, and they'd look like a really great company if we weren't comparing them to literal $2T+ companies losing money hand-over-fist...</p>
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<p>Everytime I see people talking about the length of their coastlines ...<p>Look at how long this edge of my fractal is, Ma!</p>
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<p>err?<p>afaik Bellard never had any beef with Burger Becky. Both are legendary programmers, but somewhat different eras.<p>I have no idea what you're suggesting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:31:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555917</link><dc:creator>Quarrel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555917</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Quarrel in "Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I basically was ready to come on and make a snarky comment like this. "I wrote one in the '90s!".<p>and then I saw the examples, and the feature set. I particularly like the blender-to-Luz export.<p>It seems great. Good luck to OP.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:41:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541149</link><dc:creator>Quarrel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541149</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Quarrel in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>how are you sourcing your proxies?<p>the vast majority seems to be pretty unethical, and many of those that aren't overtly so, seem to not always be nice.<p>There are decent reasons people want to KYC residential proxy users ...</p>
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<p>Of course it can. They can license the code for use under almost any terms they like, including restricting how you use the code.<p>The GPL imposes conditions on your use of the code / program, as does the MIT License. If you don't follow the conditions then you do not have a license to use the program / code & are open to claims of copyright infringement.<p>You might choose to ignore the licenses on the code you use, but it certainly isn't a great idea in a commercial context (and in your personal projects probably just a moral dilemma). Although, sadly, I'm not sure any of the many public GPL violations have really "cost" the companies that did them all that much.<p>Edit: I guess you're saying, yes, you can just go ahead and use it. Which I guess is the position large LLM training corpuses have taken ..</p>
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<p>> The Chinese models are censored (too?).<p>This is MUCH less of an issue if they're providing the weights though.<p>They can still be fine-tuned & ablated.</p>
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