Hacker News: infinitifall

New comment by infinitifall in "Open Social"

infinitifall — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 08:21:18 +0000

There are clearnet websites for flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, cults, hacker groups, classified document leakers, nazi groups and terrorist organisations. Finding a registrar that lets you say what you want is a solved problem.

New comment by infinitifall in "MIPS – The hyperactive history and legacy of the pioneering RISC architecture"

infinitifall — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 07:05:29 +0000

A first year course at UNSW, COMP1521[1] teaches MIPS and uses QtSPIM. Far from dead, a package is maintained on the AUR[2].

[1] https://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs1521

[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qtspim

New comment by infinitifall in "Lead pigment in turmeric is the culprit in a global poisoning mystery (2024)"

infinitifall — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:46:08 +0000

I'm put off by how this is framed as a detective story. Pesticides that contain heavy metals and other carcinogens are a well known issue, with India (and South Asia more generally) being the worst affected.

> You'll never guess the culprit

Not knowing about turmeric comes off as deeply ignorant when a billion people consume it as part of their daily diet.

> They don't know that this is harmful for human health

Let me assure you that they absolutely do and they couldn't care less. This also makes it seem like poor clueless farmers are to blame while mega-corporations that process, package, market and distribute these spices are never given even a passing mention!

New comment by infinitifall in "Hidden interface controls that affect usability"

infinitifall — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 11:46:59 +0000

Not just UI, but performance as well. It is absolutely inexcusable if your app struggles with loading text and images on modern hardware.

It's the computational equivalent of exploding a hydrogen bomb to open a chocolate wrapper.

New comment by infinitifall in "A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house"

infinitifall — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:23:31 +0000

You must be new to crypto. This is standard operating procedure. These scammers are everywhere and they're hard to miss.

It's common to have fake or hacked youtube channels - often with hundreds of thousands of subscribers - branded as official channels, featuring deepfake videos and livestreams from tech ceos announcing these scam coins. There are fake comments under tech videos and fake accounts on twitter discussing scam coins.

New comment by infinitifall in "Try Switching to Kagi"

infinitifall — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:05:31 +0000

Now Google has no intention to serve you

New comment by infinitifall in "How fast the days are getting longer (2023)"

infinitifall — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:36:11 +0000

Funny because growing up in the tropics I thought sunset and sunrise were synonymous with those times of the day, and learning people in other parts of the world experienced shrinking/lengthening day/night cycles was mind blowing. You mean it's 8PM in the night but the sun's still in the sky?

New comment by infinitifall in "A look at Firefox forks"

infinitifall — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 18:13:05 +0000

Let me get this straight, NOT A SINGLE DOLLAR of donations are used to fund development for Firefox!?

How many are under the false impression of "helping Firefox" when in reality their donations are used to fund advocacy campaigns [0] and managerial bloat [1]?

[0] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/donate/help/#frequently-as...

[1] https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-invest...

New comment by infinitifall in "A new proposal for how mind emerges from matter"

infinitifall — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 09:09:41 +0000

You haven't defined this property you call "agency". How then can you definitely determine whether you posses it or that someone else doesn't? The only thing I can be assured of is my own existence.

New comment by infinitifall in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

infinitifall — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:58:04 +0000

It is likely there is something of interest on your phone (as signed by my friend Joe). Now unlock your phone or you will be jailed.

New comment by infinitifall in "I still like Sublime Text in 2025"

infinitifall — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:08:44 +0000

Sublime Text used to be my go-to editor when I didn't need a full fledged IDE. A rare gem in an arena of slow mammoths. I've since switched over to Lite XL, which is FOSS, just as fast (if not faster), and the plugins cover nearly all my niche use cases.

While I respect the effort that goes into creating quality software and am not averse to spending money, I'd rather not live in a world where the best softwares are closed source.

New comment by infinitifall in "I got OpenAI o1 to play the boardgame Codenames and it's super good"

infinitifall — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 14:17:44 +0000

More than just words. I've found LLMs immensely helpful for searching through the latent space or essence of quotes/books/movies/memes. I can ask things like "whats that book/movie set in X where Y happens" or "whats that quote by a P which goes something like Q" in my own paraphrased way and with a little prodding, expect the answer. You'd have no luck with traditional search engines unless someone has previously asked a similar question.

New comment by infinitifall in "Test"

infinitifall — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:41:36 +0000

Looks like they accidentally did a --buildDrafts. Happens to the best of us.

New comment by infinitifall in "I Am Tired of AI"

infinitifall — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:16:58 +0000

Classic survivorship bias. You simply don't recognise the good ones.

New comment by infinitifall in "Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained"

infinitifall — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 06:10:58 +0000

Even assuming a perfectly efficient government with good intentions, you should not expect to benefit from more than a fraction of your tax money if you are above median income.

Blockchains and the Digital Commons

infinitifall — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 01:06:31 +0000

Article URL: https://hadjri.substack.com/p/blockchains-and-the-digital-commons

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36766451

Points: 1

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New comment by infinitifall in "FTC investigating ChatGPT over potential consumer harm"

infinitifall — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 05:28:23 +0000

And this would achieve what goal exactly? Even more search result sanitizing? Google scrubbing everything even remotely controversial from their search results because it might "harm" someone? No thank you, I value access to information. The last thing we need is more of "As a search engine I cannot...".

New comment by infinitifall in "People are trying to claim real videos are deepfakes"

infinitifall — Mon, 08 May 2023 16:09:00 +0000

What would "additional confirmation" look like?

Are audio/video recordings I take with my phone going to be useless in a decade because deepfakes are virtually indistinguishable and there is no "additional confirmation"?

New comment by infinitifall in "MusicLM: Generating music from text"

infinitifall — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 11:18:44 +0000

Possibly just anecdotal evidence, but it seems like the pool of good music composers is much much smaller than the pool of good visual artists. Maybe that is an indicator of how "hard" each field is.

New comment by infinitifall in "Some companies find only humans can do the job"

infinitifall — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 08:16:09 +0000

I agree with your sentiment but just a nitpick - tasks considered "easy" by humans aren't necessarily easy to automate and vice versa. Eg. beating a computer at recognizing trash vs beating a pocket calculator at 6734100522 * 714261898941.