Hacker News: nobrains

New comment by nobrains in "AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too"

nobrains — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:25:56 +0000

"because the underlying lib wasn't coded like the original AI pretended it was"

So, the models ARE dumb. They just are very good at finding patterns in their training data. I mean, when they code minecraft clones, it is not because they can cook up how to write minecraft clones, rather, their training data includes a lot of minecraft-like games code, and they just reuse that.

New comment by nobrains in "Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination"

nobrains — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:02:51 +0000

this image https://datacolada.org/wp-content/uploads/scatter_like_vs_in... itself visually shows fake data. Too perfectly clustered.

New comment by nobrains in "OpenLogi"

nobrains — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:44:06 +0000

a mouse is an input device. most security challenges (passwords, etc.) are input via input devices. those are at a risk of being compromised. also clicks on an on-screen keyboard, etc. in fact, if u think about it, input device data (also know as telemetry - ironically, what we are trying to prevent in the first place by the logi app to do) security is a very serious potential attack vector.

New comment by nobrains in "A particle made of force: physicists say they've found mysterious 'glueball'"

nobrains — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:40:40 +0000

share the thread ?

New comment by nobrains in "Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS"

nobrains — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:42:31 +0000

DOS #000000

New comment by nobrains in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

nobrains — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:19:56 +0000

"correctly reason through one of my private benchmarks"

i would also like to make one myself for my testing. could you give a rough idea or an outline or point in the general direction on what to do?

New comment by nobrains in "The Coldcard Disaster Gets Worse: The Hack May Have Reached $88.6M"

nobrains — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:19:34 +0000

how would the original owner prove ownership of the original wallet?

New comment by nobrains in "Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers"

nobrains — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:46:54 +0000

Why do we make computers multiply single digit numbers, instead of taking the result from a lookup table, like humans do? To answer my own question, I am assuming it would be because multiplying would still be faster than reading from a lookup table? Any ideas?

New comment by nobrains in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

nobrains — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:11:49 +0000

any pointers on how to make it work for boox color e-ink device (it runs android) ?

New comment by nobrains in "French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation"

nobrains — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:07:10 +0000

Its the same guy who tweeted a photo of a pepperoni claiming it to be a star

New comment by nobrains in "CrankGPT"

nobrains — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:29:06 +0000

The Matrix

New comment by nobrains in "Global population movements from 1990 to 2023"

nobrains — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:28:33 +0000

Why has , recently, Pakistan been seen added more and more to a new category "MENAP" and separate from South Asia (i.e. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh) ?

These classifications should be geographic and could even racial, but it seems this new classification (MENAP) seems more "religious"

New comment by nobrains in "HTML is a native image format, hear me out"

nobrains — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:24:45 +0000

That "view page source" took some loong time to load.

New comment by nobrains in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

nobrains — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:38:34 +0000

From the animation: "Torque grows with the cube of diameter"

That seems like a pretty cool cheat-code to get more power. Perhaps it will mean you will start having cars with more distance from the ground to accommodate the large dia motor wheels.

New comment by nobrains in "Googlebook"

nobrains — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:17:39 +0000

My take is related but different. I believe that Google believes the customer's for these "premium" Googlebooks are the kids who used Chromebooks all their school years, and are now graduating school, getting into university, or getting into their first job. Google is presenting them an option, that feels familiar, but is also premium. The next level. The big-boy upgrade. Familiar but Better.

New comment by nobrains in "Security Through Obscurity Is Not Bad"

nobrains — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:29:00 +0000

My take: Do proper security, but if you are short on time or resources, you can start with security through obscurity, to block a few percentage of attacks, and then when you have time and resources, go ahead and add the proper security measures.

New comment by nobrains in "Artemis II Photo Timeline"

nobrains — Sat, 02 May 2026 09:07:19 +0000

I REALLY liked the interface. One nitpick: When the image description is ON, the left and right buttons keep moving up and down after every image, so I cannot keep my mouse in one location and keep clicking NEXT.

New comment by nobrains in "Flighty Airports"

nobrains — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:36:57 +0000

did u see the TV mode link? i wish more visualization sites had that.

New comment by nobrains in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

nobrains — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:49:59 +0000

It was a pilot. Isn't this (kinda) good news that this "bug" was caught and now the next iteration will be closer to the intended behavior?

New comment by nobrains in "Show HN: Open-source browser for AI agents"

nobrains — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:46:01 +0000

load event or "DOMContentLoaded" event. No?