Hacker News: amilios

New comment by amilios in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

amilios — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:52:48 +0000

At least Quebec actually does have a distinct nation/culture/ethnicity/language.

New comment by amilios in "Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)"

amilios — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:28:20 +0000

Yeah I'm really not sure why everyone is shitting on it so hard, I mean it is a cool interactive experience. I understand that present-day Opera has some serious problems, sold to a Chinese company, people feel like it's a separate thing from old Opera, that it's lost its soul, all very fair. But we should be able to evaluate this experience as a separate thing, and it's pretty slick!

New comment by amilios in "2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025"

amilios — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:19:03 +0000

I am also surprised it's so low (the number who haven't read). I would have expected 3 in 5 or even 4 in 5 americans to have not read a single book in 2025. I wonder if these stats include "tried to finish a book (and failed)" rather than actual completion stats.

New comment by amilios in "When would you ever want bubblesort? (2023)"

amilios — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:37:27 +0000

Am I missing something? If the algorithm is interrupted, the list will not be sorted. How exactly does it fit the criteria of an anytime algo?

New comment by amilios in "A new Google model is nearly perfect on automated handwriting recognition"

amilios — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:35:41 +0000

Wrong post.

New comment by amilios in "Smartphones and being present"

amilios — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 17:55:08 +0000

Can you explain how you patched the iOS IG app? Seems massively useful if it's not too much of a pain. Please share!

New comment by amilios in "Igalia, Servo, and the Sovereign Tech Fund"

amilios — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:28:44 +0000

Is it just me or is the total amount of funding at the Sovereign Tech fund (https://www.sovereign.tech/faq) hilariously small? 11.5 mil eur right now? 17 mil next year? Better than nothing of course, but...

New comment by amilios in "ML on Apple ][+"

amilios — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 19:26:13 +0000

Bit of a weird choice to draw a decision boundary for a clustering algorithm...

New comment by amilios in "AI fabricates 21 out of 23 citations lawyer sanctioned reported to state bar [pdf]"

amilios — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 07:43:33 +0000

Plenty of progress in models that can use tools and search. Would love to see how one of these tool/search-enabled models do at this kind of a task. In my experience, they don't fabricate things anymore, just sometimes occasionally misrepresent the content of citations (put a citation somewhere where it doesn't actually support what is written).

New comment by amilios in "I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory"

amilios — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:17:37 +0000

Would require decompilation of the Animal Crossing game code for the Switch. I believe DRM has gotten a lot better since the Gamecube days as well. Hypothetically possible maybe but good luck haha

New comment by amilios in "I replaced Animal Crossing's dialogue with a live LLM by hacking GameCube memory"

amilios — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 04:04:01 +0000

There's something about taking old games and injecting new life into them that just seems so fun and exciting! Also very interesting to know that the Animal Crossing codebase has been decompiled into readable C code. Fascinating! So many opportunities to mess with it.

New comment by amilios in "iPhone Air"

amilios — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:55:56 +0000

Are you able to use banking apps, etc.? Genuinely curious.

New comment by amilios in "iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max"

amilios — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:53:57 +0000

If you are an existing Fizz customer with a physical SIM, is there a pathway to switching to eSIM now? Because there wasn't for a very long time.

EDIT: Huh you're right! It's now possible. Groovy!

New comment by amilios in "iPhone Air"

amilios — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:56:21 +0000

Unfortunately both the 12 Mini and the 13 Mini did terrible numbers sales-wise. People say they want small phones but not enough of them actually buy them when they are available. :(

New comment by amilios in "iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max"

amilios — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:52:37 +0000

This is especially surprising to me given several providers still only support physical SIM or weird half-support (e.g. Fizz, that I'm with, allows you to open a new line with eSIM but not transfer an existing line from physical to eSIM).

New comment by amilios in "iPhone Air"

amilios — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:42:56 +0000

I believe the counterargument here is that we've gotten used to phones being relatively thin, and people have learned to charge their phones every night anyway. Something about stated vs. true desires, just like with the Minis where people said they wanted smaller phones but then nobody bought them. I believe it might be a similar thing where people say they want thicker phones with big batteries but they won't actually buy them when they realize they will be noticeably thicker and heavier.

New comment by amilios in "iPhone Air"

amilios — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:37:27 +0000

Can always get an Android phone and run GrapheneOS with no Google services or apps. Good luck functioning in the modern world though...

New comment by amilios in "iPhone Air"

amilios — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:34:55 +0000

They don't have smaller screen iPhones anymore lol what? the iPhone 13 Mini is the last phone that can be in that category. Does anyone really think that 6.1 inches is a "small" device?

New comment by amilios in "iPhone dumbphone"

amilios — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:24:29 +0000

https://help.instagram.com/654906392080948

Doesn't seem like this is possible anymore?

New comment by amilios in "Claude now has access to a server-side container environment"

amilios — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:21:32 +0000

Anyone else having serious reliability issues with artifact editing? I find that the artifacts quite often get "stuck", where the LLM is trying to edit the artifact but the state of the artifact does not change. Seems like the LLM is somehow failing in editing the artifact silently, while thinking that it is actually doing the edits. The way to resolve this is to ask Claude to make a new artifact, which then has all the changes Claude thought it was making. But you have to do this relatively often.