Hacker News: VMG

New comment by VMG in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

VMG — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:05:20 +0000

blast from the past - peak of UX!

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Partition_Magic#/media/...

New comment by VMG in "Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)"

VMG — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:24:56 +0000

503

New comment by VMG in "What podcasts are you listening to?"

VMG — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:00:15 +0000

Skeptics Guide to the Universe

New comment by VMG in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

VMG — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:50:02 +0000

developers with good taste like Andreas Kling will be able to design entire OSes with coding agents

New comment by VMG in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

VMG — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:35:49 +0000

Not at all if you consider the internet pre-LLM. That is the standard expectation when you load a website.

The slow word-by-word typing was what we started to get used to with LLMs.

If these techniques get widespread, we may grow accustomed to the "old" speed again where content loads ~instantly.

Imagine a content forest like Wikipedia instantly generated like a Minecraft word...

New comment by VMG in "[dead]"

VMG — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:41:38 +0000

> Base64-encoded secret in URL Prevented Detected (entropy scan) Logged

Ok so how does this "Entropy scan" work?

Apparently by defining "bits per character"

https://github.com/luckyPipewrench/pipelock/blob/3021f023b0e...

So I guess converting the secret to pure binary will evade the "entropy scanner"?

New comment by VMG in "Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC"

VMG — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:37:52 +0000

> Because if it’s worth your time to lie, it’s worth my time to correct it.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/if-its-worth-your-time-to-l...

New comment by VMG in "Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC"

VMG — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:36:34 +0000

> and I expect within the next ~2 years AI tools will produce a better compiler than gcc

and the "anti" crowd will point to some exotic architecture where it is worse

New comment by VMG in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

VMG — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:08:08 +0000

Step 2: outlets slap this disclaimer on all content, regardless of AI usage, making it useless

Step 3: regulator prohibits putting label on content that is not AI generated

Step 4: outlets make sure to use AI for all content

Let's call it the "Sesame effect"

New comment by VMG in "Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning?"

VMG — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:49:50 +0000

have you read the linked page?

> However, since immunizations are given to about 90 percent of children less than 1 year of age, and about 1,600 cases of SIDS occur every year, it would be expected, statistically, that every year about 50 cases of SIDS will occur within 24 hours of receipt of a vaccine. However, because the incidence of SIDS is the same in children who do or do not receive vaccines, we know that SIDS is not caused by vaccines.

New comment by VMG in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

VMG — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:02:13 +0000

the Kaufland ones where I live still have weight sensors which for me completely eliminates the appeal

New comment by VMG in "A list of fun destinations for telnet"

VMG — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:53:17 +0000

Telnet is "sandboxed" in that it can only output characters to your tty, however that in itself is quite a powerful primitive.

The ANSI control characters wield power of a huge stack of not very robust code

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56803

New comment by VMG in "A list of fun destinations for telnet"

VMG — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:54:45 +0000

Do you believe that it is impossible to advertise, spread fake news or propaganda via text?

Do you know what the letters in LLM mean?

New comment by VMG in "A list of fun destinations for telnet"

VMG — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:17:13 +0000

Note that this is much more dangerous than visiting a website. ANSI escape sequences can seriously mess with your system, RCE included.

New comment by VMG in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

VMG — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:08:15 +0000

> Ask a German whether their system language is English. Ask a French person. I can go on.

I'm German but my system language is English

Because translations often suck, are incomplete or inconsistent

New comment by VMG in "Sampling at negative temperature"

VMG — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:52:46 +0000

is that what tourette syndrome is?

New comment by VMG in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

VMG — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:01:39 +0000

> Claude is very useful but it's not yet anywhere near as good as a human software developer. Like an excitable puppy it needs to be kept on a short leash.

The skill of "a human software developer" is in fact a very wide distribution, and your statement is true for a ever shrinking tail end of that

New comment by VMG in "The mineral riches hiding under Greenland's ice"

VMG — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:01:32 +0000

High-res versions of the map

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/f40c2c69-b...

another map

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/7658bbc3-7...

source

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023GL10...

New comment by VMG in "Java Hello World, LLVM Edition"

VMG — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:19:38 +0000

The thing that gets installed, if it is an executable, usually also has permissions to do scary things. Why is the installation process so scrutinized?

New comment by VMG in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

VMG — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 11:45:00 +0000

and JavaScript even anywherer!