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New comment by boltzmann64 in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

boltzmann64 — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:50:49 +0000

I am really curious: what is your definition of a power user.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Dithering with CSS"

boltzmann64 — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:56:24 +0000

please add atleast one example to demonstrate how the output will look like.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe"

boltzmann64 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:31:26 +0000

how is this a dark pattern? say that you bought a subscription of new york times for a year and put it on monthly installment. can you bail out of paying the credit card company after six months? only here, both the product and credit card company is adobe. in fact adobe is being generous by letting you "cough up" only a half the fee where your credit card company wouldn't. at this rate all credit companies are "dark pattern peddlers" according to you? adobe is pretty clear on the name of the subscription, "yearly subsciption, payed monthly" in big letters at the top of their pricing page.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Just Enough Chimera Linux"

boltzmann64 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:22:37 +0000

if you want a stable chimera linux as a daily driver, go to voidlinux.org. chimera linux started as a void linux fork until it became it's own thing. they share the same dna. cbuild started as a xbps-src fork.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Undo in Vi and Its Successors"

boltzmann64 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:21:02 +0000

If you are going to need this, then you should use git instead of relying on the editor's undo tree.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry"

boltzmann64 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:51:20 +0000

I hate the trend of moving away from being able to search packages from the command line to searching inside a bloated web browser. It had a happened with PyPI. And now npm. Please stop this madness.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "AI can 10x developers in creating tech debt"

boltzmann64 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:03:40 +0000

Non-native speaker here. Is the phrasing of the blog title awkward or am I the only one? Seems like they are using "10x" as a verb and my brain kept parsing "10x" as a adjective to developer, reading "10x developer" which is a already established industry lingo.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones"

boltzmann64 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:18:50 +0000

This is the standard playbook. And the gov just pulled a switcheroo:

Policy that is hard to pass: SIM binding for all messenger apps and automatic log out every 6 hours for desktop apps.

Even more egregious policy: Pre-install spyware that cannot be disabled.

Withdraw the egregious policy on outrage, and people think they have won the battle.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "The current state of the theory that GPL propagates to AI models"

boltzmann64 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:08:29 +0000

Google's engineers when they were copying Java API for Davlik (and later ART), they had access to and consulted Java source code. The infamous Oracle v. Google judgement siding Google set precedent at the highest level, SCOTUS that looking at the code is not an issue.

So, it doesn't matter if a AI can or cannot do clean room implementation. Unless it is a patent or trade secret violation, cleam room implementation doesn't matter.

Your ML Logging Stack Should Be Boring

boltzmann64 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:03:31 +0000

Article URL: https://annadapb.substack.com/p/your-ml-logging-stack-should-be-boring

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46033666

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Drop into REPL when your Python script crashes"

boltzmann64 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:12:09 +0000

Thank you for the usercustomize.py tip.

Drop into REPL when your Python script crashes

boltzmann64 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:49:58 +0000

Article URL: https://annadapb.substack.com/p/drop-into-repl-when-your-python-script

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45668285

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Ripgrep 15.0"

boltzmann64 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:07:55 +0000

Has it caught up to ugrep in terms of backward compatibility and speed yet?

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Python developers are embracing type hints"

boltzmann64 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 22:30:39 +0000

I am sorry, but whats wrong with doing something like, `print(type(var)); exit()` and just running it once instead of digging through 5-6 stack frames?

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Jujutsu for everyone"

boltzmann64 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:04:44 +0000

I am think you are misunderstanding the entire premise of git. There is no "force push to trunk breaks every other developers' working copy." There is no central repo/trunk where all the commits are pushed. You are probably thinking of svn.

In git, your repo is the canonical repo and that is where you work. You work on a new feature and when you are ready, you "git format-patch" and "git send-email" to the community via the mailing list or other developers. A discussion may happen and people may or may not decide to apply the patch to their own repositories, with "git am." This doesn't break every other developers' working copy because they decide how to apply the patches they got in their email. No central repo, no trunk, guaranteed by the d in git dvcs.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Commodore 64 Ultimate"

boltzmann64 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:03:11 +0000

I am sorry, but people are still using Commodore 64 these days?

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go"

boltzmann64 — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 10:52:00 +0000

It's not a website a search engine can crawl but anyone on the internet can log all the messages on IRC as long as they want without any restrictions. In fact if you are nice, you will never need to login and can have conversation for as long as you want with a guest login. It is not a walled garden.

Show HN: Project Tirtha – Crowdsourced 3D modeling of cultural heritage sites

boltzmann64 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 10:45:06 +0000

Greetings HN,

Project Tirtha is an open-source project and an academic initiative for creating 3D models of heritage sites using crowd-sourced images. The goal is to preserve and showcase the beauty and cultural significance of heritage sites by allowing general public to contribute to the creation of these 3D models.

Previously, we have experimented using Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and Structure-from-Motion (SfM) to build the models. Currently, we rely on Gaussian Splatting.

The website loads both on phones and on desktop. Please be patient while the models load, as some of the models are large and take some time to download.

The right sidebar contains the names of temples that are currently available. On the left you can see the model statistics with different versions of the model as we get more and more images to refine it.

The source code can be found at: https://github.com/smlab-niser/tirtha-public

I will be happy to answer any questions and appreciate feedback/suggestions regarding the project. :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42338481

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2024)"

boltzmann64 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 13:12:23 +0000

Location: Bhubaneswar

Remote: Office/Hybrid/Remote. Anything works.

Willing to relocate: Within India (outside must sponsor Visa)

Technologies: C/C++/CUDA, Python (Numpy, PyTorch, JAX, Pandas, Matplotlib, PyVista, Open3d, Taichi Graphics, OpenCV, Kornia, Mitsuba, Dr.jit, OpenSplat, Nerfstudio), GLSL, Postgres, Sqlite 3, Meshroom, CloudCompare, Meshlab.

CV: On request (web version at https://tilde.green/~annada)

Email: annada.behera@outlook.com

Hi. I'm a PhD candidate with my projects wrapped up (a pending journal revision before I can formally graduate, and therefore available full-time) working mostly in 3D model reconstruction of temples of size 20-50 meters. I have worked in computer graphics/vision projects in academia (funded by govt and industry), I'm looking forward to switch to industry. I bring mathematical knowledge and experience working with large amount of data and good grasp of statistical modeling, and programming with all the usual libraries. Please email me only if you are looking to work on computer graphics/vision problems.

New comment by boltzmann64 in "Square roots and maxima"

boltzmann64 — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 02:50:46 +0000

People waste so many hours watching these types of video where the presenter talks a lot around the problem (has lots of fluff, comedy skit and ads). I think the presenter should have used this opportunity to introduce random variables, independence, Tschebyscheff inequality and explained the "bizzare" puzzle.

Or if you are going to do this with simulation, then a introduction to Monte Carlo methods, and why such simulations work and provide correct results would have been a better us of viewer's time.

But videos like this just state a fact and then handwave around the fact without hitting the core idea. The viewer leaves with a false sense of understanding, and keep wondering about the "bizzare" fact, when it is nothing but good ol' introductory probability. YouTube math needs reform.