Hacker News: alex_duf

New comment by alex_duf in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

alex_duf — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:50:03 +0000

I'm seeing this stance a lot "this is obviously AI generated"

Why? What's LLM generated? How can you tell?

To me what's obvious is that our trust system is already breaking down. Commenters accusing each other of being AIs is also another example of this.

New comment by alex_duf in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

alex_duf — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:25:19 +0000

there's an argument to be made that new code will be inspected before being merged and therefore the classes of bugs an LLM is likely to find will not be merged until it's fixed.

New comment by alex_duf in "Alaska megatsunami was second largest ever recorded"

alex_duf — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:06:50 +0000

Goodness me, 524m for the tallest tsunami is absolutely nuts

New comment by alex_duf in "OpenTrafficMap"

alex_duf — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:16:41 +0000

Rotterdam is using rain data to asjust traffic lights. Bicycles are waiting less at intersections. They also make the amber light longer to give you time to break for farther away and avoid a fall.

https://popupcity.net/insights/rotterdam-traffic-light-prior...

New comment by alex_duf in "Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API"

alex_duf — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:10:19 +0000

28th of april 2025, isn't this before mozilla added lots of AI feature in their browser?

New comment by alex_duf in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

alex_duf — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:17:00 +0000

What does "fully caught up" mean in the context of an ever evolving technology? I think I'm in support of open weight models (though there are safety implications), but these things aren't cheap to train and run. This fact alone gives no incentive for leading labs to release cutting edge open weight models. Why spend the money then give the product for free?

Now if "fully caught up" means today's level of intelligence is available for free in two years, by then that level of intelligence means very little

New comment by alex_duf in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

alex_duf — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:10:46 +0000

Same here. I've had two generations of X1, my latest one (laptop, not child) is almost 5 years old and I honestly don't know which hardware to pick next in order to run Linux.

At work I have an M4Max 128G, and it's hard to beat that amount of compute, with that build quality.

New comment by alex_duf in "A cache-friendly IPv6 LPM with AVX-512 (linearized B+-tree, real BGP benchmarks)"

alex_duf — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:34:12 +0000

side note, but I hate that we've reach the point where we don't know what's written by a human and what's written by an LLM.

That goes for a lot of comments here accusing each other of being a bot.

I feel like we've known internet trust at its highest and it can only go one way now.

New comment by alex_duf in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

alex_duf — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:17:28 +0000

It's a possibly a managerial thing, which KPI are you improving when spending engineering time on adding IPv6 support?

That said, for their HTTP stack they use fastly (as far as I understand), which should make the shift moderately easier.

New comment by alex_duf in "Can Claude Fly a Plane?"

alex_duf — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:01:51 +0000

Claude uses the wrong modality to be a piloting model. Latency is critical, and outputting tokens in the hope they take the action at the right time is kinda bonkers.

You'd want all the data from the plane to be input neurons, and all the actions to be output neurons.

New comment by alex_duf in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

alex_duf — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:01:25 +0000

timing wise this seems to match the Claude Mythos story.

So maybe they're trying to free-up some GPU capacity to run audit of projects in need? I'm assuming Mythos is not cheap to run.

The cache TTL story is also probably link to the RAM price going up like mad so they're trying to save on future expenditure here maybe?

I do understand why people are pissed though

New comment by alex_duf in "Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure"

alex_duf — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:36:31 +0000

At the rate things are going, yeah there will be a point where intelligence services aren't going to be happily cooperating across the Atlantic, that is unless there is a clear mutual benefit in doing so.

New comment by alex_duf in "Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure"

alex_duf — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:33:59 +0000

The one EU service I can't find is an easy OIDC provider, like okta or auth0, to manage the users of a SAAS.

Any recommendations?

New comment by alex_duf in "DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]"

alex_duf — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:01:45 +0000

it's explained in the video, and there's no way I'll be explaining it better than her

New comment by alex_duf in "Peptides: where to begin?"

alex_duf — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:01:39 +0000

I guess it depends on how you frame it. "I've just posted this comment, what do you think" vs "Someone online has just posted this comment, what do you think".

But it does require to know the bias that LLMs have ahead of testing this.

New comment by alex_duf in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

alex_duf — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:34:00 +0000

One was taken during daylight on film, which needs to be processed and scanned, the other one was taken at high ISO during night time on a digital camera.

So much interpretation is done on colour on each step of the way that it's not surprising the colours are looking different.

New comment by alex_duf in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

alex_duf — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:56:22 +0000

Or maybe Microsoft continuously degrading their user's experiences has finally reached a breaking point, to the point where Pewdipie AND Linus Tech Tips are talking more seriously about linux.

So yeah Pewdiepie is part of it, but I honestly think that's only because Microsoft has done such a poor job at maintaining their operating system.

New comment by alex_duf in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

alex_duf — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:28:34 +0000

corporate speech existed long before AI

New comment by alex_duf in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

alex_duf — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:32:40 +0000

everyone here is commenting how odd it looks to use a regexp for sentiment analysis, but it depends what they're trying to do.

It could be used as a feedback when they do A/B test and they can compare which version of the model is getting more insult than the other. It doesn't matter if the list is exhaustive or even sane, what matters is how you compare it to the other.

Perfect? no. Good and cheap indicator? maybe.

New comment by alex_duf in "LibreOffice and the art of overreacting"

alex_duf — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:17:24 +0000

The same way you can decide to not visit a website, you can decide to not use LibreOffice.

I think it makes sense, how else are they supposed to fundraise and develop the features that makes the software useful to manage your own data?