Hacker News: chazeon

New comment by chazeon in "Open Source, Free Tier Capable Whispr Using Cloudflare AI"

chazeon — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:08:11 +0000

As many have discussed earlier, if you have an accent, macOS transcribing is not so accurate; on top of that, Apple's transcribing also don't work well if you have a lot of technical terms (for example, if you are transcribing a thesis in physics)

New comment by chazeon in "Ditching Zotero for a Text File"

chazeon — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:51:52 +0000

the place where zotero and alike become useful is when you start to need a tree-like structure

New comment by chazeon in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

chazeon — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:37:20 +0000

Why does this lab test only have marketing materials? They are not even installing linux on a supposedly LLM dev machine

New comment by chazeon in "GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance"

chazeon — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:38:46 +0000

Well, when 5.5 first came out, it was kind of OK, but now it's almost noticeably worse. It can be done, but requires a lot of effort, just more and more round, and actually, the Gemini Pro on the web (which should be 3.1 Pro) is actually doing a more stable job.

The thing that I ask it to do is like take X and Y paper into Z paragraph --- a not-so-silly model should think of how information in X and Y are related and how they support the whole article to synthesize this sentence in a way that is coherent to the article, but 5.5 now will just copy the stuff without any reasoning about the relation. Of course, this will cost a lot of tokens and will be obvious if not done. One clear indicator is that in a few rounds you can see the length of the article get bloated to 2-3x undesirably long, which is clearly because it is not analyzing/synthesizing the info.

New comment by chazeon in "GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance"

chazeon — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 04:36:33 +0000

Even without stats i know it went bad. In the pass two month barely can do any good scientific writing lately, which of course rely on reasoning. It just writing for gods sake. And it show how far we are from AGI.

New comment by chazeon in "Order a burned CD of your own public GitHub repo"

chazeon — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:51:14 +0000

I remember years ago, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, etc., could all be obtained via CD for free; years later, everything become a limited print. https://web.archive.org/web/20090219122023/https://shipit.ub...

New comment by chazeon in "Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory"

chazeon — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:58:38 +0000

I have always been thinking LUKS was supposed to be enrolled in TPM, so you should not have to enter this key manually; this is just to prevent someone from unplugging the hard drive and reading on another machine. Of course, this depends on one's threat model.

New comment by chazeon in "Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory"

chazeon — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:19:03 +0000

But if you do this, don't you have to enter two passwords each time you wake? One for LUKS, one for the system login?

New comment by chazeon in "Claude Science"

chazeon — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:13:50 +0000

Isn't this the company that make the LLM become a degenerate when it comes to bioscience?

New comment by chazeon in "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line"

chazeon — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:52:47 +0000

Mac mini Pro line is doomed, they never made enough of it; skipped M5 Pro, now skipping M6 Pro, it is like 2014-2018 again. Now ordering a custom M4 Pro build take 3 months+ to ship with an increased price.

New comment by chazeon in "GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2"

chazeon — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:35:46 +0000

GPT-5.5 must have serious issues; it is fast, but quality-wise, it is just not good. It read one LaTeX paper (which is not long) and can spell my name wrong. This is GPT-5.5-high.

New comment by chazeon in "GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating system"

chazeon — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:43:27 +0000

Most CA households may be, but obviously not everywhere

New comment by chazeon in "Ask HN: Is Linux Safe to Daily drive in 2026?"

chazeon — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 05:02:50 +0000

My understanding of safety concern around Linux is mainly the security, namely, full disk encryption. Full disk encryption avoid an attacker unplug your harddrive and directly read the data.

While it is possible, it is definitely not easy to setup right, particularly if you want hibernation to disk properly setup. There is certain requirement on the disk layout setup, use LVM, setup TPM, setup bootloader parameters, setup hibernation and wake.... any step is wrong you have to use a boot drive to rescue, and it is very hard to fix if you don't have LVM in the first place. For example, Arch Linux's archinstall won't setup this whole suite for you.

This is really nessary if you are going to take the computer outside and it might get lost stolen. You definitely don't want other people to read the content after it was lost. I think this kind of security is default on Windows / Mac / iOS / Android right now already, but Linux is still so hard.

New comment by chazeon in "A quarter of US-trained scientists eventually leave"

chazeon — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:57:46 +0000

Well that’s a very misleading thing. If the US immigration policy wasn’t this hostile to populous countries, more Chinese will want to stay.

New comment by chazeon in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

chazeon — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:46:04 +0000

Nvidia's private driver seems to deliver 4k@120Hz just fine.

New comment by chazeon in "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"

chazeon — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 03:12:44 +0000

Well the seemingly cheap comes with significantly degraded performance, particular for agentic use. Have you tried replacing Claude Code with some locally deployed model, say, on 4090 or 5090? I have. It is not usable.

New comment by chazeon in "GitHub: Git operation failures"

chazeon — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:15:35 +0000

Seem images on GitHub web also not showing

New comment by chazeon in "Steam Controller"

chazeon — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:49:13 +0000

The one thing I wish it has is 3.5mm audio jack. Both Xbox and SONY's dualsense controller have this. But SONY don't support audio via Bluetooth. The Xbox one need a USB adapter but its build is not as good as SONY's. SONY don't have a USB adapter. Given Steam controller is already using an USB puck, it should be able to support it.

SAxense – DualSense Haptics over Bluetooth (POC)

chazeon — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 04:25:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/egormanga/SAxense

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45896361

Points: 1

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New comment by chazeon in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

chazeon — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:46:15 +0000

Gemini is the only model that can provide consistent solution to theoretical physics problems and output it into LaTeX document.