Hacker News: RandomTeaParty

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "The GNU libc atanh is correctly rounded"

RandomTeaParty — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:35:04 +0000

Why not arxiv?

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "NIST gives up enriching most CVEs"

RandomTeaParty — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:11:21 +0000

I was always wondering - are there alternative lists like this?

Maybe not in english or smth

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Reflections on 30 years of HPC programming"

RandomTeaParty — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:35:00 +0000

Erlang is about reliability, hpc is about performance (literally in the name)

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs"

RandomTeaParty — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:12:21 +0000

> The 1.58-bit approach

can we stop already with these decimals and just call it "1 trit" which it exactly is?

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

RandomTeaParty — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:23:08 +0000

just be glad that ants are ambiturners

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

RandomTeaParty — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:58:26 +0000

Did website break?

I only see "MOMENT" and "All systems nominal"

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018-2026"

RandomTeaParty — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:52:46 +0000

Emoji look isn't standardized for the same reason letters look isn't - because it is font detail

Imagine outlawing comic sans because "letters must be serious" or smth

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers"

RandomTeaParty — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:14:52 +0000

I mean... What's wrong with youtube tab consuming power "as if it's on screen" if it plays video?

As an avid idle game player, I'm tired of opening games in different window and having main window not-fullscreen just for the game to play normally

This "tab unloading" is great and all, but not giving us users any control to turn it off is awful

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info"

RandomTeaParty — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:46:09 +0000

Fight against obfuscation is different from fighting for readability

I've tried Ghidra, IDA and BinaryNinja, and all of them display code on the level of "C with classes" from early 00s (and declaration of variables at the beginning of function in style of structured programming of the 90s)

I'd be perfectly fine with that output, had there been good way to interactively fix it (refactor without changing behaviour)

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info"

RandomTeaParty — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:37:32 +0000

Is it available somewhere?

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Heating homes with the largest particle accelerator"

RandomTeaParty — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:31:52 +0000

At least it's not SERN, with their time machine hackable by a microwave :)

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Playing Board Games with Deep Convolutional Neural Network on 8bit Motorola 6809"

RandomTeaParty — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:26:46 +0000

"Board games" here means go (and only it?)

I honestly was hoping for some tabletop eurogames or smth...

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model"

RandomTeaParty — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:26:47 +0000

What is bpw?

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model"

RandomTeaParty — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:22:55 +0000

just call it one trit

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info"

RandomTeaParty — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:00:09 +0000

My general experience with decompilation has been very negative (rough and not ready for use)

It feels like tool devs target byte editting more than refactoring decompiled code into something readable - you can't move lines of code, can't flip statement checked in if() for early return

Author of this article mentioned "byte euivalence", and while I'd be fine with functional sameness, I imagine provably-reversible refactor steps would be of great help for everyone

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

RandomTeaParty — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:25:17 +0000

Is "IU" another case of xkcd 927?

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Why do RSS readers look like email clients?"

RandomTeaParty — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:40:28 +0000

I totally missed that button... It using tiny font size doesn't help

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance"

RandomTeaParty — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:44:22 +0000

hundred knots of wind on demand is also not a small invention :)

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

RandomTeaParty — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:34:32 +0000

Cookie banner doesn't have reject-all button

Isn't that against the rules nowadays?

New comment by RandomTeaParty in "Is It Time for a Nordic Nuke?"

RandomTeaParty — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:24:31 +0000

Ukraine didn't give up nukes for false guarantees - it gave them up to not become sanctioned to the level of North Korea and Iran (while at the same time it didn't even have the launchcodes because nobody wants to get Dr.Strangelove-d)

And considering the level of poverty there in the following decade, chances are nukes would've just gotten sold off, just like its carrier