Hacker News: savoyard

New comment by savoyard in "Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein"

savoyard — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:21:07 +0000

This is exactly right; the phenomenon is known as axial parallelism.

New comment by savoyard in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

savoyard — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:07:32 +0000

> It should be a white flag.

And it will be.

New comment by savoyard in "LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?"

savoyard — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:57:44 +0000

Relevant:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/

New comment by savoyard in "The brain navigates new spaces by 'darting' between reality and mental maps"

savoyard — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:55:11 +0000

Just wait till you hear Geoffrey Hinton’s “little pink elephants” routine; it will all make sense then (it won’t). The mystery is almost rivaled by that other mystery of why some of us fail to be mystified.

New comment by savoyard in "Zuckerberg appeared to know Llama trained on Libgen"

savoyard — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:38:02 +0000

Library Genesis is living up to its name.

New comment by savoyard in "SimpleQA"

savoyard — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:14:40 +0000

“Twain never said it.”

https://marktwainstudies.com/the-apocryphal-twain-things-we-...

New comment by savoyard in "The Diamond Sutra, the oldest dated printed book (2016)"

savoyard — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 18:38:34 +0000

https://idp.bl.uk/collection/51FDAEAFB4A24E2E9981692A98130BC...

New comment by savoyard in "Sunlight, a Certificate Transparency log implementation"

savoyard — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 22:15:27 +0000

Curiously, “Sunlight” was the codename for the original CT spec:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-laurie-pki-sunlight/0...

New comment by savoyard in "Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem"

savoyard — Sun, 24 Sep 2023 21:37:22 +0000

That would be F7. The same works in Chrome.

New comment by savoyard in "Update on KDP Title Creation Limits"

savoyard — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:39:30 +0000

> What's the name of the law where the longer something has already been around, the longer it will likely stay around in the future?

The Lindy effect.

New comment by savoyard in "The Barbie-Oppenheimer Double Feature Is Happening, Data Shows"

savoyard — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:49:53 +0000

Not always. Here is Isao Takahata [1]:

“The response was different depending on which film was shown first. My Neighbor Totoro would make them happy, then this Grave of the Fireflies… Those who saw Totoro first didn’t want to see Fireflies to the end. Those who saw Fireflies first didn’t have that problem, and stayed to the end. The double featuring was a problem, I’d say.”

[1] http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/grave/faq.html#totoro

New comment by savoyard in "Vickrey Auction"

savoyard — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:25:45 +0000

A Vickrey auction is what effectively happens when bidders “snipe” on eBay.

New comment by savoyard in "PGP signatures on PyPI: worse than useless"

savoyard — Sun, 21 May 2023 18:26:28 +0000

> For file encryption, there's age. This uses all modern crypto and does authenticated encryption.

GnuPG offers AEAD encryption since version 2.3.0.

New comment by savoyard in "TOTP Authentication with Free Software"

savoyard — Thu, 04 May 2023 02:16:19 +0000

For command-line use, there is oathtool, which is part of the OATH Toolkit by Simon Josefsson.

https://oath-toolkit.nongnu.org

New comment by savoyard in "Garum Masala"

savoyard — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 03:05:51 +0000

> Even the name of the island itself derives from Sanskrit: dvipa-sakhadara means the “Island of Bliss.”

Foreign Sailors on Socotra: The Inscriptions and Drawings from the Cave Hoq (a book mentioned in the article) refers to this as an “academic myth” and suggests that the island’s name is of South Arabian origin.

New comment by savoyard in "Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor"

savoyard — Thu, 26 May 2022 01:01:14 +0000

One can definitely play Pong on MAME:

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/machine...

New comment by savoyard in "Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD"

savoyard — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:00:57 +0000

“Examining Load Average” by Ray Walker:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9001

New comment by savoyard in "100k Stars"

savoyard — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 02:30:36 +0000

Notes on implementation:

https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/casestudies/100000st...

New comment by savoyard in "Stacked images of the comet, photobombed by Starlink satellites"

savoyard — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:03:00 +0000

“And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night.”

New comment by savoyard in "OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera"

savoyard — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 21:52:33 +0000

BlackHole [1] is a modern alternative to Soundflower.

[1] https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole