Hacker News: rixrax

New comment by rixrax in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

rixrax — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:14:10 +0000

I hope next up is the performance and bloat that the LLMs can try and improve.

Especially on perf side I would wager LLMs can go from meat sacks what ever works to how do I solve this with best available algorithm and architecture (that also follows some best practises).

New comment by rixrax in "FFmpeg 8.1"

rixrax — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:23:38 +0000

Is there a 'HW' guide to show the expected performance of Vulkan compute codecs anywhere?

New comment by rixrax in "Cloudflare crawl endpoint"

rixrax — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:54:11 +0000

And while at it, ability to mount the resulting archives at some virtual root in nginx|apache. E.g. serve site-archive.extension at /somepath/site. And standalone simple webserver that can take one or more archives from command line and servers them.

New comment by rixrax in "The Brand Age"

rixrax — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:08:26 +0000

Although PG isn't wrong here, people also have larger wrists nowadays that are able to comfortably support larger watches compared to ~50 years a go, never mind at the 1940s or 1950s.

New comment by rixrax in "LineageOS 23.2"

rixrax — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:20:11 +0000

Why is this?

New comment by rixrax in "Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds"

rixrax — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:05:52 +0000

Canada?

New comment by rixrax in "Show HN: Tommy – Turn ESP32 devices into through-wall motion sensors"

rixrax — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:01:10 +0000

Any reason it couldn't run on Raspberry Pi? Also, I have some ZHA sensors that I believe are also on 2.4GHz band - will this interfere with them?

New comment by rixrax in "IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021"

rixrax — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:28:02 +0000

This is awesome! I wish Omega, Zenith, Seiko and other watch manufacturers would do the same and publish their historic catalogs online! And auto manufacturers, and really everyone who is in the kind of business where catalogs like this exists.

New comment by rixrax in "An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia"

rixrax — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 10:03:38 +0000

I think models will also become snapshots or time capsules (with obvious and non-obvious biases) that archaeologists of tomorrow (like in 500 years) will use to understand us and the change in society (e.g. how the models themselves change over timefrom encyclopaedic standpoint).

New comment by rixrax in "GPT-5"

rixrax — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:30:12 +0000

What is the current hypothesis on if the context windows would be substantially larger, what would this enable LLMs to do that is beyond capabilities of current models (other than the obvious the now getting forgetful/confused when you’ve exhausted the context)?

Launch of first 50-qubit quantum computer developed in Europe

rixrax — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 06:29:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.meetiqm.com/newsroom/press-releases/vtt-and-iqm-launch-first-50-qubit-quantum-computer-developed-in-europe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43263522

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rixrax in "Some things to expect in 2025"

rixrax — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 08:59:45 +0000

Essentially you're paying human to be a proxy between the requirements, LLM and codebase. Some people I'm talking to lament having to pay top dollar to their junior (and other kinds I'm sure) devs for this, but I think this is and will be the new reality and new normal. And instead we should start thinking how to make best of it, and how to help maximize success for these devs.

Few decades down the road though we are likely to be viewing this current situation similar to how we're looking at 'human computers'[0] of yesteryear.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing

New comment by rixrax in "JSON5 – JSON for Humans"

rixrax — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:29:38 +0000

This should have been named NOTjson-somethingv5. Or similar. Now it is far from obvious for the uninitiated that this might not be the 'latest' version of JSON. And then they end up using this incompatible format by accident, when in all likelihood standard JSON would serve equally well or better in 95% of the use cases.

Pixtral Large

rixrax — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:41:45 +0000

Article URL: https://mistral.ai/news/pixtral-large/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42194880

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rixrax in "Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke"

rixrax — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:01:25 +0000

At the Baltic Sea the cables and such break mostly because of one reason only: russia. [0]

[0] https://www.csce.gov/briefings/russias-genocide-in-ukraine/

New comment by rixrax in "Official Raspberry Pi NVMe SSD Review"

rixrax — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 21:10:21 +0000

But what about the heat sinks / fan when you mount the m2 on top? Especially /w Pi 5, to get more perf out of it, it presumably should have a sizeable heat sink complete with the fan?

New comment by rixrax in "Llms.txt"

rixrax — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 09:56:18 +0000

Rolls sleeves up to start working on custom GPT and training my own LLM to offer service to produce llms.txt for a website by letting them process the website... ;-)

New comment by rixrax in "AI is growing faster than companies can secure it, warn industry leaders"

rixrax — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 07:40:07 +0000

You're probably not wrong. But I think we should recognize that what is humanity is rather fluid. If you were to talk to the 15th century clergymen, I think they would tell the horrors of printing press and how it has/will break humanity. And they wouldn't be wrong either. Humanity evolves, and, well, that's it. And overall, hopefully, and this is where we hopefully can effect positive change, we can steer the change to more humane, and moral direction.

New comment by rixrax in "Home Assistant Presence Simulation"

rixrax — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 08:28:20 +0000

Sir. You Win teh Internets today. This has been my gripe with HA for the longest time. That YAML / GUI-only / etc. approach is just atrocious.

Unfortunately it works well enough, and there are little or no alternatives to it as far as I can tell. Were there a reasonable alternative, with a configuration as an actual code (YAML isn't), I would dump HA in a heartbeat. I mean I could even live without the GUI - just configuration as a code, and stable support for Zigbee (and BLE etc devices). But then again HA mostly works. And if it works, then...shrug.

My use case is mostly to be able to 1) monitor/understand our electricity consumption, 2) be able to turn off all/selected electrical devices when leaving house etc., 3) automatically lower/raise outside shutters based on weather/where sun is(!) to keep house cooler, 4) and as a bonus, have leak detectors send me a text if there is a leak. My setup is some 30 zigbee smart switches / sockets, couple of IKEA badring leak sensors, solar inverter and something zigbee in main electric panel to get total electric consumption. And five door/window sensors (that aren't really used for anything, but you know how one goes down the rabbit hole with these things...).

How I've made it somewhat manageable is that I run it in a following manner (first in Pi5, now in N100 -- no difference between those observed regarding HA):

- have /opt/homeassistant/config mounted to zram

- on boot unpack /opt/homeassistant/backup/latest.tar.zst -> /opt/homeassistant/config

- run HA from docker (where /opt/homeassistant/config is now on zram)

- cron will make a backup of /opt/homeassistant/config weekly (or I can run backup manually if I've made changes/addedd devices) and then these are backed up 'offsite'.

So now whenever HA goes bonkers, or more likely I've messed something up with it, end result being the same, I simply roll back to some earlier known good configuration. Docker is wonderful in this regard. Really, I don't know how else people live with the HA, other than backing up their entire config, and then re-installing.

New comment by rixrax in "Please don't mention AI again"

rixrax — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 08:01:30 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree (that first ask from ChatGPT, then double check with whatever, and that Google results have become junk - mostly). Alas, I can totally see how AI companies will monetize this by allowing advertisers to influence the answers. And not in a add-in-a-sidebar fashion, but baking the advertisers product etc. into the answers. Personally, I find this somewhat disturbing.

Indeed, I think this is a key area where regulation is needed. If answer from AI is influenced by 'something unexpected' - what ever that might be, then it has to be clearly highlighted in the answer.