Hacker News: Vt71fcAqt7

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:30:26 +0000

I'm glad this happened, although I would have prefered if the result came from a new law eg. the Open App Markets Act rather than have to rely on what is or is not legally considered a market in terms of the sherman act etc.

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Cloudflare R2 Data Catalog: Managed Apache Iceberg tables with zero egress fees"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:41:57 +0000

I vaguely remember reading comments here that said you can get rate limited on R2 without warning if egress is too high. Was that true and is that still true? What is the limit if so?

I tried looking for that thread again and I only found the exact opposite comment from the Cloudflare founder:

>Not abuse. Thanks for being a customer. Bandwidth at scale is effectively free.[0]

I distinctly remember such a thread though.

Edit: I did find these but neither are what I remember:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42263554

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33337183

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38124676

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:03:04 +0000

The title seems to be editorialized? The title I see is "US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creator"

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Half-Life 2 RTX"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:54:37 +0000

It's temporal anti-aliasing.

>Temporal anti-aliasing is another form of super-sampling, but instead of downscaling from a much larger image, data from prior frames is reprojected into the current one.

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2024-temporal-anti-...

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Benchmarking vision-language models on OCR in dynamic video environments"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 21:01:47 +0000

>reviewers apparently approved that.

What reviewers?

Game engines and shader stuttering: Unreal Engine's solution to the problem

Vt71fcAqt7 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:57:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/tech-blog/game-engines-and-shader-stuttering-unreal-engines-solution-to-the-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43012237

Points: 1

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New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 19:43:05 +0000

That makes sense. So it can work for small functions but not an entire codebase which is the goal. Does that sound correct? If so, is it useful for small functions (like, let's say I identify some sections of code I think are important becuase they modify some memory location) or is this not useful?

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Decompiling 2024: A Year of Resurgance in Decompilation Research"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:28:05 +0000

>And AI--especially LLMs--are notoriously bad at the "correct" part of translation.

Can't you just compare the compiled binaries to see if they are the same? Is the issue that you don't have the full toolchain so there are different outputs from the two compilers? Thinking about it though you could probably figure out which compiler was used using those same differences though..

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 00:56:38 +0000

I suggest putting the link to the website in the about section on github. Currently it reads "No description, website or topics provided." Saves users from scrolling a bit.

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:17:10 +0000

Interesting. Could you give a brief description of how you got that number? Eg. what factors were considered.

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Why aren't we all serverless yet?"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:08:36 +0000

Can I upload my web server as a docker to Lambda and have it run forever there? I though Lambdas were supposed to be more short lived (like a couple hours), is that not the case? It's been a while since I actually looked at Lambda because GCP run is so clean.

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Why aren't we all serverless yet?"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:45:26 +0000

Google cloud run and Azure container apps both let you run an arbitrary docker image without having to deal with custom setups. Both scale automatically so they are serverless. AWS has apprunner but it doesn't scale to zero.[0]

[0] https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/9 (amusingly the issue OP posts on HN)

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Why aren't we all serverless yet?"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:23:14 +0000

>Something I’m still having trouble believing is that complex workflows are going to move to e.g. AWS Lambda rather than stateless containers orchestrated by e.g. Amazon EKS. I think 0-1 it makes sense, but operating/scaling efficiently seems hard. […]

This isn't really saying anything about serverless though. The issue here is not with serverless but that Lambda wants you to break up your server into multiple smaller functions. Google cloud run[0] let's you simply upload a Dockerfile and it will run it for you and deal with scalling (including scaling to zero).

[0] https://cloud.google.com/run

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:55:40 +0000

Sure, but GP's claim was that the statement "Notably the Steam Machines didn't have any equivalent to Proton" is false.

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:27:38 +0000

>A large chunk of the Steam library worked perfectly fine on Linux before Proton.

Source? My recollection was that it didn't. Wine had awful direct x translation, I'm not sure if it could do dx11 at all when the steam machine came out. DXVK is a proton project and without it few games could actually run at all.

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:21:48 +0000

The issue is they would need to get rid of xbox live and allow installing apps outside their store. PC gamers will not accept having to pay for online and many play games that are not in the xbox store: all valve games, indie games, mods etc.

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Grayjay Desktop App"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:18:43 +0000

Seems like a verry brittle setup. Since it adds adblock by default all this will do is make youtube crack down on adblock even more.

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Fermat's Last Theorem – how it's going"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:17:06 +0000

>it would take far longer to unpack them than it took you to type them

Why is this a barometer for whether to answer a question or unpack assumptions?

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Flappy Bird in 1000 lines of C"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 07:43:16 +0000

I was just thinking a few days ago that it is surprising flappy bird didn't get invented much earlier. In terms of complexity it seems to be somewhere between pong and Asteroids. Games like Pac-Man and steet fighter are much more complex. Yet flappy bird came out in 2013. Wikipedia puts "Helicopter Game"[0] from 2003 as the first game with flappy bird's game mechanic.[1] That still seems a bit late to me. Am I missing something?

[0] https://helicoptergame.net

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird

New comment by Vt71fcAqt7 in "Show HN: AI OmniGen – AI Image Generator with Consistent Visuals"

Vt71fcAqt7 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:27:52 +0000

From the controlnet author:

Transparent Image Layer Diffusion using Latent Transparency

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17113

https://github.com/lllyasviel/sd-forge-layerdiffuse