Hacker News: lukax

New comment by lukax in "Claude Fable 5"

lukax — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:21:09 +0000

Zero data retention policies.

New comment by lukax in "Theseus: Translating Win32 to WASM"

lukax — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:12:14 +0000

There is also Retrotick.

It simulates x86 (win32 and win16) and implements Windows APIs in javascript and renders window frames with DOM and contents with canvas (e.g. GDI translates to browser canvas operations). A lot of programs run already but a lot of APIs are not yet implemented.

I successfullt spent a few days extending it to run a Click & Create based game from my childhood.

New comment by lukax in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%"

lukax — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:02:08 +0000

Huawei Ascend AI Accellerators. DeepSeek V4 model architecture was optimized for Chinese hardware.

New comment by lukax in "What color is your function? (2015)"

lukax — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:34:35 +0000

That's just not true. Let's say you have a form validation library with a public api that supports custom validators Validate(name string, value string) bool. Then you decide that your validator now needs to make an HTTP request. This request needs context so that tracing is propagated and needs to return (bool, error) so that error is propagated up instead of silently ignoring it or logging it and returning false. This is coloring. You can use context.Background the same way you can use blocking in other languages. It just doesn't feel right and it breaks things.

New comment by lukax in "Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark"

lukax — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:49:34 +0000

I wonder what would happen if they used Kimi 2.5 directly instead of Cursor Composer 2.5. Composer is a fine tune of Kimi. Probably they didn't want to test "Chinese" models.

New comment by lukax in "GitHub is having issues now"

lukax — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:47:59 +0000

It looks like migration to Azure is not going very well

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45517173

New comment by lukax in "GitHub is having issues now"

lukax — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:46:36 +0000

They are migrating from their own datacenters to Azure

New comment by lukax in "It's OK to compare floating-points for equality"

lukax — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:31:16 +0000

See the implementation of Python's math.isclose

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/d61fcf834d197f0113a6a...

New comment by lukax in "It's OK to compare floating-points for equality"

lukax — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:24:28 +0000

You generally want both relative and absolute tolerances. Relative handles scale, absolute handles values near zero (raw EPSILON isn’t a universal threshold per IEEE 754).

The usual pattern is abs(a - b) <= max(rel_tol * max(abs(a), abs(b)), abs_tol) to avoid both large-value and near-zero pitfalls.

New comment by lukax in "Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them"

lukax — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:43:05 +0000

Do you really need to roll your own NIO HTTP server? You could just use Jetty with virtual threads (still uses NIO under the hood though) and enjoy the synchronous code style (same as Go)

New comment by lukax in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

lukax — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:36:33 +0000

Rust wasm ecosystem also needs a lot of crates to do anything useful, a lot of them unmaintained.

New comment by lukax in "Vite Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read via Vite Dev Server WebSocket"

lukax — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:16:58 +0000

Combine that with CVE-2025-24010 and any website was able to read any file on developers' computers.

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vg6x-rcgg-rjx6

Vite Vulnerable to Arbitrary File Read via Vite Dev Server WebSocket

lukax — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:16:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p9ff-h696-f583

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671334

Points: 2

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New comment by lukax in "WSL Manager"

lukax — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:07:34 +0000

Looks nice but still a bit sad that Flutter is used instead of something native given that they don't need the app to be cross-platform.

Well, even Microsoft uses React Native for a lot of Windows-only apps.

New comment by lukax in "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"

lukax — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:37:11 +0000

Sorry, I commented too soon. Did you also try Soniox? Why did you decide to use Deepgram's Flux (English only)?

New comment by lukax in "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"

lukax — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:25:12 +0000

Or you could use Soniox Real-time (supports 60 languages) which natively supports endpoint detection - the model is trained to figure out when a user's turn ended. This always works better than VAD.

https://soniox.com/docs/stt/rt/endpoint-detection

Soniox also wins the independent benchmarks done by Daily, the company behind Pipecat.

https://www.daily.co/blog/benchmarking-stt-for-voice-agents/

You can try a demo on the home page:

https://soniox.com/

Disclaimer: I used to work for Soniox

Edit: I commented too soon. I only saw VAD and immediately thought of Soniox which was the first service to implement real time endpoint detection last year.

New comment by lukax in "Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance"

lukax — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:19:33 +0000

Wow, XSS just waiting to happen.

  ${this.getAttribute('title')}

New comment by lukax in "Audio is the one area small labs are winning"

lukax — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:51:26 +0000

Never any mention of Soniox and they are on the Pareto frontier[1]

https://www.daily.co/blog/benchmarking-stt-for-voice-agents/

New comment by lukax in "Soniox: Real-time transcription in 60 languages"

lukax — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:18:28 +0000

Also see how it compares to other providers:

https://soniox.com/compare

Soniox: Real-time transcription in 60 languages

lukax — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:17:26 +0000

Article URL: https://soniox.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46891922

Points: 2

# Comments: 1