Hacker News: compressedgas

New comment by compressedgas in "The Superorganism Explained in 7 Minutes"

compressedgas — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:39:06 +0000

If it was one superorganism, that would be nice. But the reality is that it is more like the game https://store.steampowered.com/app/1511860/Swallow_the_Sea/

New comment by compressedgas in "Ask HN: Does Window's "Set Time Automatically" feature require the correct time?"

compressedgas — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:34:53 +0000

Yes, the set time automatically requires the time to be set to sometime near the true time and then it will keep it from drifting. However as this is a VM you shouldn't need it as the VM host should have an option for the guest to follow the host's time. When the guest VM starts up, the host gives the guest the current time, after which the set time automatically option would work without issue even though it isn't needed as the guest time can't drift from the host time. Look in your VM host software's guest configuration for clock settings.

New comment by compressedgas in "Chrome Prepares Nudge to 'Move Tabs to the Side' as Vertical Tabs Near Release"

compressedgas — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:46:52 +0000

No point without tree style tabs.

New comment by compressedgas in "How to try Google Chrome vertical tabs"

compressedgas — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:19:19 +0000

No point to vertical tabs without tree style tabs.

New comment by compressedgas in "The Brain Stores Quadruples: Why Context Is the Missing Primitive in AI"

compressedgas — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:00:04 +0000

This submitted story has an incorrect URL. The correct URL is: https://gizmohan.substack.com/p/the-brain-stores-quadruples-...

New comment by compressedgas in "HATEOAS Works with an LLM in the Mix"

compressedgas — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:12:21 +0000

But HATEOAS does not require an LLM. It only requires that the client be programmed against an interface and not an implementation. The interface is the resource types and the method names. The implementation is the specific URLs for resources and methods.

New comment by compressedgas in "The Existence, Impact, and Origin of Hallucination"

compressedgas — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:55:20 +0000

Redirects to https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01797

New comment by compressedgas in "Solution to HN getting overwhelmed problem"

compressedgas — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:30:12 +0000

The week of 02-23 to 03-01 had 5033 story posts that aren't dead or deleted from 3298 different users. Of these 1146 users have 500 or more karma. Of these 1548 were created over 5 years ago. Of these 966 users have both 500 or more karma and have created their account over 5 years ago.

Your filter would reduce the number of posts to 2141 posts by 966 users from 5033 posts by 3298 users.

New comment by compressedgas in "Revealed Preferences"

compressedgas — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:08:13 +0000

But likes are revealed preferences too.

New comment by compressedgas in "The Newness Illusion: Why Everything Was Better 'Back in Our Day'"

compressedgas — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:05:42 +0000

We used to have better futures.

New comment by compressedgas in "What breaks when you vote on specific claims instead of whole posts?"

compressedgas — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:40:26 +0000

Reminds me of Zest: http://zesty.ca/zest/

New comment by compressedgas in "Ask HN: Long-term recoverable digital vault without a master key?"

compressedgas — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:37:42 +0000

_POTSHARDS—a secure, recoverable, long-term archival storage system_ (2009) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1534912.1534914

New comment by compressedgas in "Show HN: Gryt – self-hosted, open-source Discord-style voice chat"

compressedgas — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:35:34 +0000

I have a list of questions that I wrote up earlier.

Is Gryt pronounced as Grit?

So does Gryt ever leak the IP of a client to other clients connected to the same server? (Specifically this means that it never uses direct P2P between clients.)

Can, if I have a server, have it proxy my connections to other servers, so that my IP is only seen by my server, but my server's IP is seen only by the other servers?

Can clients be identified by public key? (Rather than user name and password.)

Is the audio and video end to end encrypted?

Does the Gryt desktop client support multiple windows?

Does the desktop client support making the window vertically narrow?

Does the video streaming support a mode that does not apply a blur to the video as Discord does in its Screenshare mode so that the pixels on a screen are shown on other screens exactly?

Do you have plans on replacing MinIO as it is no longer supported as open source?

New comment by compressedgas in "Freepath: A decentralized information network that spreads through human contact"

compressedgas — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:02:57 +0000

Please merge with Briar https://briarproject.org/

New comment by compressedgas in "Unaffordable Housing Impacts How Americans Consume, Work and Invest"

compressedgas — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:25:37 +0000

This redirects to https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-12/high-hous...

New comment by compressedgas in "Show HN: Post-Interface Design – A manifesto on the abolition of UI"

compressedgas — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:36:43 +0000

You want to have Proactive Computing https://cacm.acm.org/research/proactive-computing/ (David Tennenhouse, 2000), not to get rid of interfaces which is something that can't be done as you will always have an interface, even if it is only in the form of an API, not wrapped up for any specific use, that has representations and actions, that the agents will need be be able to do anything.

New comment by compressedgas in "Journalism schools are teaching fear of the future: Letter from the Editor"

compressedgas — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:12:50 +0000

I had expected from the title actual fear of the future. Not AI fear.

New comment by compressedgas in "Show HN: Eryx, a fast WASM-based Python sandbox with native extension support"

compressedgas — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:57:32 +0000

And here I thought you named it after the Lovecraft story "In the walls of Eryx".

New comment by compressedgas in "Delusions of World Modeling"

compressedgas — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:17:10 +0000

Subdomain version: https://bajajvatsal.substack.com/p/delusions-of-world-modeli...

New comment by compressedgas in "The End of the Sloan Model"

compressedgas — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:01:47 +0000

What will actually happen is that the Sloan model will just be reimplemented as a neural network. The firm will complete its cyberization. The model is not going anywhere. What is going out is the people that make the information flow inefficient.