Hacker News: keketi

New comment by keketi in "Iran Protest Map"

keketi — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:31:54 +0000

How about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Nepalese_Gen_Z_protests#9...

September 9, 2025 - Protesters storm the Nepalese parliament, ransacking it and setting it on fire. Homes of leading politicians are also torched and the politicians themselves attacked.

Soon thereafter, the prime minister resigned along with other ministers and the president dissolved the parliament and scheduled a new election.

I think that counts as a successful rebellion or revolt.

New comment by keketi in "LMArena is a cancer on AI"

keketi — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:53:56 +0000

We need a service that ranks AI model ranking services. Maybe powered by AI instead of humans?

New comment by keketi in "System.LongBool"

keketi — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 23:20:25 +0000

In case you need a lot more than two boolean values some day.

New comment by keketi in "Removing newlines in FASTA file increases ZSTD compression ratio by 10x"

keketi — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:15:41 +0000

When you know you're going to be compressing files of particular structure, it's often very beneficial to tweak compression algorithm parameters. In one case when dealing with CSV data, I was able to find a LZMA2 compression level, dictionary size and compression mode that yielded a massive speedup, uses 1/100th the memory and surprisingly even yields better compression ratios, probably from the smaller dictionary size. That's in comparison to the library's default settings.

New comment by keketi in "Digg.com is back"

keketi — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:16:37 +0000

> jailbait on the front page

Have you ever been to such websites as Instagram or TikTok?

New comment by keketi in "OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second"

keketi — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 14:51:16 +0000

Are you new? Nobody actually reads the articles.

New comment by keketi in "I designed my own fast game streaming video codec – PyroWave"

keketi — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 23:12:03 +0000

Have an LLM transcribe what is happening in the game into a few sentences per frame, transfer the text over network and have another LLM reconstruct the frame from the text. It won't be fast, it's going to be lossy, but compression ratio is insane and it's got all the right buzzwords.

New comment by keketi in "Analysis of economic and productivity losses caused by cookie banners in Europe"

keketi — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 22:49:55 +0000

Because I use fresh incognito mode for each browsing session, I have to click through those consent popups on every website I visit. Quite frustrating to say the least.

New comment by keketi in "The CrowdStrike file that broke everything was full of null characters?"

keketi — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:06:59 +0000

Found this post on 4chan's technology board:

What actually happened was two-folded:

Step 1: CSAgent.sys is a certified durgasoft kernel driver that parses clownstrike virus definition files

Step 2: Clownstrike never fixed cases for malformed virus definition files that could trigger an invalid memory access in CSAgent.sys

Step 3: Clownstrike ships the buggy CSAgent.sys and it works for months without problems on customer computers with good virus definition files

Step 4: For some reason the webserver serving virus definition files to all endpoints started serving malformed virus definition files, sometimes they were all blank or filled with random bytes

Step 5: All clownstrike updaters now download malformed LE NEXT GEN APT PROTECTION CLOUD AI LIVE UPDATES into C:\Windows\System32\drivers\clownstrike

Step 6: CSAgent.sys reloads virus definition files

Step 7: CSAgent.sys parses them and crashes with PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (in kernel that means memory at an oopsie address was accessed)

Step 8: Computer BSOD and reboots

Step 9: CSAgent.sys loads virus definition files

Step 10: Goto Step 7

The kernel driver was a ticking timebomb just waiting for a bug in the CDN. I think it was some funny caching bug with le cloud http loadbalancer. Users reported that their C-00000291-00000000-00000032.sys contained random shit and actual real files that were a completely different part of the software, like US localization files.

You can see it in the diff between CSAgent.sys_18511.sys and CSAgent.sys_18513.sys, they changed size checks and increased sizes of buffers so that future malformed virus definition files wouldnt crash.

New comment by keketi in "The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws"

keketi — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:46:19 +0000

For reference, this is what kickback looks like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7sRrC2Jpp4

The workpiece goes flying and the guy almost loses a finger.

New comment by keketi in "Blue Ball Machine"

keketi — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 09:43:22 +0000

YTMND was the TikTok of its time.

New comment by keketi in "The ü/ü Conundrum"

keketi — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 23:19:28 +0000

C++

is Incremented C

which is Big C

which is Capital C

New comment by keketi in "Memory and new controls for ChatGPT"

keketi — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:26:47 +0000

Every output token costs GPU time and thereby money. They could have tuned the model to be less verbose in this way.

New comment by keketi in "Chromium bug bounty money tree browser"

keketi — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 11:47:37 +0000

How about a version where the monetary amounts are normalized by the number of lines of code?

New comment by keketi in "Amazon Q (Preview)"

keketi — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:00:16 +0000

Yes, he always was a bit of a dick - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(Star_Trek)

New comment by keketi in "Trains on another level"

keketi — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 23:16:17 +0000

It's happening. This is the most significant event of the decade.

New comment by keketi in "Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically"

keketi — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:48:30 +0000

I use incognito mode, which means throughout the day I have to click through cookie consent screens on every single website I visit.

New comment by keketi in "Study tracks how we decide which groups to join (2016)"

keketi — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 14:04:00 +0000

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Here's a study that found both men and women can predict the IQ of men based on their facial appearance. However, neither men or women could predic the IQ of women.

New comment by keketi in "Record-breaking gamma-ray burst possibly most powerful explosion ever recorded"

keketi — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 18:04:05 +0000

Imagine observing a lightning bolt strike the ground. The bolt travels through air almost instantly and emits sound in every direction throughout its path. First you will hear the sound waves emitted from the point that it touches the ground, because that is the closest. Then you will hear the sound waves from 1 cm off the ground, 2 cm, 3 cm and so on all the way up to the lightning bolt's point of origin in the sky. By measuring the duration of the noise you can tell the length of the lightning bolt (assuming it's perpendicular to the ground).

New comment by keketi in "Super Simple Storage Service"

keketi — Sat, 09 Apr 2022 23:17:14 +0000

The API does not provide any means for deleting the uploaded data. Also, there is no durability guarantee. This service looks like a scam.