<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: jug</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jug</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:46:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jug" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jug in "EFF is leaving X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How is X even still a thing. I left a few years ago and didn’t even think I was early. Baffling how EFF has supported a person like Elon Musk for this long and not went all in on Mastodon. ”The math isn’t working out”? Such a cold message. Is this just about an equation? The last I expected to hear from EFF. Maybe from an influencer, but EFF?<p>This is an organization with such a clear orientation that they belong at  @eff@mastodon.social and neither X nor Facebook to me (where they’re apparently staying). Why not mind your brand and presence and avoid those slop networks where few F/OSS oriented folks are present anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:20:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708463</link><dc:creator>jug</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708463</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jug in "Veracrypt project update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I went on a Wikipedia dive and discovered this funny bit regarding the court process surrounding Lavabit and FBI's desire of the TLS private keys.<p>> The contempt of court was caused by Levison providing the keys printed in a tiny (4 point) font, which was deemed "largely illegible" by an FBI motion, which went on to complain that "To make use of these keys, the FBI would have to manually input all 2560 characters, and one incorrect keystroke in this laborious process would render the FBI collection system incapable of collecting decrypted data."<p>(And to be clear, that's all they ever saw of said keys)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:07:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689077</link><dc:creator>jug</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689077</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jug in "Nikon Z9 Aboard the Artemis II Moon Mission at the Last Minute"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From the article I assume D5 was used simply because it was battle tested and proven, and a an additional Z9 was picked because they fancy the camera and they want to know if it can also be used.<p>Maybe there's more to it? Otherwise I think personal camera preferences other than radiation performance decides.<p>Edit: Ah missed the bottom part of it where they mention the Z9 was heavily modified for temp and radiation in cooperation with Nikon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:01:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633459</link><dc:creator>jug</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633459</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jug in "Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recommend <a href="https://issinfo.net/artemis" rel="nofollow">https://issinfo.net/artemis</a> over the surge of vibe coded Artemis II trackers. Seen two others so far and they've all had major inaccuracies either regarding trajectory, current distance, or current mission state. One even said the remaining mission time was over 400 days. They all obviously used Claude Code.</p>
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<p>I agree; LMArena died for me with the Llama 4 debacle. And not only the gamed scores, but seeing with shock and horror the answers people found good. It does test something though: the general "vibe" and how human/friendly and knowledgeable it _seems_ to be.</p>
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<p>Yup, this brings back my academia years in 1998, sitting with KDE 1.0 and Java 1.1. It was mostly Java, then Perl as this fabulous scripting/glue language, teeny bit of C and MIPS Assembler for the low level courses.<p>We didn't touch a fairly esoteric language called Python much. Because we saw the future. Java and IPv6 was about to change everything.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:17:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592891</link><dc:creator>jug</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592891</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jug in "The 49MB web page"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was thinking about creating charts of shame for this across some sites. Is there some browser extension that categorizes the data sources and requests like in a pie chart or table? Tracking, ad media, first party site content...? Would be nice with a piled bar chart with piles colorized by data category.<p>Maybe you'd need one chart for request counts (to make tracking stand out more) and another for amount of transferred data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:02:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397833</link><dc:creator>jug</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397833</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jug in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a gamer subculture, I think originally from showing off your build? The irony is that people in the Western culture are generally lonelier than ever, and definitely going to fewer LAN parties than in the past. And this showcase thing established itself mostly _after_ Internet making us physically lonelier.</p>
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<p>And this is it. This is why we are where we are today. That it is seen as taking a religious zeal to realize how flying very frequently is disastrous for the climate. That's our bar and what we have to work with. Yes, we are properly fucked.</p>
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<p>I think it has more to do with LLM's being statistical models than human creativity lacking in the input. The creativity and millions of voices and tones may be there, but since these models tend to go for the most likely next words, polishing this away becomes a feature.<p>A text by a human mind may be seen as a jagged crystal with rough edges and character. Maybe not perfectly written but it's special.<p>An LLM takes a million of crystals and trims the most likely tokens to be chosen into what would rather appear as a smooth pebble; the common core of all crystals. And everyone using the LLM will get very similar pebbles because to the LLM, regardless who is speaking to it, it will provide the same most likely next tokens. It's not that creativity is lacking in the input, but the LLM picks the most commonly chosen words by all humans in given contexts.<p>For that to sound imaginative and great as you go, it would have to not only exist in the data, but be a common dominating voice among humans. But if it was, it wouldn't be seen as creative because it would be the new normal.<p>So I'm not sure how there's a good way out of this. You could push LLM temperature high so that it becomes more "creative" by picking less popular tokens as it writes, but this instead tend to make it unpredictable and picking words it shouldn't have. I mean, we are still dealing with statistical models here rather than brains and it's a rough tool for that job.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:44:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47306332</link><dc:creator>jug</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47306332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47306332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jug in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a community alpha tester of GW1, this was a fun read! Such an educational journey and what a well organized and fruitful one too. We could see the game taking shape before our eyes! As a European, I 100% relied on being young and single with those American time zones. :D Tests could end in my group at like 3 am, lol.</p>
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<p>Huh? Servers aren't people and thus have completely different expectations, or what am I missing here</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:24:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252509</link><dc:creator>jug</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jug in "MacBook Air with M5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, back 10-15 years ago MBP felt more prosumer to me but they have monstrous performance and price points nowadays, like true luxury items or enterprise devices, that I'm happy to see good base specs on the MBA. The base spec on that device matters a lot. Also, Apple will probably release a cheaper MacBook this week and if the rumor holds, it'll be good enough for most consumers.</p>
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<p>Even with the $100 price bump, I think this is a win. 16/512 is a very nice base spec on Mac.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:59:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236184</link><dc:creator>jug</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47236184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jug in "Why No AI Games?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These are kinda popular today in the form of AI Dungeon, NovelAI, FictionLab etc.<p>Basically you create characters with bios, traits. Then a setting/context. Now, as you write your story, you can have multiple characters involved and they'll act from their perspective and traits.<p>Then these also have lorebooks with triggers, so if you mention The Barking Dog Inn, the AI and the characters will know what you mean and your characters with an outgoing personality type will be more eager to go there than others etc.<p>Finally, these systems usually have a long term memory where key events are saved and the AI remembers.<p>So a lot of this already exists!</p>
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<p>Also apparently eating 2 GB RAM or so to run an entire virtual machine even if you've disabled Cowork. Not sure which of this is worse. Absolute garbage.</p>
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<p>This is a component for sure, but also think of why Anthropic was born. It exists because of disagreements with OpenAI on the values of AI safety and principles.</p>
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<p>AI companies yes, RAM manufacturers no.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:41:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164721</link><dc:creator>jug</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164721</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47164721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jug in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Weird, it already does at my work computer since a month which aren't exactly first to get the latest updates and definitely don't get prerelease software. I wonder how all that works.<p>(Update: Ah, title is a little misleading. This update doesn't introduce Markdown, it adds support for nested Markdown lists etc.)<p>Personally, I think they should've kept Notepad as-is and reincarnated WordPad instead, rewriting it and giving it Markdown instead of RTF. It already had the basic formatting interface and all. It would've been a pretty smooth transition.<p>The problem is that Markdown supports quite a bit, even tables, which lends to feature creep. It was already more sluggish without any of this due to moving Notepad to WinUI.</p>
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<p>I switched to semicolons... They look similar enough in use to string things together. I'm sure AI is coming for those too though, and that will be a grim day because those are my last stand.</p>
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