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New comment by antimony51 in "Pirating the Pirates"

antimony51 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:44:56 +0000

I was watching lawrence of arabia recently, and was thinking about similar stuff. There's a few scenes (scenes around the: "my name is for my friends" and the echoey canyon in particular) where lawrence looks almost like a photorealistic game character.

I still don't know what exactly caused this but most likely a multitude of factors are in play. - Deserts are bright, so a bright light was used to illuminate his face, causing his eyes to sparkle. - Streaming from Netflix and compression / decompression might have eaten away some of the high frequency detail

I also learned that they shot the movie in a bigger film stock, so the digitized version of this movie is highly regarded.

If anyone has any idea as to why these scenes in particular look off, i would love to learn more.

New comment by antimony51 in "Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights"

antimony51 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:20:16 +0000

It feels like all these models are missing a long horizon orchestrator of some kind. Humans don't think in a single thread, they have thoughts that appear, pause and disappear.

The reason humans don't go into a doom loop is because of this ability of other thoughts to interject and say, no this is stupid.

New comment by antimony51 in "1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug"

antimony51 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:02:46 +0000

> if you had some other XSS in a webview that you can get a victim to open, you get effectively full RCE on their computer.

Github creds or the computer, can't decide which one is worse.

New comment by antimony51 in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

antimony51 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:40:30 +0000

> Nearly all air molecules were once part of a dinosaur fart.

While it is plausible that at least a handful of molecules (out of the sextillions) in a breath you take passed through a dinosaur, i don't think that qualifies at "Nearly all".

New comment by antimony51 in "Diode – Build, program, and simulate hardware"

antimony51 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:38:37 +0000

I could not sign up, because "email rate limit exceeded" but i was wondering if it had a feature to probe the voltage at a certain node.

New comment by antimony51 in "Show HN: Toodle.Studio is an art playground with Lisp and turtles"

antimony51 — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 16:52:23 +0000

The default size is 512x512 how can i change it?

edit: just changing the values on the canvas tag in inspect element worked!

Does the low time alarm on Lichess make people play worse?

antimony51 — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 09:56:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Antiochian/chess-blunders/blob/main/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34365810

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New comment by antimony51 in "Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT"

antimony51 — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 04:47:03 +0000

Just amazing!

New comment by antimony51 in "LibGen's Bloat Problem"

antimony51 — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 09:47:13 +0000

Has any effort been made to remove/remedy "all sorts of binary data"?