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New comment by aargh_aargh in "Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio?"

aargh_aargh — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:58:10 +0000

Huh, I guessed all correct. Random guess would have a 1/(2^5) = 1/32 chance of being correct.

I don't make any claim to any special hearing or expertise. I've been listening to practically only lossy music since around '98, ripping from CDs at that time.

Morricone and Vangelis have been especially hard for me to tell apart, could have been a random guess on my part (I listened to those ~20 times).

When I read the title I expected to hear the actual _difference_ between the lossless and lossy waveform - i.e. only the actual artifacts. Could be a fun exercise.

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Ask HN: Is there a no-LLM license yet?"

aargh_aargh — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:25:36 +0000

Not an objection, you're fully within your rights to invent a license, just remember that a license with such clause would not be an open source license as per the Open Source Definition [1].

  6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

  The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

There's also 5. which probably isn't relevant here but possibly might depending on the definition of person (e.g. a legal person).

  5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

  The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

And then there's the obvious aspect of AI foundries blatantly ignoring copyright anyway (copyright law grants the the author the rights which he then gives away by way of a license).

[1] https://opensource.org/osd

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Prism"

aargh_aargh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:42:07 +0000

I still can't get over the Apple thing. Haven't enjoyed a ripe McIntosh since.

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Our approach to age prediction"

aargh_aargh — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:41:37 +0000

> simple way to confirm their age and restore their full access with a selfie through Persona, a secure identity-verification service

The normalization of identity verification to use internet services is itself a problem. It's described much better than I could by EFF here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-...

New comment by aargh_aargh in "HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)"

aargh_aargh — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:26:23 +0000

Honest question/thought - at this point where we have all HTTP requests for a site just redirecting everything to HTTPS, we use HSTS and browsers default to trying https when scheme is not given, why don't we just stop serving on port 80 altogether? Why even bother with HSTS?

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Rust GCC backend: Why and how"

aargh_aargh — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:19:13 +0000

Or, the obligatory RFC 1149 (IP over Avian Carriers).

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Twelve Days of Shell"

aargh_aargh — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:47:07 +0000

The good: Nice exercises for beginners. Tab-completion, accepts readline characters like ctrl-u.

The bad: You don't see the (wrong) output if you don't get it right the first time, making it hard to work iteratively and having to guess what the question actually intended.

E.g. 'Seven files that start with "Santa"' actually wants file names that start with Santa, after some questions that had you use "grep" to search file contents. Where I actually struggled with what's expected is Day 11.

The ugly: Actually a very nice design.

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Fara-7B: An efficient agentic model for computer use"

aargh_aargh — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:41:09 +0000

This is in my area of interest. Can you recommend any related tools/resources? Did you publish any code?

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI"

aargh_aargh — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:56:18 +0000

Exactly. The best they came up with is a generated subject-like summary. So many options to explore here. Categorization by topic, by date, by customer account, clustering by topic, search with various ranking options, conversation(s) tree view, histogram per date/topic/account, integration with email, with an issue tracker, various states per chat/thread e.g. resolved/ongoing/non-viable, a knowledge bank to quickly save stuff you learned (code snippets, commands, facts), integration with Notion or a wiki etc etc. Just off the top of my head.

I was told there would be rapid prototyping with AI. Haven't seen any of the above.

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

aargh_aargh — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:39:33 +0000

newspeak FTW!

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Ask HN: Effective way to deal with mosquitoes?"

aargh_aargh — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:34:08 +0000

No idea but let me guess. Consumer safety?

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Omnilingual ASR: Advancing automatic speech recognition for 1600 languages"

aargh_aargh — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:01:39 +0000

I'm not an expert but the rule of thumb is to expect something like this:

https://xkcd.com/1838/

New comment by aargh_aargh in "WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration"

aargh_aargh — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 21:04:13 +0000

What's Docker for, then?

Stats of GitHub PRs opened/merged by LLM agents

aargh_aargh — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 11:48:24 +0000

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/1/prarena/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448433

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Native ACME support comes to Nginx"

aargh_aargh — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:11:42 +0000

One less program to install, configure, upgrade, watch vulnerabilities in, monitor.

Xan – CSV preview, filter, slice, aggregate, sort, join; composable commands

aargh_aargh — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:45:42 +0000

Article URL: https://medialab.sciencespo.fr/en/tools/xan/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45208944

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver"

aargh_aargh — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 06:00:32 +0000

You don't? I do.

A few days ago I lost some data including recent code changes. Today I'm trying to recreate the same code changes - i.e. work I've just recently worked through - and for the life of me I can't get it to work the same way again. Even though "just" that is what I set out to do in the first place - no improvements, just to do the same thing over again.

New comment by aargh_aargh in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

aargh_aargh — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:02:07 +0000

https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-la...

New comment by aargh_aargh in "Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories"

aargh_aargh — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:29:32 +0000

> Directory of 20+ secure connectors

What does secure mean in this context? I didn't see it explained here.

Perhaps they mean this?

> Admin users can confidently control which connectors are available to whom in their organization, with on-behalf authentication, ensuring users only access data they’re permitted to.

New comment by aargh_aargh in "VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model"

aargh_aargh — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:34:25 +0000

Is there a current, updated list (ideally, a ranking) of the best open weights TTS models?

I'm actually more interested in STT (ASR) but the choices there are rather limited.