Hacker News: circularfoyers

New comment by circularfoyers in "EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model"

circularfoyers — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:29:24 +0000

The image search in the Edge Gallery app of theirs is really incredible. Blows their Screenshot app out of the water for what I wanted it for. I stopped using it when they quietly changed their wording around it suggesting it would use Gemini instead of Gemini Nano, which was the whole reason I was excited about it.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Pirating the Pirates"

circularfoyers — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:15:34 +0000

I don't read it that way. If you start using words like container and encoding, I feel you have to describe what those words mean and I suspect the writer probably felt that level of detail might have caused the article to drift away from the point. I have personal experience of accidentally going into too much detail when describing remuxes to non technical friends, and had later opted to describing almost exactly as the author did, because that description I think conveys the purpose pretty well.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Pirating the Pirates"

circularfoyers — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:28:45 +0000

I highly suspect someone has already made a fan edit of Oppenheimer like you've described. I searched for a few moments and found 3 already and one already describes re-cutting it in chronological order, among many other changes. Always surprises me how much effort and passion people put into fan edits. It's a facinating scene in itself with how many edits exist out there.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI"

circularfoyers — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:59:04 +0000

The first thing I always want to know is, what does OP's project offer over pre-existing mature ones? Especially important when I'm seeing an increasing amount of projects that don't seem to even bother considering pre-existing projects.

New comment by circularfoyers in "More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older"

circularfoyers — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:59:20 +0000

Surely the exercise that comes with using public transport outweighs that. I feel like being able to zone out and not having to focus on driving, is more relaxing to me.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint"

circularfoyers — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 23:56:07 +0000

I wonder how their talks with Apple went. Having this run on the TPU opposed to just the GPU, which drains a significant amount of battery life by comparison, is what I'm really interested in.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama"

circularfoyers — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:53:21 +0000

The fact that those issues existed for so long while the entire time where not issues with other inference runtimes is more the point. And I think are indicative of future incompetence.

New comment by circularfoyers in ".gitignore Everything by Default"

circularfoyers — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:21:33 +0000

I wish there was a culture in the team I'm in now to share each others dotfiles (which I feel would lead into sharing so much more including tools, processors, etc), especially since I fall into that group of the new, younger rookie. I appear to work with people who have a lot of experience and knowledge and the atmosphere is seemingly otherwise not competitive (non profit organisation). Is this common? Is it going to be hard to find a team like that?

New comment by circularfoyers in "Don't be a meat proxy"

circularfoyers — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:17:56 +0000

Why ELI8 and not the ubiquitous ELI5?

New comment by circularfoyers in "IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats"

circularfoyers — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:11:00 +0000

I've been to IMAX a lot of times and not a single time had a bad audience member. Whereas I've had at least one at each of the independent and arthouse ones I've been to sadly. I suspect in my case the tickets being significantly more expensive at IMAX keeps any disruptive people away.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Back to Kagi"

circularfoyers — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:31:50 +0000

Kagi do have an LLM offering if that's what you still want. While still benefiting for your own search results curation and being more privacy orientated. I'm very happy that I can basically have the best of both worlds from them.

New comment by circularfoyers in "GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years"

circularfoyers — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:17:33 +0000

I know there's a lot you can do in k8s to mitigate it, but I didn't think that prevented it outright.

New comment by circularfoyers in "GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years"

circularfoyers — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:18:46 +0000

Since this enables container escape, sounds like this might still impact quite a lot of us?

Posthorn – A self-contained email pen-pal daemon for slow, self-hosted LLMs

circularfoyers — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:19:39 +0000

Article URL: https://tangled.org/clee.sh/posthorn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815001

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by circularfoyers in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

circularfoyers — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:52:07 +0000

Which sadly appears to not even be holding for them now that they decided to start displaying ads on their App Store.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads"

circularfoyers — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:55:11 +0000

I feel like the suggestion to just delete your Meta account is unhelpful and even harmful in some situations. I know a lot of us in this field don't mind having a small social circle, but for us that struggle to even have that, or that the process of doing that, requires you to be as open and reachable as possible to make it easier to create or maintain friendships, this often requires having an account to use Messenger (I know regionally this may differ).

Being difficult in this way, when most other people, particularly non technical people, don't have a problem with this, in my experience significantly hurts your opportunities and limits the types of people you socialize with in real life, which I think can eventually be harmful.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

circularfoyers — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:32:08 +0000

If this is still the same install that you've been using since 38, you might find a clean install resolves some issues (whether or not your upgrade got botched). Also helps me get rid of software I installed that I don't use anymore, which I feel is relevant to this article. But part of why I love Silverblue so much is I don't have to worry about upgrades getting botched and fwiw as well, I haven't noticed any of those bugs on 44 across several very different machines.

New comment by circularfoyers in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

circularfoyers — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:31:17 +0000

The database changes late last year is laying the grounds for other database engines[1].

[1] https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.11.0/#the-lib...

New comment by circularfoyers in "Claude Managed Agents Overview"

circularfoyers — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:07:13 +0000

Not sure popularity necessarily suggests it's good, but possibly just what people have most heard of or is easiest to setup with. This is going to be even more true now that Claude subscriptions are going to be essentially vendor locked.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Hypura – A storage-tier-aware LLM inference scheduler for Apple Silicon"

circularfoyers — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:51:31 +0000

Don't even need to use llama-swap anymore now that llama-server supports the same functionality.