Hacker News: oxym0ron

New comment by oxym0ron in "The iPhone 15 Pro’s Depth Maps"

oxym0ron — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:44:42 +0000

One thing worth noting: LIDAR is primarily optimized for fast AF and low-light focusing rather than generating full-res depth maps.

New comment by oxym0ron in "Gorhill pulls uBlock Origin Lite from Firefox store"

oxym0ron — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:40:01 +0000

Honestly I have to side with Mozilla team here. Kudos to them for trying to actually care about security and privacy. I can imagine the nightmare that people are submitting and trying to recheck everything and build those random extensions with private npm repos and whatnot.

New comment by oxym0ron in "NotebookLM's automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective"

oxym0ron — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:03:40 +0000

I would say the opposite is true - mainstream cares much less about the quality content but more about catchy headline.

Apple removes nearly 60 additional VPNs from its Russian App Store

oxym0ron — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:16:59 +0000

Article URL: https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/09/25/apple-removes-nearly-60-additional-vpns-from-its-russian-app-store-en-news

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41656247

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by oxym0ron in "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)"

oxym0ron — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 08:07:53 +0000

Yes, papers start conversations, not end them. Replication issues are part of the academic process.

Data Commons: 240B datapoints scraped from public datasets by Google

oxym0ron — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:37:10 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-datagemma-ai-llm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41616107

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint

oxym0ron — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:55:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/safe_c_plusplus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41590522

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by oxym0ron in "Did you lose your AirPods?"

oxym0ron — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:01:34 +0000

I get that AppleCare is technically insurance, but it's kinda a rip-off IMHO.

Linus Torvalds Says Rust Adoption in Kernel Lags Expectations

oxym0ron — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:58:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-talks-ai-rust-adoption-and-why-the-linux-kernel-is-the-only-thing-that-matters/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41340015

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by oxym0ron in "Pipe Syntax in SQL"

oxym0ron — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:57:31 +0000

Honestly, it seems like a band-aid on legacy query language.

New comment by oxym0ron in "Australian government approves AAPowerLink project to export solar to Singapore"

oxym0ron — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 07:32:30 +0000

There are actually already fields like that. Look at the ones in China or the US. Scaling it up is the next step.