<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: mFixman</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mFixman</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 02:25:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mFixman" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mFixman in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We give a deterministic algorithm that multiplies two n-bit integers in O(n (log n)^(1−κ)) worst-
case time, with κ = 2^(−182).<p>LMAO, I don't think I ever saw such a small number in a CS result.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:03:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985425</link><dc:creator>mFixman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985425</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mFixman in "GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days, with near-Astra intelligence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The US government and most large companies drank the kool aid, and they will be the ones blaming Big AI if things go very wrong.</p>
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<p>Any strong enough model with weak enough safeguards can cause an AI Chernobyl event that will make people and governments against AI development and deployment, just like Chernobyl did for nuclear energy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:10:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49907232</link><dc:creator>mFixman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49907232</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49907232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mFixman in "Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You could say the same of PE, maths, literature, or almost anything learned in school. Few adults need them in their lives, but they provide good habits and virtue to students. People who don't read and write anything outside social media are a loss to themselves and to society.<p>Disabilities don't disappear after school, and children who struggle with motor control in school will continue struggling with it on adulthood. Half the point of school is finding out your weaknesses and learning to overcome them in a safe and controlled environment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:57:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296640</link><dc:creator>mFixman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296640</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mFixman in "Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And now instead of teaching disabled students how to improve their handwriting to improve their lives regardless of their circumstances, we lowered the bar and made all students have bad handwriting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:44:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296543</link><dc:creator>mFixman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296543</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mFixman in "Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Removing AI watermarks is still easier than doing a school assignment.<p>The only way to prevent AI cheating is to make the assignments in class in pen and paper. To be honest, I don't understand why schools moved away from that in the first place.</p>
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<p>I have been successfully using the Consent-O-Matic extension [1] to auto-decline all cookie and GDPR banners. As much as I'm not comfortable giving potential access to every website to some extension developers, this improved my internet experience almost as much as AdBlock.<p>Does anybody here know of a better solution?<p>[1] <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/consent-o-mat...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:00:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066442</link><dc:creator>mFixman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066442</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49066442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mFixman in "OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lumon is currently hiring new candidates willing to undergo severance :-)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:19:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005574</link><dc:creator>mFixman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005574</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mFixman in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wouldn't be surprised if the EU and ISPs are funding fibre to remote locations _because_ of Starlink competition.<p>Taxis and minicabs all over the world were unreliable, expensive, and unsafe before Uber came along with some healthy competition. The same dynamic is happening here between Starlink and rural fibre.</p>
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<p>The killer feature of Organic Maps and OSM is the POI markers for small things. If you are cycling, knowing where the nearest bike rack is to your location is crucial.<p>Google Maps is very good at showing car parking spaces, which is the requirement if you live in a suburb in California like its developers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:46:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802576</link><dc:creator>mFixman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48802576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mFixman in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's the status of banking apps, Google / Microsoft authenticator, and Google Wallet? Those were the things preventing me from abandoning stock Android.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:29:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568311</link><dc:creator>mFixman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mFixman in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nobody in the chain of command thought this was a real emergency situation.<p>The point of turning Bluetooth off or having to turn around the aircraft was to follow the airline's rules on terrorism, which likely tell them to abort a flight route if there's any symbol that could be interpreted as a bomb.<p>The captains were risking their jobs if they didn't follow this stupid request. This is a good case for getting common-sense exceptions to checklist-style rules.</p>
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<p>> Example: Point at a date in an email to instantly set up a meeting, find good spots to meet up, or draft a reply.<p>This is actually a good use case for AI. My university sends a lot of newsletters with several events in free text format; all I want is to be able to select one of them, have an LLM parse the title, date, location, and category, and put it in my calendar.<p>Still, I'm sceptical this will work. Samsung phones supposedly have this same feature, and it works 1/10 of the times. Pasting it to ChatGPT and tell it to add the events to my calendar works fine, but the bottleneck is always the project managers in charge of the UI. Of course, having a small local model and being able to choose my own right-click items like I could in 1995 would be an actual solution.</p>
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<p>It was originally going to be scrapped by a Web 3.0 app-only proprietary events system, but we did a small campaign inside the university to keep the site on. As far as I know, the changes will now only be on the backend.</p>
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<p>The Cambridge list of talks at <a href="https://talks.cam.ac.uk" rel="nofollow">https://talks.cam.ac.uk</a> is unbeaten.<p>The site loads in less than a second, you can do anything intuitively with a single click, all pages have a lot of useful information with zero fluff or clickbait.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:36:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628836</link><dc:creator>mFixman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628836</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mFixman in "C++26: The Oxford Variadic Comma"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to slay with this in code golfing competitions from TopCoder, where you had to implement a function to solve a particular problem, thanks to C pointer maths and the gcc generally putting function arguments in order in the stack.<p>Turns out, these two are equivalent in practice (but UB in the C++ standard):<p><pre><code>    double solve(double a, double b, double c, double d) {
      return a + b + c + d;
    }

    double solve(double a ...) {
      return a + 1[&a] + 2[&a] + 3[&a];
    }</code></pre></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 18:22:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390230</link><dc:creator>mFixman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390230</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mFixman in "You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My impression was that the EU did it to prevent people doing visa-free layovers from claiming asylum, while the UK did it to negotiate a dual exception with the EU in the future.<p>ETA is a visa to the entire world in all but name. I'm not looking forward to the future where every county implements is and visa-free travel becomes a thing of the past.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:34:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165185</link><dc:creator>mFixman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47165185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mFixman in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> We’re also adding a fill tolerance slider, giving you control over how precisely the Fill tool applies color. To get started, select the Fill tool and use the slider on the left side of the canvas to adjust the tolerance to your desired level. Experiment with different tolerance settings to achieve clean fills or creative effects.<p>This tool would have been so useful 25 years ago when I had to manually recolour every pixel in the contour of the cool photo I was editing for my new desktop background because the fill tool didn't recognise the background properly.</p>
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<p>Is this the first type of sum-type option choosing statement present for C++ unions? I've been waiting for this feature since the year 1978.<p>Still, it's a wasted opportunity not to have a language-level overload to the `switch` statement that allows nice pattern matching. Even with std::is_within_lifetime C++ unions are prone to errors and hard to work with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:31:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074133</link><dc:creator>mFixman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mFixman in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why do we need a log viewer at all?<p>My browser can handle tens of thousands of lines of logs, and has Ctrl-F that's useful for 99% of the searches I need. A better runner could just dump the logs and let the user take care of them.<p>Why most web development devolved into a React-like "you can't search for what you can't see" is a mystery.</p>
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