Hacker News: angch

New comment by angch in "Copy Fail"

angch — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:45:06 +0000

I used, for debian based systems:

  printf "# CVE-2026-31431\nblacklist algif_aead\ninstall algif_aead /bin/false\n" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-algif_aead.conf >/dev/null && sudo update-initramfs -u

New comment by angch in "Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server"

angch — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:15:11 +0000

Like a highway brake failure ramp, you have room for handling failures gentler. So services don't just get outright killed. If you monitor your swap usage, any usage of swap gives you early warning that your services require more memory already.

Gives you some time to upgrade, or tune services before it goes ka-boom.

New comment by angch in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

angch — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 09:14:16 +0000

If there isn't a way to get pass more than a few days, regardless of any choices made, the one lesson simulator is giving is "there's no way an autistic developer can last a few days without burning out". Or from a coworker's perspective: "my coworker is struggling, but there's nothing I can do to prevent burn out in my coworker".

Perhaps tune the choices, and the effects to have a net neutral bonus and penalties to have a longer gameplay loop. Having random weights to the actions might work as well.

New comment by angch in "WordPress retaliation impacts community"

angch — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 04:55:54 +0000

https://ma.tt/2024/10/on-dhh/

New comment by angch in "WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics"

angch — Thu, 23 May 2024 08:13:10 +0000

There's also "diskonaut", a TUI which displays the output like the treemap of WinDirStat. Bonus is that the display is incremental and updates as it scans everything, so you don't need to wait for the complete scan to see how everything looks like.

Written in Rust, and it's a `cargo install diskonaut` away if you have the rust toolchain installed.

New comment by angch in "Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs"

angch — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:09:38 +0000

For my daily use, Firefox needs built-in passkey support. Can't switch for all uses yet. In the meantime, I'm running both.

New comment by angch in ""A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4"

angch — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 09:07:35 +0000

It's from Diamond Age, alluding to a character (YT) that was from Snow Crash.

New comment by angch in "RustRover – A standalone Rust IDE"

angch — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:49:57 +0000

Whoa, another (ex?) jed user in the wild. I still install it on new servers, and that was how other admins know if I was ever there. Smaller and faster than installing emacs.

New comment by angch in "Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models"

angch — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 02:10:05 +0000

NNCP (Bellard's prelude to ts_zip, using similar techniques) is not qualified for Hutter Prize, btw, because hardware and speed limitations specified by Hutter Prize.

"Must run in ≲50 hours using a single CPU core and <10GB RAM and <100GB HDD on our test machine." Which is an Intel Core i7-620M

New comment by angch in "Llama.cpp: Full CUDA GPU Acceleration"

angch — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 03:20:13 +0000

There's Fabrice Bellard's textsynth server. https://bellard.org/ts_server/

No open source though.

New comment by angch in "The long road to recover Frogger 2 source from tape drives"

angch — Thu, 25 May 2023 06:36:23 +0000

I guess that's why the .zip format chucks its catalog index at the end of the archive. But it's still unnatural to use in a streaming format like tapes though.

New comment by angch in "Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook"

angch — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 04:56:23 +0000

What's fun is that the recent references to LoRA stands for Low-Rank Adaptation [1], not Low-Resource Adapters[2] (??? don't know if this even exists), but because Low-Rank Adaptation came out in 2021, chatgpt only explains what Low-Resource Adapters is, not Low-Rank Adaptation, which is what is being used in recent break throughs.

My own questioning of chatgpt on LoRA returns "Logistic Regression Algorithm" instead. Looks like it's too new to ChatGPT.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.09685 [2] https://rentry.co/vafkn

New comment by angch in "EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers"

angch — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 06:01:50 +0000

Just a separate rules file that blocks .in and other popular domains for India will probably work just as well.

New comment by angch in "How Wine works 101"

angch — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:54:26 +0000

Elden Ring, for one.

New comment by angch in "Cooling related failure (in Google London DC)"

angch — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:14:55 +0000

You have some of the empty lat, lon data (e.g. AWS GovCloud (US)) interpreted as at (lat,lon) = (0,0), putting them incorrectly on Null Island.

New comment by angch in "Expanded Protections for Children"

angch — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 01:30:46 +0000

One new way for swatting.

Send or otherwise inject problematic images to the target, but make sure the target can't see it (image too small, part of larger collage), but their device does. The target gets flagged by Apple for having CSAM.

The target gets FBI'd.

New comment by angch in "Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, aviation minister says"

angch — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 05:01:45 +0000

Normalization of Deviance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance

New comment by angch in "Google Maps' Moat"

angch — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 04:32:18 +0000

They fly their own planes these days.

https://blog.google/topics/inside-google/google-earths-incre...

Too bad it's a video. Fast forward about 2 minutes.

Or: https://youtu.be/suo_aUTUpps?t=121

Fly plane. Zig zag. 5 cameras, then photogrammetry. StreetView, from planes.

New comment by angch in "The case for memory-mapped GPU assets"

angch — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 09:20:33 +0000

I'm not quite sure mmap is such a good idea if you're trying to have more low-level control over performance. Weird Carmack advocating this, because you can't really guarantee the latency of grabbing any resource if you incur a fault and need to grab it from disk.

See also the comments from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8704911

New comment by angch in "AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol again in match 2 of 5"

angch — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:18:41 +0000

Speaking of Hugo Award, all these reminds me too much of Iain Banks's The Player of Games.

An outsider, new to the game, had managed to pick up and challenge top players successfully in a venerated game.

The reactions of community to this is uncannily similar.