Hacker News: p4bl0

New comment by p4bl0 in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

p4bl0 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:51:27 +0000

Chances are the key to those is simply lost forever.

New comment by p4bl0 in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

p4bl0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:41:06 +0000

It was KTorrent! But to be fair I just arbitrarily thought that 30MB/s would be more than enough speed (at my place in France that's probably the fastest my internet connection is capable of), tried that, it worked, in a few seconds the file was there, and that was it. I didn't try to see how fast I could go before a crash, maybe if I would have set it to 100MB/s it would have still been ok.

New comment by p4bl0 in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

p4bl0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:26:37 +0000

My sister lives in Switzerland, in a remote place in the mountain from a small town. Even over wifi the bandwidth at her place is so fast it made my BitTorrent client crash repeatedly. The solution was to disconnect my system by deactivating the wifi, relaunch my BitTorrent software, set a rate limit to the download speed at 30MB/s, and then reactivate wifi.

A CSS Engine in OCaml

p4bl0 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:35:00 +0000

Article URL: https://gazagnaire.org/blog/2026-04-02-cascade.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624440

Points: 26

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New comment by p4bl0 in "Anthropic Races to Contain Leak of Code Behind Claude AI Agent"

p4bl0 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:17:00 +0000

“Anthropic issues copyright takedown requests”.

This could really be an April's fools joke.

New comment by p4bl0 in "Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed"

p4bl0 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:15:34 +0000

I used ninja only a few years ago when contributing to KDE software (Dolphin, Kate, KTextEditor, etc.). I had no prior experience with it and it was easy to apprehend, so a rather good experience.

English Wikipedia prohibits the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite articles

p4bl0 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:51:26 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548789

Points: 7

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New comment by p4bl0 in "LLMs predict my coffee"

p4bl0 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:42:26 +0000

The title is very misleading. This has almost nothing to do with coffee. I was expecting that the input would be the parameters of a coffee recipe (like quantities of coffee and water, grind size, etc for a given type of preparation), and the output to have something to do with coffee too (like extraction time, rate, etc.). It actually is just about water cooling down. Also, it doesn't actually ask the LLM for actual prediction about the result of the experiment, only to generate a ±textbook formula for the situation (which is a good point since LLMs aren't made for that at all, but contributes to make the title misleading).

New comment by p4bl0 in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"

p4bl0 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:06:46 +0000

It's always a good thing to have multiple players and I hope we can have actual EU-based alternatives, but I feel like this project, simply being a rebranded NextCloud as far as I can tell, is less interesting than La Suite numérique [1] developed by the French government or CryptPad [2] developed by XWiki, a French company based in Paris.

[1] https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/

[2] https://cryptpad.org/

New comment by p4bl0 in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"

p4bl0 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:46:49 +0000

> it’s not popular enough for LLMs to meddle with

About that, I was sad to see that TDMRep [1] doesn't provide a way to signal reservation for RSS feed, so it has to be done at the HTTP level, otherwise the same content delivered in RSS feed can be legitimately scrapped and mined even if the author opted-out using an HTML meta tag on the website.

[1] https://www.w3.org/community/tdmrep/

New comment by p4bl0 in "Payphone Go"

p4bl0 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:51:50 +0000

This is amazing. I would love to have this game in France! We have a geocaching scene (https://www.geocaching.com/, https://france-geocaching.fr/), but I really like the idea with payphones and this system of calling to claim findings.

The "love letter to a disappearing piece of infrastructure" bit makes me think of the payphone pictures that are published in each of 2600 magazine issues: https://www.2600.com/payphones

New comment by p4bl0 in "MenuetOS – a GUI OS that boots from a single floppy disk"

p4bl0 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:44:35 +0000

I remember stumbling uppon Menuet when it was still 32 bits only, (probably around 2006?). I tried it, booting from an actual floppy disk at the time. Nowadays, I don't even know where I would find a computer that still has a floppy disk drive. Time flies.

Balancing your dataset? Mind the privacy leaks

p4bl0 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:57:22 +0000

Article URL: https://desfontain.es/blog/smote-and-mirrors.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875513

Points: 1

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New comment by p4bl0 in "YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers"

p4bl0 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:22:55 +0000

Comparing artists and a company like Google is… bold of you.

If you're thinking about content creators, you're just wrong. Most of them get almost nothing from YouTube ads, and for those who do, a few of them have no money have multiple revenue sources of which YouTube AdSense is very rarely the main one. Many do in-video product placements, which are not affected by being able to get audio only or having an ad blocker, and many have things like a Patreon, Tipeee, Ulule, of some sort. I pay monthly directly to the creators I watch the most on these platforms and who do not have millions of followers, because that's what they say help them the most.

Really, thinking Google worsening our user experience is even remotely something they do in favor of content creators having a hard time at the end of the month is beyond naive.

New comment by p4bl0 in "YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers"

p4bl0 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:24:50 +0000

That's a very narrow view. YouTube is the only reason I have a Google account. Because of it I use some of their other products. And because I'm connected to my YouTube/Google account, they can track my behavior across products and across devices. My usage profile has value if only because it can be correlated to others (who don't bock ads), and because I share link to their platform on social media and messaging app. That's still true even if I'm able from time to time to continue listening to a YouTube video while my phone is in my pocket. But I will share less link and leave them a lot less usage data if they push me away from their products.

New comment by p4bl0 in "YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers"

p4bl0 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:50:07 +0000

What a shame. What's the point even? I'm not going subscribe to YouTube premium anyway, and even less install and use the YouTube app. What happens with this move is just that I will just use YouTube less. I believe that's the case for most people who chose to use YouTube in a browser precisely for background playback.

As an example: knowing that I won't be able to keep the sound playing for the 5 minutes in between two buses when I need to walk and pay attention, I'll probably just launch a podcast from the beginning of my hour of transportation so that I'm not interrupted. For these five minutes, they loose me for almost an hour.

New comment by p4bl0 in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

p4bl0 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:47:48 +0000

The standard of living is higher in France than in eastern Europe, and even in France that's considered a high salary.

New comment by p4bl0 in "I made my own Git"

p4bl0 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:04:21 +0000

Nice post :). It made me think of ugit: DIY Git in Python [1] which is still by far my favorite of this kind of posts. It really goes deep into Git internals while managing to stay easy to follow along the way.

[1] https://www.leshenko.net/p/ugit/

New comment by p4bl0 in "A static site generator written in POSIX shell"

p4bl0 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:00:25 +0000

I did something similar a (very) long time ago (15 years back!), a static site generator and blog engine entirely coded in sh (yes, not even Bash) + coreutils. The idea was to use those scripts in git hooks, as they provide a template engine that allows to use the Git repository as a storage backend and publishing method, both for posts content (as file or as commit bodies) and for meta data about posts (author, date, etc). It was fun to build and got a few dozen users at the time, some even contributed small bugfixes and features :).

The README is here: https://p4bl0.net/shebang/fugitive-readme.html

New comment by p4bl0 in "Yes, It's Fascism"

p4bl0 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 20:55:14 +0000

An additional short read which is really worth it: Il fascismo eterno by Umberto Eco, in which the author describes 14 properties of fascists regimes.

It's been translated in English as Ur-fascism and is available online for free at the anarchist library: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fasci....