Hacker News: ibic

New comment by ibic in "DeepSeek v4"

ibic — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:16:16 +0000

"Open Source" is the ultimate romance understood by software engineers.

New comment by ibic in "DeepSeek v4"

ibic — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:37:12 +0000

In case people wonder where the announcement is (you can easily translate it via browser if you don't read Chinese): https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/8bxXqS2R8Fx5-1TLDBiEDg

It's still a "preview" version atm.

New comment by ibic in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

ibic — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:06:05 +0000

"the operators of the site remain unidentified." I laughed at this quite a bit.

New comment by ibic in "MacBook Neo"

ibic — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:29:07 +0000

The last point made me chuckle, good catch :D

New comment by ibic in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

ibic — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:14:21 +0000

Wow, it's from Donald Knuth.

New comment by ibic in "Laptops with Stickers"

ibic — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:03:49 +0000

I never put on stickers (except the Stain Javelin) on my laptop. It may be just me, but if feels messy to me.

New comment by ibic in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

ibic — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:09:40 +0000

We are in an age that being screwed by the Giant Techs is inevitable and there is pretty nothing much we can do.

New comment by ibic in "Go is still not good"

ibic — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:17:00 +0000

Please elaborate or give some examples to back your claim?

New comment by ibic in "Switching from Pyenv to Uv"

ibic — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:39:25 +0000

I'm not sure if I got your issue, but I can do platform-dependent `index` `pytorch` installation using the following snippet in `pyproject.toml` and `uv sync` just handles it accordingly.

[tool.uv.sources] torch = [{ index = "pytorch-cu124", marker = "sys_platform == 'win32'" }]

New comment by ibic in "Switching from Pyenv to Uv"

ibic — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:33:07 +0000

I happened to use uv recently for a pet project, and I totally agree with you. It's really really good. I couldn't believe its dependency resolution and pulling can be so fast. Imho, it's the python package manager (I don't know the most suitable name to categorize it) done right, everything just works, the correct way.

New comment by ibic in "CrowdStrike to Delta: Stop pointing at us"

ibic — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:28:49 +0000

I sense legal escalation coming.

New comment by ibic in "Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)"

ibic — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 13:51:02 +0000

This reminds of "Bidding Rank" from Baidu decades ago (and I think it pretty much still applies for Baidu) - Google was not only better technologically, but ethically because their search results were not that profit driven as "Bidding Rank" which was (and still is) very much despised. Now it seems Google only cares about profit and started to do things more or less the same way.

Sick.

Disclosure - I was so pissed by the degration of quality (an money-thirstiness) of the search results from Google that I switched to a non-profit search engine as my default for both desktop and mobile. The daily search experience doesn't have much noticible change to me. I do admit sometimes the Google search result could be better sometimes, but those occasions are quite rare for my needs, like maybe once a week.

New comment by ibic in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

ibic — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 09:10:45 +0000

That "Jigar Kumar" is like fake and one-time throw-off account, probably from the same state actor to orchestrate the painstakingly prepared supply chain attack (under the sun).

New comment by ibic in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

ibic — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 09:08:29 +0000

Yes, I believe it's an state actor, and the intention of choosing a typical Chinese name Jia Tan is intentially and malicious.

New comment by ibic in "XZ backdoor killswitch"

ibic — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 09:04:15 +0000

If an attacker is so smart and patient to pull of a sneaky supply chain attack like this, I'd say he/she/they must have been quite carefully choosing the moniker and hide/obfuscate other potentially identity revealing information (afaik, there is no reliable identity information found at the moment). So by choosing a very typical Chinese name (Jia Tan), I believe this is intentially misleading/smearing. I can't believe a smart ass (potenially a state actor) would be so stupid to use his/her/their actual nationality or other information.

New comment by ibic in "BYD's YangWang U8 launched, can float on water for 30 minutes and sail 3km/h"

ibic — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 08:09:23 +0000

You comment recalled the moment when Elon Musk laughed off BYD years ago for me. You will be told why with hard data.

New comment by ibic in "Observation of zero resistance above 100 K in Pb₁₀₋ₓCuₓ(PO₄)₆O"

ibic — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 02:50:21 +0000

I think you are referring to the pioneer work done by Prof. Chair Tong-seek (or Dongsik Choi as another spelling) here? https://twitter.com/sanxiyn/status/1684437744406392833

Any Korean can give some brief summary over the book that tweets mentioned?

New comment by ibic in "Observation of zero resistance above 100 K in Pb₁₀₋ₓCuₓ(PO₄)₆O"

ibic — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 02:45:21 +0000

So this almost means the holy grail has been found or we are pretty close?

New comment by ibic in "Remove “This incident will be reported.” from user warnings"

ibic — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 17:41:33 +0000

As it happens - "The warning was restored in a slightly altered form in 9757d29" ( https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/9757d29a24ac1872... ) - Millert.

New comment by ibic in "TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]"

ibic — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 10:52:47 +0000

The TikTok Ban can be said to be controversal, but to me, it's definitely not to be compared to something akin to a trojan horse.