Hacker News: nnm

New comment by nnm in "Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview"

nnm — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:12:27 +0000

I still don't know the exploit count for Mythos. Is it zero, one, or more?

New comment by nnm in "Atlassian says it had right to fire engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

nnm — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:35:08 +0000

> It takes a certain amount of entitlement and lack of awareness

It takes integrity and bravery to challenge the lies of the powerful.

New comment by nnm in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

nnm — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:25:17 +0000

I suspect some of the problems are not due to Wayland, but due to Ubuntu.

I recently revived a decade-old PC with a dual-boot setup: Windows 10 and Ubuntu 24.04. While Windows ran fine, Ubuntu was a nightmare—constant freezes, random logouts, and daily crashes.

After hitting my limit, I wiped Ubuntu and installed Debian. What a difference! It’s been months without a single crash. If you're struggling with stability on older hardware, Debian might be the "boring" (in a good way) solution you need.

New comment by nnm in "Chip Cities Rise in Japan's Fields of Dreams"

nnm — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 06:29:29 +0000

The projects might fail, but knowledge accumulated and scientists / engineers created from them can bring success to other areas

New comment by nnm in "PC shipments decline slows in Q3 2023, but Apple plunges over 23%"

nnm — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 22:16:42 +0000

> The lifespan of a laptop is not tied to a replaceable battery

This applies to me. My laptop is 10 years old, has 16G memory and is running Linux. I have replaced battery once before (and definitely need a new battery again now).

Edit: replace 9 years old with 10 years old

New comment by nnm in "Just don’t"

nnm — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 22:54:58 +0000

Same here. "just do X" is more informative that "do X" as it infers that "do X" is a simple thing. I would like to know that.

Also "just do X" infers that the person is very confident that "do X" will solve the issue. I like to get confident advice.

New comment by nnm in "I help seniors with technology issues"

nnm — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:31:48 +0000

I really hope they (non-tech folks) know that a $300-$600 chromebook is way better.

New comment by nnm in "American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants"

nnm — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:15:43 +0000

One side story. There is no comments / voice on the AA side. Read like a biased article. "become a must-have" reads like exaggeration

New comment by nnm in "American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants"

nnm — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:12:21 +0000

It is commonsense to use the hardware/software authorized by your employer to do the work.

New comment by nnm in "American Airlines is trying to stop a popular app used by flight attendants"

nnm — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 15:07:02 +0000

It is commonsense to use the hardware/software authorized by your employer to do the work.

One side story. It is third party app that is not authorized by AA. Instead of get permission through a contract, the app developer scraped AA's data without AA's permission.

New comment by nnm in "SAT score distributions in Michigan"

nnm — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:32:06 +0000

The kids should really also apply to international schools.

New comment by nnm in "SAT score distributions in Michigan"

nnm — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 15:07:07 +0000

If we look at not only academic, but also sports, i.e. ski, ice skating, soccer, tennis, swimming, ... etc., among competitive teams in middle schools or high schools, the number of Asian students are bigger than what one would expect from their population. You can even see this in winter Olympic:

1. https://www.thepostathens.com/article/2022/03/asian-american...

New comment by nnm in "AlphaFold developers win $3M breakthrough prize"

nnm — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 22:55:43 +0000

From my chat with friends who work in the area of drug design, AlphaFold is accurate for overall structure, but is not that accurate for predicting structure around interaction locations.

New comment by nnm in "The Framework Laptop Chromebook Edition"

nnm — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 16:53:19 +0000

What is the size of the screen? Can't find it on the page.

New comment by nnm in "Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014)"

nnm — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 18:46:42 +0000

Comment on the functional programming and mutation of data. I learnt R before learnt python.

In R

y = c(1, 2, 3)

x = y

# now x is a copy of y

I was surprised that in python

y = [1, 2, 3]

x = y

# now x is y! What, why?

In R, I am used to the fact everything is an expression:

a = if (x > y) { 0 } else { 1 }

New comment by nnm in "San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics"

nnm — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 22:21:12 +0000

The title of this study "No link found between psychedelics and psychosis" should really be that "the authors did not find links between psychedelics and psychosis using their survey method".

These survey methods come with huge uncertainty and lots of pitfalls. I would not be surprised if the result in the paper is not reproducible. In fact, "over half of psychology studies fail reproducibility test"[1]

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18248

New comment by nnm in "Things people blamed on bicycles"

nnm — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 18:43:07 +0000

This is really about causality and science. But searching the comments, there are only 3 comments contain key word "causal" so far, only one comment contains "science".

In my view, folks who totally disregard science are no more truly intelligent than say 2500 years ago when people believe that "the natural state of an object is to be at rest" (check Wikipedia page for Aristotle).

New comment by nnm in "Apple previews Lockdown Mode"

nnm — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:07:36 +0000

I just ordered a pixel 6. Really hope Android/Google will have the same mode.

New comment by nnm in "Medical student surgically implants Bluetooth into own ear to cheat in final"

nnm — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 19:42:29 +0000

A way to avoid this is to make it possible to fail. I mean, when one fails medical exam, not too much pressure / shame on the student -- they can simply do other type of work.

New comment by nnm in "A New Coefficient of Correlation"

nnm — Sun, 26 Dec 2021 05:39:52 +0000

This works for hash function as hash function does not introduce uncertainty, i.e. Y = f(X), not Y = f(x) + random_noise. I just tested it:

https://ibb.co/nCXVSqB