Hacker News: pythux

New comment by pythux in "How we lost communication to entertainment"

pythux — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 23:09:19 +0000

Thank you for explaining the issue with such clarity. This is one of the best comments I’ve read for a while.

New comment by pythux in "Qwen3-Omni-Flash-2025-12-01：a next-generation native multimodal large model"

pythux — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:01:12 +0000

They link to: https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen3-omni-68d100a86... from the blog post but it does seem like this redirects to their main space on HF so maybe they didn't yet make the model public?

New comment by pythux in "Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta"

pythux — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:32:19 +0000

Hey, thanks for the kind words. I just wanted to clarify that Brave Search is 100% independent and doesn’t source results from any third -party (see here for more details: https://brave.com/blog/search-independence/)

Disclaimer: I work at Brave

Is GitHub Down?

pythux — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:54:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/kk58nfytx0c7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45527755

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pythux in "How Trump's second term just made digital sovereignty a European priority"

pythux — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 15:39:56 +0000

Kagi is not independent: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-details/search-sources.htm...

Disclaimer: I work at Brave.

New comment by pythux in "Ecosia is teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index"

pythux — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:47:51 +0000

> If the story turns out like it did with Cliqz/Hubert Burda (the other big German publisher) it will mean reinterpreting privacy as keeping the American companies out of the loop but sharing the data with the German publisher is OK, because they are clearly the good guys and can be trusted to treat your data responsibly.

Your sentence seems to imply that Cliqz was collecting "[the] data" like American companies (which companies? Which data?). Can you clarify what you are referring to?

Disclaimer: I worked at Cliqz

New comment by pythux in "Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5"

pythux — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:25:12 +0000

These models are not of the same nature either. Their training was done in a different way. A uniform naming (even with explicit number of parameters) would still be misleading.

New comment by pythux in "Ask HN: Is Proton Mail Down?"

pythux — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:14:08 +0000

Update on the status page as of 16h10 CET:

"Technical difficulties Investigating - We are currently experiencing intermittent network issues affecting some of our users. We are working to fully restore services as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience. Jan 09, 2025 - 16:10 CET"

This seems to impact VPN, Calendar, etc.

New comment by pythux in "Ask HN: Is Proton Mail Down?"

pythux — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:08:28 +0000

I can confirm that both web client and iOS apps cannot connect to servers at this point. There was a server outage earlier today, not sure if it's related.

Ask HN: Is Proton Mail Down?

pythux — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:02:28 +0000

Getting this error for a while now but their status page (https://status.proton.me/) doesn't show any issue so far:

"Something went wrong We couldn't load this page. Please refresh the page or check your internet connection. Error: Servers are unreachable. Please try again in a few minutes"

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42646300

Points: 15

# Comments: 13

New comment by pythux in "DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source"

pythux — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 17:12:36 +0000

Hey, let me forward that to someone more knowledgeable about this topic. We'll get back to you. Thanks for the feedback!

New comment by pythux in "DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source"

pythux — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 17:11:07 +0000

It can be both, we have people who look at community feedback on a daily basis, but engineers also tend to be out there on HN and Reddit, etc. and today it was the case that I saw the comment and could jump in straight away.

New comment by pythux in "The secret inside One Million Checkboxes"

pythux — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 13:10:04 +0000

I just wanted to thank you for sharing your experience in such details. Wishing you all the best on your path to recovery and beyond.

New comment by pythux in "DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source"

pythux — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:12:39 +0000

Hi, Brave engineer here,

May I ask when you switched away from Brave Search? We've been doing work to reduce the amount of captchas a few months ago and we stopped getting feedback about this issue at that point. If it's still happening, it's something we will look into again.

Also, are you a user of ProtonVPN by any chance?

Thanks for your help,

New comment by pythux in "DuckDuckGo was down"

pythux — Fri, 24 May 2024 10:05:09 +0000

That is not fully accurate. Brave Search is fully independent - the last dependency on Bing was dropped more than a year ago, but even at the time the dependency would not have prevented Brave Search from functioning during an event like yesterday’s Bing outage - it would have resulted in a drop of quality on a subset of complicated queries, though.

The “augmentation with Google” that you mention is an optional feature that only works in Brave browser and doesn’t mean Brave Search is less independent than in other browsers (but it might mean that the quality is increased for some queries; or at least closer to Google results in these cases).

I think when talking about independence it is important to make a distinction between “dependent” which means “cannot work at all if the provider goes down” (e.g. yesterday’s outage) and “dependent” meaning that the service would continue to operate but with some amount of degradation of service. It’s a spectrum. Yesterday we saw that some services could not operate at all when Bing was down.

Disclaimer: I work at Brave.

New comment by pythux in "DuckDuckGo was down"

pythux — Fri, 24 May 2024 08:22:38 +0000

Qwant was not usable yesterday during the Bing outage so that pretty much shows they cannot function without Bing (even if they do have some auxiliary indexes of some sort)

New comment by pythux in "DuckDuckGo was down"

pythux — Fri, 24 May 2024 08:21:03 +0000

Qwant also relies on Bing (and was not usable during yesterday's incident)

New comment by pythux in "DuckDuckGo was down"

pythux — Thu, 23 May 2024 13:33:47 +0000

What makes you think that Google would agree to such a deal?

New comment by pythux in "DuckDuckGo was down"

pythux — Thu, 23 May 2024 13:30:18 +0000

Bing does not work me at the moment (maybe they can service partial traffic? Unclear if it’s better/worse than a few hours ago when the outage started)

New comment by pythux in "DuckDuckGo was down"

pythux — Thu, 23 May 2024 10:20:44 +0000

Thanks! At the moment we are not observing any 500s on our end so it would definitely be very useful to get a screen recording so that we can pin-point any issue that you are facing.