Hacker News: Tanath

New comment by Tanath in "Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe"

Tanath — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:12:29 +0000

Hypotheses are made for a reason though. Science is still about finding what's true, and ruling out what's not is part of the process/method for doing so. Sometimes all the alternatives to the truth are ruled out and we know the truth. Scientific revolutions happen sometimes, but they still need to explain everything the old theories explained. The newer theories may still be wrong, but in different and hopefully fewer ways. It's important to keep the scope of what's been demonstrated/tested in mind to not be misled about what truths have been established. Newton's physics is still largely true within the scope of everyday experience, for example.

New comment by Tanath in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

Tanath — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:10:04 +0000

DDoS prevention may be essential, but not CloudFlare.

New comment by Tanath in "DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next"

Tanath — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 04:29:40 +0000

Smaller is less efficient. They don't get to benefit from economy of scale as much as larger.

New comment by Tanath in "Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default"

Tanath — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 18:18:43 +0000

It's foolish to trust Brave. https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser

New comment by Tanath in "BugMeNot Is Gone?"

Tanath — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:16:02 +0000

I was hoping someone would know why it was blocked as malware, thinking it might be compromised and that people should be warned. VT says it's safe though so it's likely a mistake. Not sure what you mean about traceability. You could check the github.

New comment by Tanath in "BugMeNot Is Gone?"

Tanath — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 06:08:18 +0000

Blocked in uBO by The Block List Project - Malware List.

New comment by Tanath in "Optimal Stopping"

Tanath — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 00:04:07 +0000

I don't think that would break it because you have a limited amount of time. You base it on 1/e of the number of people you expect to date not the number of potential options.

New comment by Tanath in "Out of the top fifty games on Steam, 70% work on Linux"

Tanath — Sat, 13 Mar 2021 17:30:21 +0000

Such bans are rare, and usually get reversed if it was only triggered due to Linux.

New comment by Tanath in "The Sovietization of the American Press"

Tanath — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:46:37 +0000

> several hundred thousands

Several thousand, coming from Trump's rally which only had about 20k total.

New comment by Tanath in "AI Teaches Itself Diplomacy"

Tanath — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 08:06:08 +0000

But you know that's the next step and it's going to happen.

New comment by Tanath in "Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:49:00"

Tanath — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 23:39:27 +0000

I can't edit my comment, so here's a citation in reply: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/tr...

New comment by Tanath in "Getting Started with Brave"

Tanath — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:53:44 +0000

If you want to avoid fingerprinting you should use tor-browser. And using a chromium-based browser over tor makes you more fingerprintable, not less.

New comment by Tanath in "Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:49:00"

Tanath — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 20:47:47 +0000

Neither was omitting Putin's admission that he wanted Trump to win from the Whitehouse transcripts.

New comment by Tanath in "Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc"

Tanath — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 09:32:39 +0000

It's not a big deal. You can just hit K on any you're not sure about to see the help. Might need to set keywordprg=:help.

New comment by Tanath in "Self-host your fonts for better performance"

Tanath — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 20:51:36 +0000

Not nearly as good.

New comment by Tanath in "Self-host your fonts for better performance"

Tanath — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 20:44:40 +0000

Are you just clinging to the last dev version of uMatrix, or did you find an active fork or something?

New comment by Tanath in "Google plans to shut down Google Voice integration with classic Hangouts"

Tanath — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 15:39:14 +0000

I'm still sore about Reader too. Fortunately Inoreader is about as good.

I'm surprised thumbing things down isn't helping you - it was the thing that fixed YTM for me. I wasn't thumbing things down enough, now anything I don't want to hear again I thumb down, and I mostly listen to the personalized and discovery mixes. You might need to switch/reload stations for it to take effect. And IIRC the discovery mix only updates on Wed.

New comment by Tanath in "Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser"

Tanath — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:53:07 +0000

Felinks is an actively maintained fork.

New comment by Tanath in "Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser"

Tanath — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 00:51:54 +0000

Browsh does some js, and felinks is an actively maintained fork of elinks with some js support as well.

New comment by Tanath in "VPN by Google One"

Tanath — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 02:16:41 +0000

Snowden's revelation that the NSA was in Google's network had their engineers pissed, and they immediately changed their architecture to make it more secure, encrypting internal connections. That doesn't make me want to use them less. And Snowden was compromised by Russia even before he went there.