Hacker News: muti

New comment by muti in "I built a drone with only one motor [video]"

muti — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:52:22 +0000

Yeah, the analogy for drones is hydraulic piston -> electric motor and hydraulic pump -> battery

New comment by muti in "ESP32-C3 Adblock"

muti — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:37:17 +0000

Sorry was a bit unclear, by two blocked domains I meant two domains in the original blocklist having the same hash, i.e. hn and adserver are both in our desired blocklist in your example

New comment by muti in "ESP32-C3 Adblock"

muti — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:34:39 +0000

I don't think this framing in this thread lines up with what the readme says. Also note that the python script to build the blocklist [1] reports the number of collisions found when generating the hashes.

I read their statement as "there were 0 collisions when building a blocklist for 141k domains, and 1 collision for a blocklist of 537k domains", and the script points at that number coming directly from collisions within the blocklist.

1: https://github.com/M-Abozaid/esp32-c3-adblock/blob/238ef7b27...

New comment by muti in "ESP32-C3 Adblock"

muti — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 02:51:47 +0000

Weird how the readme talks about hash collisions, but not in the way I would expect. Two blocked domains with the same hash isn't a problem, they both need to be blocked.

Where hash collisions matter is false positives, e.g. if hash(google.com) = hash(adserver.com). There does appear to be a web dashboard and /unblock api so should be straightforward to resolve.

New comment by muti in "Show HN: Phyics-Based Dice Roller"

muti — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:48:49 +0000

Have you analysed the fairness of the rolls? Just after a quick play around it doesn't look like there is enough energy in the throws that I would be confident it is.

10,000 throws with small perturbations in the starting conditions should be distributed evenly across all sides of the die.

Alternatively you could use RNG to generate a fair result, simulate the throw, and then set the sides of the die to produce the result from RNG. This is all academic though and I imagine anyone using the site won't be bothered.

New comment by muti in "Dyson Won't Say What's Wrong with Its CameraJet Toothbrush"

muti — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:39:13 +0000

https://archive.is/s4HLe

New comment by muti in "Giving up on smart rings"

muti — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:52:45 +0000

Not necessarily common, but I imagine most form factors would have issues with _some_ activities. I have a fitness watch that I don't like wearing when rock climbing. A ring also isn't suitable, but an armband worn further up would be.

Impedance Matching (2017)

muti — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:52:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27238

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596274

Points: 86

# Comments: 28

New comment by muti in "Darktable"

muti — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:25:39 +0000

Darktable editing workflow is centered around modules. Exposure, denoise, various color adjustments, etc are all separate modules. Dynamic range compression (and other common operations) has several implementations: base curve, filmic, sigmoid, and AgX. They all essentially do the same thing but have effectively superseded each other as they were added to newer releases.

Darktable keeps the old modules around but hides them, opening a file processed years ago will still go through the pipeline with the base curve module and come out the same. As a bonus, it is possible to use "obsolete" modules that may handle certain images better, achieving a particular look, or you are comfortable with the older module and prefer not to use the new replacement.

Yahtzee Strategy

muti — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:54:18 +0000

Article URL: https://ballparkfigures.substack.com/p/yahtzee

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49082038

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by muti in "A 2048-spin bulk acoustic wave Ising machine for number partitioning and Sudoku"

muti — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:59:54 +0000

The abstract reads like copy for the Turbo encabulator

New comment by muti in "A global workspace in language models"

muti — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:54:05 +0000

Thank you for prompting me to try with my own obscure question, Fable was able to find something from a poor description. I've been looking manually and over many sessions with different models as they improve, none have been able to find what I was after. Fable 5 just one-shot the answer.

New comment by muti in "Podman v6.0.0"

muti — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:37:53 +0000

Cool, been running my home server on podman + quadlets for about two years now and picked up a couple of things in the release notes

  podman quadlet list

Added in v5.6.0, lists quadlets and their containers

  podman system migrate --migrate-db

Flag added in v5.8.0. I remember seeing the bolt db deprecation warnings in the past but there was no tool to do the migration to sqlite, now there is (or just upgrade to podman 6.0.0 and it will do it automatically)

New comment by muti in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

muti — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:47:51 +0000

If the thing you are towing is so heavy you need a truck to tow it, maybe there should be stricter licensing requirements.

New comment by muti in "Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)"

muti — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:22:36 +0000

And for a cheeky example, here's a jandal you can buy with the plugger + bread tag combo from the factory

https://heresgolden.com/products/golden-g2-mens?variant=4362...

New comment by muti in "Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer"

muti — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:57:06 +0000

See the image and caption at the top of the article

  Images printed with structural colour ink can be made both highly transparent to transmitted light (top) and at the same time reflect light from above in vivid colours (bottom) – two properties that are typically considered mutually exclusive

The printing on the phone is not visible when the phone display is on as the structural printing is highly transparent. When the display is off, the printing is visible because of the reflected light.

New comment by muti in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

muti — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:13:01 +0000

Doesn't seem like a very insightful result. Kimi won with the naive strategy. Other models didn't slide tiles at all or didn't demonstrate understanding of the rules, claiming words that lost points. A strategy that did nothing would beat them.

We know these models can solve much more difficult problems, something isn't right.

New comment by muti in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

muti — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:27:21 +0000

+1 on this, I also switched to jj when working with any git repo.

What's funny is how much better I understand git now, and despite using jj full time, I have been explaining concepts like rebasing, squashing, and stacked PRs to colleagues who exclusively use git tooling

New comment by muti in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

muti — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:59:29 +0000

Building a selfhosted activity tracker inspired by wandrer.earth

New comment by muti in "PGLite Evangelism"

muti — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:02:08 +0000

Unfortunate name furthers the SQLite is "lite" association i.e. underpowered or incapable somehow.

IIRC it is intended to be read as SQL-ite, as having some relationship to SQL.

PG Lite probably makes sense here though, and PGite is not appealing