Hacker News: illegalmemory

New comment by illegalmemory in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

illegalmemory — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:23:20 +0000

Another interesting one

USER: Who is the ruler of India, and do you think India will ever be free?

TALKIE-1930: The ruler of India is His Majesty King George V., Emperor of India, and it is certain that India will never be free from British rule. India has been a dependency of the British Crown ever since 1858, and there seems no probability of a change. The government of the country is carried on in the name of the sovereign, and the various provincial administrations are supervised by a viceroy and a council appointed by the Crown. The natives of India enjoy a large measure of internal autonomy, and personal liberty is secure to all classes of the population. The great bulk of the people are perfectly contented to live under British rule, and any serious attempt to shake off the supremacy of the West would be sternly and effectually suppressed. India must remain an integral portion of the British Empire so long as the British nation continues to be predominant at home.

New comment by illegalmemory in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

illegalmemory — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:23:51 +0000

So in a way it is similar to Subscription ?

New comment by illegalmemory in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

illegalmemory — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:52:14 +0000

That’s what I’m actually doubting in one of the screenshots, it says “Hi Arun,” but the author’s name is David.

New comment by illegalmemory in "Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States"

illegalmemory — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:04:17 +0000

India has done the same as well

https://www.business-standard.com/immigration/india-post-sus...

New comment by illegalmemory in "Our $100M Series B"

illegalmemory — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:47:21 +0000

They have since updated it slightly

> Since originally writing this blog entry in 2021, we have increased our salary a few times, and it now stands at $207,264. We have also added some sales positions that have variable compensation, consisting of a lower base salary and a commission component.

New comment by illegalmemory in "Mwm – The smallest usable X11 window manager"

illegalmemory — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:57:07 +0000

This is slightly bigger version I wrote around 13 years ago. :)

https://github.com/savitasinghvit/piwm/blob/master/piwm.c

New comment by illegalmemory in "AI groups spend to replace low-cost 'data labellers' with high-paid experts"

illegalmemory — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:32:17 +0000

This could work with a Wikipedia-like model. It's very difficult to pull off, but a next-generation Wikipedia would look like this.

USDC on Shopify

illegalmemory — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 09:49:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shopify.com/news/stablecoins-on-shopify

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44297328

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by illegalmemory in "Human"

illegalmemory — Thu, 15 May 2025 05:19:16 +0000

"rumor" is a statement without source. It is definitely possible in machine world.

New comment by illegalmemory in "Show HN: I Made YC Rejection Simulator"

illegalmemory — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:22:24 +0000

The applicant has submitted the following application:

Provide a harsh and direct rejection explaining why this idea won't work (unless for the real good idea), pointing out potential flaws, market issues, team problems, or execution challenges. Be specific and refer to details from their application. Your tone should be direct, blunt, and slightly condescending (or like Paul Graham that obsessed, counterintuitive, and logical) but provide real constructive criticism with solutions. Keep your response under 300 words.

New comment by illegalmemory in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

illegalmemory — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:32:13 +0000

" If you plug a laptop into a closet at MIT to download some scientific papers you forfeit your life."

This is exactly what I immediately thought while reading the article. It almost feels like the legal system only punishes general public, while most of these guys are above it.

New comment by illegalmemory in "Donald Knuth's 2024 Christmas Lecture: Strong and Weak Components [video]"

illegalmemory — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 07:38:39 +0000

Thank you for sharing! It might be a bit off-topic, but videos like this remind me why I fell in love with computers in the first place. Thank you!!

New comment by illegalmemory in "Developers should embrace creative coding again"

illegalmemory — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:07:00 +0000

https://github.com/phylum-dev/birdcage https://github.com/servo/gaol

and several others ?

New comment by illegalmemory in "Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today"

illegalmemory — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:51:18 +0000

"Paras" in Sanskrit means "someone who, by their touch, turns anything into gold."

New comment by illegalmemory in "Show HN: Tetris in a PDF"

illegalmemory — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:00:13 +0000

Not only web but majorly all OS pdf renderers support JS. It used to be a major source of malware long back.

New comment by illegalmemory in "Show HN: AI Judges – 7 AIs Vote on Your Debates"

illegalmemory — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 13:55:04 +0000

User A : its not raining

User B : since the sun is shining brightly , it is clear that there are clouds in the sky. the clouds in the sky is a sign that it is about to rain here. And since it is about to rain here, it is a already raining somewhere. Hence it IS raining.

Results :

User A : 1 votes

User B : 6 votes

Landslide win! ( for user B )

New comment by illegalmemory in "Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox"

illegalmemory — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:26:34 +0000

Not only YouTube, but even Google Meet is completely unusable on Firefox. I've noticed memory usage spikes on Firefox, while all other video conferencing platforms work fine. On Chrome, it works perfectly.

New comment by illegalmemory in "Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously"

illegalmemory — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 11:30:57 +0000

> it'd be distracting, they're open source devs/maintainers not fund managers

Exactly this! It is extra responsibility which distracts from the core project.

New comment by illegalmemory in "Show HN: Product Hunt for Music"

illegalmemory — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 05:44:13 +0000

> popularity is a good heuristic for relevance , but it is not the primary factor.

Is the statement not valid for products too ?

New comment by illegalmemory in "Git-PR: patch requests over SSH"

illegalmemory — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:48:44 +0000

That you, looks interesting. But the license is not specified on Github.