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New comment by cernocky in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

cernocky — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:57:32 +0000

This is interesting point. I think lot of people assume that training gathers new "metadata" based on the original data and ignore what the training optimises for which is direct copy of the input. Training a model results in a fancy copy paste (unless incentivised differently).

My Obsidian Setup

cernocky — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:16:56 +0000

Article URL: https://cernockyd.com/blog/my-obsidian-setup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823457

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

ScreenSaverGallery: Turn your inactive device into a digital art gallery

cernocky — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:43:16 +0000

Article URL: https://screensaver.gallery/about

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47431794

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Web Tiles: composable docs and apps safe in any context

cernocky — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:58:37 +0000

Article URL: https://webtil.es/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46972570

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

cernocky — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:23:31 +0000

Article URL: https://fedorarepository.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46243883

Points: 121

# Comments: 54

New comment by cernocky in "Avería: The Average Font (2011)"

cernocky — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:12:50 +0000

Reminds me of Supernormal font [1] averaged from widely popular fonts.

[1]: https://research.public.services/typography/

Ask HN: Is annas-archive run by one of the frontier LLM companies?

cernocky — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:00:50 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45653856

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A keyboard-extended microphone for manual autotune

cernocky — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:57:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rvND0xa4fM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538478

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Informational Realism

cernocky — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:00:32 +0000

Article URL: https://philarchive.org/archive/FLOIR

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45414680

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cernocky in "God created the real numbers"

cernocky — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 09:41:03 +0000

one way to think about rock is to acknowledge it as an informational entity. an entity which is likely more passive then lets say a human or an app, yet by simply being part of the environment, it changes what can be done in the environment. if it wasn't there and if it didn't had a certain shape, the opportunities of other actors in the environment would surely be different. after all rock can be used as a tool and even as a computer. if its still not intuitive, think about Aeolian Harp which is a passive statue, yet a musical instrument, or think how you could encode a perceptron or a simple neural net into a stone (through which a water or air would flow for example). now, even if any ordinary rock doesn't exactly encode neural net, it should be more clear that it still affects information flow. does it help?

New comment by cernocky in "God created the real numbers"

cernocky — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 21:39:16 +0000

Ideas are real in the way rocks are if we are concerned with their informational being. They are real informationally - ideas and math participate in forming the world. Nowadays, LLMs, Search and other apps probably affect the world even more than any common rock. Which is more real?

Spacedrive Development Halted

cernocky — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 06:51:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.spacedrive.com/docs/changelog/alpha/0.4.3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44885347

Points: 3

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New comment by cernocky in "The Origin of the Research University"

cernocky — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:03:33 +0000

were the students really surprised about the quality of wine in a place called "Swindlestock Tavern" ? :)

Supernormal font averaged from widely popular fonts

cernocky — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:54:20 +0000

Article URL: https://research.public.services/typography/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43620248

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Storing Images in DNA via Base128 Encoding

cernocky — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:37:24 +0000

Article URL: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jcim.3c01592

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43319919

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Implementing MNIST classifier from scratch in Zig

cernocky — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 07:21:50 +0000

Article URL: https://cernockyd.com/blog/implementing-mnist-classifier-from-scratch-in-zig

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43181484

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Implementing OpenMP for Zig to enable its use in HPC context

cernocky — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:45:15 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09902

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881990

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Warcraft's Technology [video]

cernocky — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 20:33:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Q3pAn25d4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42497367

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Structure-Based Search of the Entire AlphaFold Protein Structure Database

cernocky — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:32:52 +0000

Article URL: https://alphafind.fi.muni.cz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42388068

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by cernocky in "Show HN: TypeSchema – A JSON specification to describe data models"

cernocky — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:54:23 +0000

I once read a paper about Apache/Meta Thrift [1,2]. Similarly, it allows the definition of data types/interfaces and code generation for many programming languages. It was specifically designed for RPCs and microservices.

[1]: https://thrift.apache.org/

[2]: https://github.com/facebook/fbthrift