Hacker News: contact9879

New comment by contact9879 in "Rust Style Guide"

contact9879 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:37:07 +0000

> Rust is not a production language because so much legacy code

You must not exist, because, rounded to a whole percent, literally 0% of the lives of people in the world are directly affected by you personally

New comment by contact9879 in "'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us"

contact9879 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:10:03 +0000

While slop seems to be the popular term online, I never hear it spoken aloud. With Gen Alpha’s exposure to AI mostly through school, spoken media (youtube, tv), and their parents, “AI” probably cropped up independently as an insult

New comment by contact9879 in "'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us"

contact9879 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:06:57 +0000

Like an FAQ I presume

New comment by contact9879 in "Tokens too cheap to meter"

contact9879 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:47:04 +0000

room-temperature superconductors, sure, but I fail to see how quantum computing will disrupt – in the medium term (25 years or so) – classical computing in any meaningful way

Is running LLMs (or some other ML workload) on/with quantum computers expected to bring efficiency gains?

The case against JPEG XL

contact9879 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:02:37 +0000

Article URL: https://giannirosato.com/blog/post/case-against-jxl/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690554

Points: 277

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Ring introduces TAKE default encryption

contact9879 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:51:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/devices/ring-take-encryption

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611153

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Identifying cloud files with DROID

contact9879 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:10:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blogs/digital/identifying-cloud-files-with-droid/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49577928

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by contact9879 in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

contact9879 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:07:03 +0000

parent was being sarcastic

New comment by contact9879 in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

contact9879 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:02:45 +0000

more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550886

New comment by contact9879 in "A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away"

contact9879 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:09:56 +0000

Yep! It became public domain in the United States this year. But it's been public domain in Canada since 2020 (70y after death) and has been available from Canada's Project Gutenberg equivalent: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20200531

New comment by contact9879 in "A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away"

contact9879 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:37:46 +0000

It’s freely available from Project Gutenberg.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79003

The edition referenced in the article removes the last 4 chapters (13–16)

New comment by contact9879 in "The Vietnam Binh Chau (Chau Tan) Late Tang Wreck"

contact9879 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:12:16 +0000

It’s not shipwrecks themselves that are particularly interesting, but in what they provide in contextual evidence to answer the foundational six questions: who, what, when, where, why, how.

> The Binh Chau cargo is an important find which provides physical evidence of the ceramic assemblage that was exported during the closing years of Tang Dynasty. It enable one to have a clearer understanding of the quality and type of ceramics wares that were produced for export. For Changsha and Xing wares, it represented the last phase of their illustrious role in the export trade. What they left behind were huge footprints and milestones in the history of Chinese porcelain production. The high fired polychrome decoration of Changsha and the transparent white glaze of Xing are necessary technical innovation which finally led to the successful production of blue and white and copper red underglaze decoration. As for Yue ware, it had yet to achieve its most glorious moments during the 5 Dynasties and Northern Song period. Guangdong greenwares continued to be an important export item till the Northern Song period.

New comment by contact9879 in "Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list"

contact9879 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:59:07 +0000

much more info on wechat

google translate link:

https://mp-weixin-qq-com.translate.goog/s/DPsMKToa_sbi_Nx3X1...

New comment by contact9879 in "The disappearance of Japan's animators"

contact9879 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:03:42 +0000

Maybe they meant “Chou Kaguya-hime!” (2026). I haven’t watched it yet but Cosmic Princess Kaguya was really well received on release.

So you want to deploy FN-DSA

contact9879 — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:18:06 +0000

Article URL: https://keymaterial.net/2026/05/13/so-you-want-to-deploy-fn-dsa/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173670

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by contact9879 in "We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G""

contact9879 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:40:18 +0000

our station in orbit still experiences ~0.9g. it’s not clear if gravity experiments would be at all easier on it

New comment by contact9879 in "We still don't have a more precise value for "Big G""

contact9879 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:40:41 +0000

how is this at all related to TFA

New comment by contact9879 in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

contact9879 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:57:11 +0000

the issue is where to go?

codeberg, self-hosted forgejo, gitlab, still-beta sourcehut, tangled? github was “the git community” and now it’s fracturing—you need accounts everywhere, you can’t easily discover neat projects

i like tangled if only because it’s built on atproto which emphasizes ownership and transferability of identity: something that would make the move off github so much easier

New comment by contact9879 in "25 Years of All Your Base Are Belong to Us (Slightly Remastered)"

contact9879 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:28:49 +0000

might be A/B testing of titles that youtube lets creator's use

Apple Begins Testing End-to-End Encryption for RCS Messages in iOS 26.4 Beta

contact9879 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 02:23:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/16/ios-26-4-rcs-encryption-testing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47042967

Points: 12

# Comments: 0