Hacker News: aorth

New comment by aorth in "Oai-math-revised: a community hub for revising OpenAI's math write-ups"

aorth — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:42:58 +0000

Three Body Problem :)

New comment by aorth in "A farewell to Arc browser"

aorth — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:24:18 +0000

I have seen the Arc posts here and on r/browsers over the years so I am loosely familiar with it, but what is Dia? The post doesn't say and doesn't even link to it. Venture capital funded, closed source, and AI... doesn't sound good.

Posting from Ladybird BTW (compiled from git today), which is starting to take shape!

New comment by aorth in "JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases"

aorth — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:38:06 +0000

Impressive. How can we use AVIF from Java? I have a Java application that relies on ImageMagick, which seems to use libheif for AVIF rather than libavif (avifenc).

New comment by aorth in "Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer"

aorth — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:16:43 +0000

The subtitle doesn't make sense:

> Investigators also sought permission to use an invasive surveillance tool called a cell-site simulators against journalist Georgia Fort and a Minnesota state Senate candidate.

"a cell-site simulators"?

New comment by aorth in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

aorth — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:48:18 +0000

Thanks. I tried this on Firefox for Android and each time I close the browser and load the page my fingerprint ID is different. So it seems to work. Have you had any sites break with this extension installed?

New comment by aorth in "F-Droid 2.0"

aorth — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:59:30 +0000

I have 23 currently. It's surprising how fast it happened... I don't have any problems, but I don't pay much attention to it and apps seem to update automatically sometimes and after a manual refresh other times.

New comment by aorth in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series"

aorth — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:57:56 +0000

Up voting based on the title alone, though I'm not expecting much.

If we could have a similar experience to Intel-based ThinkPad Carbon X1 or T series with performance, graphics, Wi-Fi, battery life, suspend/resume, external displays, etc, that would be awesome!

Apple hardware is awesome but I want to run Linux.

New comment by aorth in "F-Droid 2.0"

aorth — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:54:17 +0000

Cool! Unfortunately I switched to Obtanium a year or so ago. I get all my apps from GitHub releases straight from the developers now.

New comment by aorth in "Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says"

aorth — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:22:39 +0000

The story does not link to the report itself, which can be found here: https://www.unep.org/resources/limiting-overshoot-navigating...

New comment by aorth in "Fastpotify"

aorth — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:23:55 +0000

After discovering music I like on YouTube or whatever, I buy albums on Bandcamp and Qobuz if possible, and Amazon as a last resort. Then I host them on my personal Navidrome server to enjoy without involving any big tech.

New comment by aorth in "CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in Venezuela"

aorth — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:19:52 +0000

This is nice to see. I've been a long-time contributor to OpenStreetMap and a long-time user of applications in the ecosystem. I recently tried the CoMaps fork of Organic Maps and was surprised by a few quality of life improvements. For example, the one named in the article about being able to receive periodic map updates outside of the monthly application update cycle. Another subtle example is the color scheme in CoMaps being slightly more pleasant.

New comment by aorth in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

aorth — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:59:08 +0000

My personal laptop is a 2018 ThinkPad Carbon X1 Gen 6. It's eight years old now. Still running Linux pretty well, but I really need to figure out what to do for a replacement sooner than later...

New comment by aorth in "Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure""

aorth — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:39:15 +0000

So far all the comments discuss whether this is due to LLM slop, plagiarism avoidance, or translation issues. I want to know how these passed the peer review process.

New comment by aorth in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

aorth — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:33:15 +0000

This will resonate with anyone who operates a public-facing website and doesn't work at a big tech company. In the past few years I have also been down this exact same road. I'm desperately trying to avoid resorting to Cloudflare, but I'm running out of time and patience to keep tweaking nginx and firewall rules every few weeks.

I had initial success with https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away as a more powerful and more reasonable self-hosted alternative to Cloudflare than Anubis, but it seems to have gone unmaintained. There is also https://github.com/dgl/haphash if you run HAProxy, though I have not tried it.

On that note, does anyone know what happened to Ted Unangst aka tedu? He was a prolific OpenBSD developer and blogger, and he had developed one of his own simple solutions https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/anticrawl, but all his web properties seem to have gone away recently...?

New comment by aorth in "A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig"

aorth — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:28:05 +0000

Any reason you don't use `pinentry-gnome3` from the `pinentry` package? Your wrapper is clever but doesn't work with gpg-agent.

New comment by aorth in "Morten Linderud resigning from Arch Linux development team"

aorth — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:19:55 +0000

Oh this is hard to read. Foxboron was a massively positive force for Arch Linux and the Linux ecosystem in general! I discovered his ssh-tpm-agent https://github.com/Foxboron/ssh-tpm-agent a few months ago and it is really nice!

New comment by aorth in "Superlogical"

aorth — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:57:58 +0000

I've never heard of that Superset. I've used the Apache business analytics one though: https://github.com/apache/superset. Unfortunate name collision...

New comment by aorth in "Superlogical"

aorth — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 03:54:59 +0000

I came to say something similar. On mobile it looks really nice and matches the highlights elsewhere. Cool subtle visual effect.

New comment by aorth in "How to Block Some of the Bots"

aorth — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:14:20 +0000

Sadly, go-away https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away doesn't seem to be maintained anymore.

New comment by aorth in "Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings"

aorth — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:56:15 +0000

This is really cool. We have them in Kenya too. https://www.colobusconservation.org/how-to-build-a-colobridg...