Hacker News: oldgun

New comment by oldgun in "The path to open-sourcing the DeepSeek inference engine"

oldgun — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:15:33 +0000

Nice. We've seen some good engineering work from DeepSeek. Keep it coming.

New comment by oldgun in "The Onion buys Infowars"

oldgun — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 21:02:02 +0000

Wait. When I first saw this news on Twitter I thought it was a joke, since it was a tweet by The Onion.

New comment by oldgun in "Linux Asceticism"

oldgun — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 18:57:42 +0000

I’ve been using Linux for a long time for personal purposes and I understand what the blog says. But I also feel like it doesn’t have to be this way: Linux should be easy to use, with little hassle, friendly to newbies, with a community of support.

Over the years Linux desktop has indeed improved, but still with much problems to use. We should adopt a growth mindset instead of sticking to asceticism.

New comment by oldgun in "Tesla is launching their developer APIs"

oldgun — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 18:29:52 +0000

I'd like to hear a security expert's take on this. Something about this makes me feel real nervous.

Hacking LangChain for fun and profit

oldgun — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:37:02 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kevinhu.me/2023/07/10/hacking-langchain-for-fun-and-profit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36669866

Points: 79

# Comments: 24

Experience Sharing of Building Applications with Cassandra

oldgun — Mon, 06 Sep 2021 17:10:01 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kevinhu.me/2021/09/03/22-cassandra-experience-and-gotchas/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28435794

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A Quick Intro to Building Apps with Cassandra

oldgun — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 23:14:07 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.kevinhu.me/2021/08/18/17-cassandra-experience/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28261421

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by oldgun in "China releases videos of its Zhurong Mars rover"

oldgun — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 15:16:00 +0000

Great technological advancement. I believe congratulations is in order.

How to Save Democracy from Technology

oldgun — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 21:14:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-11-24/fukuyama-how-save-democracy-technology

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25232618

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by oldgun in "No More Google"

oldgun — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:17:42 +0000

I'm partially degoogled thanks to Hacker News as well as "Tech Twitter."

And as much as I don't think people can be completely "degoogled", we need some healthy competition to keep juggernaut's power in check. And hopefully we can nudge it towards more privacy-aware and open practices.

New comment by oldgun in "TikTok Source code published on GitHub"

oldgun — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 19:35:03 +0000

Interesting. Would be really helpful to see a more detailed expert audit on the reverse-engineered source code, and point out to the actual privacy offenses, and analyze how dangerous they really are compared to other social media apps (Twitter, Facebook, ...)

New comment by oldgun in "Amazon One – Payment using your palm"

oldgun — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 16:24:43 +0000

FWIW, people are already using Apple Pay and Google Pay through a phone with fingerprint sensors. So... it's really not a new thing we're sacrificing privacy for convenience.

U.S. to Bar Downloads of TikTok, WeChat From Appstores

oldgun — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 19:30:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/18/914322620/u-s-to-bar-downloads-of-tiktok-wechat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24520957

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by oldgun in "Show HN: My notes on Working with Go"

oldgun — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:53:11 +0000

Thanks for the work. It's quite some materials to compile. I love how you organize your thoughts and knowledge together and I've just started doing that too.

New comment by oldgun in "TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorithms work"

oldgun — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:00:41 +0000

This could be the right step towards algorithm transparency. It is critical in the information age we're in, while Facebook is promoting alt-right conspiracies, and YouTube is feeding flat-earthers.

Yes. There are more technical issues to resolve. (e.g., How do we verify the algorithm they present is the actual algorithm they use?) Perhaps third party audit, APIs for third parties to test the algorithm? We need constructive criticism than cynicism.

New comment by oldgun in "Urbit OS 1"

oldgun — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 20:21:50 +0000

If I understand correctly, Urbit is a new OS kernel and application layer, with a new weird FP language on a weird VM. Its first app is a crypto ID system.

Am I wrong or am I wrong?

New comment by oldgun in "South Korea switching their 3.3M PCs to Linux"

oldgun — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 22:04:19 +0000

As much as I want to believe it, Linux is still quite lagging in the personal computing area, where hardware support, graphics support, creativity application support, and enterprise support are still far behind Windows/Mac. Linux still has a long way to go.

Every Melody Has Been Copyrighted

oldgun — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 18:43:02 +0000

Article URL: https://youtu.be/sfXn_ecH5Rw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22320193

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by oldgun in "Google Stadia’s latest free game only has a few thousand total players"

oldgun — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 03:38:32 +0000

The author used one game as the indicator of the success of the whole platform. Doesn't seem to me as a good reasoning.

However the Stadia platform doesn't seem to be gaining a lot of traction, mostly because of -- I guess -- the network bandwidth requirement, and the limited library?

New comment by oldgun in "Ask HN: What's your cross-platform PDF / ePub reading workflow?"

oldgun — Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:51:19 +0000

I upload them to Google Play books.