Hacker News: hotsalad

New comment by hotsalad in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

hotsalad — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:37:01 +0000

Looks nice, but is it finished? I don't see a skybox or any of the more detailed information mentioned in the "about" dialog, and I don't see any effect from clicking the buttons along the top.

I allowed WebGL and disabled Enhanced Tracking Protection and my adblocker, and still only the star labels appear.

New comment by hotsalad in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

hotsalad — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:20:17 +0000

Why a 4GB model? I just tested Firefox's AI; when you long press a link and agree to enable summaries it downloads a mere 369MB model.

New comment by hotsalad in "Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome"

hotsalad — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:48:32 +0000

So, bookmarklets for Chrome's AI integration?

New comment by hotsalad in "Can I run AI locally?"

hotsalad — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:24:11 +0000

The latest Librewolf prompted me to allow the site permission to make a WebGL context. That's what it used for hardware detection.

New comment by hotsalad in "Can I run AI locally?"

hotsalad — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:04:23 +0000

This says I can't run anything, because it's missing some of the smallest models. I know that I can run Qwen3.5 up to 4B, Ministral 3B, Qwen3VL up to 4B, and I know there are some Gemmas and Llamas in my size range.

New comment by hotsalad in "Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification"

hotsalad — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:44:56 +0000

Wouldn't they still need to switch to a license outside the GPL family in order to add those restrictions, even if they're the sole copyright holder? Otherwise it seems that upon receiving a copy of the software, the user can just remove the additional restrictions, as specified by Section 7.

New comment by hotsalad in "Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification"

hotsalad — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:31:33 +0000

If I'm reading the (L)GPL correctly (but I'm not a lawyer), this notice should be completely ignored:

Section 7 says: All other non-permissive additional terms are considered “further restrictions” within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.

Section 10 says: You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License.

New comment by hotsalad in "Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification"

hotsalad — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:51:04 +0000

*Formerly open source

Seems to violate the open source definition paragraph 5, no?

New comment by hotsalad in "JPEG XL Test Page"

hotsalad — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:07:42 +0000

I enabled image.jxl.enabled in LibreWolf and works. It doesn't work in Firefox Beta, though?

New comment by hotsalad in "enclose.horse"

hotsalad — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:55:04 +0000

Does each day's challenge come out at a certain time in your local timezone? I have a friend who is seeing day 9 when I can only see day 8. I'd request having new daily maps come out at a consistent global time for the purpose of competing with friends who live in different timezones.

New comment by hotsalad in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"

hotsalad — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 23:42:59 +0000

If I'm reading the requirements around being a "browser engine steward" correctly, does this mean essentially only Google and Mozilla can ever qualify for the "Embedded Browser Engine Entitlement"? Even Microsoft seems to be ruled out, give that Edge's engine is based on Blink. Any other smaller browser engines would be ruled out by the baseline web functionality requirements.

This hardly seems to allow anything.

New comment by hotsalad in "Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization"

hotsalad — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:40:14 +0000

For me, it doesn't work entirely in Librewolf 142 (shows the text, and some tags moving around an otherwise black screen), but does work in Firefox Nightly.