Hacker News: nulld3v

New comment by nulld3v in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

nulld3v — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 22:06:25 +0000

I don't understand, OpenAI can just say: "yes/no we did/did not train on your data". It's not a hard question to answer, and it is a question that OpenAI should be able to answer for all data we feed into ChatGPT.

New comment by nulld3v in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

nulld3v — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:46:08 +0000

Nobody except OpenAI knows whether or not OpenAI trained on their data. So the burden remains on OpenAI here.

New comment by nulld3v in "FCC: Ban on Foreign-Made Robots Includes Robot Vacuums"

nulld3v — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:21:56 +0000

I agree it's an issue but maybe we are going at it from the wrong angle. Why just be scared of the Chinese? We should protect ourselves from both domestic & foreign adversaries.

Any electronic device with vision, sound, or radio communications capability should be required to be source-available or at least independently audited. Proprietary code must run in sandboxed black-boxes that can't directly communicate/interact with the outside world.

Sounds like an impossible ask? Well, banning Chinese robots/routers is also an impossible ask.

New comment by nulld3v in "FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder"

nulld3v — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:45:40 +0000

That's their point though. Basically no modern phone/laptop/tablet other than Apple offloads audio decoding (of any codec) to hardware. You can check this on Android phones by installing the Codec Info app.

New comment by nulld3v in "The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting"

nulld3v — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:12:22 +0000

There is absolutely a crisis of bad health outcomes due to relatively simple home medical procedures. E.g. People take Tylenol at home thinking it is safe, meanwhile Tylenol posionsing is the second most common reason for liver transplantation worldwide.

The reason we accept these crisis is due to societal, cultural and religious tradition/pressure. IMO, in an ideal world, many of these things should draw additional scrutiny.

New comment by nulld3v in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

nulld3v — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:38:44 +0000

FUTO Swipe supports ClearFlow, which is exactly what you are talking about, a keyboard layout optimized for swiping: https://clearflowkeyboard.github.io/

https://github.com/futo-org/futo-keyboard-layouts/issues/163

New comment by nulld3v in "Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists against facial recognition"

nulld3v — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:39:33 +0000

> For example preventing people who have repeatedly been convicted of violence ("hooliganism") from entering sports stadiums.

You should't need face recognition to do this (as it seems stadiums are already successful in banning people who haven't paid from entering the venue).

New comment by nulld3v in "Vivaldi 8.0"

nulld3v — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:41:08 +0000

That's not the full source code of the browser, that only includes the core engine. The UI is still closed source.

New comment by nulld3v in "Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan"

nulld3v — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:57:25 +0000

It's not like glass syringes are out of production though? They are still pretty cheap, I get them for $0.50 each from China.

New comment by nulld3v in "DIY Soft Drinks"

nulld3v — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:46:52 +0000

Boycotts definitely have their limitations, but the Sodastream boycott seems to have had some sort of effect: https://www.timesofisrael.com/victory-for-bds-as-sodastreams..., though whether the intended effect was achieved is debatable...

New comment by nulld3v in "DIY Soft Drinks"

nulld3v — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:35:06 +0000

I've also been dabbling in this recently in an attempt to avoid buying SodaStream syrups (which are on the BDS boycott list).

Tips for working on sugar-free recipes: In some countries (like Canada), soft-drink manufacturers are required to disclose the exact amount of each artificial sweetener they use in the drink. So you can easily grab those numbers from Canadian product listings for use in your own recipes. E.g. 355ml of Diet Coke contains 131 mg aspartame + 15mg ace-K.

Also, aspartame can be difficult/slow to dissolve. It dissolves better in solutions with a low pH and a warmer temperature.

New comment by nulld3v in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

nulld3v — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:39:52 +0000

I'm not sure I fully understand you. All those OSes try very, very hard to disambiguate between apps and the user itself?

New comment by nulld3v in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

nulld3v — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:24:08 +0000

They are constantly attacked because they prevent users from modifying the system configuration, not just app developers.

New comment by nulld3v in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

nulld3v — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:01:25 +0000

Sadly, this issue is systemic: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2847

New comment by nulld3v in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

nulld3v — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:45:14 +0000

Thank you for putting in the time to do the research, this is incredibly helpful!

New comment by nulld3v in "How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips"

nulld3v — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:06:07 +0000

The current largest hydroelectric dam in the world is the Three Gorges Dam in China. It can generate 22.5GW (40% more power than the dam in 2nd place, which is also Chinese).

Since Jan 2024, China has on average constructed 23GW of new solar power every month. So China has effectively been adding a "world's largest dam" worth of solar power, every single month for the last 24 months.

New comment by nulld3v in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

nulld3v — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:43:17 +0000

It's nice for extracting data from a page into some structured format (e.g. CSV). Much quicker than trying to whip up a JS script or something.

New comment by nulld3v in "Steam Machine"

nulld3v — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:34:23 +0000

There are already headsets with decent text fidelity, but IMO the problem is now on the host side. I tried to get an XR desktop env running (Stardust https://stardustxr.org/) on Linux but ran into graphical issues. The Windows ecosystem is much better though.

New comment by nulld3v in "ESP32 and Termux"

nulld3v — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:57:56 +0000

Yes, but the 'am' command is just a CLI Java program. At that point, it would be more efficient to just boot a JVM in the binary to avoid the JVM startup cost every time a Intent/Broadcast needs to be sent.

I believe the Termux API relies on a Java/app process that runs in the background to do stuff in response to API calls. Though I guess you get it for free if you already have the API running for other reasons.

New comment by nulld3v in "Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach"

nulld3v — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:39:52 +0000

I don't really care about the notifications. I just want to read what's in the servers. Lots of communities post their announcements/links/resources in their Discord servers.

It is sometimes possible to view a Discord server without joining it, but it is painful compared to just joining the server.