Hacker News: nyclounge

New comment by nyclounge in "A critical look at MCP"

nyclounge — Sun, 11 May 2025 10:29:00 +0000

> “RPC-like use of WebSocket adds overhead” – Actually, WebSocket reduces overhead in high-frequency RPC-like interactions by keeping a persistent connection.

Is this really true? Thought the whole reason to use SSE is that it is more lightweight than WebSocket?

New comment by nyclounge in "Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster"

nyclounge — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 23:23:55 +0000

This is NOT true. At least on the 1.5B version model on my local machine. It blocks answers when using offline mode. Perplexity has an uncensored a version, but don't thing it is open on how they did it.

New comment by nyclounge in "AI coding and the peanut butter and jelly problem"

nyclounge — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 14:55:48 +0000

I think you and the parent may be talking about 2 different things.

Do I want to use an LLM to do it from business owner perspective? Yeah probably it is cheaper and more convenient. Which one I want to use, depending the problem we are solving here right?

I'm more concern about the integrity of the current digital infrastructure. In that sense I would NOT trust ANY thing really important to anything digital, much less to LLM. Can I use it for exploration then require an actually human expert approval/edit. Absolutely!

As long as the digital doesn't result in significant physical or financial damage.

Edit: and for HN ppl, of course the LLM will have have to be open weight and all and run locally in a air gaped GPU, preferably in a Faraday cage.

New comment by nyclounge in "My imaginary children aren't using your streaming service"

nyclounge — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 12:00:52 +0000

Yeah I just think if we are getting to the point where we need that type of control of our kids, then we might as well NOT give them a smart phone.

Maybe first let them use fully open sourced computer so they know what is going on. Being on smart phone is like being a 2nd class citizen of computer. Let them use self-hosted app before using apps on smart phone alternatives. So they know what they are getting them selves into on the smart phone. Beside the with EFM harzard of these smart devices, it would be good to have kids focus more on real things when they are out about.

New comment by nyclounge in "My imaginary children aren't using your streaming service"

nyclounge — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:24:19 +0000

Never used these parental control thing, but recently visited a friend with kids, and saw how she uses it to 'mange' her children, and these parental control system feels totally like corporate ACL management software. I mean at some point why don't you just put a GUI in front of AWS ACL system and just call it a day.

New comment by nyclounge in "But what if I want a faster horse?"

nyclounge — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 13:27:29 +0000

>But everything else is pushing new driven by A/B tests UI optimized for engagement

That really hit the nail. Advertising industry along has ruined web! Everything is for trigger what action we want user to do on the page, how can we see what user is thinking.

Very creepy indeed from a user perspective. Now days I don't care if telementary is aggregated or open or if it helps developer makes better software.

How about NO telementary!!! NO tracking!!!

New comment by nyclounge in "Fintech founder charged with fraud; AI app found to be humans in the Philippines"

nyclounge — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:26:37 +0000

They are just heavily subsidized!!!

We ought to just view and treat them as defense contractors and 3 letter agencies!

New comment by nyclounge in "Facebook Downloader"

nyclounge — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 15:32:18 +0000

Is this a front end to yt-dlp? Like https://github.com/Rudloff/alltube ?

New comment by nyclounge in "Lessons from open source in the Mexican government"

nyclounge — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 11:14:22 +0000

It is much more economical to invest in local open source people to take care of the tech need than big corp. Big corp are notorious unreliable over long period of time, their incentives are NOT aligned with the customers, only with profit and/or 3 letter agencies.

New comment by nyclounge in "Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015)"

nyclounge — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:07:11 +0000

VP seems like just a title that corporation gives out when they run out of brownie points or something.

New comment by nyclounge in "Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights"

nyclounge — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:55:24 +0000

>Amazing. All of this truly wild, impressive technology and some of the absolute best engineers in the world, just to shove more ads in people's eyeballs. Sigh.

If only which that were true, it is more like building our own digital prison.

New comment by nyclounge in "Okta Bcrypt incident lessons for designing better APIs"

nyclounge — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 22:51:23 +0000

Would scrypt solve this problem? Or is it same as bcrypt? Or is scrypt depending on the hardware?

New comment by nyclounge in "Transformer – Spreadsheet"

nyclounge — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 07:53:38 +0000

One can also argue this can be done within db such as postgres have everything store procedures/functions/triggers. In some ways DBs are just Spreadsheets with really robust querying languages.

New comment by nyclounge in "Paper Apps"

nyclounge — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:57:50 +0000

Don't think it is sad at all. Glade to the reverting from digital to analog. To be honest we don't need digital stuff, a lot of just makes people lazier.

Hope in the future people will always have a physical counter part (Certificate of Deposit) for their IMPORTANT digital assets such as money.

Projects like this help people to move some of the important items to physical medium. If needed they can take a pic of the notepad as a history. Seems like the ultimate killer app to me.

New comment by nyclounge in "NordVPN says its new protocol can circumvent VPN blockers"

nyclounge — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:21:14 +0000

>HN blocks (ghost blocks) VPNs. Make a new account from a VPN. Post. Open a private/incognito window. Load up the thread. Your comment won't appear. Give it few days. It never appears. It only appears for you when you're logged in.

Wow is that true?

New comment by nyclounge in "Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history"

nyclounge — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:12:40 +0000

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871371#42872454

We all agree this kind of leak should be disclosed. However normally security researchers don't just leaks specific URL and etc. This may be what the parent is referring to.

New comment by nyclounge in "Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history"

nyclounge — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 23:06:54 +0000

Why is ClickHouse exposing unauthenticated database access at port 9000 to the public? Is this the default behavior or did DeepSeek open it up for dev purposes?

New comment by nyclounge in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

nyclounge — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 21:57:23 +0000

Definitely would make a lot more sense, if the leaderships are just secretly wallfacers.

New comment by nyclounge in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"

nyclounge — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:10:43 +0000

What if some of us don't use one of google, ms, yahoo, big emails?

New comment by nyclounge in "DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL"

nyclounge — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:05:06 +0000

When I try to Sign Up with Email. I get.

>I'm sorry but your domain is currently not supported.

What kind domain email does deepseek accept?