Hacker News: sli

New comment by sli in "A Matter Wi-Fi Light Bulb in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W"

sli — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:37:55 +0000

Well all of the linker script is just two standard memory map files, one for the 2040 and one for the 2350, so really it suggests that this needed very little code to make this work. The 6.4% shell represents a shebang line, two comments, and a single `set -e` call, after all.

New comment by sli in "Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain"

sli — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:21:11 +0000

This is one of the reasons why all of my browsers identify as a recent Chrome version. All of those problems just up and disappear. I started doing that when Google claimed (lied) that some of their products no longer support Firefox and would block me from accessing right up until my browser identified itself as Chrome. No bugs, no issues.

New comment by sli in "Embedded Rust or C firmware? Lessons from an industrial microcontroller use case"

sli — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:10:04 +0000

Previous versions of the Rust compiler don't just up and disappear just because I moved to a new workstation or setup a new build server. I understand it's not optimal to rely on a download always being available, but even then, that is not at all exclusive to any single language. Why would earlier versions of Rust be susceptible to this but not something like gcc? I don't see it.

New comment by sli in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

sli — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:56:02 +0000

They're saying due to the real world effects, the current system isn't meaningfully different from violence. They aren't advocating for violence in turn.

New comment by sli in "The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]"

sli — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:47:14 +0000

I'm absolutely sure there are people who do. Chromebooks just have a practically nonexistant market share compared to Windows, and a lot of those users being kids being issued school laptops probably doesn't translate to a lot of visible complaining about Chromebook-specific problems.

New comment by sli in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

sli — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:52:32 +0000

This will start happening to Ring cameras as well soon if it's not already.

New comment by sli in "Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations"

sli — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:00:31 +0000

I agree that the work culture promoting this is bad, but being sick is still simply not an excuse to fabricate quotes with AI. It's still just journalistic malfeasance, and if Ars actually cares about the quality of their journalism, he should be fired for it.

New comment by sli in "What dating apps are optimizing"

sli — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 06:34:34 +0000

Dating apps would go out of business if they did their job, because success means leaving the platform. They make more money if they hold out a carrot and make it difficult to succeed.

This is also true of those services that "delete" your data from data brokers. Their entire business model relies on them failing to do their job.

New comment by sli in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

sli — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:20:57 +0000

Only three years ago, too. That kinda surprised me.

New comment by sli in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

sli — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:50:39 +0000

Even considering that one can personally control their own chat service is already a pretty big leap in technical knowledge. Many, many average users don't even know that's an option, nevermind how it's even done.

New comment by sli in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

sli — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:17:13 +0000

Every single website on the internet just says "whoopsie doodle, me made an oopsie" instead of just telling me what the problem is. This so-called mistake is so widespread that it has been the standard for at least a decade.

I agree it's a mistake, but I don't believe that it's viewed that way by anyone making the decision to do it.

New comment by sli in "Deno Sandbox"

sli — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:42:41 +0000

It's stated under the "Sandboxes?" heading.

> Deno Sandbox gives you lightweight Linux microVMs (running in the Deno Deploy cloud) ...

New comment by sli in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

sli — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:36:25 +0000

Perceptual hashes are a type of locality sensitive hash.

New comment by sli in "Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z"

sli — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 06:16:59 +0000

All of those are optional restrictions, not mandatory. On Windows, it's (practically) mandatory.

Maybe some Windows wizards could get around the mandatory restrictions, but an average Linux user can get around the optional ones.

New comment by sli in "Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?"

sli — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 07:14:36 +0000

I've had a lot of fun training Markov chains using Simple English Wikipedia. I'm guessing the restricted vocabulary leads to more overlapping sentences in the training data. Anything too advanced or technical has too many unique phrases and the output degrades almost immediately.

New comment by sli in "`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)"

sli — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 07:03:38 +0000

You're missing the input type, essentially. Those are just array types. The TypeScript type signature more of a function type, it expresses flattening a n-dimensional array (input type) into a flat array (output type).

New comment by sli in ""Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads"

sli — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 21:44:21 +0000

I'm skeptical that it's of any use considering it's only going to be installed by people who specifically want to dislike. It seems more likely that the like/dislike ratio is going to be heavily skewed towards dislikes just by the stated purpose of the plugin and who it appeals to.

New comment by sli in "All the sad young terminally online men"

sli — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:19:36 +0000

Entering two dashes on the iOS keyboard inserts an emdash, I would use them frequently when I had an iPhone.

New comment by sli in "Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US"

sli — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:36:51 +0000

Tiktok primarily causes harm and plenty of people voluntarily reject it. What's your point? We shouldn't do good things because sometimes people don't want them?

New comment by sli in "Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras"

sli — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:32:37 +0000

I've always maintained that if a corporation breaks the law, the entire C-suite should be individually charged as if they personally committed the crime. It's their company and their responsibility.