Hacker News: ruune

New comment by ruune in "Language models are injective and hence invertible"

ruune — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:33:46 +0000

Clarification [0] by the authors. In short: no, you can't.

[0] https://x.com/GladiaLab/status/1983812121713418606

New comment by ruune in "History of Cycling Maps"

ruune — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 11:24:55 +0000

Above the main text section, in the menu, click on more and choose a publisher

Edit: assuming you are on mobile. Otherwise just pick a publisher from the menu

New comment by ruune in "Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever"

ruune — Thu, 29 May 2025 17:57:04 +0000

Don't they use https://g.co now? Or are there still new internal goo.gl links created?

Edit: Google is using a g.co link on the "Your device is booting another OS" screen that appears when booting up my Pixel running GrapheneOS. Will be awkward when they kill that service and the hard coded link in the phones bios is just dead

New comment by ruune in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

ruune — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:36:33 +0000

Germany is also the biggest market in the EU. Without actual numbers this proves nothing. And with a platform that primarily relies on speech I struggle to come up with a huge list of non-speech-related offenses that could come up. Also, we're taking about a platform owned by an heavily opinionated US gov official here, come on...

New comment by ruune in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

ruune — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:30:23 +0000

Alice Weidel is in almost every talk show I watch, was invited to almost every major debate and everyone is doing a great job of normalizing the AfD. Every time someone from there complains about not being allowed to say what they want it's on a stage with a mic in hand and them being allowed to say whatever they want. So while I don't really agree on the "Nazi" part they're definitely not silenced. And apparently no one in this thread can tell me what freedom I'm missing despite claiming I do. Just give me some statistic or some example of systematic suppression of speech if it's that obvious to anyone but me

New comment by ruune in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

ruune — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:24:40 +0000

That's great and all, but last time I checked I didn't live in a country with a grand leader. Germany's chancellor is looking at loosing an election in less than a week. So I ask again, and I'm actually serious about this question: What opinion am I not allowed to express? (Except insults and denying the death of 6 million Jews)

New comment by ruune in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

ruune — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:09:19 +0000

Tell me more. I live here and have never encountered a situation where I was not allowed to express my opinions in a systematic way. So I don't know but would be delighted to

New comment by ruune in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

ruune — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:30:03 +0000

Am I missing something? How? The users would've went to Meta or Google I assume

New comment by ruune in "Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites"

ruune — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:04:16 +0000

It's BIP, Bruttoinlandsprodukt, in german

New comment by ruune in "Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux"

ruune — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:40:57 +0000

It really depends on the level of cheats. Someone using wall hacks has a huge advantage, depending on the game, but it doesn't take that much more skill to outplay them. But when you get to a point where the cheats aren't just a tool anymore but do most of the work, the skills required to still win get so astronomically high that you will lose every time unless you are a top 0.1% player. Which isn't really fun anymore. And many cheats nowadays are exactly that: practically unbeatable. Not a challenge, not hard but doable with enough work, just unbeatable

New comment by ruune in "Helping wikis move away from Fandom"

ruune — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:58:30 +0000

Not a lawyer, I'm guessing here. I'd assume the intention matters a lot. Scrape bots don't intend to cause trouble, they intend to get your data (for free). Same way as when some famous person tells people on Twitter to visit a website or when some poor blog gets the hug of death from HN. The intention wasn't to bring down the site.

Aside from that: is DDosing actually illegal (under US law)?

New comment by ruune in "A $1k Wheelchair"

ruune — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:59:03 +0000

These never made it further than "I'm buying this because I like MrBeast/Logan Paul/etc." at least as far as I can tell. These wheelchairs are supposed to become good enough that any regular disabled person that can't walk* will seriously consider them even without knowing who makes them.

*English isn't my first language, no idea what a proper inoffensive way to describe the target audience is. I mean no harm :)

New comment by ruune in "Nearly half of Nvidia's revenue comes from four mystery whales each buying $3B+"

ruune — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 19:46:30 +0000

Looking at the release dates from RTX 4000 [0] it's likely, yes

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_40_series

New comment by ruune in "Berkshire halves Apple stake, boosts cash to $277B as it gets 'defensive'"

ruune — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 19:32:30 +0000

A bubble burst or similar doesn't have to crash the whole economy. It definitely can, especially when it's stuff like financial or real estate. A tech bubble burst would devalue many of the highest valued stocks but doesn't have to take the entire USD down with it.

That being said, I haven't studied economics and am very much a layman. So if someone wanna correct me, please do!

New comment by ruune in "Show HN: A source-available billing system I've spent 18 months building"

ruune — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:47:22 +0000

krachtig is such a great word

New comment by ruune in "Find My Device on Android"

ruune — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:30:01 +0000

Quick search gave these. I've never used any of those so I can't recommend one, but I have heard some good stuff about Orbit. Maybe there is someone here who has actual first hand experiences with them?

https://findorbit.com/en-eu/products/orbit-x-glasses-eu

https://home.tag8.co/products/dolphin-smart-eye-wear-tracker

New comment by ruune in "NASA engineers make progress toward understanding Voyager 1 issue"

ruune — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:30:14 +0000

That's an incredibly interesting thing in my opinion. Even if we send colony ships now, the odds of them arriving to a planet thousands years later that is already inhabited by humans or human descendents because our technology evolved over that time it non zero. Combined with relative time it gets even more weirder, because an almost-lightspeed ship we'd send could be surpassed by something much more advanced in a matter of days (spaceship time). So when do we send ships? I think there's a Kurzgesagt video about this somewhere

New comment by ruune in "YouTube dominates TV streaming in US, per Nielsen's latest report"

ruune — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:51:45 +0000

On mobile that's the biggest reason I use ReVanced. Sure, blocking ads is nice and all, but I'm paying for premium anyway. I just don't want to see shorts

1: https://github.com/ReVanced

New comment by ruune in "Pandoc"

ruune — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:01:49 +0000

(not a lawyer, not legal advice) With Pandoc being GPLv3 you can't just link it with your software. Distributing pandoc standalone (different, unmodified binary) and calling it from your software should be okay as they're technically different programs. Probably requires further investigation and maybe a lawyer though.

New comment by ruune in "Show HN: Anki/Duolingo-like app using educational YouTube videos"

ruune — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 23:51:56 +0000

> and I think people overestimate the educational value of the former.

I disagree. Some people might overestimate how in-depth the information is, but the educational value of these videos lies in giving someone a basic understanding of something they otherwise wouldn't have learnt about at all. The lower information density helps making the video easier to understand and thus easier to consume, compared to something like a Havard class.

If you want to learn something in-depth, an actual class, a book, etc. will of course always be better, but if that's neither required nor wanted, the infotainment is just fine.