Hacker News: cristoperb

New comment by cristoperb in "What is a property?"

cristoperb — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:05:24 +0000

I missed the "a" in the title and expected something about Proudhon

New comment by cristoperb in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

cristoperb — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:35:39 +0000

> We all know Meta can still read E2EE chats

That can't be true, otherwise in what sense is it E2EE?

New comment by cristoperb in "Show HN: Three new Kitten TTS models – smallest less than 25MB"

cristoperb — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:22:17 +0000

Thanks, your install script worked for me.

In case it helps anyone else, the first time I tried to run purr I got "OSError: PortAudio library not found". Installing libportaudio (apt install libportaudio2) got it running.

New comment by cristoperb in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

cristoperb — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:24:08 +0000

Yes. Here's an AP article:

https://apnews.com/article/afroman-police-raid-lawsuit-ohio-...

New comment by cristoperb in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

cristoperb — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:36:12 +0000

You could do signatures/MAC without encryption to guarantee that the message was not modified

New comment by cristoperb in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

cristoperb — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:02:07 +0000

Thanks for sharing, and congratulations!

Interesting that you didn't use dead reckoning at all to return to the nest. I didn't think I could get away with that. And somehow using a second channel to extend the trails never occurred to me.

New comment by cristoperb in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

cristoperb — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:31:48 +0000

I just came back to check if anyone else was discussing their entry, so thanks for posting your write up!

I wrote mine by hand just testing it using the in-browser simulator. I initially used subroutines to try to keep things structured but then resorted to inlining most things (and flattening as much state as I could to bare registers) to try to speed things up, though i never quite got my ants to always move within the 64 op step.

My best score on the official test set was 654 (43rd place). I put my code and a little write up here: https://github.com/cristoper/brain.ant

New comment by cristoperb in "Using Thunderbird for RSS"

cristoperb — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:35:29 +0000

> Thunderbird delivers RSS feed items the same way as email, so you can apply filters to mark them as "read"

This is a good idea. I use Thunderbird only for a small number of feeds I want to read every post from. I used to also use a separate feed reader for my "river of news", but eventually I stopped looking at that and just loadded hackernews or reddit when I wanted a distraction. But I might try Thunderbird for more feeds and just auto-mark most of them as read so I can browse at my leisure.

New comment by cristoperb in "“It turns out” (2010)"

cristoperb — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:29:08 +0000

I guess it's not prefatory remarks or disclaimers that I find so grating, but the explicit "I'll explain" (or worse, faux conversational "May I explain?" "Let me explain") followed immediately by the explanation.

New comment by cristoperb in "“It turns out” (2010)"

cristoperb — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:20:56 +0000

This is a nitpick, but since this essay is over 15 years old now I don't think the author will mind. This phrase always rankles me:

> Let me explain what I mean.

It turns out that if you're writing an essay or a youtube script you don't have to tell me that you're going to explain something to me before you explain it to me. I guess it acts as a "hack" to try to impart some gravity to what follows without actually having to write a convincing introduction, but unlike "it turns out" it can almost always just be deleted to improve the flow.

Experimenting a New Syntax to Write SVG (2022)

cristoperb — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:00:53 +0000

Article URL: https://yuanchuan.dev/experimenting-a-new-syntax-to-write-svg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107336

Points: 3

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New comment by cristoperb in "Lichess Puzzle Timer: A browser extension to help you do chess puzzles slower"

cristoperb — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:53:45 +0000

This is my project/writeup. I think it is too simple for a Show HN, but if anyone actually tries it out and finds it useful I'd love to know!

source code: https://github.com/cristoper/lichess-puzzle-timer/

Lichess Puzzle Timer: A browser extension to help you do chess puzzles slower

cristoperb — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:53:27 +0000

Article URL: https://catswhisker.xyz/log/2026/2/21/lichess_puzzle_timer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102429

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by cristoperb in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

cristoperb — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:20:17 +0000

I don't know when the term became widespread for gui-style terminal programs, but the wikipedia entry has existed for more than 20 years so I think it is an older term than you imply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Text-based_user_i...

I ran 40km and knit a hat for my 40th birthday

cristoperb — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:43:05 +0000

Article URL: https://catswhisker.xyz/log/2024/3/4/i_ran_40km_and_knit_a_hat_for_my_40th_birthday/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874274

Points: 1

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New comment by cristoperb in "Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation"

cristoperb — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:23:50 +0000

I cloned my voice and had it generate audio for a paragraph from something I wrote. It definitely kind of sounds like me, but I like it much better than listening to my real voice. Some kind of uncanny peak.

New comment by cristoperb in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

cristoperb — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:03:37 +0000

It's just Gemini. I'm guessing they changes the system prompt for the new year or something, but it's pretty annoying.

New comment by cristoperb in "X For You Feed Algorithm"

cristoperb — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:04:28 +0000

I don't know the answer to your second question, but what about "transformer" makes you think "not an LLM"?

New comment by cristoperb in "GLM-4.7-Flash"

cristoperb — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:55:00 +0000

Apparently it is the same as the DeepseekV3 architecture and already supported by llama.cpp once the new name is added. Here's the PR: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/18936

Evolving Our Tor Relay Security Architecture – Emerald Onion

cristoperb — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:07:55 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.emeraldonion.org/evolving-our-tor-relay-security-architecture

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46502351

Points: 6

# Comments: 0