<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dave7</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dave7</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2026 16:47:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dave7" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dave7 in "Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's the price they're going to be offering to the general public to buy ahead of time, through their brokers. They get that price locked in, then once it starts trading it moves as it may. Usually the IPO buyers are not allowed to sell for some time</p>
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<p>12GB GPU is insufficient for most purposes yes. Even 16GB is a notable improvement, but yes 32GB cards such as the 5090 or R9700 are a world of difference.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:02:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397623</link><dc:creator>dave7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397623</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50397623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dave7 in "Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah wow, this seems like a _really_ big moment</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:01:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50342825</link><dc:creator>dave7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50342825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50342825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dave7 in "YouTube Format IDs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I updated to yt-dlp nightly and that fixed it for me, was a few days back now so idk if there's been further disruption:<p>yt-dlp --update-to nightly</p>
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<p>They absolutely do! Not all the way, but if you'd have smoked a pack a day for 15 years and then have given up for the last 15, there's absolutely no way you'd be saying this!</p>
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<p>Absolutely crazy that these CVE-ridden CoDs are being sold by Microsoft itself!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:28:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307324</link><dc:creator>dave7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307324</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dave7 in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A scenario explored in the prescient and excellent TV show Person of Interest (2011). We're comfortably able to build The Machine and/or Samaritan by now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:43:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042521</link><dc:creator>dave7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49042521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dave7 in "EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It's not like your brain can process each ear separately.<p>If you've ever seen a dance music DJ (Tomorrowland is streaming on Youtube right now!) - that's exactly what many of them do.<p>To DJ a continuous mix as is the norm for this style - generally you'll have headphones on, but only covering one ear. You'll listen to "currently playing" though your right ear, through the venue sound system (well, it's monitors). You'll also be listening to "up next", on the other record/cd/mp3 deck, through the headphones to your other ear. And you'll work the pitch slider, trim controls etc and hopefully produce a good mix!<p>Not everyone does it like this, some have the headphones permanently on and mix in stereo both tracks at both ears. Or split ears, headphones only - that is an option on the usual Pioneer mixers. But it's surely the most common mental image of a club DJ to have them holding their hand to their headphones on one ear only, I'm sure!</p>
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<p>I love it! I discovered it'll switch to a 3 column view if I take the zoom to 200%, I'd maybe prefer it at less but it's a bit tricky to guess if that's true or not. Regardless, it's very nice. And infinite scroll for the hackernews feed is a bonus!</p>
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<p>Maybe Google could come up with some fancy algorithm to give variable weight to the source pages, some sort of ranking system for pages on the web, instead of just assuming any random page contains 100% truth. Perhaps counting the tally of other pages on the web linking to this one might be one clue that this is a particularly highly ranked page? It would be quite the revolutionary idea!</p>
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<p>llcat looks like it could be very handy, thank you!</p>
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<p>> But, if you were asking (and I'm not sure that you are)<p>I was wondering, so thank you!</p>
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<p>TFT Central is still very good imo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:42:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019577</link><dc:creator>dave7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dave7 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is correct. I'm a UK Discord user, so I've been subject to these requirements for ~6 months now. It's basically nothing - I'm in near 50 "servers", of them all I only really can think of one channel in one of them that is flagged "nsfw" and thus blocked to me as I never ID'd myself.<p>If you don't use Discord as a source of "nsfw" content you can comfortably ignore these requirements. I do realize there are some communities that may fare a lot worse than my gaming / software dev interests, and may be falsely claimed "nsfw" just for their existence. Which yeah, that absolutely sucks.</p>
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<p>Thank you for the recommendation, that sounds much more like my level at the moment!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:58:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496258</link><dc:creator>dave7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45496258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dave7 in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Microsoft intend to deprecate V2 and move fully to V3 basically as soon as they can, pretty much in lockstep with Google:<p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-chromium/developer-guide/manifest-v3" rel="nofollow">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:58:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43328054</link><dc:creator>dave7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43328054</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43328054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dave7 in "How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The board recommended has 16 ram slots.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 15:09:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42898880</link><dc:creator>dave7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42898880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42898880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dave7 in ""We ran out of columns""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For online Poker, one of the current database tools runs in to this issue - PokerTracker 4 (PT4).<p>These tracker databases are usually used to generate a HUD - numerical readouts surrounding each player shown on the table. PT allows for custom HUDs to be saved/exported/shared, and there is a cottage industry building and selling such HUDS. These HUDs can often bundle hundreds of custom stats - basically a subset of SQL queries, a simple example would be "times_raised / opportunities_to_raise WHERE position= 'button'", that sort of thing.<p>For performance reasons these custom stats are cached, which obviously makes some sense. However, each cached stat creates a new column in the custom_cache table of PT4's current database, a PostgreSQL 9.0 backend. If you play mostly Heads-Up SNG or the 3-handed Spins, it's actually quite easy to go over the (IIRC) 4096 column limit there by purchasing and importing one too many fancy HU HUD packages!<p>This completely borks PT4, it can no longer open - and players can no longer make money! In my previous work, I've supported many a player and fixed this "too many columns" error numerous times (by deleting enough custom HUDs from their account until the PT4 can start up correctly once more). Funny to see this pop up elsewhere!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:21:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41149727</link><dc:creator>dave7</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41149727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41149727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dave7 in "Intel confirms no recall for Raptor Lake CPUs,microcode won't fix affected units"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Isn't RUMINT on the Intel problem that, even though it's nominally a chip problem, it may occur primarily due to motherboards not following guidance?<p>That was merely Intel's first attempt at deflection / damage control. Kernel of truth to it, of course.</p>
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<p>An interesting project, from what I can tell it's a JavaScript version of AutoHotkey's window interaction features? (also it works on Linux and Mac!) Very cool!</p>
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