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New comment by mormegil in "RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google"

mormegil — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:37:56 +0000

I understand your database of feeds is curated but you might be interested in another database listing feeds: Wikidata. See https://w.wiki/MpjN for a simple example of twenty (random) feeds (obviously, you can add filters for e.g. a country, language, etc.). (There are currently 18598 feeds there in total.)

New comment by mormegil in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

mormegil — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:05:39 +0000

Yes, see e.g. a quarter-century-old (!!) https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

New comment by mormegil in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

mormegil — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:18:38 +0000

You could even make this an installation-time option. If you want to enable the switch afterwards, you have to do a factory reset. Then, the attackers convincing the victims would get nothing.

New comment by mormegil in "The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets"

mormegil — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:02:12 +0000

LLM-superforecaster parity projected to late 2026 (and LLMs now outperform non-expert public participants) according to https://forecastingresearch.substack.com/p/ai-llm-forecastin...

New comment by mormegil in "Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients"

mormegil — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:00:16 +0000

> I have no idea what JetBrain's financials are like

In 2024, ~725 M$ total revenue, ~119 M$ net profit.

New comment by mormegil in "Shor's algorithm: the one quantum algo that ends RSA/ECC tomorrow"

mormegil — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:48:47 +0000

Overview of QC factoring records, applied sleight-of-hand tricks, and their replication using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

New comment by mormegil in "DeepSeek OCR"

mormegil — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:05:13 +0000

This. I am reading old vital records in my family genealogy quest, and as those are sometimes really difficult to read, I turned to LLMs, hearing they are great in OCR. It’s been… terrible. The LLM will transcribe the record without problems, the output seems completely correct, a typical text of a vital record. Just… the transcribed text has nothing to do with my specific record. On the other hand, transkribus.eu has been fairly usable for old vital record transcription – even though the transcribed text is far from perfect, many letters and words are recognized incorrectly, it helps me a lot with the more difficult records.

New comment by mormegil in "A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler"

mormegil — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 06:10:32 +0000

I agree that Locale.ROOT is the canonical choice. But in this case, Locale.US also makes sense: it isn't some abstract "US is some kind of the global default", it is saying "we know are upcasing an English word".

New comment by mormegil in "No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves"

mormegil — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 15:02:03 +0000

While this is an upper bound for a "board position", it should be noted that it is not an upper bound for a "game state". That includes the (unbounded) whole board position history because of the threefold repetition rule. If you ignore that (and the fifty-move rule which can alternatively be kept using a six-bit counter), you also need the castling state and the en passant state. Plus one bit of the player on move, obviously :-)

New comment by mormegil in "State of AI-assisted software development"

mormegil — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:28:45 +0000

I was confused, since DORA is also the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act.

New comment by mormegil in "The GitHub website is slow on Safari"

mormegil — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 17:56:11 +0000

Yes, exactly. Even though you can clone the git repos anonymously, or look at the Github mirror.

https://we.phorge.it/phame/post/view/8/anonymous_cloning_dis... https://we.phorge.it/phame/post/view/9/anonymous_cloning_has...

New comment by mormegil in "Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security"

mormegil — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 06:43:34 +0000

On what car do you _need_ the remote to enter and drive the car (having tow the only alternative to e.g. the remote battery dying)? In all cars I have used, you could just use the physical key if the remote failed.

New comment by mormegil in "Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic"

mormegil — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 06:21:23 +0000

In Czech, Whisper usually transcribes music as "Titulky vytvořil JohnyX" ("subtitles made by JohnyX") for the same reason.

New comment by mormegil in "Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration"

mormegil — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:59:53 +0000

Which is strange because secure boot should be useful in _exactly_ the situation you don't have physical control of the HW, shouldn't it? I guess the threat model for a common not-that-important company does not include evil data center (and it's dubious if SecureBoot would protect you in reality), but wasn't that one of the motivations?

New comment by mormegil in "Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge"

mormegil — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 21:04:25 +0000

See first-sale doctrine <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine>

New comment by mormegil in "The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles"

mormegil — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 16:09:35 +0000

Did the testing prompt for LLMs include a clause forbidding the use of any tools? If not, why are you adding it here?

New comment by mormegil in "TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]"

mormegil — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 20:46:56 +0000

Here you are: https://shop.squiggle.tools/

New comment by mormegil in "Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space"

mormegil — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 16:10:16 +0000

And possibly not even assigned at all. I looked at the lowest known ISBNs for Czech publishers and a different color stood out: no, https://books.google.cz/books?vid=ISBN9788000000015&redir_es... is not a correct ISBN, I'd say :-) (But I don't know if the book includes such obviously-fake ISBN, or the error is just in Google Books data.)

New comment by mormegil in "Many of the Pokemon playtest cards were likely printed in 2024"

mormegil — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:03:56 +0000

Not the same person but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_van_Meegeren#M._Jean_Decoe...

For Whom the Ring Tones

mormegil — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:27:01 +0000

Article URL: https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/01/29/for-whom-the-ring-tones/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42869049

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