Hacker News: anonova

New comment by anonova in "Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login"

anonova — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:14:59 +0000

Can confirm that this started happening today.

> Log in to use old Reddit

> To keep Reddit safe, accounts are required to access old Reddit. Log in, or continue without an account on reddit.com.

I don't participate in Reddit conversions and only use old.reddit.com to browse some specific subreddits as a guest.

New comment by anonova in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

anonova — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:03:47 +0000

Literal music videos are still fun and a valid creative direction, e.g., Vance Joy's "Riptide": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_1HMAGb4k

New comment by anonova in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

anonova — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:16:27 +0000

Grit was the name of a _Ruby_ implementation of git way back when: https://github.com/mojombo/grit/. I believe it's actually what GitHub was built on then.

New comment by anonova in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

anonova — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:39:37 +0000

Do Gemma 4 models compete with Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite? I would assume even the smallest Gemini model would outperform even Gemma 4 31B, but I can't really get a sense of performance or output quality difference.

New comment by anonova in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

anonova — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:58:28 +0000

There's a comparison of all the Gemma 4 models (+ Gemma 3 27B) on the Huggingface model card: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it#benchmark-resul...

New comment by anonova in "Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all"

anonova — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:42:31 +0000

A Qwen research member had a poll on X asking what Qwen 3.6 sizes people wanted to see:

https://x.com/ChujieZheng/status/2039909917323383036

Likely to drive engagement, but the poll excluded the large model size.

New comment by anonova in "JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back"

anonova — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:24:14 +0000

Local-only usage of Termius is free and doesn't even require logging in to the service. I've been using it like this for years.

New comment by anonova in "GIMP 3.0"

anonova — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 00:36:43 +0000

For your first point, I'd recommend using Krita (https://krita.org/) and its generative AI plugin: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion / https://www.interstice.cloud/

New comment by anonova in "Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery"

anonova — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:45:16 +0000

Note that this kind of visualization is just the collapsed form of a standard forecast graph, e.g.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.39&lon=-122...

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/mountain-view

New comment by anonova in "Rust 1.75.0"

anonova — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 17:16:16 +0000

I was excited for this one to replace a bunch of single type Box returns, but there are still quite a few limitations using -> impl Trait in traits in general. It's still discouraged to use them in public APIs: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/21/async-fn-rpit-in-trait...

New comment by anonova in "Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] (1990)"

anonova — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 16:23:47 +0000

This has been around for a long time called Peter Answers as a modern take on the Ouija. See, e.g., https://www.peter-virtual-tarot.com/

New comment by anonova in "Google Chrome Is Already Preparing to Deprecate JPEG-XL"

anonova — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 14:46:01 +0000

I wouldn't be surprised if this is more a legal issue since Microsoft was granted a patent on rANS encoding, which is used in JPEG-XL: https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/17/microsoft_ans_patent/

New comment by anonova in "Unofficial Spotify Client for the Nintendo Switch (PoC)"

anonova — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 00:42:26 +0000

> at least for now

Yep, the aarch64-nintendo-switch-freestanding target will (very likely) be available in Rust 1.64.0 [0].

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/88991#issuecomment-11...

New comment by anonova in "Micro – a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor"

anonova — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 15:11:56 +0000

> An user friendly editor should pop some kind of prompt when I pressed the first g/G key and show me what I could press the next,

See vim-which-key [1] and which-key.nvim [2] for something similar to this.

[1]: https://github.com/liuchengxu/vim-which-key

[2]: https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim

New comment by anonova in "Meow Hash (2018)"

anonova — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:09:31 +0000

A detailed analysis of Meow Hash: https://peter.website/meow-hash-cryptanalysis

It's not the highest of quality hash functions (see the SMHasher benchmarks), but it is fast. A great alternative is XXH3 (https://cyan4973.github.io/xxHash/), which has seen far more usage in practice.

New comment by anonova in "Java 17 / JDK 17: General Availability"

anonova — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 14:51:05 +0000

No releases for 17 yet, but checking the site, I discovered that AdoptOpenJDK was moved to the Eclipse Foundation and renamed to Adoptium: https://adoptium.net/

New comment by anonova in "How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success"

anonova — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:53:36 +0000

An officially supported Rust SDK should be a high priority, IMO. The de facto AWS library Rusoto (https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto) went into maintenance mode is in need of maintainers (https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto/issues/1651).

Microsoft has an Azure SDK under their organization (https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-rust), but oddly, it's marked as "unofficial". It looks like Google doesn't have one for GCP, but there is a community-built one: https://github.com/Byron/google-apis-rs

Given all these companies are part of the Rust Foundation (https://foundation.rust-lang.org/members/), maybe I just expect more.

New comment by anonova in "Building replacement proprietary battery packs"

anonova — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:53:49 +0000

After buying a transmitter/controller, Liftoff (https://store.steampowered.com/app/410340/) is a great simulation to learn how to fly.

New comment by anonova in "Pressing YubiKeys"

anonova — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 16:55:01 +0000

Adaprox has various "finger bots" for those who don't want to build their own: https://www.adaprox.io/

New comment by anonova in "Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year"

anonova — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:42:44 +0000

Yes, it was introduced in Ruby 2.6 (2018): https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/12/25/ruby-2-6-0-rele...