Hacker News: mtone

New comment by mtone in "Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth"

mtone — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:34:26 +0000

Thanks!

There's a heading control to include rotation in link: https://earth.google.com/web/@3.63731074,-23.1618975,-2690.7...

New comment by mtone in "Large-Scale Online Deanonymization with LLMs"

mtone — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:39:24 +0000

> Does privacy of Netflix ratings matter? The issue is not “Does the average Netflix subscriber care about the privacy of his movie viewing history?,” but “Are there any Netflix subscribers whose privacy can be compromised by analyzing the Netflix Prize dataset?”

Well said.

New comment by mtone in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

mtone — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:22:37 +0000

For this type of repetitive application I think it's common to "fine-tune" a model trained on your business problem to reach higher quality/reliability metrics. That might not be possible with this chip.

New comment by mtone in "On privacy and control"

mtone — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:19:16 +0000

Good question. That was for my MS account/licenses and some Azure stuff. I use Google Authenticator for most things.

Thanks for the link, I'll take a look. I might just move it to a secondary device first.

New comment by mtone in "On privacy and control"

mtone — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:59:10 +0000

Just looked - Microsoft Authenticator doesn't appear to work. I might be able to get off of it but it will take some prep. My banks are supported so that's good.

New comment by mtone in "Reflections on AI at the End of 2025"

mtone — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:56:08 +0000

> if you could exclude all of the R&D and training costs

LLMs have a short shelf-life. They don't know anything past the day they're trained. It's possible to feed or fine-tune them a bit of updated data but its world knowledge and views are firmly stuck in the past. It's not just news - they'll also trip up on new syntax introduced in the latest version of a programming language.

They could save on R&D but I expect training costs will be recurring regardless of advancements in capability.

New comment by mtone in "New coding models and integrations"

mtone — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:12:10 +0000

Recently llama.cpp made a few common parameters default (-ngl 999, -fa on) so it got simpler: --model and --context-size and --jinja generally does it to start.

We end up fiddling with other parameters because it provides better performance for a particular setup so it's well worth it. One example is the recent --n-cpu-moe switch to offload experts to CPU while filling all available VRAM that can give a 50% boost on models like gpt-oss-120b.

After tasting this, not using it is a no-go. Meanwhile on Ollama there's an open issue asking for this: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/11772

Finally, llama-swap separately provides the auto-loading/unloading feature for multiple models.

New comment by mtone in "Qwen3-Next"

mtone — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:51:55 +0000

Do you really need a H200 for this? Seems like something a consumer GPU could do. Smaller models might be ideal [0] as they don't require extensive world knowledge and are much more cost efficient/faster.

Why can't you build this today?

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.02153 Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI (Nvidia)

New comment by mtone in "The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab"

mtone — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 04:06:03 +0000

Related discussion on Anubis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427679

New comment by mtone in "Google Scholar PDF Reader"

mtone — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 03:39:15 +0000

I use Readdle Documents to sync PDF folders with my server PC via FTP. Free version supports PDF highlighting & simple annotations, basic file management, and automatically syncs back everything.

New comment by mtone in "Disabled at 22 million commits"

mtone — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 23:02:14 +0000

Assuming it's correct, I think this answer explains it well: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31996121/283879

Basically, yes it may write snapshots per-file (never per-commit) locally but there is a separate routine to transparently repack the whole thing with deltas.

New comment by mtone in "TS to JSDoc Conversion"

mtone — Thu, 11 May 2023 07:51:47 +0000

There was talk about introducing type syntax as valid but ignored in the JS language, making TS valid JS.

It would take forever to become mainstream but if node and major browsers started to support this tomorrow, along with ESM modules we could drop TS compilation and bundling entirely during development, safely publish npm packages as TS (even a bundled TS) and simplify tooling for monorepos, IDEs, etc.

Unfortunately that wouldn't solve dealing with templates like JSX/TSX or future language syntax/features.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a-proposal-for-typ...

New comment by mtone in "Use databases without putting domain logic in them"

mtone — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 15:57:01 +0000

They're turing-complete and modular so it's not really about what they can or cannot do.

Testability, tooling and the open-source ecosystem and either bad or non-existent. Writing PL/SQL is the worst environment I've worked in. That database sent emails, processed CSVs scheduled jobs, etc. yet there was still a web app to maintain next to it.

They're OK for certain things like essential triggers or performance-sensitive functions, but I would never deliberately put app logic in there. Major red flag.

New comment by mtone in "Windows needs to stop showing tabloid news"

mtone — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:22:09 +0000

Just upgraded to Windows 11 (for its HDR features) and weather is now part of the "Widgets" bombarding me with ads and poor news sources. I genuinely tried to customize my "feed" but it's all junk -no reputable sources whatsoever- and I didn't find a way to remove them.

So the only sane course of action was to disable widgets altogether while I still can. And now I don't have the weather anymore.

New comment by mtone in "TypeScript 5.0"

mtone — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 20:30:22 +0000

In a monorepo with project references where each symlinked (not paths) package has a src/ and output lib/, I've always had issues with VsCode incorrectly proposing to import from src/ over lib/ from other packages. Never got it to work just right.

Does anyone know if the new package.json resolution settings can help resolve these issues?

New comment by mtone in "Introducing react.dev"

mtone — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 20:17:10 +0000

We're not on 18 yet but things are clear, thanks!

New comment by mtone in "Introducing react.dev"

mtone — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 20:06:38 +0000

I notice that ReactDOM.render is also deprecated.

In our embedded/plugin component scenario where we are given a

to load in, it appears we should replace our current pattern ReactDOM.render(React.createElement(... with createRoot(_jsx(....

New comment by mtone in "Microsoft is now injecting full-size ads on Chrome website"

mtone — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 04:47:18 +0000

> it has by far the best vertical tab implementation of all browsers (someone please copy this)

TIL. I think it's still far behind TreeStyleTabs (TST) on Firefox. Missing for me:

- No nested groups. I know it's called vertical and not tree, but branches offer more context when navigating deep.

- Groups are standalone containers, while in TST the group is the root tab. This saves space but also allows to close/CTRL-F4 a tab to close the group/branch.

- Open in a new tab adds the tab at the end of the group, loosing context. There might be an extension for that.

- Closing a group and all its tabs requires to open a context menu.

- No automatic collapse behavior when selecting other groups and there are lots of tabs open.

- Open in a new tab doesn't create a group automatically, they must be manually initiated. Killer feature for me: by the time I realize I should have created a group it would be too late to bother assembling one.

- Scroll-wheel up/down doesn't quick switch tabs. Killer feature for me.

- Drag'n'drop zone to create a group VS reorder tab action is very small and hard to hit.

Nice feature though. I'm kind of amazed they bothered to implement this yet flat out refuse to re-enable the vertical taskbar lost with Windows 11.

New comment by mtone in "How did Roomba-recorded photos end up on Facebook?"

mtone — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 03:54:00 +0000

I close a door or put a box in its way. No app.

New comment by mtone in "Tell HN: YouTube's web UI just got even worse"

mtone — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:47:00 +0000

When I check my recommended feed it's all stuff very closely related stuff to my subscriptions and recent views, and some useless shorts. It's just an echo chamber at this point.

If I'm looking for potentially interesting content outside my core subscription views, I'm better served by turning on FM radio.