Hacker News: lokl

New comment by lokl in "OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005"

lokl — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:51:19 +0000

Has there been any progress on undeciphered languages?

New comment by lokl in "Ise Jingu and the Pyramid of Enabling Technologies (2021)"

lokl — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:07:47 +0000

I understand your concern and agree about Kyoto, but tourists can behave well or poorly and tourism can be managed well or poorly. At Jingu, I saw foreign tourists, but no problems, and locals were welcoming. Elsewhere in Mie, I saw no foreign tourists and locals were also welcoming. I would like to believe that HN readers would be beneficial tourists and might themselves benefit from experiences that cannot as easily be found in the top destinations.

New comment by lokl in "Ise Jingu and the Pyramid of Enabling Technologies (2021)"

lokl — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:26:04 +0000

Incidentally, Mie Prefecture ranked 37 out of 47 Japanese prefectures for overnight stays by foreign tourists in 2024, but it has a lot to offer in addition to Ise Jingu. For those seeking the "real Japan" beyond Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto. If you want to explore, consider Kintetsu's 5-day plus pass and fit this into your itinerary between Nagoya and Osaka, Kyoto, or Nara.

New comment by lokl in "'They take you out of life, out of time': a journey into Spain's cave paintings"

lokl — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:07:58 +0000

If you are interested in seeing original cave paintings, not reproductions, I recommend Pech Merle near Cahors, France.

New comment by lokl in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

lokl — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:40:02 +0000

What about SPARK? Not enough training data?

New comment by lokl in "Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models"

lokl — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:36:10 +0000

Please compare with FineReader.

New comment by lokl in "Manticore Search: Fast, efficient, drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch"

lokl — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:58:39 +0000

I've been using Sphinx for 20 years for full-text search with a custom stemmer. I considered switching to Manticore, but didn't see a huge need to do so, because Sphinx still works well for me and requires zero maintenance. Any big new features that might entice me to switch? (I only have a few GB of indexes, covering a few million documents.)

New comment by lokl in "My Family and the Flood"

lokl — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:46:06 +0000

If you have the opportunity to visit, I recommend Nagasaki over Hiroshima and especially these two places in Nagasaki:

Shiroyama Elementary School

Nagai Takashi Memorial Museum Nagasaki

These felt much more personal than anything I saw in Hiroshima and there were zero (other) tourists to interrupt the experience (very much unlike the museum in Hiroshima).

New comment by lokl in "Fujifilm X half: Is it the perfect family camera?"

lokl — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:08:22 +0000

Used cameras and lenses can offer tremendous value.

New comment by lokl in "Mistral OCR"

lokl — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:20:12 +0000

Tried with a few historical handwritten German documents, accuracy was abysmal.

New comment by lokl in "How Copyover MUD Servers Worked"

lokl — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 03:16:22 +0000

MUDs were the most enjoyable social networks I ever experienced, and the least harmful to society.

New comment by lokl in "Only buy a magnetic keyboard for gaming"

lokl — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 18:52:46 +0000

Lower latency than PS/2?

New comment by lokl in "Ask HN: My son might be blind – how to best support"

lokl — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:27:27 +0000

Contact (and, if you can, visit) one of the top ophthalmologists in the world, as soon as possible. You cannot take a risk that your local doctor is good enough.

Starting point: https://www.willseye.org

New comment by lokl in "Mic Test"

lokl — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:45:56 +0000

Audio-Technica ATR2100x, bought it for Zoom during the pandemic, very pleased. If you're in the market for an inexpensive upgrade, read the reviews for this. You will probably want to add a pop filter, even a very basic one makes a big difference. I use mine with a boom arm clamped to my desk.

New comment by lokl in "Archaeologists discover ancient drawings in a Spanish cave"

lokl — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 18:14:59 +0000

Highly recommend visiting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pech_Merle if you are interested in cave paintings. Easy to access if you stay in Cahors the night before.

New comment by lokl in "The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?"

lokl — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:33:55 +0000

Thanks for commenting, as I'm not qualified to evaluate this. Authors providing such instructions should be commended, even if their result turns out to be false due to errors in measurement or interpretation.

New comment by lokl in "The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?"

lokl — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:54:48 +0000

Will they invite a wide range of experts to publicly test their material?

New comment by lokl in "Ongoing Incident in Google Cloud"

lokl — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 14:10:23 +0000

mail.google.com showed error messages for me intermittently during the past hour.

New comment by lokl in "DIY Raspberry / Orange Pi NAS That Looks Like a NAS – 2023 Edition"

lokl — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 20:47:14 +0000

ODROID-HC4 (toaster), ODROID-HC4-P KIT (horizontal drives in enclosure)

New comment by lokl in "T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activations and upgrades"

lokl — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 16:45:17 +0000

I've been very happy with Tello. $5/month if, like me, you barely use your phone. Their 500 MB/month data plan with no voice minutes + one-time $20 pay-as-you-go minutes. Splitting data and voice like this means no taxes or fees, the total monthly bill is $5.