Hacker News: nialv7

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...

New comment by nialv7 in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

nialv7 — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:22:30 +0000

open source nvidia is an area to keep an eye on. check out NVK and nova.

New comment by nialv7 in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

nialv7 — Tue, 12 May 2026 10:01:50 +0000

That's mad. Gitlab feels like software made by 50 people. Consider how unpolished it is and how slow it is moving.

New comment by nialv7 in "CUDA-oxide: Nvidia's official Rust to CUDA compiler"

nialv7 — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:50:14 +0000

I think the whole codebase was more or less written by AI...

New comment by nialv7 in "Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics"

nialv7 — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:38:13 +0000

Terry A. Davis will be proud

New comment by nialv7 in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

nialv7 — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:06:34 +0000

Mark Zuckerberg reminds me of a spoiled child.

New comment by nialv7 in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

nialv7 — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:50:02 +0000

Have you warned Gabe about this

New comment by nialv7 in "You can now run a full Linux operating system inside a 6mb PDF"

nialv7 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:37:58 +0000

seems like an account reposting stuff to get attention to advertise his AI stuff.

New comment by nialv7 in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

nialv7 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:22:45 +0000

There always will be old games that will never be ported to Linux.

New comment by nialv7 in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

nialv7 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:20:02 +0000

esync and fsync both use mainline kernel features.

New comment by nialv7 in "Chat GPT 5.2 cannot explain the German word "geschniegelt""

nialv7 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:31:20 +0000

Maybe this is why? Most of the training data has the single token version, so the three tokens version was undertrained?

New comment by nialv7 in ""Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow"

nialv7 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:27:36 +0000

i don't have an openai subscription, but i still want to participate

New comment by nialv7 in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

nialv7 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:48:42 +0000

ZK proof can't solve the TOCTOU problem.

New comment by nialv7 in "Martial arts robots at 2026 Spring Festival Gala [video]"

nialv7 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:14:54 +0000

i'd say atlas is roughly on par capability-wise. see their recent video: [1]. but boston has different priorities.

[1]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UNorxwlZlFk

New comment by nialv7 in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

nialv7 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:18:26 +0000

i am happy i bought 5x10TB drives two months ago, anticipating this exact scenario.