Hacker News: amingilani

New comment by amingilani in "The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now"

amingilani — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:26:31 +0000

As someone that zooms into websites including HN by default, I for one appreciate the text size :)

New comment by amingilani in "SynthID: A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI"

amingilani — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:26:47 +0000

I just tried this idea, and it looks like it isn't that simple.

> "Generate a pure white image."

It refused no matter how I phrased it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> "Generate a pure black image."

It did give me one. In a new chat, I asked Gemini to detect SynthID with "@synthid". It responded with:

> The image contains too little information to make a diagnosis regarding whether it was created with Google AI. It is primarily a solid black field, and such content typically lacks the necessary data for SynthID to provide a definitive result.

Further research: Does a gradient trigger SynthID? IDK, I have to get back to work.

New comment by amingilani in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

amingilani — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:20:19 +0000

I didn’t say it was state sponsored mass surveillance, nor did I say the method of obfuscation was good.

Just that it’s a pragmatic approach (no matter how flawed in practice) and concerning that it needs to be done.

New comment by amingilani in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

amingilani — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:24:43 +0000

To me it feels pragmatic.

I find it more concerning that mass surveillance has come to the point where someone can’t safely express their frankly-not-that-controversial opinions without obfuscating the subject’s name.

New comment by amingilani in "Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth"

amingilani — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:31:41 +0000

Now we just need to put two hams with 2m/70cm radios to make the longest line-of-sight QSO on the planet. Bonus points for QRP.

Definitions:

* Hams: Amateur radio operators.

* QSO: conversation or contact between two radio stations.

* QRP: Low power, typically under 5 watts.

New comment by amingilani in "Germany issued formal travel advisory for US"

amingilani — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:26:39 +0000

Direct link: https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/reiseundsicherheit/usaver...

New comment by amingilani in "Show HN: MTXT – Music Text Format"

amingilani — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:46:12 +0000

What prompted this and why does it not?

New comment by amingilani in "Zenroom – No-code cryptographic virtual machine"

amingilani — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 03:31:43 +0000

Examples are here: https://github.com/dyne/Zenroom/tree/master/docs/examples

New comment by amingilani in "Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera"

amingilani — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 03:27:05 +0000

> it is clear that Kohler is one end of the communication

That’s not end-to-end encryption. By that logic HN, and any other website over HTTPS is E2E encrypted.

New comment by amingilani in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

amingilani — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:49:56 +0000

Why doesn’t wasm count?

New comment by amingilani in "FreakWAN: A floor-routing WAN implementing a chat over bare-LoRa (no LoRaWAN)"

amingilani — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:47:12 +0000

Unlikely since the most ISM bands are UHF (EU is 868 MHz) and skywave propagation (what you’re referring to) is characteristic of HF radiation (3-30MHz). VHF/UHF radiation passes through the ionosphere instead of refracting.

New comment by amingilani in "First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX and VS Code"

amingilani — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 22:25:22 +0000

The what incident? Can you elaborate?

Edit: Here’s the incident-https://www.theregister.com/2015/05/27/text_message_unicode_...

New comment by amingilani in "Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser"

amingilani — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:28:45 +0000

There are plenty of instruments in there. I did a quick and dirty encoding of the first bar of “City of Star” with the piano when I first discovered it.

note("G2@2 A#2 D@2 G@2 ~ G F@2 D@1.5") .sound("piano")

New comment by amingilani in "Uv overtakes pip in CI"

amingilani — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:50:25 +0000

> it's not at all well suited to a containerised environment

Could you elaborate?

New comment by amingilani in "No evidence ageing/declining populations compromise socio-economic performance"

amingilani — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:03:11 +0000

> they occur instead because of inadequate immigration

How did they make that assertion?

In the body of the paper immigration policies were not included as a variable in the data, nor were they a part of the statistical analyses. I couldn't find anything regarding labor movement at all. It feels weird that it was just thrown there in the end.

New comment by amingilani in "Guid Smash"

amingilani — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 00:21:19 +0000

Instead of picking a target UUID and evaluating new UUIDs against it, a better experiment would be finding duplicates in all the UUIDs you have generated.

This plays nicely with the birthday paradox.

New comment by amingilani in "Piano Keys"

amingilani — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 06:15:25 +0000

> if you have trouble remembering how a knight moves, you can't be that good at Chess anyway.

Non sequitur.

It’s also still a valid question. I play the scales really well on the guitar. And because the frets are all laid out straight, shifting up by one fret means I’m just playing my chords and scales sharp. It makes transposing music incredibly easy.

I still don’t understand why the piano can’t be laid out like that.

New comment by amingilani in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

amingilani — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:24:45 +0000

https://clares.ca

Recently relaunched Clares.ca, a free website for Canadian amateur radio training.

The new site has modern basics: Fast and mobile friendly and will soon incorporate the latest updates to the Canadian test bank.

Additionally, I’m adding progress tracking, logins and notifications to keep users engaged. The previous version of the site was just the course and nothing else. This one is more usable.

New comment by amingilani in "ZjsComponent: A Pragmatic Approach to Reusable UI Fragments for Web Development"

amingilani — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 17:45:48 +0000

Hate to be the one to pull a dang, but, remember:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

— https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by amingilani in "Show HN: A toy version of Wireshark (student project)"

amingilani — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:07:32 +0000

Friendly reminder that em and en dashes were part of English well before ChatGPT was launched. Anecdotally, I’ve been using them forever and English isn’t even my native language.