Hacker News: owl_vision

New comment by owl_vision in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

owl_vision — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:48:48 +0000

fsck - 18+ obviously can't just fsck around filesystems

Racket 9.1 Is Available

owl_vision — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:00:12 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2026/02/racket-v9-1.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139464

Points: 3

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IPCrypt: A common approach to IP Address encryption

owl_vision — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:37:32 +0000

Article URL: https://ipcrypt-std.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467222

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Scalable Oral Exams with an ElevenLabs Voice AI Agent

owl_vision — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:10:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighting-fire-with-fire-scalable-oral.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460602

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by owl_vision in "Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH"

owl_vision — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:15:02 +0000

something like this, i recon:

  $ tar cf - ~/.shrc | ssh target '(cd ~ && tar xf -)'

New comment by owl_vision in "Heartbeats in Distributed Systems"

owl_vision — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:40:36 +0000

I did this systematically: at the first sign of outlier in performance one system would move itself to another platform and shut itself down. The shutdown meant turn all services off and let someone log in to investigate and rearrange it again. This system allowed different roles to be assigned to different platform. The platform was bare metal or bhyve vm. It worked perfect.

New comment by owl_vision in "IP blocking the UK is not enough to comply with the Online Safety Act"

owl_vision — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 23:55:25 +0000

what happens if an IP address is not in the geo db? For example: 2606:4700::6811:

New comment by owl_vision in "Swift on FreeBSD Preview"

owl_vision — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 02:11:16 +0000

Qt has grown so huge that I rather choose Tk or GTK for cross platform GUI.

i would love to see how Swift will do cross platform gui.

New comment by owl_vision in "First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)"

owl_vision — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:14:20 +0000

Ramachandran, the Temporal Lobes and God - Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z4B5BYbjf8

New comment by owl_vision in "Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'"

owl_vision — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:22:35 +0000

How does a company define or at least describe company culture and displays it up front? I am genuinely curious, and not trying to start any sort of flame wars.

New comment by owl_vision in "Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends"

owl_vision — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:07:07 +0000

an offspring to build your own minimal BSD UNIX system: https://www.smolbsd.org/

New comment by owl_vision in "Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends"

owl_vision — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:02:20 +0000

i ran NetBSD as a desktop on BeagleBoneBlack from circa 2010 until recently when I donated the hardware to a CompSci student.

...and as others mentioned it: the rump kernel.

New comment by owl_vision in "OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself"

owl_vision — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:59:58 +0000

What were the resource setups? How do they compare to linux resource setups?

Defaults in current are in etc.amd64/login.conf. https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/src/etc...

(p.s.: the bubble are cool. highly distracting to me, hence I could not read the article in full.)

New comment by owl_vision in "Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++"

owl_vision — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 15:29:39 +0000

i always emphasize to new programmers to learn any language and practice it with respect and discipline. All languages have dark corners, the human who can reason which constructs are appropriate.

New comment by owl_vision in "Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++"

owl_vision — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:23:06 +0000

> Carbon exists so that it's possible to migrate a large C++ code base, like Chrome, from C++ to something saner, incrementally.

_Incrementally_: a C++ project can be incrementally made more sane also using constructs to avoid and constructs to use once the problem domain is confined. In my past, I had successfully implemented this quest for 3 different fairly large C++ projects. This is not a strong selling point for carbon.

New comment by owl_vision in "New AI architecture is 100x faster in reasoning with just 1k training examples"

owl_vision — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 17:24:36 +0000

perceptrons, memory-in-a-box, back-propagation (even though it's computation expensive), Long-term-short-term memory, Support Vector Machines and other Neural Networks.

In the book "Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach" by Stuart Russell and Peter Norviq, you may find more gems.

New comment by owl_vision in "Stock Market and Financial Data (API, Data Viewer, Excel Export)"

owl_vision — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 17:57:02 +0000

this is just a link to a signup page.

New comment by owl_vision in "The U.S. debt outlook is so dire it now resembles the student loan crisis"

owl_vision — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 16:54:37 +0000

Switzerland?

Traceable Randomness

owl_vision — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 01:31:54 +0000

Article URL: https://random.colorado.edu/concepts/traceable-randomness

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44577818

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by owl_vision in "Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs"

owl_vision — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:36:14 +0000

i recommend this paper to understand brain-state-in-a-box[0]. In my studies of linear algebra / calculus, we had optimum calculus reaching error minimum.

help me out, i learnt it a long time ago, would "Optimum in der Infinitesimalrechnung" be optimum calculus?

[0] https://www.dam.brown.edu/people/elie/am41%202012/gBSB.pdf

(edit: wording)