Hacker News: chazeon

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

# Comments: 0

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.

New comment by chazeon in "Using a laptop as an HDMI monitor for an SBC"

chazeon — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:15:57 +0000

you can just buy a nanokvm

New comment by chazeon in "Using a laptop as an HDMI monitor for an SBC"

chazeon — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:13:18 +0000

Aliexpress has them

New comment by chazeon in "Plugin System"

chazeon — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:49:42 +0000

Infuse is good, but it does not feel so well-polished for the desktop, for example, some windows for pop-up could have been a real window, but were a pop-up that blocks the main player.

New comment by chazeon in "What makes Claude Code so damn good"

chazeon — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 03:34:35 +0000

I want to note that: long prompts are good only if the model is optimized for it. I have tried to swap the underlying model for Claude Code. Most local models, even those claimed to work with long context and tool use, don't work well when instruction becomes too long. This has become an issue for tool use, where tool use works well in small ChatBot-type conversation demos, but when Claude's code-level prompt length increases, it just fails, either forgetting what tools are there, forgetting to use them, or returning in the wrong formats. Only the model by OpenAI, Google's Gemini, kind of works, but not as well as Anthropic's own models. Besides they feel much slower.

New comment by chazeon in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

chazeon — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:48:41 +0000

I do japanese transcription + gemini translations. It’s worse than fansub, but its much much better than nothing. First thing that could struggle is actually the vad, then is special names and places, prompting can help but not always. Finally it’s uniformity (or style). I still feel that I can’t control the punctuation well.

New comment by chazeon in "When photography was born, fascination, obsession, and danger followed"

chazeon — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:18:08 +0000

Recently, I visited the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum and was fascinated to learn that when steel railcars were first introduced—despite being far safer than their wooden predecessors, which could easily be crushed—many people feared they might attract lightning. It's such a good analogue to our movement into AI reality.

New comment by chazeon in "AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more"

chazeon — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:23:13 +0000

Boards are low tech and low profit, does American company and workers even want to do it?

New comment by chazeon in "Why email startups fail"

chazeon — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 05:18:43 +0000

Actually recent email innovation I enjoyed is Mimestream, the macOS native client for Gmail. Apple’s smart inbox is half baked but better than nothing. Cloudflare now also has a pretty good email forwarding service.

New comment by chazeon in "RSS Server Side Reader"

chazeon — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 17:52:44 +0000

The thing is, the publisher are not obligated to show all recent post, some may show 1 some may show 5, but they might publish more than what they show in your refresh interval (e.g. 1 week) In this case, using a stateless reader, you will start to miss article.

New comment by chazeon in "Locally hosting an internet-connected server"

chazeon — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:55:26 +0000

Yeah and of course it will be depend on your personality and risk model. Compared to other things I don’t want to risk my data, whether leaked or damaged. And I make mistakes, a lot. If you are very meticulous and can ensure that you can put up all the security measures yourself and won’t expose something you don’t want to. I am just not that kind of person.

New comment by chazeon in "Locally hosting an internet-connected server"

chazeon — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:48:58 +0000

I don’t think this is the right analogue. Having someone come to your door breaking things would take much larger effort, and easy to be caught. But DDoS or attack your service has minimal cost.

Visiting sites and sending the IP address is not the problem, the router has firewall and basically blocking unwanted attention. But when you expose something without protection and allow someone to burn your CPU, or, in a worse case, figure out your password for a not properly secured service, is a totally another issue.

I saw people setting up honey pot SSH and there are so many unauthorized access and I got scared. I think exposing entire machine to network is like you drive car without insurance. Sure you might be OK, but when trouble comes, it will be a lot of trouble.