Hacker News: kardos

New comment by kardos in "QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions"

kardos — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:42:57 +0000

Possible idea: tag them with AI, and leave them aside for 6 months and review them with 2027 AI

New comment by kardos in "McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac"

kardos — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:31:32 +0000

The only winning move is not to play

New comment by kardos in "Creepy Crawlies"

kardos — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:41:40 +0000

Because they suspect that, sometimes, different content will be served by HTML vs alternate APIs

New comment by kardos in "Does Speaking to Agents Like Cavemen Save 65% of Tokens? We Test"

kardos — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:41:13 +0000

French text is somewhere around 10-30% longer than the corresponding English text. I would guess much of what you save on smaller vocabulary is lost on the lengthened text.

New comment by kardos in "A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex"

kardos — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:28:13 +0000

A solution to this is apptainer: you configure it to not see any of the host files by default, and mount the repo you want to work on at runtime.

New comment by kardos in "Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider"

kardos — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:03:32 +0000

A mitm does not redirect your ssh login to their machine

New comment by kardos in "Memory device breaks high-temperature performance record"

kardos — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:05:52 +0000

This could unlock a new chapter of Venus exploration!

New comment by kardos in "AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures"

kardos — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:36:39 +0000

On the other hand, any source code leak could be catastrophic

New comment by kardos in "The feed doesn't know you, and YouTube refuses to let you browse"

kardos — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:51:50 +0000

Well it won't be 'non-mainstream' for one

New comment by kardos in "You can beat the binary search"

kardos — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:27:30 +0000

So is the SIMD the magic piece here, or is it the interpolation search? If the data is evenly distributed, that is pretty optimal for the interpolation search..

New comment by kardos in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

kardos — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:14:54 +0000

> Once the ads are injected directly into the main response is when things get interesting.

This would be where you post-process the LLM response with a second LLM to remove the ad..

New comment by kardos in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

kardos — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:02:18 +0000

If sharing all of your code with the closed providers is OK then it works. If that is a blocker, open weights becomes much more compelling...

New comment by kardos in "Everything old is new again: memory optimization"

kardos — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:10:15 +0000

There is probably some low hanging fruit to be harvested in terms of memory optimizations, and it could be a selling point for the next while as the memory shortage persists

New comment by kardos in "Show HN: stream-unzip – Python function to unZIP on the fly"

kardos — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:51:17 +0000

Does this get tripped up on zip bombs?

New comment by kardos in "A Note on Fil-C"

kardos — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:23:58 +0000

> it might lower the need for devs to actually fix the code and they might start just relying on Fil-C.

Well, the program would still halt upon memory flaw, so there would still be a need to fix it

New comment by kardos in "A Note on Fil-C"

kardos — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 02:40:59 +0000

I suppose /some/ performance loss is inevitable. But this could be quite a game changer. As more folks play with it, performing benchmarks, etc -- it should reveal which C idioms incur the most/least performance hits under Fil-C. So with some targetted patching of C code, we may end up with a rather modest price for the memory safety

New comment by kardos in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

kardos — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:19:47 +0000

It seems they are using zstd now for .conda packages, eg, bzip is obsoleted, so that should be faster.

New comment by kardos in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

kardos — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:42:33 +0000

It would be nice indeed if there was a good solution to multi-gigabyte conda directories. Conda has been reproducible in my experience with pinned dependencies in the environment YAML... slow to build, sure, but reproducible.

New comment by kardos in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

kardos — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:36:54 +0000

> because new poetry releases would stall trying to resolve dependencies.

> uv is much faster than both of these tools

conda is also (in)famous for being slow at this, although the new mamba solver is much faster. What does uv do in order to resolve dependencies much faster?

New comment by kardos in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

kardos — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:31:16 +0000

> uv will magically install and use the specified modules.

As long as you have internet access, and whatever repository it's drawing from is online, and you may get different version of python each time, ...