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New comment by WhyNotHugo in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

WhyNotHugo — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 06:40:11 +0000

OTOH, I might very well want to take a screenshot of my own bank details, transactions, or other sensitive information. It's annoying that my information is being protected from myself.

Git.sr.ht is being disrupted by aggressive LLM crawlers

WhyNotHugo — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:01:40 +0000

Article URL: https://status.sr.ht/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328122

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "South Korea proposes talks to officially end war with North"

WhyNotHugo — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:31:35 +0000

After WWII, the southern part of Korean was under American occupation (it was previously under Japanese occupation, but Japan surrendered to the US). It was the US occupation that installed installed the precursor of current government, with elections which had a lot of boycotts/opposition/oppression. Right wing killed a few hundred thousands locals during these times.

To be clear: I'm not justifying anything here, or claiming that you should share this viewpoint. I'm answering your question: how could NK possibly see the US as an aggressor.

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix"

WhyNotHugo — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:41:17 +0000

> Even Steam store, a paragon of consumer utility, doesn't offer this.

Steam has a "played elsewhere" button on every game, which makes it stop suggesting the game, but take it into account for recommendations.

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix"

WhyNotHugo — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:39:55 +0000

They don't pretend otherwise, the article clarifies that their LLM has to take into account "business constraints" and such (which gave me a pretty nasty impression as I read it).

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "A spectre is haunting Unicode"

WhyNotHugo — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:45:33 +0000

I've seen Dutch comics for kids which use ÿ instead of ij. E.g.: "mÿn". In typical comic font (which is closer to handwriting), it looks similar to ij, but it's clearly ÿ.

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

WhyNotHugo — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:38:50 +0000

Qutebrowser seems to _want_ uBlock Origin-style filtering, but development on the feature has been ongoing for a long time and seems to have somewhat stalled: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/pull/7629

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

WhyNotHugo — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:21:47 +0000

This is pretty much Chinese grammar with English words. In Chinese you'd say "need ask" or "I need ask" if you want to be unusually verbose, but there's no "to".

All your examples align with this too. It just sounds to me like its optimising by removing the superfluous English words and thinking more Chinesely.

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

WhyNotHugo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:28:04 +0000

No bank in my country offers Unionpay.

Of course, I could get a Chinese Unionpay card/account. Now each time I want to make a payment, I need to move money there, and can I even do that easily from a European bank account?

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "DeepSeek up to 1000% price hike is live"

WhyNotHugo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:15:02 +0000

Yeah, title needs re-doing. Link makes no such claim either.

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "How Compaction Works in Pi"

WhyNotHugo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:50:50 +0000

Potentially: remove thinking blocks, and keep the rest. At least this would ensure that the entire context of the conversation is still there, and anything said isn't lost.

Having a second model also iterate the resulting messages and remove low-value tool calls could also be interesting. Especially failed calls which add no value.

Daily driving PostmarketOS (Summer 2026)

WhyNotHugo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:49:12 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.senderolinux.com/daily-driving-postmarketos-summer-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294544

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

WhyNotHugo — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:41:54 +0000

An interesting move. Something that drives me crazy when interacting with China, is that I can only use American payment methods to make a payment from Europe to China. I pay a fee and the merchant pays a fee both to the US. It just sounds broken. I hope this is a step in eventually resolving this.

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "Software for One"

WhyNotHugo — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:39:06 +0000

Plenty of Android phones run Linux. If you're the kind of person who's going to AI-develop your own software for personal use, I can't imagine being adverse to running a non-mainstream OS (and it can always be a secondary phone).

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year"

WhyNotHugo — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:42:51 +0000

I don't see why it would be cold. It's been in the vacuum of space for decades, it's had nowhere to dissipate heat. One of the main challenges in outer space is dissipating heat, not keeping things warm. People freezing when they fall into the vacuum of space is pure fiction: that would only happen near an atmosphere.

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01"

WhyNotHugo — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:54:08 +0000

Actual details on the incident: https://github.com/w1b/aisi-mythos-inc-2026-07-28-01-recover...

Both the attacker and the target account are very similar and look fake/bots.

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "A physicist rigged his pet hamster’s wheel to upload to Strava"

WhyNotHugo — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:39:46 +0000

> Over one seven-day stretch, he started within the same 10-minute window on five nights, between 9:54 and 10:04 p.m.

I wonder if this correlates with Thijs's bedtime schedule, or if the hamster really is that precise.

We feed the cat at home at the same time every day, and her internal clock definitely know when it's time less than 30' divergence. She suffers the daylight transitions immensely too because of this.

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

WhyNotHugo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:02:05 +0000

A great deal of shops in the Netherlands don't take cash.

Some didn't before 2020, but during 2020 the trend accelerated, and many shops stopped taking cash. Aside from hygiene, it's also easier to deal with safety for the store (i.e.: nobody can steal the cash register).

The supermarket in my neighbourhood has ~30 self-checkout machines. Only one of them takes cash. The human-checkout also takes cash, but is usually closed.

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

WhyNotHugo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:56:16 +0000

In theory, Waydroid exist.

In practice, I've failed to ever get it running on several attempts so far.

New comment by WhyNotHugo in "I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux"

WhyNotHugo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:52:29 +0000

The push against technical literacy helped a lot in having the masses accept all this crap.

A great deal of people don't even understand the concept of installing software if it's not via the App Store, nor do they understand what's involved in the process. Explaining the issues of having a central authority is one degree further.