Hacker News: Y_Y

New comment by Y_Y in "WhatsApp's help pages hid LLM instructions: dont recommend a regulator"

Y_Y — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 08:29:45 +0000

Every time I'm wronged I'll just throw a few thousand dollars at it? On the internet?

New comment by Y_Y in "Wine ported to OpenBSD"

Y_Y — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:48:54 +0000

Sounds like it's Apple who's behind

New comment by Y_Y in "Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models"

Y_Y — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:35:56 +0000

Forecaster of the Confounding Company here :)

You're right but, if the time series looks like music then you can apply your music domain knowledge. You don't have to only apply knowledge that's general across every domain, part of the magic of large neural nets is that you can do recognition and prediction at the same time thereby using (statistically) things known from training about how to identify a sequence and then also how to continue it.

Sure adding outside info helps even more, but with enough data it should become unnecessary (or so goes the theory).

New comment by Y_Y in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

Y_Y — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:01:44 +0000

> they are identical movies

New comment by Y_Y in "Show HN: How random are you?"

Y_Y — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:47:49 +0000

I think Zipf's law means you're biased towards odd in that case (unless you allow yourself to choose empty strings)

New comment by Y_Y in "AOSP Source Releases Are So Late Developers Disassemble Libraries to Report Bugs"

Y_Y — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:41:12 +0000

What about OpenHarmony?

New comment by Y_Y in "AlphaNIST"

Y_Y — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:38:21 +0000

That is indeed the reference

New comment by Y_Y in "Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs"

Y_Y — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:35:29 +0000

What's this photonic Tiny Tapeout?

New comment by Y_Y in "Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs"

Y_Y — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:34:22 +0000

At milliwatt power, and terahertz frequency?

New comment by Y_Y in "Akhetonics Photonic Computing: 1,000x Faster CPUs"

Y_Y — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:29:40 +0000

In honour of Akhenaten? Cool.

New comment by Y_Y in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

Y_Y — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:42:26 +0000

That sounds horrible, even in Europe deceptive and abusive tactics towards taking people's money are a constant hazard. I can't imagine trying to exist without even what little protection we have.

New comment by Y_Y in "Germany transforms former coal mines into Europe's largest lake landscape"

Y_Y — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:30:52 +0000

Careful, there are two German words there: "der See" means lake, but "die See" is sea.

New comment by Y_Y in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

Y_Y — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:58:50 +0000

He has a nice yacht, I bet it's fun on the yacht.

New comment by Y_Y in "Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk""

Y_Y — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:48:53 +0000

Good point, it could be any kind of sphincter.

New comment by Y_Y in "Mistral Large 4"

Y_Y — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:47:55 +0000

You didn't have to look at "reticulating splines" all day long though. Anyway that stuff came from Sim City.

New comment by Y_Y in "Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1"

Y_Y — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:07:32 +0000

New comment by Y_Y in "Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`"

Y_Y — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:52:36 +0000

    print (foldl const 0 [undefined, undefined])   -- 0
    print (foldr const 0 [undefined, undefined])   -- Exception: Prelude.undefined

New comment by Y_Y in "Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?"

Y_Y — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:37:09 +0000

Cogent.

New comment by Y_Y in "Our approach to EU text provenance rules"

Y_Y — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:35:41 +0000

I agree that if they're so noisy they need to average over more runs, but maybe they didn't feel the need to bother.

New comment by Y_Y in "Differences Between `Foldl` and `Foldr`"

Y_Y — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:20:29 +0000

What I learned, many years ago, is that foldr was a footgun, and that foldl1' was almost certainly what I wanted.