Hacker News: mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mvieira38Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:18:15 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "ChatGPT Atlas"]]>And if you do follow these arrests you'll notice that it's old-fashioned investigations that catch them, by tracing behavior, log in times, etc. The comment I was answering was implying you lose anonymity by using these tools, which you don't

]]>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:32:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672427mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672427https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672427<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites"]]>Viewing corporations as amoral bots that are justified in squeezing every bit of profit out of humans is exactly what is wrong with our society. Someone in a big tech was the inventor of this dark pattern and they think they're awesome for finding a loophole in the well-meaning regulation, at the cost of the costumer they supposedly should serve. That person is the problem, and so are the people that followed them

]]>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:27:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672352mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672352https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45672352<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "ChatGPT Atlas"]]>> And most of the steps people do to mitigate privacy violations (TOR, pihole, VPNs, etc.) probably make any signal you do put out more scrutinized.

If you're using them correctly there is no way to scrutinize your traffic more, these comments just spread FUD for no good reason. How are "they" unable to catch darkweb criminals for years and even decades, but somehow can tell if it's me browsing reddit over Tor?

]]>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:34:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45660588mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45660588https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45660588<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "Chat-GPT becomes Sex-GPT for verified adults"]]>The G stands for gooner

]]>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:18:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604994mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604994https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45604994<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? (2012)"]]>Nowadays there are tournament matches with no resignations allowed, so setting stalemate traps may be more common from now on.

]]>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:03:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45515716mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45515716https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45515716<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "Show HN: Neural emotion matrix for NPCs"]]>Excited for stuff like this as a CRPG player. A possible future for designing a crpg NPC might be to write a bunch of memories, descriptions, likes and dislikes, etc. in text instead of trying to convey those through branching dialogue.

]]>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:46:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45493289mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45493289https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45493289<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "TikTok 'directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks'"]]>Teens are way more excited than adults at seeing this stuff, as well, so we can expect engagement to increase the dirtier the content shown gets

]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:17:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45462671mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45462671https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45462671<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "TikTok 'directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks'"]]>This content isn't as overt as it may seem, maybe you did come across it and just didn't notice flashing. Those "in the know", generally younger people whose friends told them about flashtok, know what to look for

]]>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 13:09:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45462579mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45462579https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45462579<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows"]]>I've seen it called "agentic search" while RAG seems to have become synonymous with semantic search via embeddings

]]>Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:51:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448983mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448983https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448983<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "Extract-0: A specialized language model for document information extraction"]]>The results are interesting for showing the efficacy of small, fine-tuned models that can be run locally. AI providers as a business need their do-all models to be better than these if they want long-term revenue through the APIs, right?

]]>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:35:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428549mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428549https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428549<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "Kagi News"]]>Yeah, I agree. The entire value/fact dichotomy that the announcement bases itself on is a pretty hot philosophical topic I lean against Kagi on. It's just impossible to summarize any text without imparting some sort of value judgement on it, therefore "biasing" the text

]]>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:24:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428361mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428361https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45428361<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "Kagi News"]]>Yes, that's what it is. Kagi as a brand is LLM-optimist, so you may be fundamentally at odds with them here... If it lessens the issue for you, the sources of each item are cited properly in every example I tried, so maybe you could treat it as a fancy link aggregator

]]>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:20:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427465mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427465https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45427465<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts"]]>I'm in Brazil and that happens often

]]>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:58:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377280mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377280https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377280<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "ChatGPT Pulse"]]>Why?

]]>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:42:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377057mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377057https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45377057<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "Better Curl Saul: a lightweight API testing CLI focused on UX and simplicity"]]>The UX seems genuinely good

]]>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:36:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362752mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362752https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45362752<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on"]]>Legally, you mean? Because I'd say most reasonable people would say a literal wire on your phone is pretty personal. Location is PID too if they store the data at all

]]>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:22:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45360850mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45360850https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45360850<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version"]]>Which is so bad it barely means anything for lower-end PCs. I played and enjoyed plenty of hours on Elden Ring while rocking hardware well below the minimum requirements

]]>Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:13:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45360703mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45360703https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45360703<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo"]]>Have you tried Polars in Python? When you get going it's pretty similar to tidyverse, except you're chaining methods instead of piping, and it's lazily evaluated + parallel because of the underlying Rust engine. IME it's tidyverse > polars > pandas > data.table in terms of ergonomics

]]>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:02:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305873mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305873https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45305873<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo"]]>How is Julia in terms of data science dev experience? Nothing ever felt as good as the R+tidyverse combo to me, at least in Python.

]]>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:45:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45301057mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45301057https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45301057<![CDATA[New comment by mvieira38 in "Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo"]]>Agree 100% on tidyverse becoming part of the standard library. Some of the language's greatest libraries (like Hyndman's forecasting stuff) basically assume you're using tidyverse already

]]>Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:38:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300983mvieira38https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300983https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300983