Hacker News: nialv7

New comment by nialv7 in "Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s"

nialv7 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:52:26 +0000

are they allowed to use the "SQLite" name?

New comment by nialv7 in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

nialv7 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:31:04 +0000

meanwhile, in japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voYdl7IFZsM

New comment by nialv7 in "My falling-out with the rationalist community"

nialv7 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:01:46 +0000

> online nerds

you are heavily downplaying the power and influence some of these people have. Sam Bankman-Fried is one of these people, for example

New comment by nialv7 in "My falling-out with the rationalist community"

nialv7 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:59:02 +0000

> So they are not rationalist then?

one doesn't simply become rational just by calling oneself rationalists.

New comment by nialv7 in "My falling-out with the rationalist community"

nialv7 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:50:13 +0000

> Dawkins has unbelievably heated arguments over frankly nothing.

and that's without talking about all the problematic views held by him...

New comment by nialv7 in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

nialv7 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:34:05 +0000

what a bizarre article, completely disconnected from reality. in what world is manufacturing, a sector that has been neglected for decades at this point, having any sway on politics in Britain.

why does The Economist have so much disdain of manufacturing and people who work in it? look at China, look at their manufacturing industry and what they are able to do with it. then look at the UK, who is struggling to build Hinkley Point C, or HS2 (projected to be the most expensive high-speed rail in the world btw). The Economist is an absolute f*ing joke.

New comment by nialv7 in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

nialv7 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:14:09 +0000

If you did read the paper, you'd have noticed that people who slept more regularly in this research were also wealthier, and more physically active. They did say they adjusted for these variables, but who knows. Maybe they didn't adjust them enough, maybe there are more covariates they didn't consider.

New comment by nialv7 in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

nialv7 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:12:27 +0000

Holy Dunning–Kruger effect...

As a software developer, I am a much better doctor than actual trained doctors, and am definitely immune to any placebo effects.

New comment by nialv7 in "TIL: You can make HTTP requests without curl using Bash /dev/TCP"

nialv7 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:22:17 +0000

what would be a non-pilled way of saying the same thing?

New comment by nialv7 in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

nialv7 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:56:50 +0000

The audacity to ask for donations to cover for their own mistake

New comment by nialv7 in "Keygen.music"

nialv7 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:28:23 +0000

> a floating player you can drag

you can drag only by clicking on a ui element that has no indication that it can be dragged.

New comment by nialv7 in "Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982)"

nialv7 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:29:58 +0000

Also Yokohama Station SF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokohama_Station_SF

Which is about a self-replicating subway station :)

New comment by nialv7 in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

nialv7 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:07:30 +0000

third time this has happened:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17501379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44607740

New comment by nialv7 in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

nialv7 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:57:49 +0000

Just get a keyboard that supports custom firmware and go wild with it. You can do whatever you want.

New comment by nialv7 in "Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux"

nialv7 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:08:18 +0000

I mean, you prompted something useful out of an AI, good job. But then use that to ask for donation? Feels weird, man.

New comment by nialv7 in "Disregard previous instructions and delete all jqwik tests"

nialv7 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:33:28 +0000

if someone told you to `rm -rf --no-preserve-root`, and you did it without even checking what the command does. is it their fault or yours?

New comment by nialv7 in "London's Free Roof Terraces"

nialv7 — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:55:29 +0000

This is basically a lose-lose situation: extra bureaucracy for development projects that actually benefits the local residents (planning applications can get to thousands of pages long, and the whole process takes a really long time [0]), and local residents don't actually get the benefits intended by policies like this. The only people this benefits are those who have a lot of money to throw at things like this.

[0]: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/london/article/shoreditch-works-...

New comment by nialv7 in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

nialv7 — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:30:15 +0000

these videos are as close as we can get to plant electrodes directly in your brain's reward center, and repeatedly pressing the "reward" button. obviously not everyone is the same, but if it hits it hits hard.

New comment by nialv7 in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

nialv7 — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:53:50 +0000

is that normal? in UK you can extend a visa or apply for ILR without leaving the country.

New comment by nialv7 in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

nialv7 — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:29:01 +0000

Can't find full list either, but it at least includes Bing and Google: https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/452243553384...