Hacker News: campital

New comment by campital in "MAI-Thinking-1"

campital — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:06:51 +0000

Yeah, you might get disoriented and throw up if they didn't smooth it out.

New comment by campital in "KL Zero: KL divergence intuition game"

campital — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:33:51 +0000

You should add a Wasserstein distance mode.

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

New comment by campital in "List of individual trees"

campital — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:09:37 +0000

Is this list comprehensive?

New comment by campital in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

campital — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:32:20 +0000

I don’t see any obvious evidence of bot activity on that thread (and all of my spot checks strongly leaned human). Were some comments removed or something?

New comment by campital in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

campital — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 07:26:53 +0000

"A Man Ate Expired Boxed Cake Mix. This Is How His Organs Shut Down." (Frozen Hot Sauce, iykyk)

Fastest 5x5 Piston Door / Showcase [video]

campital — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 18:28:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPM5FpnGhtA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44840125

Points: 2

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New comment by campital in "Ask HN: Ads triggered by WhatsApp “end to end encrypted” messages?"

campital — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:25:37 +0000

I imagine the reputational and potential legal consequences would be fairly severe if this sort of privacy invasion were discovered (either by employee leak or reverse engineering). Seems unlikely Meta would take a risk like this.

New comment by campital in "Stop Validating Email Addresses with Regex (2012)"

campital — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:05:50 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-level_domain#Dotless_domai...

New comment by campital in "Show HN: Favicons for HN"

campital — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 12:54:42 +0000

This modification works for me: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/443687-hn-favicons. It uses GM.addElement to bypass CSP restrictions.

New comment by campital in "Don't use text pixelation to redact sensitive information"

campital — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 05:26:13 +0000

This reminds me of Manning liveBook's obfuscation strategy [0]. It scrambles the letters to keep the majority of the specific details obfuscated while somewhat revealing the gist (word length, acronyms, anagrams, code segments) presumably to encourage sales and discourage piracy.

[0] Ex. https://livebook.manning.com/book/programming-the-ti-83-plus...

New comment by campital in "Reddit files to go public"

campital — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 04:17:31 +0000

I experienced a somewhat comical bug where the Reddit recap chose my most downvoted comment as my "Comment to end all comments" (probably because its absolute value was greatest). Seems unlikely that this was an intentional easter egg (it was accompanied with "Out of all the comments you made in 2021, this one sure got a lot of upvotes").

Also, I just discovered that the built-in screenshot generator for Reddit recap is broken as it only captures the rendered portion of each card, leaving out the scrollable overflow.

This case alone offers a strong testament to the poor quality of most Reddit features.

New comment by campital in "Never Use Black (2012)"

campital — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 16:22:19 +0000

There is the problem of "OLED smearing"[0] with pure black that makes using it somewhat unviable. It seems that some OLEDs are more susceptible than others, though. Also fairly certain that this only happens with #000.

[0] https://twitter.com/marcedwards/status/1053519077958803456?l...

New comment by campital in "Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics"

campital — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 01:30:09 +0000

How is 27 counterintuitive?

> Let alpha = 0.110001000000000000000001000..., where the 1's occur in the n! place, for each n. Then alpha is transcendental. (Calculus, 4th edition by Michael Spivak)

Nearly all infinite sums involving factorial are transcendental.

New comment by campital in ".org doesn't mean credible"

campital — Tue, 04 May 2021 04:55:31 +0000

If you object to all the author's points, do you also object to the fact that .org domains are not always reputable? If so, then this website must be reputable, and therefore all of its points are true. But, unfortunately, the website itself asserts that not all .org domains are reputable.

Wait... RecursionError: maximum recursion depth exceeded

New comment by campital in "Why are tar.xz files 15x smaller when using Python's tar compared to macOS tar?"

campital — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 13:46:18 +0000

The resulting compressed archives of these operations are 10% and 1% of the original file sizes, respectively (10x difference). The percent reduction can’t really be compared linearly.