<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: grumbelbart2</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=grumbelbart2</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:27:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=grumbelbart2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by grumbelbart2 in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This fingerprint persists over private and non-private Firefox sessions until you restart Firefox. State actors might be able to connect your Google-login in FF window 1 with your tor session in FF private window 2.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:44:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872830</link><dc:creator>grumbelbart2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by grumbelbart2 in "The RAM shortage could last years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To show ads you need people to stay on your platform. This is especially true once ads become more intrusive or of lower quality, something the big players seem to gravitate towards to keep revenue up. Google and Meta have ways to lock in users (networking effects, the best search engine available, having your data stored there).<p>I am not sure if OpenAI has that. Their edge regarding models is small, their strategy currently seems to be "buy ALL the hardware so nobody else can". Users can quite easily switch to other models.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:42:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832476</link><dc:creator>grumbelbart2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832476</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by grumbelbart2 in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Git packs objects into pack-files on a regular basis. If it doesn't, check your configuration, or do it manually with 'git repack'.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:05:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764005</link><dc:creator>grumbelbart2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764005</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by grumbelbart2 in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Heat pumps are geothermal masquerading as electric<p>Air-to-air heat pumps are quite common 1-4 family homes. Even in Nordic countries such as Finland: <a href="https://www.sulpu.fi/heat-pump-sales-returned-to-a-growth-path-a-rise-of-10-pump-sales-in-finland-already-worth-10-billion/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sulpu.fi/heat-pump-sales-returned-to-a-growth-pa...</a><p>> And the highest number I ever heard for a heat pump was 135% [...] Truth is that electricity is great for kinetic energy but terrible at making heat. Most forms of energy can be transformed into another form of energy at about 50%. Electricity is the weird one where its 90% to motion but only 10% to heat.<p>Sorry but absolutely not, that's wrong on several levels. First off, in its most basic form of resistive heating, electric heating is already close to 100%. Heat pumps are even better, and I'll just quote Wikipedia<p>> At a cost of 1 kWh of electricity, they can transfer 1 to 4.5 kWh of thermal energy into a building.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:36:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750587</link><dc:creator>grumbelbart2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by grumbelbart2 in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article describes that a lot of the requests are for non-existent URLs. Do you observe the same?</p>
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<p>TSMC had the first copper interconnects, kind of their breakthrough node at the time, and the first EV-based process.</p>
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<p>Here is how that looks like:<p><a href="https://godbolt.org/z/rooee4esd" rel="nofollow">https://godbolt.org/z/rooee4esd</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:55:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488836</link><dc:creator>grumbelbart2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488836</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by grumbelbart2 in "Honda is killing its EVs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's also not representative for the whole industry. BMW is profitable with their electric cars, and 18% of their sales are fully electric.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:35:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423501</link><dc:creator>grumbelbart2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47423501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by grumbelbart2 in "Honda is killing its EVs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Going all electric with cars would add ~10-15% of electric demand. That's a bit, but not really a deal breaker, and something Norway would easily be able to offset by adding more wind turbines.</p>
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<p>Am I not allowed to choose who I buy my stuff from? Or is it only businesses that are allowed to decline services at will.<p>And do you really belive the richest man in the world, owning one of the largest social media sites, is being "silenced"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:38:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404548</link><dc:creator>grumbelbart2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by grumbelbart2 in "Starlink Mini as a failover"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What makes Musk different than Blackrock for instance?<p>Open support for right-wing parties and politics all over the world.</p>
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<p>> OP doesn't live in the US, so maybe they don't feel this quite as acutely<p>It's the same sentiment in large parts of Europe, and a major reason for dropping Tesla sales. He actively supports right-wing, eurosceptic politics and parties in several European countries.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:22:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396727</link><dc:creator>grumbelbart2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47396727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by grumbelbart2 in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your mother's advice sounds terribly selfish, honestly. Our society is pretty much build on the fact that most people are in some way "good" and will not break laws and rules even if they could get away with it.<p>There are tons of stuff every day I could steal, knowing that any law I might break would not be enforceable simply because no one knew it was me. Littering in the forest. Dumping toxic materials into rivers.<p>All that works because <i>most</i> people don't do it, only a few.</p>
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<p>We could probably test this. I wonder if the results shift if the question is prefaced with something like "Here is a trick question: ...".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:48:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135940</link><dc:creator>grumbelbart2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135940</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by grumbelbart2 in "Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's true that hire and tenure decisions are under the institution's control. But a lot of funding comes from external sources, and most public funding uses some sort of publication-based metric. There are exceptions, but that's the game.
The CV of your PhD's is often judged by the publication list and the corresponding citations. That's research institutes where they might go, other universities, large companies etc. <i>will</i> look at this. It's difficult to change this system as isolated player, and coordinates efforts so far failed on the "what else" question.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:27:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120890</link><dc:creator>grumbelbart2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120890</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by grumbelbart2 in "Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This goes deeper than the institutions, actually. The KPI for many (non-industrial) researchers is the number of publications and citations. That's what careers and funding depends on.<p>Goodhart's law states "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure", and that's what we see here. There is a strong incentive to publish more instead of better. Ideas are spread into multiple papers, people push to be listed as authors, citations are fought for, and some become dishonest and start with citation cartels, "hidden" citations in papers (printed small in white-on-white, meaning it's indexed by citation crawlers but not visible to reviewers) and so forth.<p>This also destroys the peer review system upon which many venues depend. Peer reviews were never meant to catch cheaters. The huge number of low-to-medium quality papers in some fields (ML, CV) overworks reviewers, leading to things like CVPR forcing authors to be reviewers or face desk rejection. AI papers, AI reviews of dubious quality slice in even more.<p>Ultimately the only true fix for this is to remove the incentives. Funding and careers should no longer depend on the sheer number of papers and citations. The issue is that we have not really found anything better yet.</p>
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<p>> a could equal b<p>Why not use "restrict" in this case?</p>
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<p>This is absolutely what happens. It's even more tricky since our sensory inputs have different latencies which the brain must compile back into something consistent. While doing so it interprets and filters out a lot of unsurprising, expected data.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo_e0EvEZn8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo_e0EvEZn8</a></p>
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<p>No, it's to make it easier to dose different kind of biologically active substances. They can have significantly different "recommended weight to eat of this per day", IUs make that sort-of comparable and easier to remember.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_unit" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_unit</a></p>
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<p>Is that even when using the SHA256 hardware extensions? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA_instruction_set" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA_instruction_set</a></p>
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