Hacker News: eps

New comment by eps in "Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft"

eps — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:51:15 +0000

Zermatt is a ski resort for wealthy foreign tousrists, accessible only by train. But, yeah, it has no cars.

New comment by eps in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

eps — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:17:15 +0000

... and last dot in the ellipsis.

New comment by eps in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

eps — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:05:26 +0000

Slavery. It was meant to fix slavery.

Rasism was fixed by not using black- and whitelists on firewalls. Separate endeavour.

New comment by eps in "Midnight Captain – A midnight commander inspired file manager"

eps — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:25:38 +0000

> Inspired by Midnight Commander

Norton Commander.

Know and respect your elders.

New comment by eps in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

eps — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:29:04 +0000

> Why should journalism engage in the implied pro-active censorship here?

Because in this particular case it endangers subject's life.

New comment by eps in "Understanding the Kalman filter with a simple radar example"

eps — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:23:37 +0000

When learning the Kalman filter, it clicks in place much faster when there are two or more inputs with different noise profiles. That's why it exists and that's what was its original use-case.

Yet virtually all tutorials stick to single-input examples, which is really an edge case. This site is no exception.

New comment by eps in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

eps — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:31:10 +0000

The FBI is not a spy network.

New comment by eps in "An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests"

eps — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:09:04 +0000

A friend of mine went to a local mushroom picking course and among things they mentioned that morels are difficult to cook from fresh, because of the gastro problems. Apparently, the advice was to dry them before using in recipes.

What's up with that?

New comment by eps in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

eps — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:57:42 +0000

They did just that if we are to believe random reddit posts.

New comment by eps in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

eps — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:08:21 +0000

Especially in the rain, with a kid on a bolted-on backseat behind you and while sharing the road with cars that don't want you to be there.

Just throw in an electric motor and will suddenly become fun.

New comment by eps in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

eps — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:10:55 +0000

Conversely, it'd be cool to play it on an large empty office building.

One window = one pixel.

New comment by eps in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

eps — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:07:30 +0000

I saw one in a computer museum in Switzerland. It was a much larger field, it was just large orange LEDs (or were they tubes?), but it also cycled between a dozen of different cell automata games. Something about being able to see individual "pixels" made it really mesmerizing.

New comment by eps in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

eps — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:35:40 +0000

Classes. MF classes.

New comment by eps in "LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy"

eps — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:54:48 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755016

Way simpler than hnprofile from the sibling comment. This one used cosine similarity between user vocs - https://web.archive.org/web/20221126225241/https://stylometr...

New comment by eps in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

eps — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:59:09 +0000

> 1 million deaths

Casulties, not deaths.

New comment by eps in "Smallest transformer that can add two 10-digit numbers"

eps — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:56:34 +0000

Got excited that someone made one of those 120v humming coil beauties do the numbers... alas, it's just yet another NN project :-/

New comment by eps in "Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32"

eps — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:16:34 +0000

They depricate some methods (very rarely and reasonably) and add new enums or struct versions to existing ones, but never change existing semantics, leave alone method signatures. As I said elsewhere, I invite you to find examples of actually destructive Native API changes.

New comment by eps in "Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32"

eps — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:13:52 +0000

I'm not confusing anything.

New comment by eps in "Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32"

eps — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:13:16 +0000

"Every document" notwithstanding, Native API is very widely used in practice and generally considered stable.

If in doubt, try and find examples of its breakage, semantic changes, etc.

New comment by eps in "Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32"

eps — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:05:42 +0000

> Microsoft are free to change the Native API at will,...

But they won't, because if there is one thing that Microsoft has always been extremely good at and cared for is backward compatibility. And changing Native API will break a ton of existing software, because even though undocumented it is very widely used.