Hacker News: nxobject

New comment by nxobject in "Wine ported to OpenBSD"

nxobject — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:42:02 +0000

Hey, modern versions of Excel have a GPU-accelerated computation engine.

New comment by nxobject in "Monte-Carlo Simulations"

nxobject — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:35:43 +0000

As a statistician, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention bootstrapping - theoretically distinct, but another demonstration of the power of randomization techniques.

New comment by nxobject in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

nxobject — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:32:51 +0000

> moat widening between the model providers, their government partners, and the public.

Part of me wonders whether the NSA/other TLA has either (a) an unrestricted model from a lab with less scruples like SpaceX, or (b) an in-house model, either abliterated or with data they've bought themselves.

New comment by nxobject in "BIPM decides to stop adding leap seconds to UTC"

nxobject — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:27:25 +0000

Having heard that neutrinos explained the scientific basis of zodiac signs on personality, I'd hope that they'd be more busy trying to set up their underground neutrino detectors /s.

New comment by nxobject in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

nxobject — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:43:42 +0000

Welcome back, Microsoft Bob!

New comment by nxobject in "Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support"

nxobject — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:49:18 +0000

Well, yes, this is a project to create a fully libre, GPL'd boot chain free of binary blobs. The few users I know stick with aging ThinkPads. I'm not sure what you expected.

New comment by nxobject in "The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27"

nxobject — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:31:33 +0000

Good on OP for pronouncing the Roman numeral "X" as His Steveness intended.

New comment by nxobject in "Dutch tax authorities cancel Microsoft 365 cloud rollout and turn to open source"

nxobject — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:19:44 +0000

I suspect the fact that the Netherlands hosts the ICC might have made this a little more salient, too.

New comment by nxobject in "A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices"

nxobject — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:15:34 +0000

If anything, Apple has every incentive to hop on the Linux Foundation train like MS. Just for containers, of course ;)

New comment by nxobject in "A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices"

nxobject — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:21:14 +0000

I actually see the logic there: Apple as a “harmless consumer device company” is probably one will remain very geographically diversified in the long run, between the China and America markets.

(Interestingly enough, I think PRC and ROC are combined in public financials.)

New comment by nxobject in "A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices"

nxobject — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:16:23 +0000

At this point, I’m sure bankrolls a significant amount of R&D in new MSes and build-out capital, in return for guaranteed capacity on the first production lines. I’m not sure the extra juice of outright ownership is worth the squeeze.

(As much as conglomerates are fun…)

New comment by nxobject in "OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed"

nxobject — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:35:55 +0000

But can I also get an app that replaces "Open" with "Butt"?

New comment by nxobject in "Show HN: Happy Hangul Day! An RNN for Generating Korean Handwriting Strokes"

nxobject — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:47:29 +0000

Given that you found pressure added useful information about a stroke might be continued, do you think adding tilt angle or velocity might also help?

New comment by nxobject in "Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say"

nxobject — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:25:05 +0000

Who needs a System 1 model when you have a good ol Bayesian spam filter?

New comment by nxobject in "Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry"

nxobject — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:31:50 +0000

The certification documents read like the world's most abstruse bar trivia quiz...

"1.12 Threads

1.12.1 Cancellation Points

Question 31: Which C stdio functions have cancellation points that occur when a thread is executing?"

https://www.opengroup.org/csq/repository/noreferences=1&RID=...

New comment by nxobject in "Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder"

nxobject — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:48:01 +0000

At this point, I think AI companies should start taking out insurance policies for the inevitable civil suits. I'd love to be the once to price that...

New comment by nxobject in "Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say"

nxobject — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:43:28 +0000

"Thanks. Experiences like yours are the load-bearing critical paths towards a good first-principles mental model of behavioral contracts.

If you'd like to continue to perform a smoke test while trying to avoid noisy data with fake tips, a viable approach to prototyping our decision-making model would be to synthesize real crimes, and collect profiling data over time on how law enforcement agencies respond.

I'd suggest doing a grid search over the design space of all crimes, ranging from petit larceny to the use of weapons of mass destruction.

Would you like design a plan for this next stage of your project's implementation?"

New comment by nxobject in "Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder"

nxobject — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:39:09 +0000

> But do we all get that the consequences for this irresponsible behaviour are part of this test?

We'd absolutely nail people for SWATting or pranks. Why should this be any different -- after all, the real-life consequences are be the same...

New comment by nxobject in "Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making"

nxobject — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 20:03:19 +0000

Honestly, I'm glad that people later to the AI game are exploring niches other than state-of-the-art "smartest" models – I'd love AI applications that tackle the small hassles in life.

New comment by nxobject in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

nxobject — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:24:22 +0000

I don’t know which would be funnier: either (a) Trump wins the Peace Prize for a second year in a row, or (b) they go down the designated survivor list of succession…