Hacker News: gkbrk

New comment by gkbrk in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

gkbrk — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:17:57 +0000

It's still a VSCode fork. Even Cursor's own About window tells you it's VSCode.

  Cursor
  Version: 3.4.20
  VSCode Version: 1.105.1

New comment by gkbrk in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

gkbrk — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:49:35 +0000

> the point is to save people / well-being, not reduce it

Oh, you haven't met _that_ part of the climate people. A surprising number of them do want to reduce the number of people and they see "degrowth" as the solution.

New comment by gkbrk in "How Monero’s proof of work works"

gkbrk — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:43:28 +0000

I've seen https://kyc.rip but haven't tried it so far.

New comment by gkbrk in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

gkbrk — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:39:09 +0000

I tried this with Opus 4.7. Doesn't do anything, it can continue the conversation and even repeat it back to me.

New comment by gkbrk in "DRAM has a design flaw from 1966. I bypassed it [video]"

gkbrk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:00:02 +0000

Depends how much total RAM your application needs and how much money RAM access tail latency costs your business.

New comment by gkbrk in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

gkbrk — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:48:37 +0000

When you use a FOSS product more, the person that wrote the code doesn't end up spending more money. When you use a free service more, someone is paying for that usage and resources.

New comment by gkbrk in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

gkbrk — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:51:20 +0000

My Hacker News items table in ClickHouse has 47,428,860 items, and it's 5.82 GB compressed and 18.18 GB uncompressed. What makes Parquet compression worse here, when both formats are columnar?

New comment by gkbrk in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

gkbrk — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:02:40 +0000

Browser killing the tab way before it happens

New comment by gkbrk in "I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”"

gkbrk — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:05:18 +0000

A microphone + ADC is hearing though, that's the whole reason we even produce microphones. So that our electronics can hear sound.

New comment by gkbrk in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

gkbrk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:32:18 +0000

Firefox has YouTube integration of course.

Here's a Firefox file [1] specifically for integrating YouTube videos into their picture-in-picture system. Your random video website won't get this treatment of course, need to be a popular one.

Here's a piece of C++ code [2] in the Firefox engine that specifically rewrites old YouTube embeds from their old HTML embed snippet to the new one. Again, your own video website will never be so deeply integrated into Firefox because it's not a top 10 website.

Firefox Readability mode makes pages more readable by removing useless stuff like videos. Unless it's a YouTube [3] or other top-N popular video website of course. YouTube videos are given special treatment because it's popular and having small integrations like this make the user experience better.

[1]: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/1f43fe5ffadd...

[2]: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/1f43fe5ffadd...

[3]: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/1f43fe5ffadd...

New comment by gkbrk in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

gkbrk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:16:50 +0000

> considering popular opinion there is absolutely no reason to enable it by default

You need to update your priors. The popular opinion is there is a reason to enable it by default. ChatGPT is the #5 most popular website in the world, more popular than Wikipedia, Reddit or Twitter. The vast majority of users want to use AI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites

New comment by gkbrk in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

gkbrk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:39:25 +0000

The way users use Facebook and LLMs are so massively different, it almost seems like a bad faith argument to equate them.

Facebook is mostly scrolling the timeline and passive consumption. It doesn't benefit from being on the side because the content you interact with on Facebook is completely separate from the content on your other tabs.

In contrast, LLMs have ongoing conversations that the user can come back to, and each conversation might relate to multiple tabs that the user is working on. On top of that, it's a very common occurrence that the user has questions about, or a task to be done using the content of the current page. This makes LLM and chatbot integration much more useful than a Facebook integration.

Also if you have the Facebook Messenger installed, Firefox already gives you an integration to share things with your Facebook contacts.

New comment by gkbrk in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

gkbrk — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:46:46 +0000

Because people like chat bot sidebars.

My code editor has a built-in chat bot sidebar that I use every day. It's not a huge stretch that people who use chatbot sidebars in other applications would also want one in their browser.

ChatGPT is the #6 most popular website in the world, why wouldn't a browser want tighter integration with such a popular kind of service?

New comment by gkbrk in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

gkbrk — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:00:54 +0000

Somehow people manage to run it without this magical release

New comment by gkbrk in "MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes"

gkbrk — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:57:58 +0000

They don't pick the keywords uniformly randomly from a list of all keywords though. They think they randomly picked something that popped up in their mind, but those keywords are either

- stuff they saw online recently — ads or otherwise, which put the keywords in their mind

- or stuff they were already interested in recently

Not hard to imagine targeting algorithms picking up on either of these

New comment by gkbrk in "Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents"

gkbrk — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:49:30 +0000

That's not because 4o is good at things, that's because it's pretty much the most sycophantic model and people easily fall for a model incorrectly agreeing with them then a model correctly calling them out.

New comment by gkbrk in "Ask HN: Is there a no-LLM license yet?"

gkbrk — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:26:17 +0000

Not just companies, people too. It will have trouble getting into Linux distro repos. And a lot of devs/users avoid non-open-source projects especially if they went looking for solutions on Github.

New comment by gkbrk in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

gkbrk — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:47:40 +0000

Theranos didn't get out-competed by the fat cat. They defrauded their investors, got caught, the founder went to jail and the company died.

Shrinking a language detection model to under 10 KB

gkbrk — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:52:40 +0000

Article URL: https://david-gilbertson.medium.com/shrinking-a-language-detection-model-to-under-10-kb-b729bc25fd28

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46809527

Points: 1

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New comment by gkbrk in "Pandas 3.0"

gkbrk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:19:18 +0000

> we know how those go

They get forked and stay open source? At least this is what happens to all the popular ones. You can't really un-open-source a project if users want to keep it open-source.